In short how is your country run? How is your ruler selected? How much power does your ruler have. Is it a monarchy, a republic, or something else? What is the ruling dynasty? I don’t want to see five paragraphs here about how your monarch has to go through parliament to select viceroys or something. It needs only be long enough to provide a sufficient summary of your government. Feel free to add additional info under a hider if you feel compelled to.


This should be more just a claim of your location. Talk about the climate, terrain, and important locations in your country. Specifically mention major cities and your capital. Bonus points if you have an internal map that includes highways.


Much like the government section, don’t drown us in details, though feel free to add more info under a hider or something. Is your country culturally homogenous or a mixture of ethnicities? Are your people humans or some other race? If you have various ethnicities, how do they interact with each other? What are your people’s values? Bonus points for adding insults they use to refer to the people from countries they have been at war with. A note about nonhuman races: do not simply make them arbitrarily superior to humans, if they are better than humans in one way then they will be inferior in another way.


How do your people fight? What strategies and tactics do they usually employ? What sort of equipment do your troops use? What’s the emphasis of your military? Try to be somewhat unique here. If a pre-existing country makes heavy use of heavy infantry and shield walls, for instance, don’t do the same yourself. I am not interested in numbers or percentages, so don’t use them.


Each country gets one superior hero and three normal heroes. In terms of combat strength expect a superior hero to be on par with about 150 men and normal heroes to be on par with 100 men. (Yes, this is the only place in the sheet where there are actually numbers) Basically these are the badasses of your country that you can use for point of view characters if you want. At absolute bare minimum you need a name and one line description of what your hero is good at; however, ideally this should be the largest section of your sheet. You can use any explanation you want for why your heroes are stronger than normal people. For example using magic, being blessed by a god, or simply being very skilled with their weapons. Also keep in mind that if a hero dies you can replace him or her with a new one.


A brief history of your country is fine, so long as you cover the last 20 or so years. I’m looking for more of a summary of important events than list of dead monarchs.


How does your country interact with its neighbors. I am not looking for a list of exports and imports, but feel free to add them if you want. At bare minimum I want a listed rival here, another country that yours viewed as an enemy and actively worked against during the past twenty or so years.


Optional section. Put any info about any characters here. Examples of this would be your kings or queens, military leaders, and non-hero “badasses”. You can also put more detailed info of your heroes here as well.

The Sakabanatu region is divided into vastly strewn out families and tribes, held together by a common culture, loose family ties and are typically ruled independently by seniority and elders or a gerontocracy with no inequality in gender succession. The numerous tribes are known to hold grudges, or alliances and have fluidly joined together for common goals or divided, but never has there been a complete unification of every tribe for any purpose. Warring among themselves isn’t uncommon but generally not very destructive or mindlessly violent as one would expect if two empires were to clash. Tribes can be as small as a family to multiple!



The Sakabanatu region is mostly desert, yet holds some forest and grassland areas in the Northwest, allowing for the culture to spread diversely over two biomes. While there is no capital city, the tribal land of Sondoper is considered the epicentre of the Sakabanatu culture and has been the site of more than one historical treaty or deal among tribes. The tribes surrounding Sondoper are probably the most well known to outsiders who study oral histories, barring border tribes.

Map
* Only major waterways and landmarks are shown
* most permanent settlements (usually yurt towns or tent villages, but occasionally clay or mud huts) would be located where the Sanju splits with the Canal, where the Canal splits, along the Trade River, or in the Sondoper Oasis.




Sakabanatu isn’t so much the name of a singular country or tribe but the unifying term for the culture that ties all the tribes together, one of the few if not only factor that unifies them into the same category nationally. The culture is in itself also a religion and holds a holy ground at Sondoper, specifically at the Sondoper tree, the birthplace of the religion and also a important site in Sakabanatu myths.





Each tribe and family will send their brothers, fathers, and sons to settle disputes with other tribes and families, be it diplomatically or by drawing blood. Battlefields tend to be small and pre-picked and “armies” can be as tiny as one person representing the entire family in the dispute. More often than not a large tribe in conflict with another will choose a champion to duel the other tribes champion instead of wasting valuable resources on a battle or war, this also reduces the time the men are away from tending the fields and livestock. If a large dispute does occur the tribesmen equipt themselves in thick quilts or a long coat made of linked chains of steel or iron and conical helmets of a variety of metals. Long curved blades and round laminated shields are favored among the resource rich tribes while heavy maces of various materials provide a close second. Hunting equipment such as composite recurve bows, slings and broad headed spears are also favorable, especially when combined with the small and swift desert horses or camels often used by central tribes and families, however the use of cavalry is generally unfavorable in honorable face to face battles to settle disputes and are exclusively saved for desperate wars, an uncommon occurrence.












A brief history of your country is fine, so long as you cover the last 20 or so years. I’m looking for more of a summary of important events than list of dead monarchs.



Tarkima: Mixed relations with the Tarkima tribes, often on edge. Occasional raids from the north trouble the northern Sakabanatu tribes, but they also benefit from Tarkiman warbands that travel through the desert alongside the “trade” river, where a lot of bartering for safe passage and supplies to get through the desert takes place. This trading allows the Tarkimans ease of passage to go and pillage the empires on the borders of the Sakabanatu region while providing the Sakabanatu tribes with fresh trade every raid as well as the purchasing of their lost sons and daughters that were enslaved by the empires but released by Tarkiman raids. From constant contact, the Grogar and other Tarkiman languages often find themselves as second languages in Sakabanatu tribes near heavy Tarkiman activity points such as the trade river and northern border.

Empire of Mycae: Little interaction aside from some trading along the border, the relations of border tribes are stressed by the occasional slave raids from the Mycaens.

Comyral: Jack shit.


Optional section. Put any info about any characters here. Examples of this would be your kings or queens, military leaders, and non-hero “badasses”. You can also put more detailed info of your heroes here as well.