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  • National Map of Erlitou

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    The map of Erlitou shows an island nation divided into three primary states by its major roads, all converging at a central capital located near the heart of the island. The geography of the island is highly diverse, with rugged mountains to the west, fertile plains and river systems in the north and east, and…

  • Erlitou Orbital View

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  • Liútōng Hua — the Resonant Tongue of Erlitou

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    Lore and commonalityLiútōng Hua (lee-oo-tong hwah, “flowing bronze speech”) is the island’s principal everyday tongue. About ninety-six million residents speak it natively; a further twelve million employ it as a trade or governmental second language alongside clan dialects. Its prestige stems from direct descent—through many centuries of drift and island loan-words—from the archaic river-valley speech…

  • Culture of Erlitou

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    LoreErlitou stands on a bronze-veined floodplain girded by terrace ridges and warm mist canals. The realm’s first sovereign, Molten-Diadem Yueni, claimed every acre by ritually sinking her coronation crown—an alloy of river tin and sky-fallen copper—into the confluence where ninety-nine tributaries became the single Erlitou River. Since that forging, land ownership remains a trust leased…

  • Covenant of the Molten Current

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    Devotion to Zǐliú-Mu, Heart-Within-the-Flow LoreErlitou’s deep-river floodplain once split into ninety-nine braids, each meeting hidden vents where bronze-rich steam bubbled upward. Foundry ancestors recited that the torrents carried not only silt but spirit. At an eclipse when water glowed dull green, furnace walls cracked; from the vent rose Zǐliú-Mu, luminous like sunset copper beneath rippling…

  • Lianren

    Lianren

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    SpeciesThe people of Erlitou name themselves Lianren, a word that fuses “flowing alloy” with “kindred.” Court scholars trace their origins to the first mingling of river-valley bronze-casters and willow-haired sky-sojourners who arrived in Saṃsāra centuries after the earliest soul-fall. Every child of that mingling carried both the tactile curiosity of the valley folk and the…