The Turquoise Lord's domain is not a nation. Few people live there, and the Turquoise Lord has few living mortal followers. The red god is akin to a opportunistic tumor or parasite, preying upon the failings and desires of mortals in order to accrue power. The Turquoise Lord is known for their exceptionally lenient sacrificial rules and only a single commandment to follow in order to receive Theurgia from them. Thus, the Turquoise Lord is considered the patron celestial being of outcasts, pariahs, exiles, degenerates, bandits, highwaymen, pirates, and other criminals. Upon receiving sacrifices, the Turquoise Lord reanimates the dead bodies as undead minions who then set about corrupting the surrounding region, creating materials of influence for the Turquoise Lord until the land is sufficient twisted and imbued with their power to enable the formation of an anchor for the Stray Palace.

The Turquoise Lord commands in the celestial realm a structure of unprecedented scale and function, referred to as the Palace Straylight. Using material anchors formed by its servitors in the material realm, the Turquoise Lord may cast a shadow, a projection of the Straylight Palace upon the world itself. These projections displace the material world, sealing it away beneath an overlay, cast in the shape of the celestial palace. This terrestrial shadow of the Palace Straylight is referred to as the Stray Palace, the shadow of the Turquoise Lord's own dominion upon the material realm.

When knowledge of the Turquoise Lord returned to mortals three-hundred years ago during the last celestial war, such Overlays began to appear across the entire world. However, it was in the center of the world where the seed of their current mortal dominion would truly be planted. The center of the world, Tramontan, where due to chance alone most of their aimless, wandering servants would convene over time, grew in the most concentrated fashion, unhindered by attempts to destroy or banish it due to the absence of other contesting powers in the area. This infestation was ignored for a century and a half, dismissed as mere scenery by Justinian and Yuwan alike until it had grown so massive that destroying it was a daunting, godlike proposition.

A century and a half ago, the central Overlay grew large enough to manifest and fully support what is today known as The Fount, the axial tower at Tramontan. The gargantuan structure is so massive it can be seen from every corner of the world, and is so tall none can see its top. Justinians refer to the tower as 'The Great Taunt,' seeing it as a mocking symbol of dominance and superiority flying in the face of Justinian values and superiority. This precipitated an attempt by then-existing Justinian powers to destroy the central overlay and The Fount itself in a single concentrated attack, during the siege of the Central Complexus of 143 AWH. This siege, although successful in halting the growth of the central overlay, is largely considered a failure. After a tactical withdrawal and retreat by Justinian forces from the Central Complexus to an encampment within the reconquered territory near its boundaries, the entire coalition was destroyed in an instant in a catastrophic event known as the Devastation, which killed half a million soldiers, crusaders, inquisitors, mages, and even the then-Exaltarch of Archonnen himself. The site of the Devastation, to this day, remains an impermeable zone within which no being or force may intrude.

The various Justinian nations have since established a ring of forts around the central overlay, and have been waging a constant, perpetual siege against it for over a century straight. Justinian has directed for magical artifacts of mass destruction to be assembled and projected into the Overlay over the years, destroying large swaths of the original overlay and turning the surrounding land into barren, desolate waste. Little by little, the central overlay has shrunk and been chipped away at by the constant efforts of Justinian to see it banished for good.

Elsewhere in the world however, the Turquoise Lord remains a constant and unabated menace. There is a perpetual threat of Stray Palace overlay appearing within the large megacities of various states, or else within remote, secluded locales where few venture. Their servants wander the world, spreading forbidden secrets and practices to unwitting mortals who hunger for power. The Turquoise Lord is known to be directly complicit in assisting Ephemem in the Civil War between West and East Ouroborasia, and they are also suspected to be allied with the returning red god Axohaan.

The Central Overlay of Tromontan: The Lord of the Turquoise Scheme's most well-known of holding is the central overlay that dwells at Tramontan, the center of the world. It is here where the axial tower, The Fount, is located. The Fount itself extends out from the Turquoise Lord's holy site, known as The Seat, which itself comprises the core of the Central Complexus, the gargantuan foundation for the axial tower. The various Western Justinian nations have been waging a perpetual, century-long siege against the central overlay, gradually chipping away at its boundaries and occasionally projecting magical artifacts of mass destruction at the tower in order to damage it.

Worldwide Overlays: The Shadow of the Stray Palace is cast all across the world in a scattered, haphazard fashion, wherever it might be permitted to take root uncontested. Overlays can be found within abandoned mines or deep within canyons, found in the turbulent cesspits of undercities or else in the unclaimed wilderness. The efforts of civilized folk throughout the world to tear down anchoring material for the palace before it accumulates is a constant chore, and militia are always on the lookout for signs of a hidden-away extension of the Stray Palace somewhere unseen.

Discrete Freeholds: Rumors abound of a new, insidious form of overlay where the Turquoise Lord's own influence lies dormant and suppressed, while the architecture and denizens have taken guise to appear indistinguishable from indigenous native forms. What purpose and function such curious overlays serve remains unknown, and none have been positively identified even if several 'unconfirmed' freeholds have been banished.

The Turquoise Lord is known for, amongst other things, their very lenient tenants. The only requirement for sacrifices to be made to them is that the sacrifice have been procured 'By Wit of Force' or 'By Right of Conquest,' interpreted broadly. Having made a sacrifice to the Turquoise Lord, the only commandment one must then follow is that they not attack or otherwise interfere with the Turquoise Lord's servants.

These extremely lax requirements makes the Turquoise Lord exceedingly popular with bandits, pirates, cutthroats, and the lawless in general - who pillage and steal, and then simply add kidnapping and seizure to their crimes. Sacrificing their victims, these ruffians gain a measure of magical power they then use to perform yet more crimes and gain yet more sacrifices to make in a cycle of violence and ever-increasing magical power, without the complication of having to abide by the laws and strictures of an overbearing celestial being. The lesser of these fiends are known as Turquoise Bandits, while the most powerful and influential brigands who go on to become warlords or bandit chiefs are known as Turquoise Marauders. They are not true faithful worshipers of the Turquoise Lord, and merely make sacrifices to them as a convenient and comparatively easy means to gain magical power.

The Turquoise Lord is known as the patron celestial being of outcasts, pariahs, exiles, and degenerates. When knowledge of them returned to the world three-hundred years ago during the war in the heavens, it came in the form of the Lord of the Turquoise Scheme's own Trophic Secrets. Twisted and tainted knowledge of arcane natural law, seen in the dreams and idle thoughts of the deprived and forlorn as a form of lure and temptation. Such forbidden knowledge also graced and continues to come upon the minds of great intellects, scholars, and natural philosophers who study the laws and mechanisms of the world, and it is through the proliferation of these Trophic Secrets that the Turquoise Lord continues to gain followers.

When a living mortal soul is sacrificed to the Turquoise Lord, under certain conditions the body is reanimated as an undead golem that serves the Turquoise Lord. These beings are known as Servitors, and are the predominant perpetuating force for the Turquoise Lord's influence upon the material world.

The first condition necessary is that a body must remain to be reanimated. As sacrifices implicitly requires a living victim this is not often an issue, though various means of magically destroying a body during sacrifice might hypothetically be employed in order to prevent the creation of a Servitor. The second condition is that the victim have an expansive, favorable cavity within their body around the abdominal region. The females of most sentient species automatically qualify for this particular condition, but certain degenerate Red Enclaves otherwise unaffiliated with the Turquoise Lord have been known to carve cavities into the bowels of still-living male victims in order to create suitable conditions for the creation of male Servitors.

Once the body is reanimated, the Servitor is remarkably hardy and resilient. Being undead, few injuries will deter it, and even cutting off its head is generally insufficient to destroy a Servitor. Severing the limbs from the body is generally required in order for destruction to be assured, and barring that incineration of the body is generally sufficient.

Servitors themselves, upon reanimation, can bear a wide and diverse array of assumed personas. Some might appear to have identical personas and memories to the victim. Others might appear the same but somewhat changed in demeanor. Still, some may be reanimated complete different to how they were in life, with no or entirely alien memories. It should be noted that Servitors themselves are Soulless, and whatever they do or however they might act they have no true sense of awareness or consciousness, being a form of philosophical zombie. They are known for being extremely fickle and fae in nature. On occasion, if their body is whole and undamaged and if their persona is similar enough to how it was in life, a Servitor can remain undetected amongst its original community for months or even years. Other times, servitors may aimlessly wander the world, corrupting the landscape and tempting mortals with forbidden knowledge.

Additionally, on rare occasions Servitors have been known to 'adopt' individuals, such as the person who sacrificed them in the first place. Upon adopting a person, a Servitor generally accompanies them wherever they go, constantly by their side. These servitors can serve as tormentors, neutral companions, or valued advisers or aides, lovers or hated enemies. Most Turquoise Bandits and Marauders deal with such adoptions as they come in a manner corresponding with however convenient the relationship is, while most civilized folk typically destroy the Servitor itself at the soonest convenience.

Whether they remain undetected, wander the world, or adopt a mortal, Servitors constantly create what is known as anchoring material. Anchoring material comes in many forms. A carved tree, a cairn made of stones, a cave painting, curious excavations, the growth of alien, alchemical flora, chiseled cliff faces, crop circles and sigils, the assembly of crude natural altars, and so forth. All of these curious objects and structures are naturally imbued with the influence of the Turquoise Lord. Over time, once enough anchoring material accumulates in a single locale, it serves to form a foci of power and influence for the Turquoise Lord. This foci forms a physical anchor in the material world, leading to its overlay by a projection of the Stray Palace (see the Stray Palace section for more details).

All Servitors, from the moment of their creation, serve host to a gestating terrestrial monster within their womb - or their cavity, in the rare instance of a male servitor. Such terrestrial horrors are always completely unique as to their anatomical makeup, as well as their innate nature. Terrestrial monsters may run the gamut from massive, monstrous strong, hideously bloodthirsty and of feral, bestial intellect - to diminutive, pathetically weak, docile and civilized with deep and profound intelligence. Regardless of their nature, all terrestrial monsters bear souls. While they have a native, instinctual impulse to serve the Turquoise lord, this impulse may be overcome by those monsters with strong enough wills or intellects. To this day, in a few remote locations, there is the odd monster living amongst other mortals, having rejected the ways of the Turquoise Lord.

Although all Servitors play host to gestating horror within them, approximately half of them never give birth naturally. All Servitors will forcefully give birth if they would be destroyed or otherwise significantly damaged without the monster within having been slain in the process. The birthing process can range from harmless to the Servitor to wholly destructive, ranging from Servitors giving birth to delicate butterfly creatures to a hulking behemoth sloughing off the skin of its mother (or father).

The Stray Palace seen in the material world is a shadow cast upon terrestrial plane by a structure in the Celestial Realm known as the Palace Straylight.

When a Servitor creates enough anchoring material in the physical realm, the influence of the Turquoise Lord consolidates into a single physical structure known as an anchor. The anchor serves as a pin for the projection of the Stray Palace that then overlays the material realm, keeping it in place while displacing the material realm itself.

The displaced material realm is still present and whole, merely displaced. It is possible to banish Stray Palace Overlay by destroying the physical anchor pinning it in place, causing it to be banished and for the material realm to reassert itself as it was prior to being displaced. Those more familiar with the practice of destroying anchors are wary and take care when doing so, as it is possible for an anchor to be located either underground or above the ground relative to the displaced material world, resulting in the would-be-savior being sealed in solid bedrock or left to fall dozens of meters after destroying an anchor.

The projection of the Stray Palace is more than just the structures that form - it is the very skein and fabric of the world that is displaced as well. When one enters an overlay, the Stray Palace is not just the halls they enter, but also the air they breath. The stuff and material of the Stray Palace complies with natural laws, but is altogether still alien. The structures seen will regenerate over time, and possess a curious strength to them. They are not harder to destroy, but may be arranged with a complexity and enormity that might otherwise be impossible with nonmagical materials.

The Stray Palace itself possesses the visage of a mocking, terrible mirror of mortal extravagance. The sprawl of it appears much as a palace would, with great banquet halls and kitchens, ballrooms, grand parlors, long and refined hallways, libraries filled with forbidden lore, ancient and sturdy vaults, armories and barracks, forges and dungeons, thrones and bedrooms - everything one might expect to be found in any palace or castle, one can find within the Stray Palace. Each overlay is liberally littered with artifacts, treasures, and objects of various mention which serve as furnishing for each area of the palace. These objects may be moved and if present within the Overlay when an anchor is destroyed, will be banished normally. If extracted from an overlay however, such items will remain corporeal even in the event of an anchor's destruction. Though whether one can extract such items is another matter entirely...

