History - syddyd/Tree-Platformer GitHub Wiki
This society began as small communities who worshipped forest spirits, each community worshipping one of the fours forests spirits - the one that provided the region with its specific form of abundance. The forest rewarded their care with resource abundance, along with magic that let them easily traverse the forest. The ideals surrounding the care of the forest extended to care for their community. As the communities grew larger, the began to connect and exchange resources.
Some time into the connection of the communities, a guild began to develop technology which they said "would let them tame the forest". To them, being reliant on the magic of the forest was limiting the potential of their society, and they wanted to progresses past it. The technology started catching on, and to meet the demand, they needed to organize the communities to provide resources to build thir gadgets. So then, the Guild assigned each community the role of providing resources, or protecting their operation. This way, they effectively became the de-facto government of the society.
In the present day (when game takes place), the culture of spiritually has become lost to time, being remembered by only the elders and spare shamans in the community. Instead, it has been replaced by technology reminiscent of Da Vincis sketches, and the existence of the forest on the daily lives of the citizens has become almost insignificant (even though they live atop trees). The government is fully established, making one of the towns a "military" station, and fully exploiting the villages most bountiful in resources for their benefit and to keep pushing their tech. Most recently, a new government building was made by carving out the guts of the biggest city in the capital and placing it within it.
As of recent, the forest that used to be peaceful has become increasingly dangerous and unpredictable, leading to people not travelling in between districts as much as they used to - even with the tech offered by the guild