Letters from Ho:
Hi! I come from Ho, a place that is not on our map, but near Indonesia. In this series, I would post:
Instead of Children's Circle, what did I do?
What brings this newcomer to Psyhigh?
A tour of Ho culture

Aside from doing that, I would stay and socialize about Psyhigh.

I'm relatively curious about other worlds. I recently read @Za-hel Agadz's tips on how to survive in the Na'asho-bilai (Hollow Earth) tunnels/dicha'a-n, his world.

So I'm about to show you mine.

So basically, how Ho society works is that people are divided into "Etei" (et-ae): classes, but more like castes. You can't escape your etei, and each etei has it's own religion and house design.

The peasants (ME!): live in plains, believe in a pantheon full of gods, and do ceremonies like bonfires. Usually, peasants NEVER hear about the rich. They just hear a tiny bit about the middle etei (Nirat), who is primarily mystical.

Nirat: believe in everything from crystals to tarot, including PSYCHICS. They wear dresses inspired by personality crystals. When I see them, I want to be them. And that took me to PsyHigh. Main house material: terracotta. Crystal healing and clairvoyance spots were all west of me. Nirat hear EVERYTHING. Everything about every etei, ridiculing the peasants and manifesting to be the rich.

Torak: Top figures in society. I heard from the nirat that they SEGREGATED us into etei. The torak believe in one god, who works to keep them at the top of society. I wish they didn't exist, because I wanted to escape my etei.
The Torak hear about other etei, in a condescending way.


(If this is against Psyhigh "rules" to introduce something that isn't connected to canon, please let me know.)

Instead of children's circle, I attended a school called Pamik Forest School, earning me the nickname "Jira, Earth Elemental".

Until this happened:
When I was 5, Dad and I watched the news together. I exclaimed "I want to be one of those mysterious guys. (psychics!)".
Dad told me that job is not for my etei (caste), but for the hirat (working-middle caste).
He told mom about this and kept me in school. Mom didn't know what was going on until I was 7. My nickname changed to "That annoying wannabe crystal healer." or "That annoying wannabe psychic.".

It's the MEDIA that was causing this desire.

When I was 7, we had to have huge "family censorship" rules:
No viewing other etei.
No distracting content at "education time"-which was weekday mornings.
No going out of the forest I lived.
No mumbo jumbo, or not the gods we believed in.

When I was a teen, Mom forgot the original plan of such rules. It was weird being first taught about diversity at this age.

I frequently wear my lapis dress to Psyhigh.

Soon is this festival that the Hirat celebrate...
a fair of psychics, clairvoyants, crystal healers, tarot card readers, and apothecaries.

Sorry I won't be there, but astral project to my universe at night from September 1 to the 14!

I'm sure you won't be interested in the New Age-y stuff, but you WILL be interested in the psychics, reverse storytellers, and clairvoyants.

Bye!

Jira

"Oh God."
Only the upper etei say that.

Peasants say "Earth!", "Kali!" (God featured in the creation story), or "Oto ra hileiti!" (Oto (Earth God), help us!)
Hirat say "Oh Universe" to resonate with their psychic self. Since I am not a Hirat, I don't quite know the exact words in their language, but it is something along those lines.

Bye!

Jira

The Hirat Psychic Shop:

I feel like I want to share knowledge of Ho to others. That way people could get to know me so I could get to know them.

It also contains a lot of stuff I always wanted to do (psychic).

Shop located: next to Psyhigh.

Ho is divided into 3 sectors, each belonging to a different etei.

The sectors are named after the etei: the forest I grew up in, a few working-class cities and towns, and the Capital City and other upper-class cities and villages.

Now I never visited the Capital City, but heard of it once I escaped my forest.
People near me (I never asked their names) said "I hate what the capital did to us." or "If you see ads for visiting the Capital, don't go there. They would take your cash and use it to separate us.".

Astral project to my universe.

What stuff do you want to see in The Hirat Psychic Shop?

Specialties:
Healing Magic, Energy Healing
Gemstone outfits
Mind Reading
Channeling
Crystals
Our religion (psychic stuff, not Oto's Blessing.)

Ho's forest
The middle etei psychic areas I want to go to

See my other journal for stuff relating to the shop specifically.