The Stray Palace is a shadow of the Palace Straylight in the celestial realm - and to carry the analogy, the shadows of the beings that dwell within the Palace Straylight also manifest within the Stray Palace, as the shadows of the beings that cast them. If shadows were solid.

Within each independent locale of the Stray Palace dwells a shadowcast Denizen, a monstrous being who serves as twisted combination of a guardian as well as a chief of staff. Attending them are shadowcast monsters, akin to terrestrial monsters borne of Servitors but instead are projections and part of the Stray Palace itself. Each Denizen is attended by a small army of these monsters, who in turn act as their staff. A Denizen within a library of the Stray Palace might act as head Librarian, and the monsters as book-keepers. The Denizens are monstrous and alien, but largely civilized and docile unless provoked. They may be conversed and dealt with as one might when dealing with the chief of staff of a foreign palace as a guest. The monsters, unlike their terrestrial counterparts, are less overtly ferocious and predatory. They will stalk and hunt intruders, but not with overwhelming numbers or ferocity.

This is due to the rules of the Stray Palace. Within its halls are a number of decrees, and as long as these decrees are followed, intruders may venture and explore in relative safety, troubled only by predatory, shadowy monsters occasionally ambushing and attacking them. These rules include but are not limited to the following:

• No stealing from the Stray Palace.
• Damage not the edifice of the Stray Palace.
• Offend not the sensibilities or dignity of the Denizens and Attendants.
• Aggrieve not the bodies of the Denizens and Attendants.
• Do not intrude upon the grounds of the Straylit Bastions.
• Intrude upon The Seat at your peril.

Once any of these rules are broken, the Stray Palace will begin to react to the presence of an intruder, or intruders, like an infection - responding with overwhelming hordes of shadowcast monsters, as well as Attendants.

Celestial Attendants are to Celestial Servants what Celestial Servants are to Gods. They are celestial beings of lesser power, in service to a Celestial Servant. The Turquoise Lord is known to have a large number of Attendants, and the shadows of these beings are seen in the Stray Palace, standing guard over anchors and hunting down intruders who break the rules. Shadowcast Attendants possess limited omniscience within the immediate area and are therefore impossible to evade or hide from, and possess tremendously potent magical abilities and physical durability. They are slow, but intractable, and are the primary threat to those who would intrude within the Palace borders and break the rules.

Summary:The Crown of Form is a Divine Artifact made by the Turquoise Lord prior to the War in the Heavens. It functions as a Material Catalyst, as opposed to a Divine Catalyst, and is the only known Catalyst in existence that completely preempts the conscious use of magical rituals.

To use the Crown, one simply sends Theurgia into it along with a command. The Crown of Form then automagically casts the desired spell at 100% efficiency, using the most efficient ritual possible to cast for that particular effect. This is distinct from the usage of Divine catalysts, which will only augment the efficiency of a given spell the caster chooses to use.

It is known that any mortal who would lay hand upon the Crown of Form would immediately become Champion of Form under the Turquoise Lord as one of their Divine Champions, an exceedingly potent combination. However, to this day there have been no known bearers of the Crown of Form, and the Crown of Form has no historically recorded instances of use. It and its affiliation with the Turquoise Lord are only mentioned in the most esoteric and decrepit of ancient manuscripts of hidden vaults of forbidden lore.

The Lord of the Turquoise Scheme, unlike most other Celestial being, is very fickle in selecting their champions...and keeping them. The Turquoise Lord is thought to have ten champions in total, one for each aspect of the Turquoise Lord's ideological sphere that is known to mortals. Each champion has a unique set of prerequisites for being selected, a unique array of magical and innate powers, as well as unique rules for remaining champion. Due to the convoluted mechanisms by which transference of championship works, it has often been the case that the Turquoise Lord's champions have been either entirely unwilling or unwitting, and in some cases potentially even their sworn enemies.

In the event an individual finds themselves selected as one of the Turquoise Lord's champions, if they cannot be made a champion (due to already being a Champion for another celestial being, for example) they are instead cursed, and the moment the transference perquisites are met again the curse leaps to the next victim and makes them champion instead.

Due to the Turquoise Lord's fickle nature, they refuse to control and manipulate their own Champions as other celestial beings might with theirs. The Champions of the Turquoise Lord are essentially free agents, permitted to act however they please so long as they follow the specific rules of their new status.

Evernyx
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NATIONAL INFORMATION:
-Population: 21 million. They are made up of humans, Nephthys Elves, and the Felidaz.
-Faction: Yuwanist
-Capital: TBD
-Government Type: Monarchy
-Government Description: The Nation is ruled over by the five Grimoire siblings. Though theirs is a kingdom, there are no kings, nor even queens – princes and princesses only. Artem is their official Prince Regnant, the ruling prince, given that both his elder siblings forswore the title. Each of his siblings serve critical roles in the defence against the Justinian. (Does this qualify or no?)

-Head of State: Prince Regnant Artem Grimoire
-Currency: Drachma, a series of coins made of flattened silver or gold.
-Language(s): Edhelywin Elvish is spoken by a portion of the Elven populace, and the all of the aristocracy. However, they also have their own tongue, known as Nightspeak to the commoners and Nyxtis by the nobility.

[Short-History Here]

Evernyx once had a King, Fenris Grimoire. It was a small nation once, a small place just barely large enough to warrant notice. For the duration of the First Crusade, by the decree of the King, they had sided with the Justinian forces. But, given that over a third of their population was sent off to battle, and people were still being conscripted and sent off with little more than a pitchfork to fight with, unrest grew quickly. And after the Justinian and Yuwa’s battle was over, their troops were finally recalled. A mere thirty. Thirty men returned to Evernyx.
On seeing this, Princess Rhea could no longer contain her rage. Rousing her siblings, she staged a coup, and slew her father. She then ascended the throne, and proclaimed herself Princess Regnant. Never again would a king or queen step foot in their halls. In the years following, she converted her people to Yuwanism, using a mixture of appeal, threats and preaching.
And once her hold was solidified within her borders, she turned her gaze to beyond them. Evernyx was not the only smaller nation in that region, nor the only one to follow Yuwa. First she began by assimilating those closest to them, through marrying off her siblings and promising great bounty in return for their loyalty. Then it was subtle hints, threats of war, assassinations. The remaining provinces were given the choice of either surrendering to the greatly-increased power of Evernyx, or fighting for their lives. Most surrendered. The rest would fight futilely, like sand against the tide. And on seeing the nation she had created, her hair grey and her face lined with all her years, the Princess Regnant closed her eyes, and rested.
Since, Evernyx has become recognised as a bastion against the Concilio Union, halting the advance of the false Justice.

(This history is still a work in progress, and may well be considered too long. If it is, I'll move it to the 'Extras' section and try my best to condense what I have)

UNIQUE ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION:
(Currently, I've only got the Monarchy and the Nephthys Elves.)

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:

-Major Locations of Interest: (Castles, Cities, Walls, Temples, Mountains/Forests/etc of note)
(Right now, the map is blank. That's because of all the stuff I'm needing to figure out right now. For example, I plan to have a 'Tower'. People who were in the Discord for that conversation will know what I'm talking about.)

RACIAL(species) INFORMATION:
-HUMANS: 61% - Approx. 12.8 million
-NEPHTHYS ELVES: 13% - Approx. 2.7 million
-Felidaz: 17% - Approx. 3.6 million(placeholder name)
-OTHER ELVISH: 9% - Approx. 1.9 million
-One dragon. Allied.
RELIGIOUS INFORMATION:
-State Religion: Yuwanist
-Patron Deity: (Would like to know if possible that the Evernyx's patron is an ascended Rhea, but if that is a Red God, I'll think of another one.
-Religion Demographics: (Does this refer to my patron, or just Yuwa?)
-Major Holy Relics/Artefacts in Possession: (Have some ideas, but I do need to establish the patron deity first.)
-Holy Sites under Control: (Once again, patron deity)
-Notable Magical Institutions: (To be established)
-Religious Interpretations/Culture :(To be established, as I'm unsure.)

MILITARY INFORMATION:
Total Military Size: 140,000
Listed Heroes: My only current ideas for the 'Heroes' are the royal family. But, those would be Dramatis Personae.
Military Doctrine:
Military Units: (No particular units have been brainstormed, apart from one - the Dragon.)
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:















There may be more people of import added, as with heroes, but these will be the only members of the royal family.

EXTRA INFORMATION:
Full History:
List of Historical Grievances: (currently, I imagine the Concilia Union - our Justinian neighbour.)
Relations: (I'd like to speak with the other nations first.)
Cultural Notes: (To be determined if there is any)

NATIONAL INFORMATION:
-Population: 97,300,000
-Faction: Yuwanist
-Capital: Basiliska
-Government Type: Federal Republic
-Government Description: De Jure, Drakma is a federation formed by the main Republic and its minor orbiting states that allow vast freedoms to the regional Assemblies with matters of war and trade being left to the central parliament. Assembly members are elected for a year and the assembly members will vote for a chancellor who will be the legislative head of the Assembly they serve in until he loses the faith of its members. He will thus work for a governor, elected every 5 years for local Assemblies and for 10 for the office of Basilisk Supreme who holds executive power.

De Facto, the realm is chained to a bi-partisan system where the other party is controlled opposition, the entire structure being established by Nobilis the Black, the eternal Basilisk of the nation, so the outcomes of everything that matters falls into his plans while the representatives themselves get reviled for any negative things that happen to the nation only to be replaced and for the process to restart anew, insuring incredible stability for the realm as the complacent population chooses to change things with useless votes rather than bothersome rebellions. Should this system fail Nobilis, he still technically can hold dictatorial power simply by declaring a state of emergency.
-Head of State: Basilisk Nobilis the Black. The title is the one the first leader of the draconic democracy, Karkarth the Betrayer, used centuries ago and that became synonymous with a reptile that can kill with only a gaze due to how terrible he became. Is officially in charge of only the executive branch of the country but is in actuality so much more than that.
-Currency: Gold
-Language(s): Edhelywlin Elvish, Draconic, Kobold Draconic, Dwarven, Gushawari
 
 
UNIQUE ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION:
-The Great Equalizer: 300 years ago, firearms were an oddity in the world, peculiar novelties that, while interesting, didn't really seem to be anything but a fade. Kobolds however, being physically weak found this to be their salvation. From the handgonne to arquebuse and the modern musket, guns are seen as a symbol of the power of the many, able to take down armored foes, to bring down mighty fortresses, guns are the kobold's weapon of choice!

-Innovation at all cost: When faced with an enemy and using the same tactics as he, kobolds suffer a great chance of loosing because of their natural weakness. As such, they rely on being at the edge of technical and tactical progress to win. This makes the commanders of the army desperate for innovation in all forms, something that can make the kobolds an extremely dangerous foe or sometimes lead them to pour insane amount of resources in complete wastes of efforts and dead ends.

-Eugenics: Kobolds have a wide distribution of both physical attribute and intellect, meaning that while kobolds produce a surprising amount of genius, they also house the stupidest of idiots. Likewise, while on average they are short and weak, some can be tall and strong. The state thus sponsors physical and intellectual contests for the best of the best to come up and finance children issued from people with superior attributes, and that's without counting the magical enhancements of the Eugenist in chief. An elite of kobolds, dragonborns as they are sometimes called, is growing in the Republic.

-Criminal stupidity: Criminal stupidity is a thing in the realm, further effort to weed out bad traits among the population. Those deemed too stupid, too ugly, the handicaped, the disfigured and the bottom of the society are used as sacrifice fodder for Mastrix and Yuwan, hopefully, this will be for the better in the future.

-Courage and Cowardice: Ironically, the kobold fodder is reputed to have unbreakable moral and team spirit, being able to stick together through thick and thin and not hesitating to face certain death with the confidence that they are fighting for a cause greater than themselves. Death, after all, is seen as somewhat of a lesser concern when you're part of a race weaker than all others and with a terribly short lifespan. Ironically, the elite 'Eugenized' batallions that are supposed to be shock troops often suffer from a very average moral at best. Indeed, it should be no surprise that people who are told they are better than everyone else and the best of the best think that somehow their lives is worth more than the common cause. It doesn't help that because there is few of them, generals tend to never use dragonborn shock troops as not to risk losing them.

-Draconic hyperinflation: The fact that gold is used as a currency in the realm is actually a very dangerous things due to the dragons that inhabit it. It is indeed a constant danger that a dragon will decide to spend all of his gold and cause sudden bouts of hyperinflation.

-Glass Ceiling: Nobilis chose kobolds to make his country a thing because of their reproduction rates, they can quickly replenish their loses and move to exploit all available resources. This allowed them to grow at an exceptional rate but now Drakma suffers from it. Overpopulation is becoming a real problem as are lack of opportunities and social alienation. This isn't the first time this feeling settled down on the people but if history is any indication, what happens next is Drakma solving this problem with a massive war killing a lot of people and gaining new territories to expend into.

