Serpentine88

SACRILEGE WAR (Grimdark Fantasy NRP)

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East Ouroborasia

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East Ouroborasian Empire

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The Empire of Ouroborasia stretches across a wet, miserable land that throughout its history has been constantly invaded, settled, and then divided. Infested by monsters, home of witches and ancient cults - Ouroborasia is the dark, forsaken edge of the Justinian world. Once, before the civil war, witches hid across Ouroborasia's east, gathering in the hidden black forests, marshes and hamlets. They alongside pantheonist cultists practiced the old ways despite the presence of the Justinian crusaders that nominally ruled them. Now, they no longer hide. The Witches have usurped the empire, seducing and bewitching lords and orators. Heretics have risen behind them, Some seeking retribution for past wrongs against them, others wishing for a desperate escape from the cruel and unforgiving world, even if it meant apostasy. To these forsaken peoples... Anything, even bowing to these new occult masters is better than the misery they suffered before in silence.

NATIONAL INFORMATION

The witches and their cult familiars convene for the year 297AWH's Ceremony of the Red Effigy, here as the Justinian POWs inside the effigy burn alive, the true masters of the Empire decide on national policy.

Population: 23 to 25 million. No census has been performed and the actual number is erratic due to the fact that both a civil war is actively being waged and large numbers of Homunculi and Ghouls are being created or are entering the country.
Faction: Red Pantheonist
Capital (De jure): The Old Capital, Sepulchravest
Capital (De facto): The New Capital, Xur'valău Mare
Government Type: Feudal Monarchy (Under the control of Cabalistic Witch Oligarchy)

Government Description:
The Empire of East Ouroborasia maintains the illusion legally of a traditional feudal monarchy, maintaining the pretense that the old pre-civil war government was entirely unchanged. The Emperor sits on his throne, legal power to rule is delegated among the many feudal vassals of the Emperor who in turn rule over their many serfs. With that said, this government in truth no longer functions as it once did. With the rise of the Witch Covens and beginning of the civil war, witches have since monopolised much of the power of the Empire into the hands of secret societies and religious cults - many of these secret societies no longer even secret, acting blatantly and in the open for all to see.

Witches rule over private demesnes known as “Witchedoms”, usually circular territory carved out of former feudal lands held by now dead/traitor Justinian aristocrats, in each of these territories centrepoint exists a large tower - often black and saturated in magic. The Emperor acts as a figurehead for the Supreme Witch Nenepheni, the mastermind behind the witches rise to power and corrupter and usurper of many of the empires Justinian institutions such as the Oratory. The Supreme Witch heads the Hecataphrim Coven, a council of the most powerful Witchedom-controlling witches (Often ancient foreign witches) that make all the true decisions of East Ouroborasia. As for the traditional powers of the nobles? Many of them have either been sidelined, bewitched or seduced to essentially refer their powers to the covens.

Head of State (De Jure): Emperor Vasilius I Dragcumir
Head of State (De Facto): Supreme Witch of the Hecataphrim Coven, Nenephni of Terra Incognita
Currency: Imperial Gold Leuri (Includes other legal coinage, The Kasaboi Ducat included)
Languages: Ouroboran(majority), Aemerine, Sancthiyin Elvish, Kasaboi, Old Eudakar, Grey Eudakar, Ghoul Speech, Many local ethnic dialects

UNIQUE ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION

The Blackguard Mihai Negrescu leads a contigent of the Imperial Army of the East into the breach during the Siege of Morticia

• Wretched Empire of the Witches - Witch. A word that means many things. A user of heretical magic. A heathen worshiper of false gods, rejecting the light of Justinian. An evil woman. In East Ouroborasia the name has taken on a new meaning; Master. for many apostates and wretchkin since the civil war begun, the witches are the chosen children of the Goddess Ephemem (or other Red Gods), blessed with the 'witch curse', and as such a blessed chosen people. For the Anathema Justinians of the Radiant Cult, they are enlightened materialists, exemplars of the ways of the Verum Codex and its holy principle senses. Regardless, because of this magical and religious authority, Witches dominate the government and army of East Ouroborasia. Their numbers grow into the hundreds of thousands. They are trained in shadowy covens and elite academies from early childhood. Corrupted paladins - now blackguards serve them by choice. Familiars - men forced by geas to obey serve them regardless. No longer do they hide in decaying hovels but rule atop black towers of marble, stone and the blood of countless sacrifices.

• Rot Within, Rot Without - When the witches took control of the empire, they did not merely usurp the government and its institutions but twisted them to their will. The first to fall, the Oratorium now serves the witches, finding witches to be trained or protecting them rather than hunting them as they once were supposed to do. Ex-paladins seduced by the witches have since become blackguards, turning the martial, magical and ascetics of the paladins against them. Even the Clerisy, though most stayed loyal and fled west to fight in the civil war has now fallen in line. Heretics named anathema have been made clerics by the witches, preaching new heretical and Anathema forms of Justinianism, ranging from arbritray syncretism to the contrarian anti-Justinianism of the Radiance Cult. Where heresy has not been used, blatant cults have taken their place, moving their cult activities into public view, ranging from sacred prostitutes of Ishnanneh wearing the robes of Clerics and performing orgies in old cathedrals to 'priests' performing mass sacrifices to Axohaan.

• Wretchkin Grudge War - Ouroborasia has forever been in turmoil over ethnic groups fighting over the region, but now Ouroborasia has to deal with a whole new concept of 'ethnicity' to wage war over. The Wretchkin or 'bad blood' are the blood relatives of witches. They are the mothers whose wombs were where fetus' were given the witch curse. They are the fathers and brothers of burned and drowned sisters and daughters. The husbands of hanged wives. The Purges and Ouroborasian Genocide that followed the Witch Plague gave all the reason in the world for generations of Wretchkin to rise up violently, many declaring themselves apostates or adopting Anathema Justinianism. When the government itself fell to the witches, with a great deal of irony, the Wretchkin ended up becoming the governments greatest asset, willingly joining the ranks of the army and militia if it meant vengeance. Isolated peasant villages, foresters, merchant pedlars. The Wretchkin represent a new dimension of the Ouroborasian Civil War, as the people's militias in the West also showed. A popular and widespread Peoples War.

• Lord Swampland - Ouroborasia's not particularly secret weapon O'Lord Swampland, the greatest commander of Ouroborasia for millennia. He is always defending the country though is stronger in certain seasons. With him comes harsh and constant rain, ever obstructing mud, insidious murky water and creeping mangroves in the wetlands, and shadowy black forests in the hinterlands. Invaders fear him, for their cannons sink into the mud, their powder becomes useless. Disease and illness; Lord Swamplands faithful squires strike them down as they cower, huddling around fireplaces that refuse to start, so wet is the wood. Those who seek to besiege castles fear this great defender, for he is the weather, and while invaders have come and gone, Great Lord Swampland has never been defeated.

• Monstrous Homunculi - The creation of homunculi is a feared magical art perfected by the witches of the Red Pantheon. Using transmutation on biological forms and people, those that are transmuted can have their form twisted and changed to newer, more grotesque and often more combat capable forms. Werewolves now roam the black forests of Ouroborasia where men once hunted game. Giant twisted Wendigoes with the deranged forms of humans molded into hunt, even the natural Wendigo beasts fearing their new, magically twisted cousins. The ghoul armies of Uudin march through the marshes and hills of East Ouroborasia, the surreal part-man, part-animal mismatched monsters of Axohaan having fought here for millennia. Ouroborasia has long been a land beset by monsters, but now the people of Ouroborasia must contend with a land where they too may one day become monsters.

• Phantasmal Miasma of the Witch Goddess - The Witch Goddess Ephemem, the greatest of East Ouroborasia's patron deities often performs her miracles in these lands. While her acts range from flocks of animals to the moving of waves and magical curses, her most famous gift to East Ouroborasia is a miasmic fog, one crafted from and made of magic, an often long-lasting divine intervention. This fog conceals and obstructs, further aiding Lord Swampland against Ouroborasia's enemies. It saps the will of those within, illusions and phantoms of doom harassing those within it. It corrodes the bright armour of paladins and burns skin, while healing and protecting the Witch Goddesses own. Where the miasma goes, the eyes of the Goddess go, the purple deathly fog announcing the goddesses dominion over this land.

• Solomonanţă, The Black Academy of Witchcraft - Witches are often stereotyped as elderly crones that lurk in the darklands of Uudin, or as ancient shapeshifters, having long changed forms to whatever pleases them. The truth is however, the vast majority of East Ouroborasia's witches are young. The witch plague that struck the country 25 years ago ensures that the vast majority are witches are below that starting year point. Many of them are still teenagers or children, thrust into a brutal civil war due to their Witch Curse. Those who are more fortunate; whom avoid becoming magical child soldiers, instead are taken on either privately with cabals/covens or sent to the Black Academy. Solomonanţă, one of the greatest Red Pantheonist magical institutions in the world. Solomonanţă will gladly accept the young witches of Ouroborasia and teach them the arts of the Goddess of Witches or other Red Gods, being an interfaith school. Even the Anathema Justinians are present - to a degree. Regardless, there they will learn how to bend the world, monsters and mankind to their will, they will learn the arts of proper ritual sacrifice and casting. Of catalysts and dark, secret knowledge. The Black Academy, a dark-stoned fortress of a school is filled with occult knowledge, monsters and enthralled familiar slaves, an irony and hypocrisy that a supposed goddess of rebellion and self-determination seems to ignore. In the eyes of the East, all the dark experiments that take place in the school and classes range, activities that range from learning how to shape-shift cats to forcing prisoners of war to kill and torture each other to death can be perfectly justified. They are being prepared for the Sacrilege War where all weapons and means are permitted. Those who emerge from this school are prepared as true witches, eager and ready to face a harsh world filled with death and holy war.

• Dark Covenant Of The Six Gods - East Ouroborasia has always been a sanctuary and staging ground for Red God Rebellions. For centuries before the Justinian crusaders conquered this land, the Red Pantheon ruled supreme across both East and West Ouroborasia. Numerous Red Gods have made Ouroborasia their favoured hiding grounds in the material plane, and as such have been forced to coexist and cooperate if they are to survive Justinian and Yuwan's onslaught. The Dark Covenant as such is the loose coalition formed in the south, revolving around Axohaan and Ephemem as its ringleaders. Other Red Gods, either by choice, opportunity or by force have joined this southern pact as both a means of survival and to enhance their own power. While this agreement is tenuous and often a cause of internal strife and disagreement, it also represents East Ouroborasia's strong diplomatic position and power of alliance building between Red Pantheonist states.

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

The Gravecoast of the south-eastern provinces is as infamous as it is ancient. An old Axohar tradition, the Eudekeshan people either floated their dead into the ocean or buried them on the coastline, the latter of which continues even today, its origins.

Map of Interests (E.Ouroborasia)

• Sepulchravest - #1, The former capital is on the frontlines of the civil war, having switched hands numerous times between the east and west. The city was attacked by Crown Prince Istvan (now the ‘emperor’ of West Ouroborasia) in the first day of the civil war, however was driven off by monstrous creatures summoned by the current Witchfinder-General of the Maleficar Oratorium (and champion of the Turquoise Lord). Since then the city has become a half-ruined hellhole and is saturated with the influence of the Turquoise Lord. Most of the city's inhabitants are now either Turquoise monsters or witches and their homunculi or familiar tools.

• Xur'valău Mare - #2, The new capital of East Ouroborasia. Xur'valău Mare is a Gothic and gloomy city infamous for being built atop the ruins of Xur, the old citadel of Axohaan during the Axohaan Rebellions. Xur was perhaps once the very headquarters and centre of the entire worlds Red Pantheonist movement, with ghouls calling the former citadel their capital. Today the city is said to be cursed by the wrathful presence of the Salt Prince and other Red Gods. Vast catacombs under the city still house feral ghouls and Axohar cults, while the dark city and fortress above house the government of East Ouroborasia and numerous witches of Ephemem, meeting among within the spires that tower over the city, decorated with gargoyles and other forms of grotesque art.

• Witch-fortress of Nazaimae - #3, Primary military headquarters of the ruling Witch coven, the Hecataphrim. Nazaimae was originally a local dukes fortress that was 'confiscated' during the beginning of the civil war, and has since been retrofitted to be a suitable seat of power for the central Witchedom of East Ouroborasia, made in the likeliness of the Xur and Azagôde citadels of old. Nazaimaes central keep has since been augmented, black stone and a great spire towering from the middle, more smaller towers circling it and numerous curtain ring walls expanding outward. Nazaimae besides being a central command structure is also a training area for blackguards, having a blackguard academy built into the fortress. It also acts as a smaller school to train witches, often the personal apprentices of the Hecataphrims elder witches, as the majority of young witches learn at Solomonanţă.

• City of Vansanguira - #4, regional capital of the Archduchy of Vlachia and seat of power for Archduke Cosmin Dragcumir.

