Name: The Empire of the Horned White Rat.
Flag/emblem/symbolism:
Demonym: Skavnites
Description: The first thing one will notice about the Skavnites is its presence of and love of showing off its military might. The second thing is The bells that ring thirteen times at noon and midnight. The third thing is its cities are both above and below ground. Some say it has tunnels all over Albion from which it can strike anywhere with speed and ruthless efficiency. The fourth thing is the ancient clan system, there are hundreds of, if not thousands of clans all of varying sizes. There are four great clans which the others follow to some degree or another, The Skavnites always follow the examples set by their heroes.

Government: The empire runs mostly on its own. Each city, town, and community is well defended and guarded by warlords, so many mistake them for city states. The warlords, however, all owe loyalty to the Council of Thirteen a shadowy group that keeps order in the land. It is responsible for teaching the magic users of the empire as well as handling national matters. Below the council sit the four great clans, in order of might are Clan Mouldar, Clan Ishini, Clan Pestinline, and Clan Skre. These clans lord over many other smaller clans which form the armies of the empire.

Economy: The Empire grows some of the best tobacco and makes very high-quality leather. The empire is as proud of this as it military might and reputation. The herds and beasts of the empire are a close second of pride.

Religion: All Skavnites worship the Horned White Rat as well as their ancestors and heroes. The churches are always run by the Grays, the wizards, and clerics of the Horned White Rat. They always identified by their white horns and gray fur at birth.

Geography: The empire is grasslands, mountains, and coastland.

Population: 2,400,000

Demographics
90 percent Skavnite with 10 percent being dwarfs, who stubbornly refuse to worship the horned white rat. the Dawrfs are mostly near the capital helping to keep the mines secure and craft the metals and other resources that are used for the army.

Notable Locations
the capital: Holy Skavonight the only fully underground city in the empire whose location is kept secret. Some say it is in the mountains while others say it beneath the Marshes of Madness which is dead center of the territories of the Empire.
Skorvosh the port city. Where the navy and fishing fleets make port. heavily defended.
(will add more as I think of them)

Personalities of Note
Murderlord Snikket, lord of clan Ishini. The feared clan of Assassins and Scouts and is also famous for their strategies. The most feared warlords also come from Clan Ishin

Headtaker and Necksnapper two of the most famous warlords both have yet to lose a battle.

Nogashi head of the Plague Monks, Poisoner's Guild, and Doctors of the empire. The monks being the ones who are master of sickness and plagues that causing fear and confusion before battles. However, their magic is random at best when it comes to damage, still an army usually has a small group of these strange monks who are backed by Clan Pestinline and Skre.

Thorrot the three armed master of clan Mouldar. None can control beasts like him. His monsters and abominations are one of the many reasons they are feared and what makes Mouldar on par with Ishini in power and wealth.

Thranquil head gray and mouth of the Council of Thirteen.

(will add more as need arises.)

Institutions:
The Poisoner's Guild: Studies sickness and how to infect the enemies. Great at psychological warfare backed by Skre and Pestinline in developing research and weapons. Most famous being the Poison Globiders whose choking fumes and acid like properties makes them very dangerous for the enemy.

clan Skre: Devoted to research and development of weapons and armor for the army, has invented and created many of the empire's weapons.

clan Ishini: The assassins, scouts and warlord maker. They put great importance on strategy.

clan Mouldar: The beast masters, famous for the monsters that they control.

clan Pestinline: The monks and masters of psychological warfare.

Military:
Organization: Most of the troops are professional with the militia being trained every winter and end of fall and beginning of spring. Everyone is required to have training. males are required to be able to handle all types of weapons. Females are only allowed to handle bows and swords.
Army: 2 percent of the population is professional in wartime. 1% is always on standby during peace.
Navy: One or two small fleets of warships. Most ships are transports and fishing vessels.
Other: Gutter runners and Night runners scouts and assassins for the empire they spy and try to divert trouble from the empire. they are skilled masters of their craft.

(hope this good)

Basic Demographics & Geography

Territory Size:
1. Your nation is but a speck upon the map; perhaps it is an island or small archipelago, or perhaps it's just a tiny swathe of land too small to draw the attention of any would-be conquerors.
Population:
7,000,000 (large)
Urbanization:
5. Your nation is the very epitome of urbanization: within your borders lies a jewel of the world, one of the largest settlements in the known world. In this way your entire nation is basically just one city that is grand and powerful enough to exert its influence over the surrounding region. A city-state!
Government Type:
3. Your society is a feudal monarchy. Quite typical, there is a king who inherited the throne from his father, and then there are all manner of other aristocrats: dukes and barons and knights all swear fealty to one another in exchange for control of land, all in a complicated system of legal obligations...
Political Stability:
5. You enjoy the benefit of having a serene and peaceful nation. There's barely any crime and you don't have a rebellion brewing, so rejoice!