-The National Academy: What serves as state education is massive classrooms with hundreds of seats where for a year, kobold children are given instructions. No questions are allowed, anyone that causes trouble is cast out and misses his chance for education. After this year there is a general state exam and those who succeed are allowed superior studies at the state Academy. Failure rate is over 95% but this system gives a chance to those smart enough for a better life. Culturally, 'The Exam' is extremely important for all kobolds and the parents will do everything they can to stress their children into succeeding and be serious about their studies. Still, a lot of failures can be competent enough to have learned how to count and maybe read from the entire ordeal. Note that the rich people can just use private tutors and attend private institutions though.

-Draconic Offshots and the Food Deficiency: Kobolds can be fed easily, they don't eat much and thankfully can eat vegetables, so turnip bread is a staple of the poor. The army's Drake land cavalry and Wyvern air cavalry however are carnivorous, as are the dragons that live within the realm. Much land is used for herding and growing the feed of domestic animals used to feed the beasts, even then the Republic buys a substantial amount of grain and cattle.

-Land of the Free: It is common knowledge for any slaves in Yuwanist countries that the easiest way to escape is to make a run for Drakma where slavery is abolished. Not only that, but it is somewhat tolerant of others. This makes the republic a host of many minorities and not the least, of Justinians that ran away from their masters. Officially, no Justinians are allowed, but people are given the opportunity to convert and although underground Justinian churches exist, they are honeypot for infiltrators to keep an eye on Justinians, making sure no radicals hide among them. Thankfully, the kobold population is so massive people have no choice but to integrate to the culture, learn the language and be assimilated.

-The Great game of Love!: Mastrix may be a goddess of love, but her concept of love is pretty much that of a Casanova as she is of the opinion that love needs to be maintained and that people should not settle down for mediocrity. Outsiders are thus surprised of the importance that romance has for kobolds for whom a lot of their action is made thinking about the other gender. Nobilis is quite satisfied with this since this this acts as a social pressure against cowards and undesirables who are forced to conform and strive to always be better than others for their romance to be successful and likewise, this love for the consumption of love insures that the kobolds who have a very large reproductive ability constantly make even more children than normal due to the lack of any form of contraceptives, those available being illegal.

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:

Raj of Peshda: An old province of Gushawar, Peshda always was a zone of conflict, exchanging hands a few times with Yllendthyr. This brutal history made the Peshdi inhabitants cynical and rebellious to their overlord they knew didn't especially care about them. With the support of Drakma, the province revolted and and was yet again the scene of a large scale conflict. After he won, Nobilis decided to make a puppet out of a popular leader of the rebellion to maintain a highly militarized buffer between the core lands and Gushawar as well as a staging point for future 'Liberations'. The province is overall calmer than most of the other satellites of Drakma and still sees the kobolds as liberators, not minding too much the constant influx of migrants.
-1, Sangawar:Capitol of the Raja, the city has seen better days as it now serves only as an administrative and military center, most of the industry having moved south to port Saif to be closer to the kobold overlords and their gold.
-2, Fort Karsouf: Many more places are more suitable for an invasion than the pass Karsouf defends in the north, but the point of keeping this old fortification in working order isn't as a means of defense but as a staging location for the Gushawar war plans. It is unfortunately probably leaked already, but it is the opinion of the High Command of the Realm that the best way to invade Gushawar is an attack through Karsouf moving north to cut off and encircle the main Gushawan forces to then continue unhindered West to the mainland.
-3, Port Saif: With how depleted the forests are south of the realm, Peshda has become the main entrance point to lumber from Yllendthyr and Gushawar and rather than transport them to the usual dockyards south has become an important shipyard and industrial center. This has attracted many kobold labourers and elven bureaucrats as well as dwarven technicians, making the city one of the most cosmopolitan of Drakma.

The Mandrakes: A disgusting swamp that naturally protected Soletaria from Gushawar for generations, it houses 'The Green Ones', a pair of especially inbreed dragon twins and savage kobold tribes. The twins recognize Nobilis as their overlord and have agreed to let a single highway (quite literally, a very long road on stone pillars going above the swamp) go through their land to Peshda. Still, the kobolds there are still a constant problems to those living near and to Drakma entirely since they often go on raids in neighboring Yllendthyr despite the potential political outcomes this could bring.

Soletaria: Officially the 'northern province of', Soletaria used to be an independent elven kingdom but it was subjugated by Boletaria to the south. The elves here see themselves as much less martial and rigid than those in the south but today this is probably not so true anymore. Still, elves here feel less concerned with the whole kobold thing than their cousins and are content that Nobilis (as to divide and conquer) allowed the elves to remain owner of their land after the rebellion. Elves thus remain an insulated rural elite of land lords while their poor and the kobolds mass in the cities.
-4, Camp Fran: A fortress built by the elves, it now serves as the final training point for the troops where a massive wargame is held every year during peace time to allow the soldiers and officers to graduate into official position.
-5, Korvosa of the Pillars: The ancient Soletarian capital and an important cult location of the old faith, massive rock formations climbing in the skies were told to be the earthly reflection of a Celestial meeting ground for the gods and that as such, each true god had a pillar in their name. During the rebellions, an earthquake caused some of the structurally weaker pillars fell, leading to the belief that once the last pillar of Korvosa fell, it would usher in a new Godless age. Officially this is denied as mere superstition but it didn't prevent the government to transform the spires of Mastrix and Yuwan into reinforced fortresses. This city has otherwise grown into one of the most diverse in the empire due to the constant flow of freed slaves from the north that aren't welcome in Peshda, this unfortunately led the ordinarily magnificent city to become a desperate slum filled with destitute. The Justinian minority of the Republic is the strongest here with the main underground worshiping center of the Realm being the 'Pillar of Justinian', a small rock formation said to have been created during the earthquake almost 300 years ago, a sign for the lonesome believers.

The Bayerleins: The chain of mountains naturally separating Drakma from Yllendthyr, they are renown for the exceptionally dangerous critters that roam them as well as for their maker, Veridel the Blue, Keeper of Wisdom. This province hosts many draconic vassals of the Basilisk that prefer the quiet and isolation living here allows as well as the institutes of knowledge Veridel use to keep his researches in order and work on side projects for him.
-6, Veridel's lair: A place known as the School of Shapers over 700 years ago, it was a place of knowledge for those researching the manipulation of the flesh and was rumored to be a HQ of the Cabinet of Faces. That is at least until Veridel decided to make it his lair after the fall of the dragons and, with the help of associates with toxic breath, claimed the mountain hosting the libraries and laboratories of the school for himself, forcing the remaining survivors to flee and eventually end in Lamash where they perfected their craft on their own. Veridel's quest to breed circumvent the curse afflicting his race continues day and night and even if he swore himself as a vassal of Nobilis, it is just to use his resources to further his own goal, using money and manpower to get new knowledge by whatever means possible.
-7, Veritas: Veridel's experiments and research brought to him those hungry for knowledge and those brought along merchants, builders and those willing to be paid to sustain the community of scientists. Veritas may not be the Great Library of Eudeye or the Academy, but it still has a great reputation regarding the study of natural sciences and hosts a few private universities for the rich and the passionate and museums about anything ranging from geology, to archeology to the new Hypernotean exposition displaying the weirdness from the edge of the world.
-8, Wyvern's Keep: Despite being draconic offshoots produced by scientific failures, Wyverns and Drakes with all their aggression and weirdness serve perfectly for war and thousands apply to ride these creatures in battle. It is here that those selected train to achieve this aim and where the caretakers go out in the mountains to get eggs and younglings to fuel the eternal need of the army for those creatures.

The Kingdom of Boletia: After his triumph over the elves, Nobilis found himself with their king and hundreds of nobles, captured by the kobolds. Killing them would have attracted the ire of the still sizeable elven population and letting them go could have resulted in exiles mounting expeditions to recapture their homeland. Nobilis thus gave the king and the nobles a gilded cage centered around the Emerald Palace to play nobility in. The entire thing only festered for the last 300 years, the already disconnected elven nobility only falling further to depravation as time passes, the peasantry that had once been the most loyal to their king suffering a thousand torments as they are sent to work the mines and the fields to death while nobles randomly select unlucky persons to be the subject to their sadistic urges. This turn of event makes the kobolds chuckle under their breath and serves as a deterrent to rebellious elves as they can easily be shown mercy and be told that they are rightful subjects of the king of Boletaria and will be sent to this open air concentration camp.
-9, The Emerald Court: The isolated crown jewel of Boletaria, elven royalty used to rule the commoners from this grand place. It is also where Mastrix, then known as Malice, became a servant of Yuwan and took on the mantle of godhood. Even today it is where her friends of old that still have her favor convene and keep to heart the old meaning of the worship of Malice, a goddess of courtly intrigues. High stake games of power and public humiliations are held in those halls, though now only as a distraction for the inhabitants rather than any true world shaping contest.
-10, The ruined temple: Mastrix might not have been the first of Boletaria to rise to godhood, but she was certainly the most influential, enough that the royalty of her land of origin honored her with a grand temple in her name where those seeking her favors prayed her name, very close to the palace. Years ago however, Mastrix cursed most of her own priesthood for its lack of faith and hubris. Today, this ruin is inhabited by a few of the 'Grotesqueries' that didn't move out, the abominable cursed beings whom to merely look at makes one scream in terror and die.

Boletaria: The name of Drakma under the elves, this land used to be the center of their old kingdom but now the thriving metropolises have been taken over by the kobolds, the elves expropriated and either displaced or forced to live in slums alongside their old slaves. The country side once had seen a multitude of tiny farms distributed to kobold families but are now home to vast farming estates of those few that got a hang of farming in the early days of the republic, these places being much less miserable than the cities.
-11, Basiliska, The capital: Entirely built from the ground up by kobolds, the city sits on the river Toles, historically separating Soletaria from Boletaria. It serves as the capital of the realm and a show to outsiders of the greatness Kobolds aspire to. There is a reason why this city didn't end up as a slum like all others though, as people moving in this city all need to have a job and the construction of new buildings is tightly controlled and supervised as not to have this grow out of control and get oh so problematic Stray Palace overlays popping all over the place. Secretly, Nobilis had the city construct as to get away from Mastrixen and his dearest love goddess.
-12, Mastrixen: Boletaria was built on the gold the elves took from Karkarth the Betrayer, it is only fair that with all the gold of the elves and homage to the new Goddess of dragonkind be made! The kobold indeed first showed their dedication and skills by making this entire city of gold and marble, wanting to eclipse any previous monument made to honor their young goddess before. This site was also intended as a possible capital but this was moved to Basiliska at the insistance of Nobilis who didn't want to alienate the people in Soletaria and thus wanted a more central location. Today, Mastrix, Servant of Yuwan resides here and in her wake, thousands of artists eager to show her their work and maybe receive a boon should they prove skillful enough.
-13, Qualinos: The ancient capital of the elves of this land, destroyed many times by dragons in the times of old but always rebuilt with more splendor, it was the capitol of the republic for its early days before Basiliska was built and thus it attracted many of the newly freed slaves. There are bigger cities, but none more populous as kobolds and a few elves live cramped in either the old city or the new slums that spread beyond the horizon.
-14, The Great Library & The Academy: The library has been standing... forever as far as history recalls, its been a venerated site of Yuwan since she assumed its control at the death of Eudeye and its been told that Eudeye herself inherited it from a god of another cycle. The amount of books contained in this library is incalculable but many consider this tool a powerful one but also one of limited use as no librarian knows the full extend of the collection that includes many books of long dead and now impossible to decipher languages. Even if they are meticulously classified and indexed, the index itself only tells the title and location of a book. The republic has begun the task to make a great re-indexing of all the books with multiple more detailed indexes but this is no easy task... Especially not with all the students using the books. Indeed, outside of the library is the Academy, where the young kobolds that manage to pass the state exam are sent to further their knowledge in all matters useful for the realm. This city, tidier than others is known only as 'The Academy' and thus serves as the official center of knowledge of the Republic.
-15, Tarsis: The realm's gateway to the sea, the city only gained importance some 25 years ago when the war with Uudhin ended and the sea trade was open to Drakma and has since boomed, doubling in population every few years. It is known as a place where money is made but not one it is kept since rampant poverty and easy access to the outside made it one of the most criminally dangerous in the realm.