• Lázárfieran Citadel - #5, regional capital of the Grand March of Upper Cilistria, seat of power of Grand Margraf Ostorius Răceanur, Marshal of the Army.

• Solomonanţă - #6, black academy of witchcraft, the great magical educational institute of the southern Red Pantheonists. The academy is a magically fortified castle built on an island surrounded by a lake formed from a passing river.

The towering spires of Xur'valău Mare look down upon East Ouroborasia, a constant and grim reminder of the Red Gods deep influence in these lands.

Cities:
-Sepulcravest
-Xur'valău Mare
-Vansanguira
-Mare Danub
-Darazgamor
-Mare Romagave
-Requiemaria
-Mare Vilistruvia
-Vanra Zajorvo
-Morticia (Occupied)

Castles
-Sepulcravest Palace
-Lázárfieran Citadel
-Slavăvest
-Nazaimae

RACIAL INFORMATION

Majority race: Humanity is the majority and ruling class of the East Ouroborasian Empire. Technically its ‘ruling’ status is debatable as while the vast majority of witches of the empire are of human origins, a number of them are either foreign elves or have performed auto-homunculus metamorphosis on themselves, turning themselves physically into other beings. Humans have been the majority species of Ouroborasia for millennia, though originally this land was populated by ethnic Eudekeshan humans. The Eudekeshans were pushed or bred out of most of their ancestral homelands of Ouroborasia 1200 years ago first by Wolfraum's Aemorian Imperium, then by its Old Pantheonist successor states and finally by the Justinians 150 years ago. The actual Eudekeshan ethnic group survives in parts of Lamashi-occupied Eudaz, Uudhin and isolated communities of Far-east Ouroborasia, though both have also been corrupted culturally by the Gushawari Gusho-Aemarine people and Axohaan. The majority of Ouroborasian people today are Aemorian ethnically, though there remains dozens of sub-races and ethnic groups as well as hybrid cultures that have grown over the centuries and millennia due to constant invasions. It is said that because of this, Ouroborasia will never have peace. There are around 17.8 million humans living in East Ouroborasia, or around 71% of the total population)

Minority races:

• Ouroborasian Homunculi - Creations of the Witches of East Ouroborasia. Unlike the Ghouls of Axohaan, usually Ouroborasian Homunculi are born through the transmutation of other living beings, particularly humans and wendigoes. Ouroborasian Homunculi are usually sterile, either by their flawed creation or intention by their creator, though some freak examples can actually breed or even interbreed with other species. As Homunculi are a category of beings rather than a specific species, there isn't any unified appearance or biology, though most are fierce and typically designed to terrify enemies and fight in the witches wars. Notable Homunculi include Werewolves, Uberwendigoes, Gretchlings and Coalescent Homunculi, the former two being large furred beasts and the latter being grotesque mockeries of human form, the Coalescents typically being inhumanly pale, humanoid-shaped beings with additional limbs and organs.

• The Ghouls of Uudhin - The Ghouls of Uudhin (See Grijs nationsheet for details concerning the species itself): The ghouls of Uudhin once, during the Axohar First and Second Rebellions, found their headquarters in Ouroborasia, then the homeland of the Eudekeshans, who were loyal to the same pantheon that Axohaan once served under. While Axohaan was defeated and the Eudekeshans pushed out, the ever tenacious warrior-race crafted by the Salt Prince held out defiantly, residing in the badlands and mountains of Ouroborasia to this day.

• Centauroids - Centaurs are a demographic newcomer into the ethnic mess that is Ouroborasia. While there are stories of ancient centaur nomads trying to conquer Ouroborasia numerous millennia ago, the actual centaurs of Ouroborasia descend from Justinian crusaders that arrived 150 years ago, when the Justinian crusaders conquered Ouroborasia in its entirety. The centaurs of East Ouroborasia today are a isolated minority, living in a hostile environment that is not particularly hospitable for centaurkind. Once the fanatical religious zeal of the crusades wore off, the centaurs became bitter though still too stubborn to leave. Those in East Ouroborasia mostly live in the rural areas and farmlands, avoiding the swampy and forested areas Ouroborasia is most infamous for. Centaurs have like humans also been used as 'bases' for homunculi, having their own grotesque cousins in the form of the Bicortaur Homunculi, an oversized horned and fanged centaur with demonic features.

• Wendigoes - A believed to be native inhabitants of Ouroborasia, the Wendigoes are actually immigrants, having swarmed into the region millennia ago during a great war, and were then conquered by the ascending Eudekeshan people, continuing the cycle of Ouroborasian invasions. The Wendigoes are mostly intelligent however are a on average barbaric people, having socially regresssed since their civilised era millennia ago. They are notorious carnivores that intentionally eat other intelligent beings, particularly humans, sometimes even incorporating such feasts into religious sacrifical ceremonies. Avid survivalists and ancient practitioners of the Red Pantheon, Wendigoes were mass persecuted by Justinian crusaders, who undertook pogroms and massacres against them after many failed attempts at converting them. While they have taken the opportunity to rise up behind the witches, they also resent them and all humans, for they know that they are a dying ancient race that will likely see many more massacres before their last days come.

• Riglers - Something crawls in the deep.

RELIGIOUS INFORMATION

The Anathema Justinian Cleric and witch Iulia to the left meets with the Ishnannehi witch and priestess Mariana at the Xur Cathedral

State Religion: Red Pantheon (Also includes heretical Anathema Justinianism)
Patron Deities:

• Ephemem - Ephemem, also known as the Goddess of Witches, and less commonly the Goddess of Heresy. She is a Red God that rose with the fall of the Ancient Pantheon in 1300BWY (1300 years ago), A remnant of the days of Eudeye. With the fall of her old master, Ephemem turned against the new order by embracing the Turquoise Scheme, rejecting her fellow Eudeye disciple Yuwan and the Old Pantheons belief in harmony between Materia and the Celestial Plane, seeing the Celestial Plane as the root of all evil in the universe and thus must be destroyed. Having been the one responsible for unleashing the Turquoise Lord and Axohaan from their celestial prisons, Ephemem as been instrumental in sowing chaos and war across the world for over a millennia in her war against the heavens. To some, Ephemem is a goddess of freedom, defiance and independence, allowing dissidents, outcasts and rebels to break free, a patron of new ideals and those who lived on the periphery. To others, she is an agent of chaos, and like Axohaan a force of destruction hellbent on bringing nothing but anarchy for its own sake. she is often worshipped by those who reject the two grand norms of Justinian and Yuwan; by outcasts and rebels, by those who hold grudges or seek revenge, those bitter and resentful as they are filled with the belief they are oppressed or exploited. This has thus made her a particularly favourable patron of the Wretchkin, whom she conspired to create with the Witch Curse. Though little known by those outside the Eudekeshans and her followers, Ephemem once upon a time was a naive and idealistic Angel of the completely unrelated celestial duty of Healing of the Ancient Pantheon, and thus is also the patron of doctors and healers. How she went from a healer to a chief patron of militant rebels and heretical ideas is unknown. Ephemem is a primary supporter of the Radiant Cult of Anathema Justinianism, not only because they weaken Justinianism but because they perfectly embody her own opinions and ideals... seeing as her own ideals are what the radiant are built around - with a Justinian context.

• The Anti-Justinian - The Anti-Justinian, also known as "The True Justinian" contra to " The False Justinian" of Sacrosanctia. The Anti-Justinian is the 'deity' of the Anathema Justinians of East Ouroborasia, particularly the Radiant Cult from which it originates. Unlike the vast majority of deities worshipped or followed in Materia, the Anti-Justinian is not an actual deity as much as it is a concept. Known as the Radiant or Grand Heresy in Sacrosanctia, the Radiants believe that The Justinian of Sacrosanctia is a false god, a mirage formed in the celestial plane following the War In Heaven. They believe The Justinian was and is the true god of the universe, but its divinity was polluted by its formation in the celestial plane - The domain of the Demiurge. They believe the True Justinian is trapped within an interstice or limbo of souls, engulfed under the weight of its own collective consciousness, corrupted by Demiurgic Entities like the ones it slew. As such, they believe that all messages delivered by The Justinian following the War In Heaven are in fact demurgic lies, corruptions to lead the trapped mortal souls astray from true salvation. Their solution and what they perceive as the true goal of The Justinian is as such for it to become free from its celestial prison and returned to the material world, where from the holy material plane it will bring about the Great Reconvergence - As a material paradise rather than a spiritual Empyrean one. As such, as written in the heretical pages of the Verum Codex - The Most Noble Apocrypha of Radiance, all true Justinians must wage war against The False Justinian of Sacrosanctia so to free the true god from its chains and accomplish its divine mission of utopia on Materia. The Anti-Justinian is particularly popular among Wretchkin who could not comprehend that despite their belief in Justinian they were suddenly enemies of their own god following the civil war. Of particular interest is the meddling of Ephemem and the TQLR in the Radiance Cult, the former being the cults creator is particularly interested in it, as it is essentially the same as her own goals.

• Axohaan - (see Grijs' sheet for details) The Salt Prince, the devil figure of the Ancient Pantheon, thrown in the celestial prison for crimes against the Ancient Pantheon, with his gods long dead, now a rogue Red God. A brutal and direct figure that has long since embraced his reputation and role as a great antithesis and force of darkness, Axohaan has become another patron of rebellion and defiance across the world, long before Ephemem left her path as a benign healer, Axohaan was raging against the heavens. Axohaan once was the traditional god of Ouroborasia, having taken over the role of the Eudekeshan peoples patron following the fall of Eudeye, from there waging constant and futile war against the Old Pantheon. While the Eudekeshans have long been pushed out of their own ancestral homeland, Axohaans followers remain in the form of ghouls and Neo-Axohar cultists, once again embracing the Everlasting War against the universe and powers that be. Axohar followers are often ethnic, cultural and even nationalist romanticists. They dream of one day restoring the days of Eudeye and the Ancient Pantheon; a world they believed was far more just than the one today.

• Ishnanneh - The Goddess of Many Delights is a new Red Goddess, having risen with the fall of her old mistress Ashyeiha, the Old Pantheon Goddess of Fertility, Love, Hearth, Home and Motherhood. Following The Justinian's killing of Ashyeiha during the War In Heaven, Ishnanneh has since abandoned the traditional ideals of her own mentor and embraced the rabid materialism and nihilism often associated with Red Pantheonism. Her cult is one of pleasure and hedonism, praising the basest nature of all souls as the truest and purest form of life. On a more idealogical note, Ishnanneh could be considered a positive Utilitarian. She truly believes that since the world is hellish and meaningless place the only thing that matters is happiness - any happiness, it just so happens that physical pleasure is the lowest common denominator. She is often associated with beauty, putting her at odds with 'the little upstart' Mastrix, who she sees as a fake and is often insulted by the comparison between herself who aspires to spread happiness across the world to Mastrix who to her only exists to feed her own empty pretense of narcissism. Ishnanneh is a powerful goddess despite being constantly underestimated by her rivals and allies. It is often suggested by her cultists that if they weren't so busy spreading 'joy' and 'happiness' they would be leading the southern Red Pantheon.

• TQLR - The unnamed god of the Turquoise Scheme, often known as the Turquoise Lord, Turq or TQLR. An incredibly ancient Red God whose origins are long lost to history, a being that even Yuwan, Axohaan and Ephemem know not of his origins, only that he has spent an incredibly long time in the celestial prison, only unleashed by Ephemem 1300 years ago following the fall of the Ancient Pantheon. Regardless, the Turquoise Lord has no real worshippers, only pawns and tools for which to use to enact its grand, universe-spanning scheme to remake the universe in its image. Today, it is deeply involved in the Ouroborasian Civil War, having formed a diabolical pact with the Witch Goddess, his surreal overlays springing up across the East. Due to TQLR's obscurity and the general ignorance of the average Ouroborasian peasant, many mistake him for Axohaan the Salt Prince, or also mistakenly known as 'Axehand the Pepper King".

• Longthirung - Longthirung the Inheritor. Dragon God. 'Long' is a Red God, once demi-god dragon child of Sirrišushan the King-of-gods of the Ancient Pantheon, then angel under his father after he ascended. Over two thousand years old, Lonthirung saw and survived the fall of his father to Ashenlur, wielding the Dragonslaying Sword Agur, and in turn saw and survived the fall of Ashenlur and his Old Pantheon to Justinian and his Godslaying Epilogeon Sword. A survivalist to the core, Longthirung is 'famous' for being the only Red God to have survived a personal battle with The Justinian in its full Avatar form, mostly because he fled half way through the battle as his allies were obliterated. While surviving, Longthirung was horribly wounded, including being half-blinded, burned (despite dragons supposedly being immune to fire) and afflicted with a form of unique radiation poisoning and cancer common to those in the presence of Justinian's full Avatar. Forced into servitude by Ephemem in exchange for medical treatment, Long now mostly hides in Ouroborasia and occasionally kidnaps princesses from Aberys since attacking Gushawar would likely cause a war he cannot win. These days he has been reduced to a pathetic shadow of his former self.