Economy

Overall Wealth:
4. Your nation has a solid and rather stable economy. You have the means to finance most of the projects that your government wants to undertake, and most of your people enjoy a good standard of living.
Government's Primary Means of Generating Income:
8. Your government requires tributes from the various nobles or cities, which leaves them up to their own discretion in finding a way to procure these taxes. In some manner, it's probably the peasants that actually end up paying for these taxes, but at least the job of collecting all that is delegated to a handful of people so that your central government doesn't have to worry about it.
Technology:
1. Slow Modernization, your nation does somewhat lags behind the rest of the world, with many of your people stubbornly clinging to traditions and conventions.
Agriculture:
10. Your nation is not naturally a fertile or bountiful land, but through great feats of engineering your people have conquered this issue. You have cut terrace farms into the sides of mountains, built hanging gardens in your cities, cultivated vineyards in the rolling hills, and planted fruit-bearing trees along the streets. As your population grows, the need for food demands that your people conquer ever more of the harsh wilderness with labor-intensive construction projects.
Natural Resources:
Glassware, terracotta, papyrus

Military
Military Size
2. Small core of elite soldiers, supplemented by some mercenaries in wartime. Overall not a very large force.
Military Focus
2. Poor navy; heavy cavalry focus in the army, a few magic users for battle.
Military Leadership
2. Generals rose to their positions through experience and battlefield exploits; competent, but also decadent
Military Reputation
5. Popular domestically; considered craven by foreigners

Moquazo Empire

Demonym: Moquazians
Description: The Kingdom of Moquazo is the nation that sprawls across a vast majority of the southern steppes of Albion up to the the edges of the desert in the center of the continent. The country itself is a diverse melting pot of races with humans and elves making up the majority of the population as well as much of the nobility but not all of it. The elemental fae occupied the land before the other races showed up and retained their control over the vastly larger populations of the other races due to their firm mastery over magic during the settlement of the Moquazo steppes.

Scattered across the land are several large walled cities that hold a major part of the population as craftsmen and industry has started to take rise despite the Kingdom's strict adherence to their old ways. There are many still that enjoy the freedom of traveling around the plains tending to the herds of cattle and other animals while some tend to the farm fields.

Government: The Kingdom of Moquazo is under the complete control of a single ruling family. With the entire empire being a large melting pot of different races and species there is only one species that is allowed to rise above the others and rule. The royal family is composed of elemental Fae who form the bedrock of the entire empire as the head of a ruling caste that takes families from every species present.

There has not been any changes in the ruling families in many years with Dukes and Barons holding power within the King's court for several generations. Recently there has been an increase in the number of knights as older knights and other nobles started to take in more than one squire at a time. This caused a problem in the balance of nobility leading to Knightly Orders rising up to give knights and squires without land a reason to live.

Economy: (Just describe the major industries, activities and how they are organized. What are notable exports and imports? What is your nation lacking? Your rolls should help you figure this out)

Religion: Shamanistic Lindosianism is a combination of Eastern Lindosianism beliefs fused together with the beliefs of the people the invasion my Lindos. Though the practitioners believe that Champion was a messenger from the heavens, they still hold a belief in reincarnation and ancestor worship. Nature and beast are revered as gifts from the heavens that should be treated accordingly. This is why every man is allowed to own a mount no matter how poor they are as it is a right bestowed not by the Kingdom but by the heavens.

Religious Demopraphic:
30% Eastern Lindosianism
15% Western Lindosianism
55% Shamanistic Lindosianism

Geography:
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The Kingdom of Moquazo is spread out across the southern interior of Albion. The land could only be described as steppes as there is just grassland as far as the eye could see. The only places where the scenery changes is near the rivers that run through the nation as these are where you see trees start to sprout up to provide some shade. As you move to the most northern reaches of the Kingdom, you may come across the edges of the desert that covers the entire center of Albion. Every once in a while there is a large spire mountain that dots the land for no known reason, it is rumored that they are remnants of traveling mages that did not like how the plains appeared.

