natural-disaster-submissions (April-2023)

The only issue with vengir's geography isn't only the lack of basic resources, like fruits and animals, but also the presence of tons of volcanoes, approximately 1 in every 3 mountains are, in fact, filled with lava. But how does a civilization rebuild from so frequent disasters? The thing is, they don't. Vengir developed ways of building in the lava by using resistant materials, smart architecture that doesn't let toxic fumes accumulate inside the houses, ways of cooling down their residences so noone is cooked inside them, strategies to evacuate the people that live in the affected areas, etc. Vengir doesn't recover from those natural disasters, they adapt. In fact, vengir relationship with the fire is actually quite positive. The lava fertilizes their soil, brings them important metals and sometimes even protect their cities from raids. Because of this they worship Xasperz, the god of the soil and the underground. They believe that by leaving sacrifices on the altar of this god during a volcanic eruption, for the lava to consume, Xasperz will make their soil even more fertile and will make ores easier to find.