• Uturr - The Lord of Slaughters influence while slight after his lands being occupied, does still reach across from Aberysia and Weshland, his dominion over strength, fighting, brutality and survival in harsh times appeals to many a starving peasant. To the most desperate of East Ouroborasia's peasantry, those living in the most flooded, war-torn and desolated areas, wracked with famine... The simple promise of a filled belly is the greatest miracle any god could possibly provide, greater than Ephemems revenge and power, Ishnannehs pleasure and carnality, Axohaans defiance, even Justinians justice and order. Uturrs faithful desire only one thing: Survival at any and all costs.

Religion Demographics:
-48% Red Pantheonism
-35% Anathema Justinianism
-17% Orthodox Justinianism

Holy Relics in Possession:

Holy Sites under Control:

• Xur Cathedral - The Xur Cathedral is the largest operating Justinian cathedral in East Ouroborasia with the destruction of the Apostle Sepulchravia's Cathedral in Sepulchravest. From here, the heretical and arch-Anathema High Cleric Septimus Justinescu watches over the doings of the Radiant Cult, representing the followers of the Anti-Justinian and the teaching of the Verum Codex. Xur Cathedral is also a major religious centre for Ephemem's cult. Besides administrative tasks, pregnant cult members have their fetus' blessed by the Witch Curse, important sacrifices are performed, Effigies are burned and various rituals are performed to communicate with the Witch Goddess. Both the Radiant and Ephemite cults practice numerous ceremonies that venerate the physical world and denouncement of the celestial plane, syncreticism between the two is quite common.

• Danub Cathedral - The Danub Cathedral is a formerly Justinian place of worship that has since been converted into the centre of the Ishnannehi Cults operations, alongside the more economically orientated Temple of the Covenant. The Danub Cathedral now hosts a vast pleasure cult, sacred prostitution, virgin sacrifices and other 'services'. The Danub Cathedral is notable for having an idyllic garden/grove built into the Cathedral's grounds which have now been repurposed for Ishnannehi ceremonies, of particular note was when Ishnanneh's own personal avatar laid with a particularly valuable champion, giving birth to a demi-god.

• The Catacombs of Xur - The Catacombs of Xur are an intensely magical and sacred place for the Eudekeshan, Neo-Axohar Cults and Ghouls in particular, as the Catacombs contain the last ruins of the old Xur Citadel, Axohaans personal seat of power in the material world during the Great Rebellions. In these dark catacombs, the Neo-Axohar cultists give their vows of eternal defiance, to carry on Axohaans endless war against the universe.

• Longs Hoard - The personal hiding hole of Longthirung the Inheritor, Dragon-Red God. Dug deep into the Coschapathan Mountains, Longs home is a glittering tunnel filled with gold, gems and other treasures collected over Longthirungs two thousand years of existence. A place of intense theurgia and importance to the Longist cult - being the residence of their gods personal avatar in this world. Only the highest of Longs cult minions may approach the tunnel entrance to give tribute in return for an audience, unless either chosen Eunuchs or various kidnapped trophies (nearly always Aberysian or Ouroborasian maidens, preferably princesses)

• Temple of the Covenant - A new temple, the Temple of the Covenant was built a few years ago to represent the Southern Red Gods and the pantheon as a whole. The temple was built in the coastal city of Vanra Zajorvo, a major trade hub in East Ouroborasia, particularly betwen Ouroborasians and the Kasaboi. The Temple of the Covenant includes Axohar, Ephemite, Longist, Ishnaanehi and Utturish cult wings. TQLR does not have a cult wing, and instead has a small overlay built in the temples catacombs. The Temple is unique for being frequented not just by witches and cultists but also regulars of the city, merchants and traders. It is a powerful hub of economic, political and religious power in the city of Vanra Zajorvo. The Sacred Prostitutes of the Ishnaanehi cult are said to operate their 'silk road' to Gushawar from this temple, and Axohar witches organise movement between Ouroborasia and Uudhin from here as well.

• Witch Demesnes - The various witch towers and magical fortresses personally ruled by the witches are often all sacred places to whichever god acts as the witches benefactor - usually Ephemem or Ishnanneh. Of particular note is Solomonanţă the Black Academy and Nazaimae the Witch Fortress.

Notable Magical Institutions:

• Hecataphrim Coven - Cabal of foreign and often very elderly (though do not appear as such) witches headed by Supreme Witch Nenepheni. This cabal while a political body is made up of very powerful magic users who in turn usually personally train apprentice witches of them own, either found on their own or poached from Solomonanţă's elite.

• Witchedom Demesnes - The personally ruled territory of witches. Beyond being political entities, the Witchedoms are often magical institutions as the witches collect knowledge, artifacts, ingredients and other related things concerning magic.

• Solomonanţă - The Black Academy of Witchcraft, see attributes for more information.

• Maleficar Oratorium - The former Justinian Oratorium of Ouroborasia, now a corrupted shadow of its former self. The combined effort of Ephemem and TQLR saw many Orators corrupted either via magical or nonmagical means. Either way, the Orators are now essentially anti-Orators and anti-Witchhunters, tasked with hunting down other Orators, protecting witches as well as hunting down witches to be brought to Solomonanţă or other institutions to be trained properly.

• Rite of the Ouroboros - The former Justinian Paladin order led personally by the Emperors younger brother, Archduke Cosmin. They have since been corrupted, becoming the infamous Blackguards of East Ouroborasia. Blackguard training has remained relatively the same as before, with focus on melee combat, magical barriers and counter-curses, however they have now taken on a new, 'interesting' perspective to various Paladin vows. Many Blackguards are known to have sworn themselves to specific witches, even becoming willing familiars in a kind of twisted 'Lady and Knight' companionship.

MILITARY INFORMATION

The infamous Red Purge of the Imperial Army of the East. on the eve of the Ouroborasian Civil War, as the Imperial Army withdrew from the Eudaz front, the Istvanite Justinians were slaughtered by their former comrades.

Total Military: 250,000, though the actual official army has around 110,000 soldiers while the rest are either peasant militia, homunculi monsters/ghouls or private witch retinues.
Listed Heroes:
-Supreme Witch Nenepheni of Terra Incognita
-Princess Astaszia Dragcumir
-Szilamir ‘The Witch Bastard’ of Vlachia
Military Doctrine:
Military Units:

units

Wretchkin Militia and Levies

Wretckin Peasant Levy: Common serfs, either levied by their feudal lords to fight in the civil war, or populist rebels revolting against Istvanite-aligned lords, either way, they are essentially normal people armed with farming tools and spears.

Wretchkin Militia: Violent and aggressive, many Wretckin have a personal vendetta against the Justinian state for the pogroms and genocides that preceded the civil war, willing to fight autonomously and of their own accord. Others are simply eager for blood or to set themselves free of all feudal contract through war. Either way, Wretchkin volunteer militia are the brutal vengeance-hungry counterparts of the Istvanite Citizen-Militia. They are raiders and hunters, pillaging the outskirts and burning Justinian temples.

Cult Levy: Wretchkin or not, these peasants have been fully induced into one of the Red Pantheons numerous cults as lesser members. Some have willingly taken the Familiar Curse while others fight entirely of their own will. Their higher grade equipment is mostly scavanged or donations from the cults for service, including access to polearms, maces, some lesser grade swords and occassional firearms. They are not professional soldiers other than the fact that they are usually more active than normal levies and are usually of higher morale than average. Cult levies will act differently depending on their assigned deity, such as Uturrite cult levies practicing cannibalism and occasionally losing themselves to berserker rage when cornered.

Sergeant-Familiars

Sergeant-Familiars:
The Sergeant-Familiars are the semi-professional bread and butter of the Imperial Army of the East. Typically former peasant and urban levies, through years of experience fighting in the Eudazite/Gushawar wars as well as the seven years of civil war they have become relatively good at soldiery, abandoning their seasonal warfare to an occupation of war. Nearly all of them have been put under the Familiar Curse, contracted under regimental witches, who act almost like religious commissars and field mages. Some of them are loyal to their witch commanders, others are loyal to the Marshal Ostorius Răceanur who has led for so long, others to the emperor or their new Red Gods. Many others are bound by force, essentially puppets on strings, compelled by the curse against their will. Either way, they are well armoured and often wielding polearms and pikes.

Sergeant-Familiars are often trained in using crossbows and cumbersome arablests, with guns being less common due to the Ouroborasian environment being detrimental to the use of gunpowder based weapondry. Pavise shields are however a common addition to crossbows.

Mounted sergeant-familiars are surprisingly common, as many aristocrats died during the early days of the civil war, uprisings, pre-civil war purges and other events that forced the raising of experienced sergeant man-at-arms as cavalry, usually light cavalry wielding swords or small crossbows.

Ouroborasian Knights

Ouroborasian Knights: While the civil war has been a dangerous time to be an aristocrat, the eastern aristocracy has survived significantly better than their western Istvanite counterparts, mostly by adopting the various private cults. The witches found corrupting individual aristocrats easier than masses of Justinian peasants, after all. Ouroborasian Knights are experieced by foreign and civil wars, heavily armoured in full-plate and armed with swords, maces, polearms, flails and various other weapons. Chivalry as found in Aberys is a dead concept, the Ouroborasian Civil War being a vicious ethno-religious conflict with no place for things like romanticised honourable combat. Ouroborasian knights even before the civil war were particularly renown for their pragmatic fighting styles, including half-swording. Ouroborasian knights while honourless are usually quite eccentric, wearing elaborate religious symbols, naked Ishnanneh idols on headresses and so on.

Some Ouroborasian aristocrats become deeply involved in their respective cults, enough so that their religious affiliation rather than their title and station defines them, being more like a religious order member than simply a knight - though not trained and magically trained enough to be considered a blackguard. These knights besides apparel and behavioural differences depending on their faith also tend to have cursed weapons and armour, blessed by various witch curses to aid them in battle. Some are willing familiars and serve as retinue to senior regimental witches.

Ouroborasia's knights have more than enough wealth to pay for their own armour and mounts, and have the lifetime training required to act as heavy shock cavalry. While not the most famous cavalry/mounted force in the world, Ouroborasian knights are respectable.

Regimental Witches

Neophyte Witch: The Regimental witch is what East Ouroborasia is famous for. An army of curse-flinging, familiar-holding sacrifice taking magic users, dedicated to various Red Gods. Either witches born with the Witch Curse or made witches later for certain actions of sacrifice, the vast majority of witches are girls and women, particularly Ephememite and Ishnannehi witches. Conscripted from villages, kidnapped as young girls to be trained in Solomonta, aristocratic hostages trained in witchcraft, daughters of cultist families or wretckin willingly handed over - who believe they are doing what god commands... even volunteers, eager for revenge, power or to serve their deity who blessed them at birth.

The lowest ranking regimental witches are essentially child soldiers, 'neophyte' girl witches sent out from Solomonta or private tutoring to experience the Sacrilege War, or otherwise child witches brought up in the Imperial Army of the East. They are not usually actually given command of large formations of familiars and instead act as squire adjutants to more experienced regimental witches, or a units designated magic user if it is low ranking enough to have a child as one. A neophyte witch will usually have at least one familiar bodyguard though, and nearing the end of their service period will be expected to hold a small group of familiar soldiers under their will.

Innominate Witch: A professional military witch who has passed her passage of trial but has not yet joined the Hecataphrim and so taken on a 'witch name'. Of those who do not pursue research, religious or political aspirations, the remainder continue fighting with the army as familiar-commanding officers and designated magic users. Many are graduates from Solomanta or private tutoring and have chosen to continue fighting the Sacrilege War as a military witch, others have grown up in the army and it is their home and 'family'.

The Innominates are often witches who while have not created their own unique personal legend or image, are instead experienced military fighters, used to large scale battles and formation based combat, as well as mass scale curses and support magic.

Witchknight: Some Innominate witches never end up joining the Hecataphrim, instead choosing to remain with the army. In the last seven years of civil war, these coven-deniers have instead decided to immitate the order of Blackguards, becoming colloquially known as "Witchknights", heavily armoured witches, often riding monsterous mounts or bicornes, unicorns or pegasi.

Witchknights are particularly popular among the Imperial Army of the East and its commanders, who see them as professional and serious soldiers, who usually forsake the impracticalities of the coven for harsh military logic and pragmatism.

Coven Witches

Coven Witches: At the upper most echelons of the Witch hierarchy there can be found a select and exclusive group, a society known as the Hecataphrim - The coven of the witches. Those who have become members of the coven have been 'named', given a name by the coven deriving from the ancient sorceresses of Ancient Pantheon times. The Covens members include mostly ancient pre-civil war witches, remnants from the Axohar Rebellions that have prolonged their existence beyond the natural human or even elven lifespan via complex magics. Some coven members are young East Ouroborasian women, invited into the coven usually for significant achievements, patronage of the gods or clear exceptional potential.

