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Bynan genetics

Among indigenous Bynans, there are three main ethnic groups, Gjynna, Ohui and Eubynan. These seem to be between two poles of ancient groups, referred to as BNG1 and BNG2, BNG standing for Bynan Native group, very creative ik. The BNG1 seem to be the older original inhabitants of the islands, generally older graves having more, if jo not almost conpletely, BNG1 DNA. The BNG1 phenotype is lighter skin, black and brown eyes and hair, and shorter stature. The Eubynans have the highest percentage of BNG1 admixture, varying between 70% and 55%, higher amounts found in most remote areas on Atlantic peninsula. The Gjynna, despite having a related language to the Eubynans, have the lowest amounts, varying between around 7.5% to almost no BNG1 admixture at all. Instead, most of their ancestry is that of BNG2, which phenotypically is more mid-brown skin, taller stature, brown to white hair and brown to green eyes. The Ohui are generally in-between the two, anywhere between 40% to 70% BNG2 origins. This percentage can also be much lower, as many Ohui have had intermixing with Eubynans.

The generally accepted explanation is that the BNG1 were the natives of Byna or some nearby islands, whereas the BNG2 come from other areas of the origin archipelago of Byna, the Ohui being from a transitional area. There are records of the even older indigenous language of Byna, from a different language family, remaining in use until the 1800s, and those communities have higher BNG1 admixture, matching the history that NeoBynan was brought in as an elite language and the people culturally assimilated, the elites being more BNG2 originswise.

Canon: The BNG2 are Sedite groups, composing most of the Gjynna, and assimilating the Bynans into it. The Ohui were also affected as they are at the boundary of the Sedite expansion. The Atheians and Damnites are both classified as BNG1, however they are distinct groups, however as no fully pure samples of Damnite admixture could be found, no comparisons could be made.

Literacy in Byna

What would be the literacy like in Byna? Pre-colonially, there are two scripts in concurrent use, the more common is an abugida, the other a logography. Considering that their technological level is around that of 500s BC mediterranean, I'd go that the literacy rates are of 40% and 2% respectively for each system. This means that there are two well established systems already there by the time of British colonisation. As the languages and scripts are seen as items of national identity, they'd get suppressed in the times of colonisation, replaced by Latin based systems. These get adopted, due to forcing their use, and the convenience as a result of a shared writing system, however most people would probably still use the native abugida, and only a select few use the logography. The logography would play an interesting role.

The logographic script, called Suyîodo, was developed for the Ohui and now dead related languages. This would mean it would seen either most feircely as a symbol of identity and resistance, or as a symbol of Ohui dominance, or a massive roadblock in education. Although many wanted its total abolition, it remained in use in some circles for study of the Megalian documents, written in one of those dead related languges. It remains in use and documentation, as its users realise its cultural value, and the fact its growing smaller and smaller.

English takes places as the dominant language of Byna for natives, alongside the rise of other European languages such as Polish, Štokavian, Hungarian, etc. in the islands. This kept the standards of writing native languages decentralised, and more influences. This eventually is resolved in 1947 with the introduction of the Bynan Phonetic Alphabet, originally used to transcribe and reconstruct the historic languages of the Megalian documents, became used schools for native instruction, supplanting the abugida. This caused literacy rates to increase even further, and post WW2, no real changes happened, literacy staying above 90%.

yaoi

If I had a nickel for everytime I read something where one main character is a shy studious character and the other is rich and involved in paranormal activities, with a brother that hates him and is also involved in possible yaoi, I'd have two nickels, which is useless because I don't live in the USA.

Cleopatra via Hatsune Miku

I found a song, ラストファラオ(rasuto farao, Last Pharaoh) by じょるじん, about the life of Cleopatra VII. It very much fits into the general narrative on her, as a seductress of Caesar and Marc Antony, who then took her life with an asp to spite Octavian. However the song is from a mostly first person perspective, and treats her with a kind lens. The seduction of Caesar is depicted not out of a sense of greed but "She grit her teeth for the people of the golden Nile", and later on that "A Pharaoh doesn't kill". This lens is definitely preferable, not making her seem as a seductress for politics via marriage, however, I think, it too romanticises Egypt, Pharaohs waged war a ton, calling them some sort of inherently pacifist force which was corrupted, Cleopatra's actions being for the pure interest in Egypt, whereas her brother and minister would lead the country to doom for self interest. however, actual nuance into the situation in Egypt, as a conflict between her and her brother for control. Good song, actual historic information in it.