Karak: The dwarven kingdom of Karak was long considered unconquerable. Many had tried but all had failed, even dragons didn't manage to humble the power of the dwarves. Still, it had always been politically isolated for after all, what need did the powerful Karak had of allies! As the republic grew and found itself in need of new resources, Karak fell into the sight of Nobilis. 'Let them come!' was what the dwarven king said when Nobilis ordered him to submit but never had the dwarves seen an enemy such as the kobolds. Able to see in the dark, smaller than the dwarves and thus able to do as they did against taller foes and move in places they couldn't be reached, the dwarves were in particular humbled by their lack of magic after their god had died and they refused to join Yuwan and especially by gunpowder, their armor being blasted open and tunnels collapsed. Peace was made and Karak became a semi-independent parliamentary monarchy within the realm, the king still bowing to the Basilisk. Nobilis allowed the dwarves to police themselves and many other liberties, such that the abundance of commodity and cheap kobold labor from the surface was initially accepted with greedy enthusiasm. Today however as kobolds begin to be an emerging majority in all but the most conservative of vaults, the dwarves look at their assimilation with mixed feelings.
-16, Karaz Kadrin: The ancient capital that stood proud for thousands of years from which the king of Karak rules now over a city with a majority of kobolds in it that brought with them the republican way of life and didn't pick up much respect for the culture of their hosts. Still, at least the government is happy that kobolds can't build slums like they do on the surface as digging requires some central planing, now there are merely tons of homeless of varying honesty praying on the wealthier dwarven population.
-17, Karaz Stahl: Dwarven steel works had always been highly impressive and even if they did fall short to compete with new gunpowder weapons, it was nothing some experimentation and technical help from the kobolds couldn't resolve and Stahl, the control of which had been taken from the dwarves and given to a kobold merchant prince, once again became a foundry of importance, seeing significant expansion to today produce a vast part of the Realm's best armors and weapons.

Karkan Wastes: Named after the illustrious first Basilisk and its terrible deeds, this once mountainous but habitable land has 700 years ago been reduced to a smoldering waste. Today brave geologist and miners come to do the dangerous task of exploiting the rare minerals brought to the surface by the flows of lava while most of the fire dragons of the realm enjoy comfortable lairs. Of course this land may be inhospitable but it is no deterrent to the forces of Axohaan just across the straight and as such, a significant military presence is also maintained.
-18, Mount Erebus: The cursed place, where it all happened. Located at the center of the devastation, it is impossible to reach the volcano and its chambers without flying and knowing the ways in that won't lead you to asphyxiate in poisonous gas. Karkarth really made this last stand location impregnable, it would serve as a great fortress if it wasn't also unlivable. It holds some importance for draconic cultists around the world, but only the most determined of them manage to reach it and if they do, the government is more likely to try and starve you out than to remove you.
-19, Obsidian Landing: An estuary of lava by the convergence of many rivers (Karkarth's Claw) formed here a beach of solid black rock, this obsidian landscape with trails leading across the wasteland is considered by the strategists of the realm the most likely location of an attack by Uudhin. And so, it is why the Redoubt was made at the flank of a volcano to bombard any invader. Needless to say, it is a punishment assignment to be sent here.
-20, Castle Dour:A partial island that is linked to the wasteland on low tides. Maintained practically only so the Ghouls can't set foot on it instead, this location still served as a stop for flying critters raiding the straight or Uudhin itself although it now is mostly a place of boredom maintained 'just in case'.

The Marche: No war has ever been fought between Boletaria and Yllendthyr without an army attempting to cross Boletian's Road and as such, Boletaria did all it could to make it costly for Yllendthyr to try and do so. Many castles and fortresses dot the landscape of the Marche and although they still host a lot of men and supplies, they probably wouldn't defend much today. Officially this is because the state deems offense to be more important than defense and doesn't believe it would allow Yllendthyr to get this far, but this is merely an excuse for how unlikely war is between the two countries for reasons beyond common people.
-21, Boletian's Road: Old King Boletian the Founder took his elves through the mountains and as the story goes when no way to cross was found, simply slashed the mountains in two for his people to cross. This road now stands an homage to his exodus and sees his pursuers try and follow him now and then. So goes the elven lore at least, now the kobold merchants with heads cool enough to endure Yllendthyr's elves use this way to trade with them.

Nalbina: Highlands and mountains where on the coast lie the fishing villages of the rustic inhabitants of the land. This place is hosting quite a few dwarven like settlements the realm sponsors to try and stimulate inward growth and starve of stagnation but it is especially known to be home of the Lightning, a number of blue dragons living on the coast, plundering the dept for food and riches. They are known as more temperate creatures than most however, accepting pearls and other precious things as peace tributes and in exchange for beaching whales for the fishers to consume from time to time.
-22, The Naval Arsenal: During the war with Uudhin, the admirals of the realm had trouble doing any naval buildup without their Kasabi counterparts simply raiding the dockyards to ruin what little they had accomplished and thus set on building an impenetrable port for the fleet to anchor in peace. It would take the entire war for the Arsenal to be over and thus it ironically served no purpose. Even today, the new admirals wonder what the hell their predecesors were thinking as such an impressive port indeed protects the fleet quite effectively but simply sinking a ship at the entrance would block in all ships. Simply leaving a few vessels would indeed be enough to severely damage an entire fleet that would have to leave port ship by ship!

Hypernotei: The strange lands to the south, the Demiurge's incomplete work where the laws of nature end. What started as a quest to take a long way around Uudhin to either surprise the Salt Prince or raid the Justinians soon became a lucrative expedition. Ivory! Eternal Ice! And oh so many specimens of weirdness for the magicians and scientists of the world to examine. People thus brave the magical phenomenons, the walrusmen and the climate itself to make fortune. Unable to stand being cornered out of a market however, the adventurers now being even more weapons to fight a small war against their Kasabi competitors.
-23, Polaris: Being stranded on Hypernotei was unfortunately not too uncommon back in the early days of exploration, even today. Still, a crafty captain managed to get a layer of ice to break away from the main shelf and sail the damn thing back to land. This is pretty much a legend but still in little streams to simply detach some ice and ride it back to the main ship became rather standard practice when sailing the coasts of Hypernotei. No matter how prilous, this was still safer than walking with the ice abominations and walrus tribes on the land. An admiral many consider mad heard of this and wondered if the experience could be replicated on a larger scale. And it was. The Polaris now serves as the admiralty's mobile base in the south, the ice ship being sailed in sub-zero temperatures to keep it frozen along with the help of some mages, making this probably the biggest testament to the kobold's mad genius.
-24, Coriace:The Kobold find no shame in learning from others the best way to do things, even if that means finding where a tribe of walrus men reside to genocide their underground hideout and take it for themselves while eating said walrus people for food and selling their ivory. Coriace is a comfortable base camp for kobold operations deeper in Hypernotei though its acquisition seems to unfortunately have sparked some kind of a war with the locals. The kobolds jokingly say that it just means the ivory is coming to them but they do not have the monopoly on learning from others either and through the years, there has been quite a few close calls due to tribal aggression.

RACIAL INFORMATION:
-80% Kobold
-8% Elf
-5% Dwarf
-4% Other
-3% Human

Majority race:
-Kobolds: The cursed dragons of Axohaan, they are reputed to be short and stupid weaklings and while on average this is true, kobolds actually possess much variety to them and while it is true that they produce the stupidest of idiots, they also create a surprisingly large amount of geniuses and likewise some can be surprisingly physically gifted or have draconic attributes such as wings or a breath. Through Eugenics and a bit of magic, an elite is born though and the best of the best kobolds are sometimes called dragonborns.

Minority races:
-Elves: The ancient rulers of the land, now subjugated and mistrusted, though by their cheer skills and long lives many don't have much trouble finding work in accounting or other jobs, though they are rarely given positions of authority.
-Dwarves: Not as persecuted as the elves, most live in homogenous settlements in their mountains of Karak, but the few that are seen outside often hold technical jobs and the stereotypes about them are much less negative than most, kobolds considering them reliable and smart, though unimaginative and stubborn.
-Other: Four million people of other origins inhabit Drakma, mostly ex-slaves that managed to flee to this free country. Some manage to have small communities, but most get absorbed in draconic culture.
-Humans: Mostly ethnic Gushawar from Peshda, there are still quite a few westerners, old slaves from slave raids in Justinian territories.
 
 
RELIGIOUS INFORMATION:

-State Religion: Yuwanist, Mastrix Cult of Personality.

-Patron Deity: Yuwan and her servants, Mastrix and Saint Paulus

-Religion Demographics:
--97% Yuwanist
--2% Red Pantheon
--1% Justinian

-Holy Relics in Possession:
--The Orb of Fire (Masterless): Nobilis's secret weapon, this orb dating to the ancient pantheon may bring forth to the surface torrents of lava, sometimes in quite an explosive manner. It was extensively used during the overthrow of Karkarth the betrayer and turned the western tip of the realm in the wasteland it is today. How such an item came into his possession no one knows but Nobilis now keeps it in his private chambers in the Basilisk's palace. It seems relatively lightly guarded for such a powerful thing, but it is a five meter wide engraved solid gold orb that burns to the touch.
--The Guiding Hang (Yuwan): In his quest to breed dragons out of kobolds, Veridel went to Yuwan to plead for secrets that could help him. Yuwan had none but still made this artifact for Veridel. At first the dragon tried to brute force evolution to the kobold but often broke their fragile psyches and souls to render them little more than animals, thus creating Wyverns, drakes and a slew of other draconic sub races. After hundreds of years, Veridel learned the subtleties of the device and knows how to expertly tweak his subjects and produce Dragonborns by the thousands and a prototype of a new generation of 'super dragonborns'.
--The Mastrix (Masterless): Mastrixen, a city of gold, wasn't enough for the kobold in terms of gift for their goddess, no. Using tons after tons of the priceless eternal ice brought for a high price from Hypernotei, the craftsmen of the goddess proclaimed their undying love for her by building her a ship of the stuff, the only item other than a city of gold they dared to name after her. It is stuff of beauty but it is also more durable than metal and as lighter than wood, allowing it to cruise at extremely high speed or even fly with grace at a much lesser cost of theurgia than yer ol' flying ship made of wood. (Not that kobolds actually care about theurgia cost at this point since this thing cost more to build than the entire kobold fleet.) Even the weight however doesn't seem to explain how strangely fast it goes when affected by magic however or how it radiates at the touch of Theurgia charged individuals (giving quite the light show when the avatar of Mastrix touches it). Still... An artifact that a god could desire or be jealous of, made by mere mortal hands.

-Holy Sites under Control:
--Korvosa of the Pillars (Minor)
--The Great Library (Major)
--Mastrixen (Minor)

-Notable Magical Institutions:
--The Court: For hundreds of years, the courts of Boletaria have been an arena of intrigue and while far from an official institution of magic, the games of power always produced many adepts and masters of Yuwan's magic, as hunger for power made people learn the finer points of Yuwan's subtle magic much better than any School. The Emerald Palace is thus the last great court of Boletaria but still many disgraced nobles eagerly sell their talents to Drakma and other Yuwanist nations.
--Veridel's Laboratory: Assistants come and assistants go in the laboratory of Veridel where he learns to master all things physical to try and produce better things. Still, intense study of biology and the magic linked to it has made many students master of shape shifting into non humanoid things as their vast knowledge in the matter allows them the use of expert spells they can maintain for longer and with less energy.
--The Academy: Spellcasting is one of the numerous majors available to those who succeed the state exam. Students will first train in general magical aptitudes before choosing an area of expertise. A mix of oracle training and an officer's class can make any kobold quite comfortable in a career offering quick promotions to the skilled. Your usual 'fireball caster' is however generally a failure by most standard who is taught only a limited amount of spells to be used in combat.
--The Circle of the Raven: Said to follow Yuwan before she reached godhood or even was a servant of Eudeye, these more shamanistic mages do not have an official status but still teach the art of divination and 'The Odds' through ancient rites to some people and have a small following, especially in the Mandrakes.
--The Guild of Enchanters: Magic used in a more civilian departments, the craftsmen take apprentices and train them in their own specialized magic, a master artisan often having knowledge and spells unique to him he'll only teach to his apprentices, 'Trade Secrets' as they call them.