The Coven besides being the ruling political elite of East Ouroborasia are also prominent military assets. Coven Witches are often extremely proficient at curses, spellcasting and various magic attacks and support buffs. Their efficiency of casting is often very high, and they have the wealth and resources of the empire to provide them both larger rituals and more research funding.

On the other hand, Coven Witches often becoming increasingly eccentric and individualistic after joining the Coven. Many tend to work alone or as commanders of their own private retinue armies. They rarely fight in conventional battles. Many Coven witches also tend to forsake armour and equipment during their time with the Imperial Army of the East, instead taking on either proper witch robes or the more 'eccentric' attire associated with their god (of particular note, Ishnannehi Witches).

Blackguards

Homunculi

Wickermen

Centaur Cavalry

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Dragcumir Dynasty

• Emperor Vasilius Dragcumir I (First top left) The corrupted and prematurely aged 53 year old Emperor of West Ouroborasia and the legitimate ruler of the formerly united Ouroborasian Empire. Once an honourable if strict authoritarian man, decades of internal strife, court intrigue, ethno-religious genocide and the fact that his daughter was born a witch has since drastically changed the man, leaving only the strict authoritarian man left, now an unfettered dictator and dedicated military commander. Vasilius was once faithful to Justinian, having passed the Epiphany of the Perfect World however now has become mostly irreligious, his alliance with Ephemem and the Red Gods one built on circumstances, that said he has been officially been declared Anathema by Justinian in Sacrosanctia and thus has been excommunicated from the Justinian faith.

• Empress Edwynia Dracgumir (nee Angris) - Eldest daughter of King Alaric Angris of Aberysia,
  Edwynia was married off to the then Crown Prince Vasilius of the Ouroborasian Empire when she was just seventeen, being torn away from her beloved siblings who she cared for as a surrogate mother ever since her own mothers death. While resentful, she knew her father meant best for her and the realm, so she left behind her mothers garden to her little sister Amberly, she left behind her strolls through the woods on her faithful mare and the glamorous balls and went forth to become Empress of the Ouroborasian Empire. For a time, it was good. She enjoyed visits and letters with her family, and while her husband was always emotionally distant - once upon a time he was respectful and fair, rather than emotionally and mentally abusive. It all fell apart however when the Witch Plague came, and her daughter too was born a witch, Edwynia forced to constantly hide her daughter due to her "chronic illness" and betray her god Justinian. Now a 36 year old Empress of a civil war ridden nation, with her eldest son fighting the rest of his family, her second son on the cusp of death, her eldest daughter a sex-crazed Ishnannehi cultist and her youngest daughter both a witch and destined avatar of a Red God she has become dangerously depressed, quiet and inactive, on the brink of completely losing the will to live.

• Crown Prince Ruslin Dragcumir - Formerly the Second Prince, Ruslin was jumped up to heir after his elder brother Istvan was disinherited following Istvan's siding with the west when the civil war begun. Ruslin has always resented his elder brother for his betrayal as well as being a middle child in the shadow of his elder brother. Only fourteen years old and the twin of his sister Astaszia, Ruslin joined the civil war two years ago as a squire with the hope of facing and defeating his elder brother in battle. While brave, determined and a relatively good swordsman for his age, Ruslin had no chance against Istvans honour guard and was cut down. Today while still alive, he is mortally wounded. The witches refuse to heal him unless Astaszia, his sister and also a witch does so herself - essentially blackmailing her into performing magic she is not yet prepared to use.

• First Princess Silviu Dragcumir - Eldest daughter of the Emperor, Silviu has come to embrace the Red Pantheon in a way unlike her siblings and parents. A dedicated Red Pantheon cultist and follower of Ishnanneh, Silviu has compensated for her lack of inherent magical power as with her witch-cursed younger sister by taking part in the rituals and sacrifices that Ishanneh's Cult performs. Spoiled and envious of her far more powerful younger sister, Silviu lacks either the predestined or self-made destinies of her relatives like Astaszia, Istvan or Szilamir and instead lives a life of nihilistic hedonism, presenting herself as a perfect and courteous royal while living for the moment and whatever pleases her whim at the time.

• Second Princess Astaszia Dragcumir - The Witch Pricess of Ouroborasia, Astaszia is the predestined and cursed harbinger of the Dark Gods. Cursed in Empress Edwynia's womb by Nenepheni, Enmity and other agents of the Red Pantheon, Astaszia was born a witch via the witch curse. Her cursed birth and powers were kept secret by the Dragcumir Dynasty, locked up in the palace tower under pretenses of 'chronic illness' even as the emperors own Orators performed genocidal witch hunts across the empire. Eventually, Emperor Vasilius brought in Nenepheni, a mysterious foreign courtier who knew of Astaszia's magical power and promised to help her control it, a promise the emperor accepted as his daughters powers became more and more erratic and difficult to hide.
  This decision eventually enabled Nenepheni to take control of the imperial court from within, which in turn instigated the Ouroborasian Civil War. Astaszia herself since the beginning of the civil war has become Nenepheni's personal apprentice and witch-in-training, while deeply hesitant and mostly still an innocent girl with little understanding of the outside world, Astaszia has been forced by Nenepheni and fate to practice increasingly dark magics, with the goal of one day preparing her for her destiny as the avatar of the Witch Goddess Ephemem herself.

• Archduke Cosmin Dragcumir of Vlachia - Archduke Cosmin is the younger brother of Emperor Vasilius.
  Born as a spare to the throne, Cosmin was born in his brothers shadow. At a young age, Cosmin was desperate to distinguish himself, enormous ambition and a bitterness shaped by an inferiority complex forming his early life and eventual decent into sociopathy. He inherited the Duchy of Varman from his father, however the titles land was mostly left underdeveloped due to the Imperial family focusing their fundings on Sepulchravest. To compensate, he joined Marshal Ostorius' war against Eudaz (then independent and not occupied by Lamash), becoming a renown commander in that theatre. Still, every time he succeeded, Vasilius would restrain or counterman him. The loot he took from a sacked Eudazi city was divided up rather than used to fund Varman. Vasilius and Ostorius said this was fair, Cosmin saw it as theft. He would be suddenly recalled from a major and prestigious offensive for tedious meetings. He once had to restart his Paladin training due to a sudden changing of dates for his marriage, a full four years earlier. Growing bitter and resentful overtime, Cosmin eventually conspired secretly, searching for obscure and occult means to gain power over his brother. Cosmin would become the first of Ouroborasia's highest ranking elites to fall to the sway of the witches, early on into the Witch plague, some twenty years ago. His late wife, suddenly perishing, was discreetly replaced by a new mistress, a foreign witch of incredible power and similar disposition to the Duke Cosmin. His young and powerless legitmate daughter was sidelined, replaced by the terrible influence and power of the witch Cimerenei, a confederate of Nenepheni. Cimerenei had little to corrupt, as Cosmin was more than willing to covert to the Witch Goddess' faith in secret, Justinian's epiphany of the perfect world long forgotten. He formed a dark union and pact with the witch, and ever since his fortunes have reversed and shined through. He through political ploys and sudden accidents inherited a number of neighbouring duchies, forming the Archduchy of Vlachia. He is now technically Heir Presumptive with Prince Ruslins severe injuries and so to be death. His bastard son, formed from his union with the witch is a champion of Ephemem and prophecised conqueror, destined to bring the world to its knees. Cosmin has always been underestimated as simply the magical blackguard in the wings, but he knows that soon his time will come.

• Archduchess-In-Waiting Cassiopeia Dragcumir -

• Szilamer the Bastard -

Nenepheni of Terra Incognita

The ancient witch Nenepheni, who though appears eternally youthful is an unknown number of centuries old. A master of metamorphosis (auto-homunculisation), Nenepheni is no longer bound by her old form, instead only bound by the entropy of all souls. She has come and gone and numerous names in many lands, from Ouroborasia to Zul, Gushawar, Aberysia and even in the Central Overlay of TQLR. Her past is mostly unknown, few connecting the dots between her and numerous witches of historical events of note, including both Axohar Rebellions.

Regardless of her mostly unknown past, what is known is that a beautiful maiden in the form of a Justinian saint, white wings of feathers and glowing honey hair appeared in the Ouroborasian Empire twenty or so years ago, first as a discreet secret figure controlling the witch plague, conspiracies and cursing of the fetus that would be Astaszia, then nine years ago as a courtier of the Imperial Court, given a position by the emperor in secret to teach Astaszia the secret witch princess how to control her powers, after revealing her powers to the desperate monarch. Ever since, she has manipulated, seduced, intrigued and indoctrinated her way to become the de facto leader of East Ouroborasia. After the former Crown Prince Istvan revealed that she was a witch, she has publicly taken on the role of Spymaster and adviser to the Emperor, as well as proclaiming herself publicly the Supreme Witch of the Hecataphrim Coven, a now public secret society of the worlds most powerful Red Pantheonist witches. Essentially, she is the true ruler of the East Ouroborasian Empire.

As her past is mired in secrecy and lost history, her goals and motivations are mostly unknown, how it is known that she is a champion of Ephemem and clearly represnting the Witch Goddess' will in Materia. She has also taken on the role of Princess Astaszia's teacher of magic and mentor, bringing the naive and sheltered girl in the tower to the real, cruel world of witchcraft and holy war. Preparing her for her destiny as Ephemems own avatar.

SACRILEGE WAR (Grimdark Fantasy NRP)

Good to see the interest check is finally up.

Being its original creator and current Co-GM, obviously interested xD.

Legend of the Silver Legion (A Fantasy RP)

Posted a short and pretty lame IC post, as I have very little information to work on for it (Will wait on Volus).

In other news, my actual IC work is going into the two collabs with Terminal and Goldeagle/Sigma.

Legend of the Silver Legion (A Fantasy RP)

Capital, Riawin Kingdom, Western Askor

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Riawin. The once great empire of the south, laid low by civil war and incompetence. Doomed by a three hundred year old prophecy foretelling twenty years of strife, and the march of a draconic conqueror from the north.

Now, a shadow of its former glory.

Sylvia sighed and stopped her horse and train of Dominion guards in front of the Riawinan capital. Thinking back, she was taking in just how long it had been since she had visited this city. Once a citizen in childhood, now a newly minted foreign ambassador. She still felt embarrassment for Riawinan Amberlands failures, but not enough to overcome her resentment for this country and the empresses complete indifference over the north’s fate, so fixated on Cormyral as the empress was.

Still, none of that mattered anymore. Sylvia Pendagast was now an emissary and ambassador of those conquerors, representing the interests of the Dakarrans in the court of her former homeland. While she wore the ‘revealing’ attire and had her hair dyed purple as was often associated with the people of the Riawin plains, she made it clear she was not native. The golden headdress upon her head along with the gold ornaments on her shoulders and the large neckpiece… all decorated in wings and scales. Scars marked her hands (as they did her tongue), signifying her sworn allegiance to Dakan, as well as her office of emissary and ambassador of the Dominion.

She represented a new age for the west, the arrival of a new empire. Carrying with her sealed documents concerning future relations between the Dominion and Riawin (formerly empire… now ‘kingdom’), it her mission to seek an audience with Empress Serina Runewind and then set up a Dakarragordic diplomatic mission in the foreign quarters of the city. Sylvia waited for the Riawin guards to approach her… then…

“Salutations, I am Sylvia Pendagast of the Dakarragordic Dominion. I believe you should have in your possession documents concerning the arrival of our diplomatic mission?” She said while they looked at each other quickly.

“Well, here we are, and I must speak with either the Empress or one of her dignitaries as soon as is possible”.

Sylvia waited for the guards response.


Sylvia Pendagast, Ambassador of the Dominion to Riawin and Duchess-In-Waiting of Tost

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(OOC Note: I didn’t just go ahead and enter the city because I had no idea what the city, people within or leaders actually look like or are, so I’ll let Volus describe that)

Legend of the Silver Legion (A Fantasy RP)

@Everyone:

It shall be noted that @Sigma, @Goldeagle1221 and myself are currently at working creating an IC Post. I will also begin work on my own independent IC post and probably update my sheets military section later.

How is everyone going with their sheets and IC posts?

Legend of the Silver Legion (A Fantasy RP)

@POOHEAD189 Play a generic fantasy european kingdom, it seems everyone has done everything except the obvious, so we need one.

Legend of the Silver Legion (A Fantasy RP)

Dominion of Greater Dakarragord

The Dominion of Greater Dakarragord

Government

Absolute Despotism
Historically the Dakarran mountain tribes decided on their tribal leaders and warlords based on whoever was the strongest and most brutal, ruling based on nothing but absolute despotism. The Dakarran people have always had a social darwinist, 'survival of the fittest' outlook to both life and rule, and it is only recently that the Dakarrans have begun to even understand the concept of legalistic rule. The current ruler, unifier and founder of the newly formed Dakarragordic Dominion rules similarly to this ancient tradition, being a totalistic despot, however he has further fused this rule of strength and brutality with a unique charisma and ambition previously unfounded amongst the Dakarran people.

