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The events of In Stars and Time and START AGAIN: a prologue take place in an unnamed world inspired by our own.

Vaugarde

Vaugarde (pronounced voh-guard) is the country where In Stars and Time and START AGAIN: a prologue take place, and where Mirabelle, Isabeau and Bonnie come from. It is heavily inspired by the country of France.[1]

Most Vaugardians follow the Change belief, a religion which encourages its followers to embrace change in all its forms and strive for self-improvement and self-discovery. As a result, Vaugardian people are often seen as very welcoming and accepting by other cultures.[2] Vaugardians usually have several names[3] and regularly practice Body Craft to change their appearance.[4] They also have a deep-rooted hatred for crabs.[5]

It is common for Vaugardian families to write a familytale, a book filled with stories which is handed down from generation to generation. When a family dies off, the familytale of the family can be taken by a House for safekeeping.[6]

Vaugardian houses are usually kept unlocked and anyone can freely go in, though it is considered rude for a stranger to go farther than the first room of a house.[7]

In Vaugarde, it is customary for deceased people to be buried under a tree, so that their bodies can nurture the nature around it.[8]

Not much is known about Vaugarde’s political system, other than it is not a monarchy.[9]

Bambouche

Bambouche is a coastal town to the north of Vaugarde, as well as Bonnie and Pétronille's hometown. Since it sits on Vaugarde's northern coast, it is close to the Forgotten Island.[10]

Corbeaux

Corbeaux is a city in Vaugarde. It is the town where the King lived in before he started to freeze the country in time.[11]

Dormont

(See: Dormont)

Dormont is a city in Vaugarde, as well as the main setting for the events of In Stars and Time and START AGAIN: a prologue.

Dormont may be a portmanteau of the French words "dormir" and "mont", meaning "to sleep" and "mount" respectively.[12][13]

Jouvente

Jouvente is a city to the south of Vaugarde and is Isabeau's hometown. It is known to be a big city with several Houses.[14]

Ka Bue

Ka Bue is a big country located in the northern hemisphere, far away from Vaugarde, and is where Odile is from. It is heavily inspired by the country of Japan.[15] Siffrin has visited Ka Bue at least once.[16]

According to Odile’s description of her own features, which are described as foreign for Ka Buan people, it can be deduced that people from Ka Bue usually have thinner hair and thicker eyebrows than Vaugardians.[17]

Ka Buan people have thousands of minor deities, called Expressions, and they pray to the ones they need in communal shrines.[18] When someone dies in Ka Bue, their body is burned and their ashes are turned into a diamond by a Gemmaker.[19]

Typical Ka Buan food includes gyozas[20] and onigiris.[21]

Ka Bue, just like Vaugarde, uses bonding earrings to represent the bond between two people or more in a way not dissimilar to marriage, though it is not practiced by everyone.[22] However, unlike in Vaugarde, in Ka Bue, using Craft to change one’s body can be grounds for prison, though some people help others do Body Craft on themself in secret.[23]

Similarly to the Change belief's dislike of crabs, Ka Buan people harbor a dislike of dolphins because their intelligence may rival that of humans.[24]

Mwudu

Mwudu is an island located near the east coast of Vaugarde. It does not have any particular inspiration.[25]

Not much is known about Mwudu, except for the fact that they make clay figurines for their funerary rituals.[26] This appears to reference Haniwa.

Poteria

Poteria is the country located directly to the west of Vaugarde. It is heavily inspired by the country of Italy.[27]

Not much is known about Poteria, except that Siffrin has visited it once and that he holds its stage plays in high regard.[28]

The Country

(see: Forgotten Island)

The Country is an island located near the northern coast of Vaugarde, and is where Siffrin and the King come from. It has been erased from people’s memories and almost nothing is known about it.

It is heavily inspired by Guadeloupe,[29] though insertdisc5 enjoys seeing people make their own interpretations of its culture.[30]

Trivia

  • According to the developer, most Vaugardian names (with the exception of Dormont) do not have a particular meaning and any resemblance with real French words is incidental.[31]