-Religious Interpretations/Culture:
--Mastrix's Cult of Personality: People know Yuwan and if asked would say of course they worship her, but this is certainly almost always through Mastrix as Kobolds see themselves as her favored race and so do the elves not entirely disgusted by her (As she is an actual elf after all). They hang to her every words and many are said since she is quite a public Celestial Servant, while many others restrict their presence to the elite or simply don't appear in normal circumstances.
--Be better for others: Mastrix originally was a divinity of courtly intrigue as her status as one of Yuwan's chosen demanded to be linked to knowledge somewhat. She however slowly changed to become a divine figure of narcissism and ego, using your appearance to get what you want and not specifically knowledge. This again changed to the modern view of Mastrix which is a goddess of love, with the popular interpretation of this being to be your best for the one(s) you cherish and this on every aspect from the physical to the intellectual.
--Saint Paulus's worship: Saint Paulus came from the west, hailing from western Abery, place he left as Justinian marched east. He is a divinity of mercy, tied to Yuwan by being the prophet of the best omens, able to delve in the mind of those suffering and give them vision of a perfect future where everything went right. Nobilis, ever the pragmatic, found it better to keep him and his few dedicated worshipers around as a harmless fallback option for those Mastrix alienated rather than risk them worshiping more... dangerous options. The worshipers of Saint Paulus are more often than not those that suffered loses and can take various form, not least many who take a copious amount of drugs and simply go far out on a chemically enhanced reality for the rest of a short life. Even if the motto of Saint Paulus is 'whatever makes you feel better', his priests ordinarily frown on such methods and are dedicated to help those in misery, no matter if it is a sick man who lost everything or a violent criminal that lived his life at the edge of a sword and is now desperate to face justice. More often than not, all that can be provided is comfort, rather than real help.
--The Time of Romance: Pretty much an excuse for people to ask eachother out, the Time of Romance begins when Lilac first blooms and signal a week long kobold frenzy where on each street at least one kobold is singing serenades to his loved one. Still, this is stressful for males who are expected to take the first step and are judged by their success or failure on this week but also for females who are judged by the amount of males pleading their cases to her, often pressuring the bottom percentiles to match with each other just to prevent the embarrassment of finishing the week alone. In the army, an almost exclusively male environment, the rare female can expect hundreds if not thousands of suitors and even the occasionally feminine male a few of his owns. Two months later the kobolds generally see a sudden increase a dramatic increase of population.
--The day of Misery: The only day where the worship of Saint Paulus becomes the norm rather than quasi cult behavior, it is the day where people rather than better themselves for love, reach downward at their dead, sick, wounded or disfigured lover. Suicides, public self humiliation, self flogging and others are just some of the things that are seen on this day where others silently rejoice around the idea that their situation is quite comfortable.
 
MILITARY INFORMATION:

Total Military Size: 300,000

Listed Heroes:
-Her Beloved: Great heroes always have great women behind them. Thus, when they fall, those left behind stuck by grief can sometimes be elevated in status by Mastrix. These chosen ones will fight with the memories of their husband in their heart and specialize in mass illusion magic, appearing to Drakman armies as the individual love of each men, rousing their moral and urging them to be victorious for their loved ones left behind in Drakma. Forces led by a beloved thus tend to find extreme resolve no matter the situation and are rewarded with competent healing after the battle, though the power of these ladies in terms of damage is often more limited than other champions. Occasionally, a champion will appear alongside his beloved before his death, though this is rare but results in a devastating combo with perfect synergy.

-Her Favored: Upon Ascension, celestial servants and ultimately gods generally abandon their mortal attachments, including their friends and relations. Mastrix wasn't one to do so and as even elves age, she ultimately offered her closest friends and lovers immortality. Well, something close to it. The ultimate time limit of a soul is a thousand years but a body often gives up way before that. As such, using magic, Mastrix is able to merely prevent the departure of the soul from a body, repairing the body with magic enough to keep it 'alive', somewhat. These not-dead are thus bound to Materia, but at the will of Mastrix who purged quite a lot of them through the years, thus leaving a bunch of submissive yesmen and women, each exceptional individuals with centuries of experience in their fields eager to prove their devotion to the goddess.

-Dragons: The legendary creatures that do not need any divine favor to cause armies to route at the mere sight of one. With scales making ballista bolts mere rose thorns and spells a gentle breeze, the 30-some dragons that accepted to be vassals of Nobilis are considered more powerful than any infinite horde of kobolds Drakma may spawn. These weapons of mass destructions are fickle ones however, demanding a tribute for them not to rampage the lands that host them and to even bother going at war, nothing but the promise of at least half of the riches to be pillaged will make them leave their lairs, the hate they have for each other making it complex to ever send more than 1 or two at the time. Still, they are things only the suicidaly brave would stand up to.

Military Doctrine:
Strategies are often the result of the experience gathered by a nation in its last war. For Drakma, these are the lessons of the war with Kasabi with the main one being that no matter what overwhelming advantage one might have with conventional forces, the control of the air is key to turn the tides. The naval powerhouse was indeed unable to sustain loses to air assaults despite overwhelming naval power and the kobold intend to repeat the feats of the war of the Straight elsewhere.

Aerial reconnaissance and superiority is critical to insure correct function of the massive land armies bellow as under correct circumstances, this would allow not only logistics to move smoothly, armies to remain in contact with one another and chose the best battlefields in case of major encounters, but also move dedicated mages by air in order to deliver overwhelming magical artillery where it is needed as well as move Winged Infantry in strategic flanking positions and on the enemy's rear. Ultimately, do anything to get rid of the 'cannon fodder' reputation kobolds gained in their previous military encounters where they gained success certainly because of their advantage in firepower but also because of their ability to soak up loses. 'Having this luxury is nice, but it shouldn't become the center of our strategy'.

Military Units:
-Scarves: The generic name the allies and enemies of the kobolds give to the soldiers forming the backbone of the 'Thirds' (Named thus because of their weapon composition: A third sword and shieldmen for attack, a third pikemen for defense and a third rifle/crossbowmen) and of the Kobold armies. Their uniform is standard, green pants and shirts along with a light breastplate and a comb morion sporting a different colour feather per batallion. There is one item out of the dess code however that is a scarf gifted to a soldier by a loved one as he leaves for his service. These men thus have around their left arm (their shield arm) generally a fancy scarf of any kind as a charm of protection and good luck, something the wounded will clutch as they expire. These soldiers are reputed to have high moral and be surprisingly effective when used correctly, though this moral doesn't always come to the party when the kobolds are forced in offensive actions the common soldiers see as suicidal for no good reasons. A kobold will never fall back when on the defense of his nation, but isn't so stupid as to carry impossible attacks to the end.

-Battalions of Death: The more zealous kobolds attracted by either strong ideals or a desire for quick promotions to join the most dangerous position in the army, that of a death battalion. Showing their courage with a black uniform and a draconic skull on their chest plate, these soldiers will never fall back under any consequences, fighting to the last men. They are thus placed in areas that cannot fall but generals are also careful with their use, as the soldiers of these units find it shameful to retreat under any circumstances and thus will serve as a fighting rear guard in case of retreat, no matter how nonsensical this would be.

-Female Battalions of Death: War is seen as a male's business but still many females want to join the fight. This caused problems historically but this was solved by segregating the genders and only open specific death battalions for women to join as to limit their numbers. These females don't lack courage but... it is factual that they have extremely low fighting potential, female kobolds being simply even weaker than normal kobolds on average. Gentlemen generals will often place them in reserve and not use them at all in any battle... Practical generals however don't hesitate to use them as attrition sponges, sending them for example as the first wave on a fortress assault, the wave that is certain to die to the last while it is unable to even fight back as it closes the gap to the walls.

-Mixed Battalions: Drakma's army was at first entirely racially segregated but Nobilis found after a certain incident that homogeneous units were simply more likely to deflect to another cause and thus reformed the army to integrate the minorities. People weren't hopeful about this at first but this resulted in very good mixes for the most part, battalions outright superior to pure kobold ones since the extra non-kobold muscles game them more punch and flexibility, the mass of kobolds also compensating for the usually poor moral non-kobold soldiers have.

-Light Flying Infantry: Quite a few kobolds have wings, but it is very rare for them to be developed enough to allow flight. Those rare few capable to use these wings to move in the skies are almost automatically conscripted in the light flying infantry. These soldiers are often lightly armored and armed as well as formed by rather scrawny individuals as not to hinder their flight but still serve important tactical roles, if only to be able to fire their rifles on engaged enemies at a better angle. Note that any flying kobold or dragonborn is classed as 'light', even if there are rare full plate wearing heavily armoured batallions like the 'Skyhammers' that serves as elites.

-Heavy Flying Infantry: The much more common winged kobolds are those who can't fly but still glide. These soldiers are generally deployed on airships and overgrown elder wyverns to be dropped behind enemy lines, gliding to the ground and still packing quite a punch.

-Wyvern Riders: Often riding the widely available Scorpion Tailed variant, the backbone of the air strength of the republic is more than capable to stand toe to toe with its competitors because of how underhanded its fighting style is. Indeed, while the armored knight steering the beast is dangerous with its poison tipped lance, the Wyvern itself is a vicious predator that prefers a quick flyby to sting its enemy with its lethal venom rather than engage in a physical duel (even then, it is quite strong, but more often than not it'll try to sting its enemy again and again.)

-Elder Wyverns: Riders mount younger wyverns who are quicker and more nimble, but when their mount outgrows its usefulness as an air superiority fighter, it still remains useful as a large beast capable of flying cargo and people, often being used by heavy flying infantry as a jumping platform to glide down.

-Air Scouts: Tasked with reconnaissance work, the fact that these units are the most likely to encounter superior enemy air forces has actually turned them into somewhat superior fighters than the armored self styled 'knights' charged with air fighting. Their saddle of a new design where the rider lays down 'hugging' the beast hampers the wyvern very little while allowing the rider to hold on in daring air maneuvers and likewise the lack of armor and heavy weapons diminishes the air drag and weight, allowing for more speed. As it turns out, the wyvern itself is a born killing machine and allowing it to do its things with a rider just there to keep situational awareness makes it much more dangerous. A rider being the accessory of its mount rather than the inverse.

-Warlocks: Mages are considered too precious a resource for them to just be ground based fire bombers. Instead they are often mounted on wyverns (or some are outright winged) and zip around the battlefield, delivering crushing arcane barrages before the enemy can react and quickly retreating to flee from any ranged attacks. It is notable that many a female wizards chose to enroll in this much less strict branch of the army, making the members rather diverse.

-Grenadier: While special battalions of dragonborns are made to break through the enemy lines, these are rare and ironically so precious no one wants to use them. Thus the grenadier come in, serving as a poor man's shock troops. Fire a volley, throw grenades, charge.

-Spitfires: Incendiary weapons are nothing new, especially when relating to naval warfare. There is something however about kobolds, most of them not having a breath of any kind, wanting to feel the power of their ancestors that pushed them to develop dangerous incendiary devices to use on the battlefield. Spitfires are thus specially selected courageous, brave and slightly maniacal individuals chosen to use semi-magical flame throwers alongside enchanted fire resistant armor to cause chaos in the enemy ranks. Nothing beats a dwarven shieldwall in a tunnel quite as fast as a spitfire.

-Streetsweepers: Drakma is by far the most urbanized place in the world, the concentration of people in urban area superior to even Archonnen and thus it saw heavy fighting in urban areas, seeing the formation of specialists in the affair. Streetsweepers actually rarely set foot on the street themselves, instead using roof tops or sewers to quickly get around the enemy and hit targets of importance with pistol fire, grenades and an assortment of close quarter weaponry. If kobolds in melee are reputed to strike low (not like they have any choice) these however are known to be exceptionally vicious.

-Eugenized Battalions: The creme de la creme, units formed with recruits passing tests impossible for normal kobolds to even think of doing and putting them above most mortal races of the Materia, these heavily armoured super soldiers are supposed to be the shock troops of the nation. This is theoretical as the vast majority of these super battalions haven't seen combat yet but who could doubt of how overwhelming such an enemy would feel? People are eager to see them in action rather than just suffer their presence as these elitist pricks always receive special treatment and never socialize with the common grunts of the army, seeing themselves as better than the rest.

-The Old Guard: Before the eugenized soldiers, there was the Old Guards! Generals veterans of a few battles often surrounded themselves by the most impressive soldiers to be found under their command giving them all the special status of bodyguards and used this elite unit either to land the finishing blow on the enemy or to make a final stand and rather than return home in disgrace, allow some more basic troops to escape while they held on the onslaught of enemies. Despite the changes in the army, the Old Guard remains, if only as a police force to maintain discipline and to show ordinary kobolds that despite the arrival en masse of dragonborns there was still room for distinctions and promotions.

-Homeguards: The army always try to be professional and well drilled as their enemies and allies stand witness to their actions, but there is no harsher critique than Mastrix and as such, units serving closer to home such as the Homeguards (Pretty much federal police) are expected to be exceptionally superb in their display. Still, if they 'look' good, doesn't mean that they 'fight' good. Oh good enough to handle mere criminals or occasional riots, but a real organized enemy?