All in all, the Dominion is a nation ruled by individual strength rather than legal authority. It is still up in the air if the current "Supreme Tyrant" (yes, they literally refer their leaders as Tyrants) can successfully embed the legalism found in their new conquests into their own nation. It should also be noted that the human lands conquered by the Dominion while ruled over by this same ‘might makes right’ Dakarran absolutism as the rest are far more used to feudalism, including serfdom and feudal obligations of king and the aristocracy. While the ‘king’ is now a draconic barbarian conqueror, the human nobles still try to maintain a pretence of legalism in the lands they have left.

Government details

Head of State: The Head-of-State is also the head of government and is a position of absolute power. The Supreme Tyrant (of all the Dakarrans) is a new title created 20 years ago when the dominion was founded. Its current holder is also its creator and founder of the Dominion, Vaemaradosth Dakan the Conqueror. This position of undeniable power derives its authority from Vaemaradosths strength, charisma and vision. The vast majority of Dakarrans respect Vaemaradosth to insane degrees, seeing him as a kind of messiah for their race.

Succession: Title succession is open, so the strongest takes all. Prestige and respect are big factors in deciding who will succeed someone, so a list of achievements is far more important than your blood. A weak child can easily lose their inheritance to a far more powerful warlord that isn't even related to them. During highly contended successions, the Dakarrans may perform what is known as the Kasson, a duel to the death using nothing but their claws, tail, teeth and natural bodily weapons (or weapons, if both combatants agree). Alongside this, there has been some recent Civilist attempts at creating a more legalistic platform of succession, including a moot-style election with final verdict by the Supreme Tyrant.

Taxation Policy: Before the conquests and formation of the Dominion 20 years ago, the Dakarrans had only very rudimentary taxation, typically in the form of members of a tribe providing the warlord a certain amount of food and labour as well as military service. Subjugated vassals would be forced to provide tributes. Today, the Dominion has begun adopting far more advanced taxation systems taken from the humans, so to better finance and manage their new empire.

Legalism vs Tribalism:

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Geography

additional geographic information

1: Darash Mountains: The Darash's are a range of jagged, snow-peaked mountains cutting a small line through the world. The Darash Mountains have some of the world's highest peaks. Of the very little food that exists on the Darash mountains include the extremophile Tykirroot, which can survive both extreme heat and cold, and the Wooly Baan, a kind of mountain goat that the Dakarrans herd and eat. The capital city of the Dominion and the Darash Region is Dakan, a city-fortress built into a mountain, much of the city being subterranean. The city-fortress is built over what once was a large dragon lair. The single most important aspect of the Darash Mountains is the subterranean river Anka, this river flowing through what is considered an unnatural tunnel (believed formed by ancient spirits, dragon gods or even the canal-building ghosts of Sondoper) and connecting the western strait-sea with the central Sakabanatu Region, thus making it extremely important for trade from east to west (and vice versa). Sitting in a massive cavern alongside the Anka is the citadel-city of Draka, a prominent slave-trading and slave-breeding city of the Dominion.

2: Sujan Lowlands: This region of the Dominion was known as the Lower Amberlands by the Riawin humans that live there, but as the Sujans by the Dakarran conquerors that now hold it. The Sujans were settled by both humans and Dakarrans millennia ago, the latter however with the help of neighbouring kingdoms pushed the Dakkaran people out and into the Darash Mountains. The Sujan Lowlands have numerous formerly Riawin major cities and castles. The capital of the Sujan Lowlands is Amberantia, a human city that is considerably larger and more populated than the Dakarrans own Dakan as well as a centre for the Riawin Erosian faith.

3: Arandeep: A small area of heavy woods, this forested territory was where the Dakarran conquerors came through to conquer the Amberlands. Renown for its magical properties and abundance of herbal/alchemical ingredients. The capital of the region is the human city of Aranitia, a city that also houses the Dominions magical and alchemical expertise.

4: Hinterhills: Southern reach of the Darash Mountains, a lighter density of rocky hills, renowned for possessing a high number of defensive constructs that the Dakarrans have been building to separate the Sujan Lowlands from the southern empire. The area is plagued by harpies and other insurgents from the Riawin lands to the south, the area now turned into a bloody guerrilla war between the baby-snatching harpies and harpy-eating Dakarrans. Hinterhagst is a notable fortress built into the hills and considered the regional capital of the Hinterhills.

5: Upper Amberlands: The upper Amberlands was a region dominanted by the Kingdom of Amberland for which the region is named for. The Amberlanders were the humans that drove the Dakarrans into the mountains and enslaved them. They themselves would eventually be driven north by invasions and conquest from the Riawin Empire. The Amberlandish humans were constantly at the mercy of the Riawin Empire, forced to open themselves up to Erosian priestesses and banning slavery (though slavery was still used widely, just driven underground). The Amberlandish Kingdoms capital was the city of Ciclantine (after losing Amberantia to the Riawins), now a favorite slave market as well as a highly developed city that competes with Amberantia.

6: Lower Hyrkos: Conquered during the invasion of the Amberlands, the Dominion now controls an area that is culturally Hyrkosian. This region was a war-zone already when the Dominion invaded, as part of a war between the Kingdoms of Amberland and Hyrkos. The Dominion invasion was rapid but quickly disintegrated into a chaotic three-way fight at the Battle of Numon, eventually ending in Dominion victory. Numon acts as the capital of the region, though it is heavily damaged due to the siege and battle there.

7: Taroshlands: The southern most territory of the Dominion of Greater Dakarragord, conquered from the Yeonese rather than the Riawin Empire, Amberlanders or Hyrkos. Unlike further north, this area remains heavily contested between the Dominion and Yeon. The capital of the region is the former Yeonese city of Daecheon, now recently renamed to Vaemahagst after its recent conqueror, the Supreme Tyrant Vaemaradosth.

8: Sanjudown: The Sanjudown is a region of slightly less fertile plains compared to the Sujan, and is named after the Sanju river in the Sakabanatu Region. As the Sanjudown plains approach the Sanju river, the plains become increasingly dry and more Savannah-like. The Sanjudown region was mostly controlled by independent merchant city-states that either surrendered or were steamrolled by the Dominions armies. Today, the Sanjudown region is a major trade and slavery nexus for the Dominion, with its furthest most city of Ertzean being a former clay-fort and settling area for the Sakabanatu people, now used to send expeditions eastward towards the Empire of Mycae.

Climate: Most of the Dominion of Greater Dakarragord is highly fertile and what could be considered a 'breadbasket', filled will lush grasslands, forests, rivers and an overall temperate environment excellent for farming. The exception to this are the Darash Mountains, the actual homeland of the Dakarran people that rule the Dominion. The highly volcanic and cold mountains are barren of most vegetation and life. While the volcanic ash creates extremely effective fertiliser for the farmlands below, the mountains themselves are plagued by insufficient food, one of the primary reasons the Dakarran people eventually invaded the 'lowland kindoms' of the humans.

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Species

The Dominion has a number of species inhabiting it, the ruling species being the Dakarran people, large, biped draconians that are a derivative cousin of the Zi'an people. Dakarrans grow proportionally to their age and the amount they eat. This scale of growth does not stop, so some Dakarrans may be smaller than humans while others the size of ogres. Dakarran culture is traditionally barbaric and uncivilised, however after conquering numerous lands belonging to more civilised peoples, they have begun to adapt… slowly. Humanity is also present throughout the Dominion, mostly as former members of the countries the Dominion conquered between 20 years ago and today. The majority of the humans belong either to the former Amberlander or Riawin cultures. There is also a minority of various species that inhabit the former Riawin territory, particularly Harpies that continue to harass the Dominion’s troops.

strengths and weaknesses of Dakarrans

Strengths:

• Natural scales/armour: Obviously they have scales, so they have a second layer of armour that makes them additionally resistant to slashing and stabbing weapons, though it doesn't change resistance to physical trauma/shock weapons (maces, hammers, etc) or magic.
• High physical growth potential: the Dakarran start off skinny and more lizard/snake like, however as they age and eat, they grow more saurian and as such go through a metamorphosis phase. Dakarrans on average (if not starved or living through famines) are often very large, around the size of warhammer orks (with a similar degree of variance) and can potentially just keep on growing to ogre/giant scale.
• Wings: Some can grow wings. While the wings for a vast majority cannot actually be used to fly, , they can be used to glide, making said winged Dakarrans effective mountain fighters or when fighting with a height advantage. The Dakarans typically use eugenics/breeding programs to ensure that winged Dakarans are born among certain bloodlines.

Weaknesses:

• High food requirements: Each Dakarran has a high maintenance requirement, particularly food, this mostly because of said growth potential demanding it, otherwise their growth stumps at 'lizard like'. This puts the Dakarrans in a situation where they constantly require high quantities of food and food production to successfully fight and grow an army. This may mean that Dakarran armies may take longer to replenish troops in areas away from food, and also means that the Dakarran economy and warmachine is highly dependent on their food resources, more so than other species.
• Poor eyesight: The Dakarrans have lived such a long time in the subterranean tunnels and halls of the Darash Mountains that their eyes have become myopic considerably compared to the average human. This means they tend to possess inferior archers to humans.
• Brightly coloured scales (poor stealth): Dakarran scales are similar to peacocks, intentionally designed to be exaggerated displays of bright colours to impress potential mates and scare off rivals. No longer animals but rather intelligent beings that wage war, this is pretty annoying when you are trying to keep an army hidden from sight.

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Culture

Traditional Dakarran Culture: Dakarran traditional culture is brutal and primitive. For over 600 years until just 20 years ago, Dakarrans lived in many small tribes and warbands of a few hundred at most, centred around the largest, strongest and most ruthless Dakarran warlord of the group. Social Darwinism is deeply ingrained into Dakarran culture. The strong thrive and weak perish. The Spartan Way has been their code of life for centuries. Defective hatchlings are thrown off the side of the Darash Mountains or eaten by their siblings (particularly during famines).

traditional culture details

Slavery: Slavery is considered socially acceptable by Dakarrans since their belief is those too weak to dominate others deserve to be dominated by their betters. It has been like since for centuries, though originally slavery was brought to the Dakarrans by the ancient humans, who enslaved many when the first Dakarran settlers were defeated and banished to the mountains. Dakarrans are particularly renowned for making use of slave-soldiers (Usually bought from other countries to reduce internal unrest) as well as Janissary soldiers, who while are not slaves are forcibly taken from their families (or kidnapped from foreigners).

Marriage Laws: Traditionally, the Dakarrans traditionally have no form of marriage, in fact the concept has only recently been introduced with the conquest of the human lands as of 20 years ago. Powerful Dakarrans are usually polygamists and collect mates as a measurement of prestige. The concept of political marriages is a new and useful concept, but also rejected by traditionalists.

Religion: Dakarrans are traditionally ancestor worshipers, worshiping the spirit-remnants of great heroes and conquerors of their race. There is also a faction within the traditionalists that continue to worship the pantheon of gods of their origins, gods such as Xochitl. While the Dakarrans have been separated from the Zi'an for centuries since they crossed the strait, a bastardised branch of the old faith of sacrifice still holds true in some areas. The traditional Dakarran religions have struggling these days against the far more organised human faiths, though ancestor worshipers are resorting to caeseropapist worship of the current Supreme Tyrant as a kind of messiah-conqueror to counteract this.

Names and Succession: Dakarrans don't take family names, instead their second name is simply their place of birth, usually being a city, tribe or mountain name. Dakarran children are supposed to achieve a certain level of respectability and glory before they can claim succession to anything. A weak Dakarran child can and will be challenged by a stronger or more respected rival for succession rights, even if they aren't even related to the actual owner.

Glory and Respect: Prestige is extremely important among the Dakarrans, since it determines who can claim authority and power over many things, including land and soldiers. Dakarrans are instinctively geared towards conforming to powerful individuals however their social darwinist views mean they will regularly challenge those considered weak or lacking in glory.

Spartan Way: Traditionally, Dakarrans are supposed to live austere and disciplined lives focused on war and glory, something that gives them a distinction from other barbarians who are far wilder and less organised. Dakarrans are trained and disciplined ruthlessly from a very young age. Weakness is punished severely and those that fail to catch up are left behind - or trodden on by those who are willing to do so. Traditionalists who emphasis this way of life as the epitome of glory reject the soft decadence of the human filth, seeing their civilisation as in fact inferior and weak.