References

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  1. ↑ insertdisc5 on tumblr. “Anonymous: [...] does that mean ISAT takes place in France?/jjj
    insertdisc5: fantasy france, yes, thank you for noticing”
  2. ↑ "([The King] said he thought of Vaugarde as “welcoming”.)
    (Always willing to welcome people in, even someone with no name, no home to speak of…)"     — Siffrin when interacting with the articles about the King, In Stars and Time
  3. ↑ "A lot of Vaugardians have more than one name! Usually it’s one masculine name, one feminine name, and a free one for good measure! [...] The many names represent our capacity for change, our power to evolve, to become someone new at a moment’s notice… And if you decide to change genders, or become someone different than who you were before, you already have a name ready to pick out!" — Mirabelle when interacting with the papers in the classroom, In Stars and Time
  4. ↑ "It’s interesting. Crafting your body is so… accepted, here in Vaugarde." — Odile talking about Body Craft, In Stars and Time
  5. ↑ Mirabelle: "EEK!!!"
    Isabeau: "CRAB?!??!!???!???!???!"
    [...]
    Odile: "... I am very confused. Is this a Vaugardian thing?"
    Isabeau: "Please don't tell me you eat crabs in Ka Bue I don't think I could handle it..."
    Odile: "No, not really, but we don't... Have such an aversion to them..."
    [...]
    Odile: "So, crabs are weird and don't walk right, okay."
    Mirabelle: "A-and... they're INEVITABLE."     — The party reacting to the food in the kitchen, In Stars and Time
  6. ↑ "It’s… It’s a type of book called a “familytale”. [...] It’s a book filled with tales written by a single family, through generations. It’s a tradition, in Vaugarde. [...] But I’ve heard that when a family dies off, the familytale might be taken by Houses. As a way to save those pieces of history." — Siffrin when interacting with the back doors of the houses in Dormont, In Stars and Time
  7. ↑ "(This door must lead to the rest of the house.)
    (But you can’t go there. You’ve been told going farther than the first room in other people’s houses is very rude.)
    (Vaugardian customs are so weird.)"     — Siffrin when interacting with the back doors of the houses in Dormont, In Stars and Time
  8. ↑ "W-well, the House of Change recommends burying your body under a tree, so our body can nurture the nature around it… Be part of Change and all that…" — Mirabelle talking about Vaugardian funeral rites, In Stars and Time
  9. ↑ "Why do you even call the King “the King”? Vaugarde isn’t a monarchy…" — Odile when interacting with the articles in the Head Housemaiden’s office, In Stars and Time
  10. ↑ "I think, I think my village was really close to it!!! My sister said it was all everyone could talk about for weeks!!!" source=Bonnie, when interacting with the sparkly diary in the House's library. — In Stars and Time
  11. ↑ "Looks like he lived in the city of Corbeaux for a few years before he became the King..." — Isabeau reading the article about the King, In Stars and Time
  12. ↑ "Dormir" on dict.cc. Retrieved on July 10, 2024.
  13. ↑ "Mont" on dict.cc. Retrieved on July 10, 2024.
  14. ↑ "Well, okay, you know I'm from Jouvente, right? I've lived there my whooooole life! It's a nice, big city. More than one House, too. Waaaaay bigger than Dormont." — Isabeau talking about Jouvente during his Friendquest, In Stars and Time
  15. ↑ insertdisc5 on discord. Retrieved on July 10, 2024. “japan was the inspiration for Ka Bue in isat
    isat meaning In Stars and Time
    the game i made”
  16. ↑ (Ka Bue, a country you’ve visited at least once.” — Siffrin when interacting with the globe in the observatory, In Stars and Time
  17. ↑ ”It may not seem so to you… But to Ka Bue, my features are foreign. Just small things… My hair being slightly too thick, my brows too thin… Enough for me to look different, here.” — Odile during her Friendquest, In Stars and Time
  18. ↑ Odile: “Hm… Interesting that you only have one deity. Easy to keep track off, I suppose.”
    Isabeau:Oh yeah, what do you have in Ka Bue, then?”
    Odile: We have… gods? Spirits? Expressions? The nuance gets a little lost in Vaugardian… Expressions for everything.”
    Isabeau: So how many Expressions do you have then? A dozen?”
    Odile: “A few thousand.”
    [...]
    Mirabelle: “DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP TRACK OF ALL OF THEM???”
    Odile: “Of course not! You only have to pray to the ones that you need.”     — Odile talking about Ka Buan Expressions, In Stars and Time
  19. ↑ ”In Ka Bue, you’d burn the body and take the ashes to a Gemmaker to transform them into a diamond, but that won’t be easily feasible, will it…” — Odile talking about funerary rites during the second snack break, In Stars and Time
  20. ↑ Bonnie: “DUMPLINGS!!!!!!”
    Odile: “Ah, those are called “gyozas”, Boniface.”     — Bonnie and Odile when looking at a recipe book, In Stars and Time
  21. ↑ Bonnie: “I have some onigiris for everyone!”
    Isabeau: “One of those Ka Buan rice balls, right?”     — Bonnie and Isabeau during the first snack break, In Stars and Time
  22. ↑ ”We have bonding earrings in Ka Bue as well [...] Not everyone does in Ka Bue, but it's popular there as well.” — Odile when talking about bonding earrings in the classroom, In Stars and Time
  23. ↑ ”In Ka Bue, using Craft on yourself would be grounds for prison. [...] It’s not like there aren’t ways to do Body Craft in Ka Bue, if you know where to look.” — Odile talking about Body Craft in the Changing room, In Stars and Time
  24. ↑ ”In Ka Bue, we don’t like dolphins. Something about them being too smart.” — Odile in the kitchen, In Stars and Time
  25. ↑ m1dnightlycanroc: [...] Is there a particular country inspiration behind Mwudu?
     insertdisc5: [...] not really! — Reddit AMA
  26. ↑ ”(Some books.)
    (One of them has a very striking cover of a Mwudu clay figurine with large, sunken eyes and a screaming mouth.)
    [...]
    (You look at the back…”)
    (“Life to Ashes: Death Rituals From Around The World.”)     — Siffrin reading the book in the dining room on Floor 1, In Stars and Time
  27. ↑ insertdisc5 on tumblr. “Anonymous: What country is Poteria based on, if any? [...]
    insertdisc5: Fantasy Italy! Theater! accessdate=2024-07-10”
  28. ↑ Siffrin: ”I've been to Poteria once.”
    Smug one: "Ah, is that so? How did you like it?”
    Siffrin:"Very good plays!"     — Siffrin talking about Poteria with the Smug one in Dormont, In Stars and Time
  29. ↑ insertdisc5 on discord. Retrieved on July 10, 2024. “also uuuuh i looked v quickly but when i mean french carribeans i mean french west indies, and i mean even more specifically guadeloupe”
  30. ↑ insertdisc5 on tumblr. Retrieved on July 10, 2024. “Anonymous: [...] i wanted to ask if it's okay for me to depict or imagine them with my own culture? i'm asking since you clearly have a place you have based them on and i don't want to overstep >_<
    insertdisc5: Have Fun My Child... im very glad to hear this spoke to you :')”
  31. ↑ insertdisc5 on Discord. Retrieved on July 16, 2024. “adrienne ✦ insertdisc5: from what i remember, for the city names other than dormont i just made french noises until i got something good. they dont really mean anything”
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