Culture

Much too busy compared to most of the Isles for things like a calm day of foraging or a relaxing morning with incense, Cove City is polite - but direct. Someone always has a place to go and creatures to see. While community culture here is still strong and someone will always lend a helping hand if you need assistance they wont stay around after to visit. They might help a sailor lift a heavy box onto the docks - and then disappear into the crowd before she could turn around to say thank you. The City is so large that many here only interact with their given district, creating several unique subcultures. The City is interspersed with both permanent and transient residents, with new nesting towers built often to ensure there is always somewhere to stay warm during a cold winter night regardless of where you may be from or how long you will be there.

Dialect

Cove City has a strong international presence due to the trades there, you will easily here many accents and languages from everywhere on the island as well as whatever lies beyond the Mysts and has come to visit. There is a lot of local slang that results from this melting pot of cultures with phrases that make little sense to the rest of the Isle. Depending on the predominant subculture of a given city district you can find unique accents that mix together, such as the nasal-y sounds of the marshes with the rapid fire dropped ends of words from the city.

Religion

Cove City being so culturally intermixed has barely any religion to be found to the untrained eye. But interspersed through the streets you will find small "shrines" maintained by those who live in the district to their various deities. There are usually several dedicated to the Mysts and the Isle, with offerings of trinkets, incense, and mushrooms laid at their base. The Mysts are represented in a lot of different ways as the shrines appeared in a very informal matter, but typically speaking involve a small fountain surrounded by a circle meant to represent the Mysts embrace and protection of the Isle. The Isle is often represented instead with artistic structures of netting on top of as mound of porous white rocks that holds up the incense sticks with ease.

The City also boasts the only formal temples dedicated to the Mysts and the Isles, run by a select few who dedicate their lives in service of the Gods. The windows on the temples look like stained glass - built using wood framing and stretched colors of various jelly mushrooms - featuring myths of the god the temple is dedicated to. Many hold their weddings in these beautiful temples both due to their artistic nature and because legends say the Mysts and the Isles are themselves the oldest couple in the universe - living and breathing as one.

Art

Cove city is bursting with color and art at every corner. Self expression is at the center of the city's culture and it shows between the ornate art in the plazas to building often painted with a different color on every side. Underlying this self expression is a sense of order and symmetry that has allowed the city to function so well on an international stage - the pictography tiles always on perfect rectangles and symmetrical murals decorate most shop walls featuring whatever they trade in from spices to burrowing services.

Subcultures

• Mycorzha University
• International District
• The Temples

Holidays

The City Council ensures that the streets are decorated for each of the four major holidays. Flags line the streets with depictions of colorful seasonal flora and merry wishings. For the most part holidays here are treated as a time to enjoy a seasonal treat on your way to the docks that day and not much else - but everyone has a bit of nostalgia for their favorite holidays that can melt the heart of even the most dedicated trades creature.

Common Activities and Interests

If you can think of a hobby there is absolutely a dedicated group that does it here. Anything you could possible want can be found so long as you know where to look, and there is always a party to be found.