The Kasson Duel: The traditionalists favorite manner of dealing with disputes. Usually used for contended successions, the Kasson is a duel to the death using natural weapons on the body (claws/teeth/etc) or if both contestants agree, weapons such as swords. The Kasson is a vital mechanism in the function of the traditionalists state, as it acts as a pressure valve that reduces rebellions and civil wars from the Dakarran leadership, since those that fail to contest titles die in the Kasson, thus leaving only the victor.

Traditionalists vs Civilists: There is an ongoing culture war between Traditionalist Dakarrans who put emphasis in the above values and the old Dakarran ways, against the Civilists, who put emphasis in adapting to the civilisation of their new empire and overall embracing human values as a way of maintaining the integrity of the nation.

Human&New Culture: Much of the Dominion is in fact populated by the conquered human peoples, many of whom originate from Riawin. Riawins culture is particularly strong in the former Amberlands. While crushed militarily by the Dakarran invaders, the Riawins have surprisingly excelled in peace, not only enduring but growing throughout the Dominion. This growth is mostly caused by the power vacuum caused by the Dakarran barbarians taking over a vast region of land without having a deep enough understanding of advanced civilisation to run it, thus many of them being forced to learn and convert towards Riawin methods to maintain it.

human&new culture details

Religion: The humans have a number of faiths, however the most prominent is the Erosian faith of the fallen Riawin Empire of the south. While the Dakarrans initially attempted to stamp out the highly sexualised fertility religion, they eventually relegalised it as an effective means of 'bread and circus' as well as to stop human rebellions, thus allowing them to control and distract the humans. This backfired horribly however, as the religion is now spreading among their own people to the incredulous dismay of traditionalists who emphasize strict austerity and self-control. This spread is mostly occurring simultaneously as the Dominion adopts more of the humans technological and societal norms, and since the Dominion requires a more organised government and society to survive, this side-effect will likely continue to grow. (For more information on how this religion works, see Volus' nationsheet)

Slavery: The humans of the Dominion are generally anti-slavery due to the influence of the Riawin faith, however historically the pre-Riawin Amberlanders enslaved the Dakarrans during the invasions that pushed them into the mountains. Since their overlords are pro-slavery, this position is meaningless. Many humans were enslaved during the initial invasion. Furthermore, the Dominion makes use of slave-soldiers, though these slave-soldiers are usually acquired from outside the country.

Marriage Laws: The humans of the Dominion are blatantly polygamist due to the influence of the Riawin faith. Succession is often skewered due to the high degree of adultery and such relationships, forcing either the Riawin priestesses to dictate who takes titles or the Dakarran state intervenes and decides for them.

Erosian Priestesses:

Child hostages: Of the human nobility who still hold their titles and land after the invasion of the Dakarrans, many have their heirs taken as hostages and held in the Dakarran cities, particulary Dakan. Besides acting as a political deterrent against rebellion, these child-hostages are also brought up among the Dakarrans and so are more aligned with their new overlords than their own families. To keep this strategy functional, the child hostages are not abused and treated humanely (for Dakarran standards), though they are often placed through the same system of spartan austerity and discipline as Dakarran hatchlings. Some of these child hostages as well as other human children taken to the capital are trained to become Dominion Janissaries, elite human soldiers that are intended to be a new model for a loyal human army.

Scar Markings: A very new concept for humanity as it was designed and forced upon them by their Dakarran masters. Any human that joins the Dominions new government, army (with certain exceptions), or continues ruling in the human regional governments must be 'scarred', that is have a Dakarran claw tear the office and allegiance of the human into their skin. This practice is mostly used to ensure the humans loyalty, as it makes defecting or disappearing more difficult, since other humans will recognise them as servants of the Dominion. Interestingly, some of the more pro-Dakarran humans (Such as the Janissaries) take on the mark as if it is a kind of oath and turn it into a ritualistic ceremony. The Dakarrans have decided to run with the idea and allow the humans to turn it into a ritual if they want.

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Military

Strategy: The Dominion's military has experienced many battles now due to nearly 20 years of constant war. In those wars, a majority of the engagements have been offensive ones, so the Dominion troops have gotten used to the idea of attacking. The Dominion leadership is highly experimental and fast to adopt new practices and otherwise be adaptive, as they try hard to not get rooted down into 'one strategy', else their next enemy they fight may easily prepare and counter them (fighting so many different enemies, one after the other, forces you to be experimental).

That said, the Dominion is infamous for its use of polearms and heavy shock-infantry (maces, flails, etc) and other anti-armour weapons, while at the same time as generally putting less emphasis on archers due to the Dakarran peoples poorer than average eyesight. The Dominions army is also very well known for its copying of other nations techniques and weapons, including adopting Riawin knights (Human Janisarries and Drakaknights).

Regulars

Human Spear Levy: Humans levied from across the Dominion by their human feudal lords as part of their obligations to their Dakarran overlords. The human levies have helmets and usually cheap armour, leather, studded leather and chainmail at best (for the more wealthy levies, such as from cities). The levies are armed with spears, glaives and shields. They are expected to hold positions while Dakarran troops deal the actual damage.

Traditionalist Skirmisher Warband: Traditional warbands are typically populated by Dakarrans that are naked (besides their natural scaled armour) and wielding either javelins, light spears, slings, axes and most often shield and sword. These warbands while considered inferior stoke to the more prestigious Dakarran elite, they are still savage and experienced fighters compared to levied human peasants. They are not above using their teeth/mouths and some even enjoy entering battle with nothing but a shield and their own claws. Despite their appearance and weapons, they make effective anti-cavalry units, as they are trained to hide behind spear formations during an enemy cavalry charge, then rapidly rush at and dismount (even pounce onto) enemy cavalry when they are engaged or trying to disengage.

Civilist Crossbow-Warband: Dakarrans usually avoid ranged weapons due to being considered both cowardly and due to their poor far-distance eyesight/myopia. That said, the reforms and advancements brought by conquering human lands has given Dakarrans access to far easier to use ranged weapons, such as the crossbow. Needing far less training and much easier to use and aim with, the crossbow is a great weapon for poor archers. These Dakarran crossbowmen are usually low-class 'failures' and weaklings given the crossbows during important sieges and defensive battles where there are no human archer alternatives. The crossbows are usually fired into large groups of enemy infantry to increase chances of hitting, and furthermore the crossbow bolts are smeared in poisons imported fro Zi'an so that even scratches are lethal.

Human Archer Levy: Much like the spear levy, these archers are usually peasants levied by human lords (those usually taken from woodlands where huntsmen may have more experience with bows) and armed with light armour and bows. Dakarrans due to their poor eyesight do not put much emphasis on ranged weapons outside of cheap easy to use or splash damage weapons (crossbows and siege engines), however with humans it becomes easier. Besides bows, these archers are given stakes that they can place in the ground as an anti-cavalry deterrent. In some battles, these stakes are important enough that placing them is their main purpose rather than firing arrows.

Professionals

Human Sergeant-Infantry: These are trained human soldiers, many of them also being exceptionally experienced due to the Dragon Wars of the last 20 years. The Supreme Tyrant has applied his 'many threads' philosophy concerning these human soldiers; this philosophy in action included fusing his former enemy, Riawin soldiers into his army to invade the Amberlands (a hated Riawin enemy), then using the Amberlands to invade the southern Hyrkos (A hated Amberlandish enemy), then using all three to invade the Yeon (A mutual outsider). These actions created both a highly experienced fighting force, but also acted as a team-building exercise, uniting former enemies against common threats. Many of these soldiers wear chainmail, studded leather, scale-mail or partial-plate and are armed with polearms or pikes.

Traditionalist Core Warband: The bulk of a traditional Dakarran army, that is before the rise of Vaemaradosth and the incorporation of human regimented soldiers into the army. These Dakarran warriors are the ideal Dakarran, a hulking, saurian dragon-like biped rather than their flimsy lizard inferiors. Despite their size... they are also fast. This alone makes them incredibly dangerous, as it allows them to use their enormous cleaving and crushing weapons (Claymores, morning-stars, maces, flails and so on) to defeat heavily armoured opponents even when wearing very little armour themselves. Some of these core warband warriors are more modernised, taking on some civilist concepts such as using some pieces of armour or using proper shields.

Civilist Drakaknights: An imitation of humanity, the Dakarrans have adopted the knightly appearance and tactics of Riawin and Amberlands elite noble soldiers. Wearing plate-mail and possessing large shields and long swords or maces, these Dakarran soldiers are slower but heavily armoured as well as possessing organisational discipline and patience not found with their faster and more savage brothers among the traditionalists. Civilist Drakaknights also ride armoured raptors into battle, so also play the role of heavy cavalry for the Dominion.

Elite

Human Janissary-Knights: Janissary-Knights are the children of human lords and aristocrats of the former kingdom of Amberlands, Riawin Amberland or Northern Yeon taken to Dakan to be collectively reared and taught to be first loyal human subjects of the new Dominion, and then as elite soldiers and guards. Of particularly note is the tendency of Dakan to fuse this practice with child-hostage tactics, essentially turning human lords heirs into loyal pseudo-Dakarran knights. While armed in plate mail, given shields and swords as well as lances while mounted... the Janissary-Knights main strength is their fanaticism and indoctrinated discipline, including freakish willingness to die when ordered.

Traditionalist Kazonites

Traditionalist Blood-Companions

Civilist Drakaknight Bodyguard

Special

Wyvernrider

Tyzeetn Warbeast

Dragon

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Heroes

Supreme Tyrant of all the Dakarrans, Vaemaradosth Dakan

Now the undisputed supreme leader and founder of the Dominion of Greater Dakarragord, Vaemaradosth begun as a nobody, hatched in a deep tunnel hovel to a single mother with no standing. This did nothing but stop his inevitable, bloody and swift rise to power. While strong, he was not the strongest. While ruthless, he is the not the most brutal. While charismatic... this was not what brought him inevitable victory. It was the visions.

Visions of the distant past, visions of lands far away... and visions of the future. Guided by a messianic understanding of visions of the future, Vaemaradosth rose to power 20 years ago, unifying the never before unified Dakarran clans of the Darash Mountains. Built on the promise of salvation from an endless hell in the Darash Mountains and a manifest destiny to conquer the world, the armies of the Dakarrans rode out behind Vaemaradosth. From there, he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

Now known as the Supreme Tyrant, Warlord, Overlord or to the humans, "Emperor" (after crushing to former Riawin Empire in the north). In the last 20 years, no other single individual has caused so many wars in such a short period of time. The Dominion of the Dakarragord has consumed whole kingdoms of the west. Yet, Vaemaradosth now is no longer concerned with mere conquest, but also on coming to better understand and control the very concepts of fate and destiny themselves. Obsessed with prophecy and a messiah complex based around his visions, he will do anything to bring further clarity to these snippets of future events.

Vaemaradosth is capable of a considerable amount of magic. His most powerful abilities are tied with his precognitive abilities. Vaemaradosth has limited power over actual prophecy (only gaining such 'inevitable' visions rarely and usually in ways that don't particularly aid him), however has great power over 'causal precognition', or the ability to see future events based on the current actions taken. So long as events or actions do not change significantly from the current course at the time, his visions will come true.

Among Vaemaradosth's other powers are based around the standard Dakarran magical techniques, including enchantment of weapons and armour, magical reinforcement of his skin to resist elements or magic, mental protection against mental strikes and finally magic-draining and siphoning attacks. overall, he is proficient at killing other magic users particularly.

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History

“Askor shall suffer through two decades of war before the East brings an even greater conflict.”

Dakarrans once lived across the grasslands of the Amberlands, known to them as the Sujan. Their ancestors came to the Sujan by boat millennia ago, crossing the strait from the jungles of Miquiztli with their cousins, the Zi'an. Their presence in the Sujan lasted for centuries until seven hundred years ago, when they were finally driven out by the humans of Amberland and later Riawin. The human invasions gradually pushed the Dakarrans into the Darash Mountains, cut from the strait from which they first arrived from. For the next 680 years, the Dakarrans resided in the mountains, surrounded by the Kingdom of Amberland and the vast human empire of Riawin, both blockading them from access to the sea or fertile soil.

The Dakarran did their best to adapt to such inhospitable living conditions, but their physiological requirements being as they were, the mountains were harsh for them. The Dakarrans would suffer cyclic famines and Malthusian catastrophes, cullings of their own population. Their only means of trade was the river Anka, considered a holy river due to its miraculous formation through the subterranean tunnels moving through the mountains. While Anka gave them trade, it also made them a target, and the Dakarrans would repeatedly fight off invasions from Riawin and the Amberlanders who tried to take control of the vital trade river. Because of this the Dakarrans came to deeply resent the humans, often launching attacks on them (usually after Anka invasion attempts) but always driven away in turn, too fractured into petty tribes to ever take a foothold in the Sujan lowlands.