Population: 6,400,000

Demographics:
2% Elemental Fae
60% Humans
30% Elves
8% Other

Notable Locations
(Give us some info about your capital, other important cities, maybe where your forts and colonies (if you have any) are located)

Personalities of Note
(Your ruler, perhaps your highest military officers, generally just use this space to help us keep track of your POV characters)

Institutions:
(Major non-military institutions of the nations, such as legislative bodies, guilds, religious sects)

Military:
Organization: The Kingdom of Moquazo's military is built upon the backs of its large population of chivalrous knights who all serve by their own codes but have all sworn fealty to the king. Because of the peoples reverence that the creatures that live on the steppes of Moquazo, mounted warfare has always been a staple and defining feature of the army. A large part of the army is not a standing army and requires soldiers to provide their own armor and weapons with the Kingdom supplying the other logistics that could sustain a large fighting force. This means that human knights are able to sport full plate armor with elven nobles favoring lighter yet as durable armor.

All knights are trained to use a lance from horseback or saber back as military doctrine has cavalry
engagements being initiated with heavy lancer charges though all other weapons are left up to the soldier. Human and beastmen knights favor the horse as a sturdy and trusted mount while the elves of the realm prefer the saber for its speed and agility. The war mages of Moquazo are known as riders in their own right and have a specialty for casting wards on their own men to improve the speed of their mounts and to ward the soldiers from offensive magic of the enemy and arrows.

When not in times of war, the larger majority of the army is disbanded as farmers and craftsmen return to their daily lives. The only standing army that remains are city guards, royal knights and a many different knightly orders that roam the land according to each of their own chivalrous codes.

Major Knight Orders:

Order of the Feather
Knights Protectorate
Knights Royal
Order of Lindos
Ordos Arcanum

Troop Total: 108,000
Army:
64,000 Knights
23,000 Horse Calvary
7,000 Saber Calvary
5,000 Horse Archers
7,500 Infantry
1,500 War Mages
Other: (Such as siege equipment, internal security, important mercenaries, spies, etc.)

Other:
Special traits, remarks, boons and flaws(Here is your chance to decide something unique and important about your nation without basing it on the rolls I gave you. You may have 1 big strength that makes you special, 2 big strengths and 1 big weakness, or 3 big strengths and 2 big weaknesses. Ask if you're having trouble coming up with something)

Basic Demographics & Geography

Territory Size:
6. Your nation sprawls across Albion as it dominates the map with its sheer size. But the dog's bark is louder than its bite; there simply aren't enough people to exploit all of your land and its resources, defending your borders or stopping smugglers is probably a futile task, and communications from one end to the other might very well be a major issue. At least you can retreat back almost endlessly when defending your nation, and you can probably count on your enemies lacking the manpower to occupy all of your land.
Population:
6,400,000 (large)
Urbanization:
4. Your nation is unusually urbanized. You might have a lot of towns or a few really big cities, but either way a fair amount of your people have migrated to the population centers. This opens the door to much more industry and commerce but also leaves more of your people vulnerable to the dangers of city life: organized crime, filth, and disease.
Government Type:
3. Your society is a feudal monarchy. Quite typical, there is a king who inherited the throne from his father, and then there are all manner of other aristocrats: dukes and barons and knights all swear fealty to one another in exchange for control of land, all in a complicated system of legal obligations...
Political Stability:
4. Your country has the occasional highwaymen, but they mostly hide in the hills and forests far out in the countryside. By and large, your realm is stable.

Economy

Overall Wealth:
2. Your nation was once in good enough shape, but recent events have caused a large recession and now your economy is shrinking. If this isn't resolved soon, major issues will arise. The people are used to a higher standard of life than they are currently experiencing, and as food supplies contract there may be mass starvation and the collapse of industry, commerce, or even government.
Government's Primary Means of Generating Income:
10. Your government is constantly minting new currency. Maybe they directly control a gold mine or have a group of secret alchemists always at work transmuting more lead into gold, but either way they just make some more money whenever they need to buy something. There's a fair amount of inflation, but hopefully you actually are using coinage that is backed by the worth of its own composition.
Technology:
2. Antiquated, your nation lags behind the rest of the world, and stubbornly clings to ancient traditions.
Agriculture:
4. Your nation has its farmlands, but you aren't blessed with particularly fertile land nor regular rainfall. As such, seasonal famines are a common thing.
Natural Resources:
Ivory, terracotta, copper, lead, horses

Military
Military Size
5. Large, strictly volunteer corp of professional soldiers that takes considerable upkeep. A sizable and reasonably effective standing army, but little else supports it during wartime.
Military Focus
2. Poor navy; heavy cavalry focus in the army, a few magic users for battle.
Military Leadership
8. Generals are often hired foreigners; very competent but not necessarily loyal
Military Reputation
1. Unpopular domestically; considered devious by foreigners

