This show is titled The Oracle.
Thousands of years ago, deep in the
Amazon rain forest lived a tribe known only as the Amanzi. The Amanzi were
an ancient race of people that lived along a portion of the Amazon River that
became the very essence with which they survived through fishing and
trading. The Amanzi had a complex caste
system divided into four parts, Royals, Nobles, Peasants and Temple Keepers.
Though the Temple Keepers were the
caretakers of the god’s divine temples, they were not their spokesperson and
could not commune with Creation or Destruction. This task
fell to the Oracle. This person was chosen
by the gods themselves; marked at birth to be the earthly voice through which
they spoke. This system worked well until the Temple Keepers grew too fond of their
power and set out to eradicate any and all Oracles. The task was difficult, as there was no
specific bloodline that carried the gods’ blessing, but they seceded with each
new oracle born until one family hid their child from the keepers, spiriting
her away to a safe place within the forest. She grew there, lying in wait until
she was strong enough to turn the tide against the murderous keepers. Without
an oracle to stand in their way the Temple Keepers grew more and more powerful,
eventually gaining a large foothold in the kingdom that made them nearly as
respected as the royal family.
Years
later, with the Oracle now fully grown into a strong young woman but still in
hiding the King began making laws without consulting the Temple Keepers. His faith in the divine was waning; he grew
disinterested in their cosmic judgment and held little regard for the word of
the keepers. In revenge, at the next ceremony for choosing the year’s
sacrifice, they named the king’s son and heir to the throne, Perko. On that day
that he was to be killed, the Oracle reappeared; ready to right the wrongs of the
Temple Keepers and restore balance to the village. 
The Main Character: The Oracle,Adisa
Living under constant threat from the Temple
Keepers Adisa became a very serious person with very little time for
relaxation. Perko often refers to her as absent minded because of her ability
to drift off in the middle of conversations, which is due to being in constant
communication with the gods. The decision to save the Prince’s life exposes her
to the people and the keepers and she is forced to flee with him. The two begin
work with together and with the help of the people they overthrow the Temple
Keepers and rewrite the will of the gods to what is should be.
Secondary Character: The Prince, Perko
Perko
is the prince of the Amanzi tribe and lives the life of luxury without a care
in the world. He never wants for anything and spends most of his days playing
games or studying to be king. He prefers to sit in the palace gardens and
drink, but will step forward if duty demands it. When he is called as the next
sacrifice to the gods, he accepts his fate though his family begs him to run.
He is forced into doing so when he is saved from death by Adisa.
Through
her, he learns the value of hard work, and what it is like to want for
something. He learns how to understand his
people and the power he will one day have over them. In return he teaches her
that life is not always a cruel game that needs to be won, and that life is
bleak when one takes it too seriously.
Villains: Temple Keepers The final and most important caste belonged to the religious leaders known as the Temple Keepers. These Keepers maintained order over the religious rites and temples for their gods, Creation and Destruction. They kept intricate birth and death records of every villager and annually chose one villager to be sacrificed in the name of their gods.
The temple keepers are the head of the
religious order in the village. It is their job to keep an active record of all
people in the village and preform the annual sacrifice in the name of the gods.
Though none of the religious texts say sacrifices are needed, they use this as
a means to control the people and maintain power in the kingdom. To keep this
hold over the people, the temple keepers began murdering anyone with the mark
of the oracle, as they were the only ones who could truly speak to the gods and
challenge their will. 
There
are four heads of the temples, two for each god.
The Gods.
The people of the Amanzi worship two gods, Destruction: he who speaks and all is
unmade and Creation: he who sighs and
all is made. Each god is prayed to in separate temples and the keepers wear
specific garb for each deity at the time of the Great Sacrifice. Destruction and Creation are also parent
deities to the lesser beings Chaos, Death, Order and Life.
The Royal Family.
The third and second
highest caste belonged to the Royal
family. In their wealthy,
superiority they housed themselves in a beautifully crafted palace deep within the surrounding hills to the
village.
Ruling was pasted down through
the bloodlines, and the chance of any usurping was slim as the benevolent royals were beloved by all.
Secondary Characters:
Palace guards. There is no
discrimination based on gender in the Amanzi tribes, so men and women serve in
whatever job suits them best. Guards are stationed at the palace, temples and
all the entrances to the market place. They occasionally patrol the peasant
village but will leave the fishermen to their own.
The Nobles
This Caste system runs the market squares, and handled
the majority of trade with neighboring
tribes and were the second lowest caste despite their being a large gap between these two castes due to a
middle class structure being nonexistent.
Because they control the market of the village, they determine what is popular for the
villagers of high class. They would hire peasants to travel with them to the
other villages in order to carry the abundance of goods that were brought to
and from the Amanzi village. Most nobles do not concern themselves with the
human sacrifices, as most of the sacrificial lambs are peasants.
The Peasants
The first and lowest caste was
comprised of the peasants, who lived
and worked the docks. They were
responsible for providing food for the village as well
as valuable crafts, livestock and agriculture that could be traded by the Nobles.
As the lowest totem in the Amanzi caste
system, the peasants live and work on the docks on the outer ring of the
village. These are the people who have the most to lose when it comes to the
sacrifices via the Temple Keepers, as they are the most targeted “by the Gods.”
When Perko and Adisa come to them for aid, they are eager to assist them in
ridding the village of corrupt keepers.
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