Locations
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.
Bambouche
Corbeaux
Dormont
Favor Tree
Dormont’s House
Jouvente
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. Siffrin has visited Ka Bue at least once.[1]
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.[2]
Ka Buan people have thousands of minor deities, called Expressions, and they pray to the ones they need in communal shrines.[3] When someone dies in Ka Bue, their body is burned and their ashes are turned into a diamond by a Gemmaker.[4]
Typical Ka Buan food includes gyozas[5] and onigiris.[6]
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.[7] 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.[8]
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.[9]
Mwudu
Mwudu is an island located near the east coast of Vaugarde. The inspiration for this country is unknown.
Not much is known about Mwudu, except for the fact that they make clay figurines for their funerary rituals.[10] 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.
Not much is known about Poteria, except that Siffrin has visited it once and that he holds its stage plays in high regard.[11]
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 is heavily inspired by Guadeloupe. It has been erased from people’s memories and almost nothing is known about it.
References
- ↑ (Ka Bue, a country you’ve visited at least once.” — Siffrin when interacting with the globe in the observatory, In Stars and Time
- ↑ ”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
- ↑
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 - ↑ ”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
- ↑
Bonnie: “DUMPLINGS!!!!!!”
Odile: “Ah, those are called “gyozas”, Boniface.” — Bonnie and Odile when looking at a recipe book, In Stars and Time - ↑
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 - ↑ ”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
- ↑ ”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
- ↑ ”In Ka Bue, we don’t like dolphins. Something about them being too smart.” — Odile in the kitchen, In Stars and Time
- ↑
”(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 - ↑
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
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