This was until 20 years ago. It was then, a fateful moment arrived… the greatest opportunity the Dakarrans have ever witnessed. The Riawin Empire was fractured by strife and civil war, just as the greatest Dakarran to ever live finally took power, uniting all the Dakarran warlords under a single banner. Vaemaradosth Dakan declared himself the Supreme Tyrant of all the Dakarrans, and with incomparable charisma and ambition among the Dakarrans declared a great campaign to conquer the human lands of the world. This 20-year conflict is now known as the Vaemaran Wars (or Dragon Wars to outsiders). Part revenge for centuries of misery, part desire to take control of the fertile farmlands of the lowlands (just as signs of another famine was appearing), and part hunger for glory… The Dakarrans marched out and conquered a string of nations; beginning with the lowlands from the Riawin Empire; then marched north to conquer their arch-tormentors the Kingdom of Amberland; They further scattered the armies of Riawin that dared stop them in the Hinterhills... and they did not stop there. Like a tide, they overwhelmed the Yeon, slaying their king in battle and conquering what is now the Taroshlands; they marched north, conquering part of Hyrkos. They then finally marched eastward to take control of the slave road to the east.

Now, this unified army of barbarians and hillsmen rules over a vast empire of many races and gleaming cities, cities that they still did not know properly how to manage. For the first time in seven hundred years, they had control of a port to the ocean. The Dakarrans today must balance between learning how to rule a civilised land they do not understand and continuing the conquests foreseen in the Supreme Tyrants visions of a glorious future for the Dakarran people... all the time somehow coping with the changes to their culture and society as the human culture and norms gradually take over from within.

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Relations

-Archdale: Hostile
-Yeon: Cold/Hostile
-Riawin: Cool
-Tarkiman Clans: Neutral/Cool
-Sakabanatu Region: Neutral
-Cormyral: Neutral
-Hyrkos: Neutral
-Yllendthyr: Neutral
-Mycae: Neutral/Warm (slave trade)
-The Ogryn Kingdom: Neutral/Warm (similar culture)
-Zi'an Dynasty: Warm (cousins)

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Characters

Sisuranth Ertzean

Sisuranth is a relatively young adult Dakarran that has spent much of his life exploring or otherwise living among the humans. Hatched shortly before Vaemaradosth Dakan unified the clans and begun the Vaemaran Wars, Sisuranth was hatched and raised in the fledgling trade-city of Ertzean, then ruled by human merchants monopolising the trade route between east and west. His parents were exiles, his father being a failed claimant to a clans rulership that (somehow) successfully faked his death in a Kasson Duel... and his mother one of the victors harem that was bribed (with pretty gems) to join his father in exile. Sisuranth as such grew up to be a cunning trickster of a bastard, inheriting much of his fathers sly tricks and flighty lifestyle and using it to great effect as a travelling merchant and adventurer, seeking to find distant lands to trade exotic goods back and forth between them and his homeland (or other clients) while making himself filthy rich in the process.

Vaelanornth Amberantia

Legend of the Silver Legion (A Fantasy RP)

nationsheet

The Dominion of Greater Dakarragord

Government

Absolute Despotism
Historically the Dakarran mountain tribes decided on their tribal leaders and warlords based on whoever was the strongest and most brutal, ruling based on nothing but absolute despotism. The Dakarran people have always had a social darwinist, 'survival of the fittest' outlook to both life and rule, and it is only recently that the Dakarrans have begun to even understand the concept of legalistic rule. The current ruler, unifier and founder of the newly formed Dakarragordic Dominion rules similarly to this ancient tradition, being a totalistic despot, however he has further fused this rule of strength and brutality with a unique charisma and ambition previously unfounded amongst the Dakarran people.

All in all, the Dominion is a nation ruled by individual strength rather than legal authority. It is still up in the air if the current "Supreme Tyrant" (yes, they literally refer their leaders as Tyrants) can successfully embed the legalism found in their new conquests into their own nation. It should also be noted that the human lands conquered by the Dominion while ruled over by this same ‘might makes right’ Dakarran absolutism as the rest are far more used to feudalism, including serfdom and feudal obligations of king and the aristocracy. While the ‘king’ is now a draconic barbarian conqueror, the human nobles still try to maintain a pretence of legalism in the lands they have left.

Government details

Head of State: The Head-of-State is also the head of government and is a position of absolute power. The Supreme Tyrant (of all the Dakarrans) is a new title created 20 years ago when the dominion was founded. Its current holder is also its creator and founder of the Dominion, Vaemaradosth Dakan the Conqueror. This position of undeniable power derives its authority from Vaemaradosths strength, charisma and vision. The vast majority of Dakarrans respect Vaemaradosth to insane degrees, seeing him as a kind of messiah for their race.

Succession: Title succession is open, so the strongest takes all. Prestige and respect are big factors in deciding who will succeed someone, so a list of achievements is far more important than your blood. A weak child can easily lose their inheritance to a far more powerful warlord that isn't even related to them. During highly contended successions, the Dakarrans may perform what is known as the Kasson, a duel to the death using nothing but their claws, tail, teeth and natural bodily weapons (or weapons, if both combatants agree). Alongside this, there has been some recent Civilist attempts at creating a more legalistic platform of succession, including a moot-style election with final verdict by the Supreme Tyrant.

Taxation Policy: Before the conquests and formation of the Dominion 20 years ago, the Dakarrans had only very rudimentary taxation, typically in the form of members of a tribe providing the warlord a certain amount of food and labour as well as military service. Subjugated vassals would be forced to provide tributes. Today, the Dominion has begun adopting far more advanced taxation systems taken from the humans, so to better finance and manage their new empire.

Legalism vs Tribalism:

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Geography

additional geographic information

1: Darash Mountains: The Darash's are a range of jagged, snow-peaked mountains cutting a small line through the world. The Darash Mountains have some of the world's highest peaks. Of the very little food that exists on the Darash mountains include the extremophile Tykirroot, which can survive both extreme heat and cold, and the Wooly Baan, a kind of mountain goat that the Dakarrans herd and eat. The capital city of the Dominion and the Darash Region is Dakan, a city-fortress built into a mountain, much of the city being subterranean. The city-fortress is built over what once was a large dragon lair. The single most important aspect of the Darash Mountains is the subterranean river Anka, this river flowing through what is considered an unnatural tunnel (believed formed by ancient spirits, dragon gods or even the canal-building ghosts of Sondoper) and connecting the western strait-sea with the central Sakabanatu Region, thus making it extremely important for trade from east to west (and vice versa). Sitting in a massive cavern alongside the Anka is the citadel-city of Draka, a prominent slave-trading and slave-breeding city of the Dominion.

2: Sujan Lowlands: This region of the Dominion was known as the Lower Amberlands by the Riawin humans that live there, but as the Sujans by the Dakarran conquerors that now hold it. The Sujans were settled by both humans and Dakarrans millennia ago, the latter however with the help of neighbouring kingdoms pushed the Dakkaran people out and into the Darash Mountains. The Sujan Lowlands have numerous formerly Riawin major cities and castles. The capital of the Sujan Lowlands is Amberantia, a human city that is considerably larger and more populated than the Dakarrans own Dakan as well as a centre for the Riawin Erosian faith.

3: Arandeep: A small area of heavy woods, this forested territory was where the Dakarran conquerors came through to conquer the Amberlands. Renown for its magical properties and abundance of herbal/alchemical ingredients. The capital of the region is the human city of Aranitia, a city that also houses the Dominions magical and alchemical expertise.

4: Hinterhills: Southern reach of the Darash Mountains, a lighter density of rocky hills, renowned for possessing a high number of defensive constructs that the Dakarrans have been building to separate the Sujan Lowlands from the southern empire. The area is plagued by harpies and other insurgents from the Riawin lands to the south, the area now turned into a bloody guerrilla war between the baby-snatching harpies and harpy-eating Dakarrans. Hinterhagst is a notable fortress built into the hills and considered the regional capital of the Hinterhills.

5: Upper Amberlands: The upper Amberlands was a region dominanted by the Kingdom of Amberland for which the region is named for. The Amberlanders were the humans that drove the Dakarrans into the mountains and enslaved them. They themselves would eventually be driven north by invasions and conquest from the Riawin Empire. The Amberlandish humans were constantly at the mercy of the Riawin Empire, forced to open themselves up to Erosian priestesses and banning slavery (though slavery was still used widely, just driven underground). The Amberlandish Kingdoms capital was the city of Ciclantine (after losing Amberantia to the Riawins), now a favorite slave market as well as a highly developed city that competes with Amberantia.

6: Lower Hyrkos: Conquered during the invasion of the Amberlands, the Dominion now controls an area that is culturally Hyrkosian. This region was a war-zone already when the Dominion invaded, as part of a war between the Kingdoms of Amberland and Hyrkos. The Dominion invasion was rapid but quickly disintegrated into a chaotic three-way fight at the Battle of Numon, eventually ending in Dominion victory. Numon acts as the capital of the region, though it is heavily damaged due to the siege and battle there.

7: Taroshlands: The southern most territory of the Dominion of Greater Dakarragord, conquered from the Yeonese rather than the Riawin Empire, Amberlanders or Hyrkos. Unlike further north, this area remains heavily contested between the Dominion and Yeon. The capital of the region is the former Yeonese city of Daecheon, now recently renamed to Vaemahagst after its recent conqueror, the Supreme Tyrant Vaemaradosth.

8: Sanjudown: The Sanjudown is a region of slightly less fertile plains compared to the Sujan, and is named after the Sanju river in the Sakabanatu Region. As the Sanjudown plains approach the Sanju river, the plains become increasingly dry and more Savannah-like. The Sanjudown region was mostly controlled by independent merchant city-states that either surrendered or were steamrolled by the Dominions armies. Today, the Sanjudown region is a major trade and slavery nexus for the Dominion, with its furthest most city of Ertzean being a former clay-fort and settling area for the Sakabanatu people, now used to send expeditions eastward towards the Empire of Mycae.

Climate: Most of the Dominion of Greater Dakarragord is highly fertile and what could be considered a 'breadbasket', filled will lush grasslands, forests, rivers and an overall temperate environment excellent for farming. The exception to this are the Darash Mountains, the actual homeland of the Dakarran people that rule the Dominion. The highly volcanic and cold mountains are barren of most vegetation and life. While the volcanic ash creates extremely effective fertiliser for the farmlands below, the mountains themselves are plagued by insufficient food, one of the primary reasons the Dakarran people eventually invaded the 'lowland kindoms' of the humans.

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Species

The Dominion has a number of species inhabiting it, the ruling species being the Dakarran people, large, biped draconians that are a derivative cousin of the Zi'an people. Dakarrans grow proportionally to the amount they eat and this scale of growth does not stop, so some Dakarrans may be smaller than humans while others the size of ogres. Dakarrans culturally are barbaric and uncivilised, however after conquering numerous lands belonging to more civilised peoples, they have begun to adapt… slowly. Humanity is also present throughout the Dominion, mostly as former members of the countries the Dominion conquered between 20 years ago and today. The majority of the humans belong either to the former Amberlander or Riawin cultures. There is also a minority of various species that inhabit the former Riawin territory, particularly Harpies that continue to harass the Dominion’s troops.

strengths and weaknesses of Dakarrans

Strengths:

• Natural scales/armour: Obviously they have scales, so they have a second layer of armour that makes them additionally resistant to slashing and stabbing weapons, though it doesn't change resistance to physical trauma/shock weapons (maces, hammers, etc) or magic.
• High physical growth potential: the Dakarran start off skinny and more lizard/snake like, however as they age and eat, they grow more saurian and as such go through a metamorphosis phase. Dakarrans on average (if not starved or living through famines) are often very large, around the size of warhammer orks (with a similar degree of variance) and can potentially just keep on growing to ogre/giant scale.
• Wings: Some can grow wings. While the wings for a vast majority cannot actually be used to fly, , they can be used to glide, making said winged Dakarrans effective mountain fighters or when fighting with a height advantage. The Dakarans typically use eugenics/breeding programs to ensure that winged Dakarans are born among certain bloodlines.

Weaknesses:

• High food requirements: Each Dakarran has a high maintenance requirement, particularly food, this mostly because of said growth potential demanding it, otherwise their growth stumps at 'lizard like'. This puts the Dakarrans in a situation where they constantly require high quantities of food and food production to successfully fight and grow an army. This may mean that Dakarran armies may take longer to replenish troops in areas away from food, and also means that the Dakarran economy and warmachine is highly dependent on their food resources, more so than other species.
• Poor eyesight: The Dakarrans have lived such a long time in the subterranean tunnels and halls of the Darash Mountains that their eyes have become myopic considerably compared to the average human. This means they tend to possess inferior archers to humans.
• Brightly coloured scales (poor stealth): Dakarran scales are similar to peacocks, intentionally designed to be exaggerated displays of bright colours to impress potential mates and scare off rivals. No longer animals but rather intelligent beings that wage war, this is pretty annoying when you are trying to keep an army hidden from sight.