Basic Demographics & Geography

Territory Size:
1. Your nation is but a speck upon the map; perhaps it is an island or small archipelago, or perhaps it's just a tiny swathe of land too small to draw the attention of any would-be conquerors.
Population:
3,000,000 (average)
Urbanization:
5. Your nation is the very epitome of urbanization: within your borders lies a jewel of the world, one of the largest settlements in the known world. In this way your entire nation is basically just one city that is grand and powerful enough to exert its influence over the surrounding region. A city-state!
Government Type:
6. Your nation has this strange thing called democracy. Get this: the people actually vote to elect their rulers, and a ruler might only reign for a fixed period of a few years! Of course, there's probably countless slaves, women, and poor people that don't partake in this political process, but your republic is still quite radical and progressive for its time.
Political Stability:
1. Your country is suffering quite a bit of inner turmoil and is on the brink of having an outright rebellion. No doubt your neighbors are aware of this and perhaps looking to exploit your status for their own benefit!

Economy

Overall Wealth:
6. Opulence and obscene wealth define your nation. Your streets might not be paved with gold, but great monuments, beautiful works of art, and a large variety of public works stand testament to your economic power. Your government of course has the funds to do almost whatever it wants.
Government's Primary Means of Generating Income:
4. Your government has a way of having wealthy patrons voluntarily give their money, mostly in the form of bribes and political donations. You might have a small issue with corruption...
Technology:
4. Technological Parity; you're keeping up with the rest of Albion pretty well.
Agriculture:
7. With mighty rivers, vast lakes, and/or a sizeable coast on the bountiful seas, your people primarily rely upon fishing for their food. As such, your port cities are unique in that they don't necessarily depend on the countryside to feed them at all.
Natural Resources:
Fish, textiles, jewelry
Military
Military Size
1. A small number of city guards, constables, and the personal retainers of nobles are the only standing armies. In wartime, vast (albeit seasonal) armies are mobilized via levying the peasants.
Military Focus
5. Powerful navy; small but decent army; fair amount of magic users; capable corps of siege engineers and sappers.
Military Leadership
4. Generals are incompetent; often appointed without military experience; largely decadent
Military Reputation
1. Unpopular domestically; considered devious by foreigners

Basic Demographics & Geography

Territory Size:
2. Your nation is certainly small and could use some breathing room. Land is an expensive and highly sought after commodity here.
Population:
3,800,000 (average)
Urbanization:
4. Your nation is unusually urbanized. You might have a lot of towns or a few really big cities, but either way a fair amount of your people have migrated to the population centers. This opens the door to much more industry and commerce but also leaves more of your people vulnerable to the dangers of city life: organized crime, filth, and disease.
Government Type:
9. Your nation is effectively a magocracy - that is to say, it is under the rule of magi. Whether this just means that one mighty wizard in a great tower effectively rules as a dictator or that there is an entire ruling caste of magic-users is up to you, but make sure to include unicorns.
Political Stability:
1. Your country is suffering quite a bit of inner turmoil and is on the brink of having an outright rebellion. No doubt your neighbors are aware of this and perhaps looking to exploit your status for their own benefit!

Economy

Overall Wealth:
2. Your nation was once in good enough shape, but recent events have caused a large recession and now your economy is shrinking. If this isn't resolved soon, major issues will arise. The people are used to a higher standard of life than they are currently experiencing, and as food supplies contract there may be mass starvation and the collapse of industry, commerce, or even government.
Government's Primary Means of Generating Income:
1. Your government employs a system of tax collectors. Acting almost like thugs, they gather money from families and businesses on a somewhat regular basis. Those that do not pay are...punished.
Technology:
1. Slow Modernization, your nation does somewhat lags behind the rest of the world, with many of your people stubbornly clinging to traditions and conventions.
Agriculture:
9. Your nation relies heavily upon orchards and fruit plantations. Coconuts, dates, or perhaps even bananas are your main crops. For some reason all this fruit seems to make your sailors a lot less likely to get scurvy.
Natural Resources:
Citrus, iron, lead, textiles

Military
Military Size
5. Large, strictly volunteer corp of professional soldiers that takes considerable upkeep. A sizable and reasonably effective standing army, but little else supports it during wartime.
Military Focus
10. Strong navy with small but very effective corps of marines, a small army that is noticeably lacking in cavalry, a few magic users
Military Leadership
8. Generals are often hired foreigners; very competent but not necessarily loyal
Military Reputation
7. Popular domestically, considered unremarkable by most foreigners