-Militias: As a free nation, citizens of Drakma of course have the right to bare arms and actually have a duty to defend their land along with the state. This led to the formation of hundreds of smaller militia companies across the nation each with different modes of operation until they were more or less standardized in the recent years (Finance methods of the militias had resulted in many of them becoming thinly veiled extortion businesses, thus the crackdown). Militias are thus a paramilitary organization loosely organized by the state with the particularity that officers are democratically elected, insuring greater obedience to the leaders even if the ability to get elected doesn't always mean a good ability to command. Still, they are extremely useful as the first line of defense against civil unrest (that is, when they do not cause the unrest) as well as things like Stray Palace incursion. They share no uniform save for the green armband, symbol of Yuwan.

-Black Hats: Everything you hear about them is false, they do not even exist, move on.

-Republican Guard: The only troops under the direct command of the Basilisk instead of his generals, these dragonborn are in charge of defending the core of the realm: Its leader and the constitution, at any cost. Mostly they just stand there and look pretty but still, they are selected among the few dragon-born with actual combat experience.

-Revenge Societies: Disfigured veterans, brothers and sons of lost soldiers, these people train tirelessly to bring destruction to the target of their hate. Nations, specific generals or rarely, specific warriors of renown. They will spontaneously organize and volunteer when war goes to the target of their hate to face them in combat, also serving as a strong lobby to the assembly in favor for war with these targets.

-Escorts: It is understandable that people of importance sent to foreign courts aren't allowed to carry an army with them, but they'll still be excused if their escorts are of exceptional quality. These rather than exceptional individuals are the latest of Veridel's creation, but also the flawed ones he has no use for. All of that beautiful armor hiding deformed monstrosities of overly developed muscles that's generally just smart enough to follow basic orders.

-Imperfects: Over a century ago, Mastrix had been a primarily elven diety but this changed after 'The Great Punishment' when Malice became Mastrix and cursed her own high priesthood into unfathomable uglyness. Most killed themselves or disperced around the world, but some begged for redemption and went on to try and work toward salvation through humility and making themselves useful in whatever capacities they could. Mastrix still refuses magic to most, but there is a certain utility to be found in persons whom merely look at their bare face causes you to die.

-Gallias:On paper this was a blunder for the generals long before the ships were built, giving the army a few air platform to play with at the cost of crippling the amount of magic users available to them. Still, what the army gets isn't chosen by the army but by the Assembly who is an even more hardcore fan of airpower than the army staff. Well, if they have those things, they might as well use them.

-Galeasses: It isn't entirely true to say that the navy suffered only a long and unending defeat during the War of the Straight. Small coastal vessels able to maneuver in swallow areas were always active to face bold Kasaboi captains getting too close to the shores or monsters getting lost in shallow water to get impaled at full speed by these ships. 'A million oars to sail to Azagod!' was thus what the Assembly commanded the navy to prepare, for the next war. These ships are thus the staple of the navy though as the relationship with Kasabi relaxed, the focus since shifted somewhat.

-Galleons: With the importance the Sacrilege war has taken in the world, the idea of a fleet to crush the immediate neighbors of Drakma lost its importance. The new naval armament program is thus centered around ships that are, ironically, a joint creation of Drakma and Kasabi, the former lacking high seas ship technologies and the later having no design suitable to the small size of individual kobolds. These high endurance ships thus scour the seas, delivering reinforcements in the north or doing 'aggressive reconnaissance' on the Justinian coasts in the south.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
-Mastrix the Fair, Goddess of Love and Patron of Drakma: Her latest incarnation as Mastrix was a mortal made servant of Yuwan and aspect of Courtly Intrigue by her scheming ways but turned a goddess of beauty and narcissism by her egotistic ways. Infatuated with Nobilis and her own self, she is quite content to be left alone in her corner of the world without interest in greater things... Or so she acts.

-Nobilis the Liberator, Basilisk of the Republic:

-Vermillion the Kinslayer, Whip:

Moras the Shinning One, Minister of Finance:

-Princess Morngwen: Mastrix's best friend, her mentor, her confident. There was a day when Mastrix, then known as Malice, was but the daughter of a minor noble having her first day at court. So naive and innocent. It was Morngwen, mistress of the court who had a prince in her hand that saw potential in Malice and thought her how to use the hearts of men to her advantage. Years later as Malice was stabbed in the heart by a lover, she was chosen by Yuwan to be a Celestial Servant and Morngwen stood beside her as Malice first appeared to the mortals as a new divinity. In these hundreds of years Morngwen served at the side of her old apprentice, she never betrayed the intense, burning jealousy and hate she feels for her.

-Baltazos Nobilis, Corruption Investigator: Some say Nobilis, being unable to have a child with Mastrix, asked the most awe inspiring human hero he had ever seen to impregnate his divine wife with a surrogate child. Others say that Nobilis breached the Gushawar Imperial palace to steal one of the Emperor's children away as an hostage and raised him as his own. The very origin of this incredible man is shrouded in mystery but it only add to the surreal of the Basilisk's adopted child. Having received the best of kobold education with dystinction (No small feat as this meant he had to follow the neck breaking pace of a race that sleeps only 4h per day and are notorious workaholics), Baltazos was only 12 years old when he discovered a cell of Imperfects trying to corrupt the government out of spite for Mastrix. Since then, we has had a brilliant rise through the ranks, though his detractors can't help but insinuate it's because he has Nobilis's favor.

-Erzat, the Thing: Mastrix and Nobilis DID have a child. But a cursed dragon with a celestial servant? Conveived as she took dragon form but constantly shape changed afterward. The result was a... thing. An abnormal and disgusting blob of matter that was dying the moment it came out of the womb, with the umbilical cordon being its only tether to life. Mastrix, on an impulse to save her child, made it her champion and used magic to give it form. The horror thus being able to shapeshift using a constant influx of magic. Still... Mastrix was disgusted and only Nobilis convinced her not to end the life of this thing. It grew and, sentient, learned from its caretaker. Adopting mostly an elven form it craves parental approbation, making it an excellent tool for Nobilis to use.

-Eolim, the Heartbreaker: An old lover of Mastrix who could not handle his rejection and decided to end his life along with Mastrix's. He wasn't successful on the first point unfortunately and when Mastrix ascended to be a celestial servant, she was furious. The quite literally tortured soul thus now serves as her champion under the vague promise that maybe, if he won yet another fight, Mastrix could forgive him and allow his soul to depart his body rather than continue to suffer as it does.

-Milfano, Adventurer Extraordinaire: Kobolds are told to be brave and fearless from a early age as to take the one chance their very short lives will be remembered forever through their immortal deeds. Many aspire to this but few succeed as Milfano did, exploring ruins and boldly going across the world to find priceless artifacts. Above all however, Milfano knows how to play a crowd, how to get the bards to sing about her, making her a renown personality in Drakma.
 
EXTRA INFORMATION:
Full History:
-432BWH: Dragons dot the world and all are aware of the power of these Wandering Calamities. This era is reputed to be the height of Draconic power since Wolfraum the Accursed waged war on the dragons. Axohaan however finds them to be ideal war beasts and tries to hunt a few down as to acquire eggs to corrupt into war beasts. He has very little success in this endeavor and while capable to sometimes defeat dragons at a heavy price, he fails to be able to immobilize them to finish them off. They simply retreat with their eggs.

-428BWH: Axohaan is a nuisance to all Dragons but overall the god is seen as beneath the concerns of dragonkind. That is until a persistent rumor emerges that he did manage to conquer some eggs and that from this he spawned a twisted creature that was now growing within the confines of his domain. Some dragons are furious and undertake the task to take down his land but find out that Axohaan is still a god and that on his ground, victory is difficult. The rumors grow out of control and wary of another Wolfraum like disaster for their kind, many dragons go to Drakma to try and formulate a united answer rather than just do a reckless charge. The land and local elven kingdoms will be decimated for the years to come as the dragons forage to feed themselves with no concern for the locals.

-425BWH: It would take years but eventually the dragons manage to loosely agree to an emergency system to figure out how to act together. The mighty Karkarth through his influence and power emerges as the Basilisk, elected 'First Among Equals' to lead the dragons until either victory or a vote that would remove him. Every dragons are entitled to a vote when the question arises to extend or limit the powers of the Basilisk. The results are immediate, Axohaan's forces are devastated within months and at significantly lesser cost than the defeat of Wolfraum earlier.

-421BWH: Karkarth being a power hungry autocrat does his best to consolidate his power and slow down the defeat of Axohaan while trying to find new enemies for the dragons to fight but ultimately the dragons tire of this and seem willing to declare that the entire dragon spawn of Axo was just a hoax. Many wish to go back to their land and stop having to be side by side with other dragons. Axohaan then appears by Karkarth as the legends say and offer him a way to seat his power. Force the dragons to orbit around him by cursing their eggs so that they may hatch only in one place. He who controls this place, controls the dragons. In exchange, merely 3 eggs. Karkarth would agree, but immediately go back on his deal with Axohaan and refuse to give the eggs.

Noticing Karkarth's ruse, rather than admit defeat many dragons decide to charge at Mount Erebus where the hatchery is located. Karkarth, with those loyal to him through the promise of rank and wealth, defends his hold. Numbers are against him but he did chose a very defensible location and thus the whole ordeal turns into a massacre as more dragons around the world leave in a hurry to take down Karkarth and have their eggs hatch. During the assault, Axohaan uses the confusion to sneak inside Mount Erebus and place a second curse on the eggs, that they may now only hatch twisted imitations of dragons, weaklings with none of their forefather's strength, kobolds.

Karkarth is defeated at a heavy cost but the dragons see how they were fooled. Attempts are made to break the curse but prove useless. Disgusted, the remaining dragons leave the few hatchlings of their now dead enemies behind with the thousands of kobolds in the process of spawning to go back to their lair. Many dragons lost their gold in the ordeal and the world would see a spike in dragon attacks for a few years as they reconstitute their hoard. This however marks the sharp decline of the number of dragons in the world and dragonslaying becoming a legendary glory sport rather than a chore.

-410BWH: Revival of the old elven kingdoms in Drakma who thrive by enslaving the quickly reproducing kobolds and by the discovery of Karkarth's hoard, paving the way for a literal golden age. Two dragons remain from the orphaned hatchlings and are named Nobilis and Vermillion. They would serve as a symbol of elven power until they freed themselves a century later.

-393BWH: Boletaria after only a few short years of peace now that the dragons left manages to invade the much less devastated Soletaria in a feat of martial genius.

-272BWH: A minor elven noble by the name of Malice arrives at the Golden Court of Boletarias and learns the rope of the court. She would eventually rise to become Patron of the Courtiers, Celestial Servant of Yuwan.

-0AWH: The War in Heaven. Many gods and Celestial servants are killed by Justinian, leaving the kingdom stunned as the kobolds, tired of their state of slavery rebel across the world. Drakma being home to most of them and overwhelmingly superior numbers in comparison to the resident elves is taken by storm. At first the kobolds are disorganized rabble as usual, but the elves are surprised by their moral as when employed in slave armies they usually crumbled at the slightest pressure. Their hunger for freedom however boilster their moral. Quickly however the kobolds develop strategies to use their overwhelming numbers and gain the support of 2 dragons, none other than Nobilis and Vermillion there to enact their revenge on the elves that captured them it would seem.

-11AWH: Malice, servant of Yuwan returns exhausted from the confrontation with Justinian and finds that while she and the other servants of Yuwan where gone, the situation went from bad to worst. She is now the only Celestial Servant in the region and is in a position of weakness. Thus, when approached by Nobilis with the suggestion to end the hostilities and form a new country with the kobolds at its core, she is forced to concede rather than bitterly fight to the end and lose her dominion to the nearby countries. She would become popularized as Mastrix, Goddess of Perfection to the kobolds and their new republic.

-89AWH: End of hostilities with Yllendthyr with a return to status quo ante bellum, Drakma thus taking the first step to become a real state, though it would take time for the world to recognize it as a legitimate state. Meanwhile, Mastrix to gain control over Nobilis, now Basilisk of a republic, puts on the charm. She is surprised when he falls for her with relative ease. The two entities had thus far been rather antagonistic to one another but they slowly start to work with one another.

-150AWH: The Elven priesthood of Mastrix confront their goddess and accuse her of favoring the kobolds too much. Indeed, Mastrix took a liking to the little lizards simply because of their industry and dedication. Kobolds know that they are ugly and so are quite happy to celebrate the beauty of another, gifting Mastrix with statues and paintings, singing her greatness all the time. Elves meanwhile were always more concerned with their own selves and image, worshiping Mastrix as a way to get her favor. This enrages Mastrix who curses much of her elven priesthood to be so ugly to look at you'd die if you did. She proceeds to isolate herself in sadness and despair. Nobilis would go to her and spend his time to cheer her up and the pair grows closer as a result. Leaving her isolation, Mastrix would declare herself a Goddess of Love and become absolutely infatuated with Nobilis, making dragonkind her favored race.