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Culture

Traditional Dakarran Culture: Dakarran traditional culture is brutal and primitive. For over 600 years until just 20 years ago, Dakarrans lived in many small tribes and warbands of a few hundred at most, centred around the largest, strongest and most ruthless Dakarran warlord of the group. Social Darwinism is deeply ingrained into Dakarran culture. The strong thrive and weak perish. The Spartan Way has been their code of life for centuries. Defective hatchlings are thrown off the side of the Darash Mountains or eaten by their siblings (particularly during famines).

traditional culture details

Slavery: Slavery is considered socially acceptable by Dakarrans since their belief is those too weak to dominate others deserve to be dominated by their betters. It has been like since for centuries, though originally slavery was brought to the Dakarrans by the ancient humans, who enslaved many when the first Dakarran settlers were defeated and banished to the mountains. Dakarrans are particularly renowned for making use of slave-soldiers (Usually bought from other countries to reduce internal unrest) as well as Janissary soldiers, who while are not slaves are forcibly taken from their families (or kidnapped from foreigners).

Marriage Laws: Traditionally, the Dakarrans traditionally have no form of marriage, in fact the concept has only recently been introduced with the conquest of the human lands as of 20 years ago. Powerful Dakarrans are usually polygamists and collect mates as a measurement of prestige. The concept of political marriages is a new and useful concept, but also rejected by traditionalists.

Religion: Dakarrans are traditionally ancestor worshipers, worshiping the spirit-remnants of great heroes and conquerors of their race. There is also a faction within the traditionalists that continue to worship the pantheon of gods of their origins, gods such as Xochitl. While the Dakarrans have been separated from the Zi'an for centuries since they crossed the strait, a bastardised branch of the old faith of sacrifice still holds true in some areas. The traditional Dakarran religions have struggling these days against the far more organised human faiths, though ancestor worshipers are resorting to caeseropapist worship of the current Supreme Tyrant as a kind of messiah-conqueror to counteract this.

Names and Succession: Dakarrans don't take family names, instead their second name is simply their place of birth, usually being a city, tribe or mountain name. Dakarran children are supposed to achieve a certain level of respectability and glory before they can claim succession to anything. A weak Dakarran child can and will be challenged by a stronger or more respected rival for succession rights, even if they aren't even related to the actual owner.

Glory and Respect: Prestige is extremely important among the Dakarrans, since it determines who can claim authority and power over many things, including land and soldiers. Dakarrans are instinctively geared towards conforming to powerful individuals however their social darwinist views mean they will regularly challenge those considered weak or lacking in glory.

Spartan Way: Traditionally, Dakarrans are supposed to live austere and disciplined lives focused on war and glory, something that gives them a distinction from other barbarians who are far wilder and less organised. Dakarrans are trained and disciplined ruthlessly from a very young age. Weakness is punished severely and those that fail to catch up are left behind - or trodden on by those who are willing to do so. Traditionalists who emphasis this way of life as the epitome of glory reject the soft decadence of the human filth, seeing their civilisation as in fact inferior and weak.

The Kasson Duel: The traditionalists favorite manner of dealing with disputes. Usually used for contended successions, the Kasson is a duel to the death using natural weapons on the body (claws/teeth/etc) or if both contestants agree, weapons such as swords. The Kasson is a vital mechanism in the function of the traditionalists state, as it acts as a pressure valve that reduces rebellions and civil wars from the Dakarran leadership, since those that fail to contest titles die in the Kasson, thus leaving only the victor.

Traditionalists vs Civilists: There is an ongoing culture war between Traditionalist Dakarrans who put emphasis in the above values and the old Dakarran ways, against the Civilists, who put emphasis in adapting to the civilisation of their new empire and overall embracing human values as a way of maintaining the integrity of the nation.

Human&New Culture: Much of the Dominion is in fact populated by the conquered human peoples, many of whom originate from Riawin. Riawins culture is particularly strong in the former Amberlands. While crushed militarily by the Dakarran invaders, the Riawins have surprisingly excelled in peace, not only enduring but growing throughout the Dominion. This growth is mostly caused by the power vacuum caused by the Dakarran barbarians taking over a vast region of land without having a deep enough understanding of advanced civilisation to run it, thus many of them being forced to learn and convert towards Riawin methods to maintain it.

human&new culture details

Religion: The humans have a number of faiths, however the most prominent is the Erosian faith of the fallen Riawin Empire of the south. While the Dakarrans initially attempted to stamp out the highly sexualised fertility religion, they eventually relegalised it as an effective means of 'bread and circus' as well as to stop human rebellions, thus allowing them to control and distract the humans. This backfired horribly however, as the religion is now spreading among their own people to the incredulous dismay of traditionalists who emphasize strict austerity and self-control. This spread is mostly occurring simultaneously as the Dominion adopts more of the humans technological and societal norms, and since the Dominion requires a more organised government and society to survive, this side-effect will likely continue to grow. (For more information on how this religion works, see Volus' nationsheet)

Slavery: The humans of the Dominion are generally anti-slavery due to the influence of the Riawin faith, however historically the pre-Riawin Amberlanders enslaved the Dakarrans during the invasions that pushed them into the mountains. Since their overlords are pro-slavery, this position is meaningless. Many humans were enslaved during the initial invasion. Furthermore, the Dominion makes use of slave-soldiers, though these slave-soldiers are usually acquired from outside the country.

Marriage Laws: The humans of the Dominion are blatantly polygamist due to the influence of the Riawin faith. Succession is often skewered due to the high degree of adultery and such relationships, forcing either the Riawin priestesses to dictate who takes titles or the Dakarran state intervenes and decides for them.

Erosian Priestesses:

Child hostages: Of the human nobility who still hold their titles and land after the invasion of the Dakarrans, many have their heirs taken as hostages and held in the Dakarran cities, particulary Dakan. Besides acting as a political deterrent against rebellion, these child-hostages are also brought up among the Dakarrans and so are more aligned with their new overlords than their own families. To keep this strategy functional, the child hostages are not abused and treated humanely (for Dakarran standards), though they are often placed through the same system of spartan austerity and discipline as Dakarran hatchlings. Some of these child hostages as well as other human children taken to the capital are trained to become Dominion Janissaries, elite human soldiers that are intended to be a new model for a loyal human army.

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Military

Strategy: WIP

Regulars

Human Spear Levy: Humans levied from across the Dominion by their human feudal lords as part of their obligations to their Dakarran overlords. The human levies have helmets and usually cheap armour, leather, studded leather and chainmail at best (for the more wealthy levies, such as from cities). The levies are armed with spears, glaives and shields. They are expected to hold positions while Dakarran troops deal the actual damage.

Traditionalist Dakarran Warband: Traditional warbands are typically populated by Dakarrans that are naked (besides their natural scaled armour) and wielding either javelins, light spears, slings, axes and most often shield and sword. These warbands while considered inferior stoke to the more prestigious Dakarran elite, they are still savage and experienced fighters compared to levied human peasants. They are not above using their teeth/mouths and some even enjoy entering battle with nothing but a shield and their own claws. Despite their appearance and weapons, they make effective anti-cavalry units, as they are trained to hide behind spear formations during an enemy cavalry charge, then rapidly rush at and dismount (even pounce onto) enemy cavalry when they are engaged or trying to disengage.

Civilist Dakarran Crossbow-Warband: Dakarrans usually avoid ranged weapons due to being considered both cowardly and due to their poor far-distance eyesight/myopia. That said, the reforms and advancements brought by conquering human lands has given Dakarrans access to far easier to use ranged weapons, such as the crossbow. Needing far less training and much easier to use and aim with, the crossbow is a great weapon for poor archers. These Dakarran crossbowmen are usually low-class 'failures' and weaklings given the crossbows during important sieges and defensive battles where there are no human archer alternatives. The crossbows are usually fired into large groups of enemy infantry to increase chances of hitting, and furthermore the crossbow bolts are smeared in poisons imported fro Zi'an so that even scratches are lethal.

Human Archer Levy: Much like the spear levy, these archers are usually peasants levied by human lords (those usually taken from woodlands where huntsmen may have more experience with bows) and armed with light armour and bows. Dakarrans due to their poor eyesight do not put much emphasis on ranged weapons outside of cheap easy to use or splash damage weapons (crossbows and siege engines), however with humans it becomes easier. Besides bows, these archers are given stakes that they can place in the ground as an anti-cavalry deterrent. In some battles, these stakes are important enough that placing them is their main purpose rather than firing arrows.

Professionals

Human Sergeant-Infantry: These are trained human soldiers, many of them also being exceptionally experienced due to the Dragon Wars of the last 20 years. The Supreme Tyrant has applied his 'many threads' philosophy concerning these human soldiers; this philosophy in action included fusing his former enemy, Riawin soldiers into his army to invade the Amberlands (a hated Riawin enemy), then using the Amberlands to invade the southern Hyrkos (A hated Amberlandish enemy), then using all three to invade the Yeon (A mutual outsider). These actions created both a highly experienced fighting force, but also acted as a team-building exercise, uniting former enemies against common threats. Many of these soldiers wear chainmail, studded leather, scale-mail or partial-plate and are armed with polearms or pikes.

Elite

Human Janissary-Knights:

Human Janissary-Guard:

Traditionalist Kazonites

Traditionalist Blood-Companions

Civilist Drakaknights

Special

Wyvernrider

Tyzeetn Warbeast

Dragon

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Heroes

Supreme Tyrant of all the Dakarrans, Vaemaradosth Dakan

Draconic Not!Genghis/Attila/Alexander/Napoleon from hell

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History

“Askor shall suffer through two decades of war before the East brings an even greater conflict.”

Dakarrans once lived across the grasslands of the Amberlands, known to them as the Sujan. Their ancestors came to the Sujan by boat millennia ago, crossing the strait from the jungles of Miquiztli with their cousins, the Zi'an. Their presence in the Sujan lasted for centuries until seven hundred years ago, when they were finally driven out by the humans of Amberland and later Riawin. The human invasions gradually pushed the Dakarrans into the Darash Mountains, cut from the strait from which they first arrived from. For the next 680 years, the Dakarrans resided in the mountains, surrounded by the Kingdom of Amberland and the vast human empire of Riawin, both blockading them from access to the sea or fertile soil.

The Dakarran did their best to adapt to such inhospitable living conditions, but their physiological requirements being as they were, the mountains were harsh for them. The Dakarrans would suffer cyclic famines and Malthusian catastrophes, cullings of their own population. Their only means of trade was the river Anka, considered a holy river due to its miraculous formation through the subterranean tunnels moving through the mountains. While Anka gave them trade, it also made them a target, and the Dakarrans would repeatedly fight off invasions from Riawin and the Amberlanders who tried to take control of the vital trade river. Because of this the Dakarrans came to deeply resent the humans, often launching attacks on them (usually after Anka invasion attempts) but always driven away in turn, too fractured into petty tribes to ever take a foothold in the Sujan lowlands.

This was until 20 years ago. It was then, a fateful moment arrived… the greatest opportunity the Dakarrans have ever witnessed. The Riawin Empire was fractured by strife and civil war, just as the greatest Dakarran to ever live finally took power, uniting all the Dakarran warlords under a single banner. Vaemaradosth Dakan declared himself the Supreme Tyrant of all the Dakarrans, and with incomparable charisma and ambition among the Dakarrans declared a great campaign to conquer the human lands of the world. This 20-year conflict is now known as the Vaemaran Wars (or Dragon Wars to outsiders). Part revenge for centuries of misery, part desire to take control of the fertile farmlands of the lowlands (just as signs of another famine was appearing), and part hunger for glory… The Dakarrans marched out and conquered a string of nations; beginning with the lowlands from the Riawin Empire; then marched north to conquer their arch-tormentors the Kingdom of Amberland; They further scattered the armies of Riawin that dared stop them in the Hinterhills... and they did not stop there. Like a tide, they overwhelmed the Yeon, slaying their king in battle and conquering what is now the Taroshlands; they marched north, conquering part of Hyrkos. They then finally marched eastward to take control of the slave road to the east.

Now, this unified army of barbarians and hillsmen rules over a vast empire of many races and gleaming cities, cities that they still did not know properly how to manage. For the first time in seven hundred years, they had control of a port to the ocean. The Dakarrans today must balance between learning how to rule a civilised land they do not understand and continuing the conquests foreseen in the Supreme Tyrants visions of a glorious future for the Dakarran people... all the time somehow coping with the changes to their culture and society as the human culture and norms gradually take over from within.

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Relations

-Archdale: Hostile
-Yeon: Cold/Hostile
-Riawin: Cool
-Tarkiman Clans: Neutral/Cool
-Sakabanatu Region: Neutral
-Cormyral: Neutral
-Hyrkos: Neutral
-Yllendthyr: Neutral
-Mycae: Neutral/Warm (slave trade)
-The Ogryn Kingdom: Neutral/Warm (similar culture)
-Zi'an Dynasty: Warm (cousins)

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