-198AWH: Drakma sends an ultimatum to Gushawar to free all kobold slaves, or else. The two nations constantly had border skirmishes and minor conflicts, but this is a first. Gushawar refuses and Drakma enters its first major offensive war.

-220AWH: The republic defeats Gushawar convincingly with its numbers and efficient new tactics and threatens to walk on the Palace of the Raj. Peace is made and Gushawar recognizes the Republic as the rightful sovereign of Drakma rather than the elves, releases almost all Kobold slaves and gives independence to a border province, which would de facto become part of Drakma.

-224AWH: Almost immediately, Drakma gives an ultimatum to Kasabi to cede part of their trade to the republic. It is of course declined as Drakma has little in terms of navy. Now certain that Gushawar wouldn't recover soon from its defeat, the Republic focuses on a vast sea effort and the deployment of hundreds of privateers praying on the merchants passing the straight and elsewhere.

-239AWH: The privateer offensive comes to a halt when Kasabi petition Azagod for help and numerous sea monsters are dispatched to crush the Drakman ships. Still, this makes trading perilous for even Kasabi and doesn't stop Drakma, as it falls back on its flying units to continue sinking ships where they are seen.

-276AWH: Peace is made with Kasabi as the merchants fold and see allowing Drakma to operate as the option of lesser cost to continuing this useless conflict. A comprehensive deal is made, notably insuring that Kasabi would continue to oppose any other faction other than Drakma to operate at sea to make sure the pie wasn't further split between other parties, ironically this forces Drakma and Kasabi to work together.

List of Historical Grievances:
-Gushawar: Even if Gushawar is supposed to have liberated all Kobold slaves, some remain. This combined with their racism and proximity contributes to make Gushawar the nemesis of the Realm, having had many small wars since the inception of the Republic. At the moment, it seems only the threat of an intervention from Lamash is what keeps the two from going at it again.

Relations:
-Gushawar: Cold, the two nations have done nothing but insult each other for the last 20 years as well as military posturing. Both seem to look at the right moment to continue the hostilities. It is notable that while Drakma and Gushawar are at peace, the Raj of Peshda, satellite state of Drakma, is still technically at war with Gushawar.
-Yllendthyr: For a nation as agressive as Drakma, it is surprising how quiet they are on the subject of their Eastern Neighbor. Any kobold would say they don't trust them since they are elves after all but yet, since the great exchange over two centuries ago where a mass of kobold slaves were freed (at the cost of thousands of elven war prisoners now serving Yllendthyr as slaves) things have remained silent. Under the surface, there is quite more than meets the eye however, such can be noticed in international matters when for no apparent reasons Nobilis's foreign policies seem to align with that of its neighbor.
-Lamash: Warm, Drakma officially recognizes the authority of Lamash as 'leader of Yuwanists', but know that Lamash has actually very little power to enforce its authority without going to war, which it isn't willing to do, and so reserves itself the right to ignore the dictates of the Empire as it suits them. Still, this makes Drakma much more cooperative to the Empire than most Yuwanists.
-Uudhin: Neutral, even if they are supposed to be enemies, simple trade concerns forces at least Kasabi to work with Drakma and vice versa. The kobold privateers no longer raid Kasabi's assets but now work together to go westward and raid Justinians.
-Midbari: Officially, the far away desert is of no concern to the Realm, but Midbari is still quite connected to Drakma due to banking and... assassin guild related concerns. Drakma would probably not exist without the loans from Midbari but this made for a rocky history between the two as a dragon is not so easily forced to pay back its loans.
-Concilio Union: Justinians really are a mass of enemies with the average kobold being unable to see one country as different from another, but the union is of specific concern for Drakma. For indeed, not all kobolds decided to embrace Nobilis's system. The existence of the union is widely refuted as false as no kobolds can be contaminated with Justinian ideals but special forces are still dispatched to help subverting or destroying the kobolds within the Union so this doesn't become a problem.

Cultural Notes: (Anything cultural of note or unique about the nation that isn’t mentioned under religious interpretations/culture)

Deep in the forest, where the Birchmen stride, I came across a woman, dead and dried...

The Birchmen, named for their devoted following to a mysterious being known as the Birch Man, formed the tribal confederacy 200 years ago to better defend their lands against the growing Yuwanist threat in the East. Inhabiting an isolated basin called the Coyle that once lay deep in Yuwanist lands, the Birchmen fought a low-level guerrilla war against Yuwan and Red God factions for 100 years. However, as the Justinian empires pushed forward, the Birchmen found themselves a new enemy - so-called Canonical followers of the Justinian, who branded the tribes as heretics and the Birch Man as a false prophet.

The Birch Man, having united hundreds of once bickering tribes under his banner, has refused the offers of alliances from Western missionaries and reacted violently to attempted conversions of his people within the Coyle. The Birch Man is determined to spin his own version of Justinianism, one which will see the revival of his species in the Justinian's paradise. Although once worshiped as demigods by the races of the Coyle, the last of the Crann, as his species was once known, has firmly encouraged his followers to take up the new God, the Justinian, resigning himself to the position of a prophet.

Charismatic and popular, the Birch Man's overall goal is to revive his species and he believes that with the help of the Justinian, this is possible. His followers, whose ancestors once worshiped the Crann, believe that their souls will mingle with the revived Crann in the post-Sacrilege War paradise and be elevated to the same position the Crann once held. However, due to the position of other Justinians, the Tribes have had a limited role in the Sacrilege, treated with suspicion by their religious allies, who have been known to clash with them.

Traditionally, the Birchmen have been insular, bickering constantly among themselves. In recent years however, they have brushed shoulders with their numerous neighbours and have found few allies and many enemies. Many believe the Birchmen to be insane heretics and barbarians, who take pleasure in killing for their deer-headed prophet but the Birchmen only wish to make it to paradise with their adoring prophet at the helm.

+Isolation of the Coyle: The Confederacy lays within an isolated region known as the Coyle, which few from outside it have knowledge of. This secrecy has led to the Coyle being easily defended from attack, as many nations believe it to be a dangerous land inhabited by war-like tribes and they are easily susceptible to ambush.

+Guerilla Warfare: The Birchmen are skilled in ambushes, traps, hit-and-run tactics and causing chaos behind enemy lines. As they lack the unified military and tactics of other nations, tribes often make their own decisions on the battlefield to achieve their goals.

+Reputation: The Birchmen have gained a ruthless, bloodthirsty reputation in recent years among foes and allies alike for their actions on the battlefield. Indeed, horrific crimes against humanity are not uncommon for some of the tribes but the vast majority have simply adopted this reputation to put fear into the hearts of the enemy.

-Technological Backwardness: The Birchmen, due to the isolationism, have missed many advances in technology. Full plate armour is extremely uncommon and the use of pistols is unheard of in the Confederacy. The tribes instead rely heavily on spears, bows and other traditional forms of warfare. This, combined with their lack of tactical unity, has seen the Birchmen avoiding the front lines of battle and instead taking on garrison and scouting roles.

-Lack of resources: Due to the direct intervention of the Justinian, the male population in the Coyle has exploded, putting a significant strain on resources. The Coyle possesses few mineral resources and only a quarter of the land is arable. This strain on resources has led to shortages in food and weaponry, which have occasionally required assistance from allies.

-Diplomatic Isolation: Due to the nature of their religion and the suspicious nature of the Birch Man, the Confederacy has few close allies. Only the Union to the North are considered tentative allies, with other Justinians merely permitted to pass through Birchmen lands. Some Justinian nations hold embassies in the Great Crest but relations are often strained.

The Coyle: A secluded, isolated region in central Meteria, the Red Goddess Talamh once made the Coyle her domain. Heavily forested in parts but also mountainous along the West and South, the Coyle is home millions of beings. The nation is divided into hundreds of subdivisions, split along tribal lines. There are some larger towns and settlements, especially along the borders but a majority of beings live in small towns and villages. Some tribes are nomadic hunter-gatherers but a majority are settled and agricultural. The entirety of the Coyle is under the control of the Birchmen Confederacy. The borders of the Coyle are blurry, however and some within the Confederacy call for the borders to be expanded into the "Greater Coyle".

Mountain ranges snake along the Eastern and Southern borders with the Concilo Union and the Artiun tribes. Plains cover the eastern region of the Confederacy while the western and southern regions are more rocky. The northern region of the Coyle is covered in thick, deciduous forest that cover over 50% of land of the Confederacy. The Coyle experiences mild summers and cold winters, especially in mountainous areas. Due to the nature of its border, it has recently become something of a passageway to the Northern Frontline with the Turq Lord and the Yuwanists. The Confederacy has a noticeable lack of underground passages leading from the Chasm of Ineffable Odds, most likely due to the effect of the secretive Skull of the Hunter artifact hidden deep in the mountains.

The Great Crest lies deep in the forests and acts as more of a Administrative capital than anything, housing a small civilian population and the political classes of the Confederacy. It is small for a capital town and is infamously restrictive in who can enter and who cannot. The seat of the Birch Man's power lays in the Great Crest, as it possesses the First Contact Shrine to the Justinian.

Birchmen (90%)
-Humans (40%)
-Elves (35%)
-Dwarves/Gnomes (15%)
-Other Races (10%)
The Birchmen are a cultural group, who see no difference in race but instead in tribal affiliation. They are united in their geographic proximity, their support of the Birch Man and their belief in the Justinian.

Non-Birchmen (10%)
-Missionaries, refugees, foreign soldiers, neutral tribes within the Coyle, rogue tribes, others.

-State Religion: Justinian (Heterodox)
-Patron Deity: The Justinian
-Religion Demographics: A majority of the tribes follow the Heterodox Justinianism that the Birch Man preaches while a small minority have chosen to interpret his teachings in a slightly divergent way. For example, one small tribe of elves deep within the forests of Coyle still worship the dead goddess of Hibernation (and creator of the Crann), Talamh, and a few others worship the Birch Man as an aspect of the Justinian, following a sect that falls more in line with Orthodox forms of Justinianism.

A few rogue tribes, which refuse to follow the Birch Man and Justinian, live on the edge of society and worship Yuwanist or Red Gods from neighbouring states. They are hostile to the Birchmen tribes and have been known to collaborate with enemy forces to disrupt the confederacy. These rogue tribes have recently begun uniting under the banner of powerful warlord, who is said to be receiving help from an outside source.
Major Holy Relics/Artefacts in Possession:

The Skull of the Hunter
A huge skull uncovered 200 years ago, deep underground, that has acted as a ward against any divine intervention. The Skull is infused with an unknown, ancient magic and it is unknown who created it or what creature the skull belongs to. It has been left in its place of discovery, on the Birchmen border with the Chasm of Ineffable Odds and is a highly guarded secret, with only a handful of beings aware of its existence and purpose. It has proven useful in repelling the hordes of monsters that tunnel towards the Coyle from the Chasm and it's been decided that the artifact will be kept and not handed over the Vault.

Holy Site: First Contact Shrine - formerly a shrine to the Red God Talamh, who died centuries earlier. It was using this shrine that the Birch Man first contacted the Justinian and had an Epiphany of the Perfect World. An ancient stone fort and town had been built around the shrine previously and the Birchmen simply adopted the area as their capital.

Notable Magical Institutions: The Doire are an extremely secretive group of magic-users who are close to the Birchman. They are said to have ancient Crann blood in their veins and are highly sought after by the Birch Man as he believes them to be a higher state of being among his followers.

Religious Interpretations/Culture:
The Birchmen disagree with Canonical Justinians on several points, especially their disdain for "false prophets" and the autocratic nature of several Justinian states. They genuinely believe that the Birch Man, the last of his race, to be a prophet or an "aspect" of the Justinian. Due to the tribes recent conversion to Justinianism (the last 200 years or so), several aspects of old Crann/Talamh worship have been mixed into worship of their new God.

The Birch Man has convinced the majority of his followers that his species souls will inhabit the next world alongside their own and that the worthy amongst them can become Crann. Due to the extreme cultural significance of Crann in the Coyle, many tribes see the Crann as a race superior to their own and wish to join them, to ascend to a form of demi-godhood.

The Birch Man also disagrees with the Exaltarchy of Archonnen on their imperialistic and (in his opinion), quite preferential treatment of certain individuals over others. As the Coyle has been tribal for centuries, many have become used to the somewhat equal ground that they all live in. The Birch Man believes anyone, from the smallest child to the oldest man, can become contact the Justinian.

The usage of so-called "Epiphany Sap" is also widespread in religious ceremonies in the Confederacy, which is seen as heretic by other Justinians. A mind altering sap taken from certain trees in the forests of Coyle is said to give the user a small glimpse into the perfect world being crafted by Justinian and to put the user into contact with the souls of the long-dead Crann, who are said to impart advice or comfort to the user. The Birch Man actively encourages the usage of Epiphany Sap among his followers. However, the overuse of Epiphany Sap is known to break the minds of those unprepared to use it and they are sent into a permanent state of berserk.

Finally, proselytising from other gods or branches is widely frowned upon, especially from the Birch Man. He sees the confederacy as united only by their belief in him as a powerful prophet and sees any attempts by foreign nations to undermine him as going against the plan. Missionaries have been banished and even sacrificed in the Confederacy. Although minor differences exist among tribes, the Birch Man tolerates such religious differences as long as they don't diverge too far from his teachings.

Total Military Size: 100,000

Listed Heroes:
Yoe Thickens
Ruri the Fallen
Cahale Igho
Bren Muid
Themaus the Enlisted

Military Doctrine: The Birchmen are masters of guerrilla warfare, especially in forests. They also excel in sneak attacks and boobytraps. They try to avoid all-out, open warfare due to their inferior organisation and armour and units act independently of each other. The Birch Man is the overall commander but has very little experience with organised warfare, leaving the battle plans to the individual tribes, who act independent of each other in warfare and use whatever means necessary to achieve their goals.

Military Units:
Deadwood:
-The Deadwood are a lightly armoured unit, made up primarily of criminals or volunteers who are terminally ill. Their minds are broken by their near-constant use of Epiphany Sap, which cause them to have violent visions and outbursts, seemingly at random. They are kept well away from the Coyle and can usually be found on the front-lines of battle as a form of berserker who kill everything they can before being felled. Epiphany Sap gives them an extremely high tolerance to pain but their broken, hallucination-filled minds often mistake allies for foes. The casualty rate among the Deadwood is extremely high but due to the nature of the Coyle, there will always be beings to take their place.

The Cysquatch Clans: In the far western mountain range of the Coyle, a unique race of primitive, shaggy beings dwelled in caves, loosely organised into clans or families. They were among the last races to join the Confederacy and have proven to be extremely physically powerful. Due to their small numbers and low intelligence, the Cysquatch are primarily used as pack animals, caravan guards and even siege weapons. They are split into several clans with no clear leader.

Equini: The largest tribe in the Coyle, numbering thousands of humans and elves, the Equini are a primarily male and extremely war-oriented tribe who make up the bulk of the Birchmen army. They are warriors trained in swordsmanship and archery and are lightly armoured in furs and leather. Extremely devoted to the Birchman, they have been known to follow his orders above even their own leader, Rangan Bloodroot.

The Adhmaid: The Adhmaid are another large tribe in the Birchmen army, made up primarily of gnomes and elves. They are probably the best equipped unit in the army, possessing the technology to create better weaponry and siege machinery. However, due to the limited mineral resources in the Coyle, they have begun to look further afield for materials to create instruments of war.

The Doire: Not so much a tribe as a small collection of individuals, close to the Birch Man. They are magic users chosen at random from the tribes and brought to the Birch Man, who believes they possess a small amount of Crann blood in them. The Doire act as a last line of defence in the Coyle, bodyguards of the Birch Man and as a form of secret police in the Confederacy. They root out criminals and spies and are said to be adept magic users. Their numbers are small but they are easily spotted by their distinct lack of tattoos and use of heavy forest imagery. They work in close conjunction with tribal shamans and other tribal powers and occasionally travel outside the Coyle to undertake missions for the Birchmen.

Chun-Fiach: A small tribe of Elves, the Chun-Fiach have gained notoriety in the Confederacy for their extremely violent conduct on the field of battle. Although only numbering 600 individuals, they are known to partake in head hunting, sacrifice and cannibalism. The Chun-Fiach are not strict Justinians but believe in the long-dead goddess of Hibernation, Talamh, who created the Crann. They only follow the Birch Man's orders loosely as they believe him to be the only being capable of reviving their dead goddess but have refused offers to convert and have violently resisted attempts from the Birchmen to formally induct them into the Confederacy. Although the topic of their destruction has passed the mind of the Birch Man several times, it has been decided that they will continue to exist as long as they stay loyal to the Crann.

Others: Hundreds of other smaller and less notable tribes operate within the army, all independent of each other. Some tribes prefer to work alone while others join together into larger units but all follow the general orders of the Birch Man, using whatever means necessary to achieve the goals set out to them.

The Birch Man

The Birch Man, the last of the Crann, is the charismatic yet cunning leader of the Confederacy, which has grown from the union of two human tribes 200 years previous to a multi-racial union all under his banner. Standing at 8 feet tall, the blue skinned deer-man towers over his followers and commands them with a powerful voice and a sharp wit. The Birch Man is a firm believer in the Justinian but also in his own power, seeing himself as one of the Justinians most powerful followers on the frontier. However, his overly-suspicious nature and his single-minded determination to bring back his race from the brink of extinction could prove to be his downfall as the climax of the Sacrilege War grows near.

The Birch Man is extremely secretive about his own background and has shared very little of his past, even with his closest followers. His true name remains unknown and he has vowed not to utter it until the end of the world.

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Full History:
For thousands of years, the great forests of Coyle lay peacefully under the patronage of their creator, protector and goddess, Talamh. A lesser Red Goddess, the Goddess of Hibernation created a small, mortal race in her image - the Crann, the guardians of the Coyle. The Crann never numbered more than 1000 individuals but they were powerful beings, with long lives, multiple faces and great antlers. Talamh foolishly weakened herself creating what she deemed a perfect race and so the legend goes she fell into a deep hibernation, only to mysteriously die in her sleep centuries later later. The Crann, now sole protectors of the forest, soon came into contact with other sentient species. Tribes of elves and men encroached on the great Coyle forests and viewed the Crann as mystical protectors, who silently observed them and helped them in times of need. The Crann were passive creatures, who disliked death and encouraged growth.

Humans and elves alike grew to love and admire the secretive Crann, worshiping them as demigods. The Crann, in turn, worshiped Talamh and encouraged their neighbours to do the same. The Coyle forests, isolated from world events, was a place of peace, one where celestial beings and mortals lived in relative harmony. Some Crann even took up wives and husbands, living among the humans and elves for hundreds of years. They protected their adopted tribes in times of danger and protected the forest from "undesirables".

But alas, all good things must come to an end. The peace and harmony of the Coyle, Talamh's tiny domain on Materia, was shattered on the eve of the War in Heaven. Without the love and devotion of Talamh, the Crann lost all purpose and sanity. Normally docile, quiet beings, the Crann's worldview changed for the worse. Some Crann committed suicide, others slaughtered hundreds of innocents and one even foolishly took on the Justinian on the battlefield but it ended the same for all of them - death. All bar one.

After the death of his race and the great calamity that overtook the Coyle, the final survivor of the Crann withdrew deep into the forest, conserving what magic and power was left in the Coyle. The Birch Man, overcome with depression at the violence and his loss of purpose, hibernated alone for fifty years, rarely venturing from the tiny shrine to his presumably dead creator, Talamh. As generations of men passed, the horrid memories of the crimes committed by the broken Crann slowly slipped from the humans collective memory and their legacy was lost to time.

It was in the ancient shrine to Talamh that the Justinian made contact with the Birch Man, showing him the world that could be under his guidance. The Birch Man, in his epiphany, saw his race revived and their place as the true race of the forests restored. Vowing to achieve the world he saw in that vision, the Birch Man left the shrine at Fort Crest and began to observe the denizens of the forest. To his surprise, most humans had already forgotten the Crann in only a century and now worshipped false, Yuwanist gods who demanded blood sacrifices, keeping the tribes of the Coyle in a perpetual state of war. The Birch Man rarely appeared to the humans and his
deliberate obscurity led to him achieving a mythical status among the humans. They simply nicknamed him the Birch Man and it is the name he has used since, swearing not to utter his real name until the end of the world.

When the Birch Man became well-known among the Coyle's inhabitants, he began to take a select few individuals to Fort Crest to experience the Epiphany. These few became the Birch Man's inner circle, known as the Birchmen (later giving name to the tribal confederacy) and helped him to convert thousands of followers to his cause. Within 100 years, the Birchman had united hundreds of small tribes and clans of various races to his own form of Justinianism. Despite rarely venturing from the Coyle himself, he has sent tribesmen to every front of the war and openly declared himself against Yuwan.

In the last century, the Coyle has faced few attacks from either side and the population has swelled, with males far exceeding the female population. However, as the frontier has moved further west, the Coyle has also found itself on the front lines of battle and has taken a largely independent strategy of the other major Justinian powers on combating the Yuwanist heathens. Along with their tentative allies to the north, the Concilio Union, the Birchmen have found themselves fighting Yuwanists and the Turquoise Lord along the Northern Front. Rumblings from the the Chasm of Infathomabal Odds to the south-east of the Coyle have also been a cause for concern, as the Birchmen fear raids from the monstrous denizens who lurk beneath the Earth.

List of Historical Grievances:
-The Turquoise Lord, which has been besieged for the last 142 years, has slowed the rate of eastern expansion, much to the annoyance of the Birch Man, who has maintained a detachment of Birchmen warriors at the siege.

-The Artiun Tribes to the south have faced systematic genocide from the Birchmen and other Justinians. The Birchmen actively hunt the Artiuns for sport and have been known to consume them in times of starvation. Although once they considered the Artiuns potential entries into the Confederacy, their refusal to join the Birch Man and continued worship of Yuwan has made them into one of their biggest enemies to date.

Relations:
The Confederacy has had few diplomatic relations with outside nations, due to the nature of its religion and the reluctance of the Birch Man to leave his natural domain. However, the Birchmen enjoy warm relations with their neighbours, The Concilio Union, which shares the Birchmen disdain for far-western Justinianism and has established a similar system of multi ethnic harmony within its borders. The two nations have also had limited co-operation in the wider Justinian siege of the Turquoise Lord.

The United Principalities of Aberys have been known to station troops in the Confederacy to assist in the Northern Front and they have been tolerated by the Birchmen, if treated with suspicion.

Ferrumin Empire:

The Artiun Tribes:

Relations with other Justinian dominions are cold, if not outright hostile. While the Birchmen originally had a policy of openness with other Justinian domains, they quickly grew tired of constant accusations of heresy and multiple missionaries being sent into the Coyle. Now, missionaries are turned away and Justinian troops are only allowed in certain sections of the Confederacy.

Relations with Yuwanist/Red God domains are practically non-existent and they are in a state of total war, murdering them on sight. The Birchmen have developed a ruthless, barbaric reputation in their treatment of heathen prisoners.

Cultural Notes:

The Birchmen are known for their complex tattoos and body markings that mark their tribal affiliation. In the Confederacy, to be without tattoos is seen as taboo and it is common for outcasts to have their tattoos removed or defaced. In many tribes, beings are more or less equal, apart from the tribal leaders or Shaeman.

[The Ferreumin Empire]

NATIONAL INFORMATION:
-Population: 12 million
-Faction: Justinian
-Capital: Urbi Ferro
-Government Type: Imperial monarchy
-Government Description: The government is divided into 4 tiers each having more power than the other. On the lowest level are the counts they oversee enforcing imperial law, collecting taxes, and rising soldiers over their fiefdom of which there is twenty-four of them. Four fiefdoms are grouped into a province under a control of one of the six lord whose role is to see to that the taxes are collected from the fiefdoms and to settle dispute between counts. Above them is the triumvirate each of the three members have a role within the empire. And at the top of the pyramid is the lord of the mountains He controls the overall policy within the empire and handles external affairs.
-Head of State: Monte Dominus Messor 1
-Currency: Imperial mark
-Language(s): Majority use a local dialect with the upper class speaking both Aemarine and the native langue.

[Short-History Here]
Excerpt from history of the empire abridged, by Nicodemus Tatian
The origin of the empire stared during the chaotic days of the war in the havens the death of the old pantheon flung the Vosta region into chaos as the old empire fragmented. During these chaotic years, many city states rose and fell each trying to carve a hold in the decaying empire. The accounts of the event that radically shifted the history of the region are scares and conflicted with each other. I will do my best of give an accurate account.
All the accounts began the same way the city of Volsinii was under siege by the local power of the region the city of Isara and their allies. After three years of the siege the inhabits of the city were growing desperate they turn for their king Sparax Aetius for leadership. Seeing no way-out Aetius prepared his army for one last charge. That night while he was at the abandon temple desperately praying to any god that could hear him for aid in the upcoming battle. He pray did not go unanswered as Justinian reveled himself to the king. The accounts vary wildly as to what happen in that meeting. The account form the Irodien suggest that there Justinian told Aetius that he was his son and to mark his holy seal upon his shield and banners and he will win not only the day but to reforge the empire under his banner. Other sources say that Aetius divine origin was nothing more than Irodien propaganda. Either way under the sign of Justinian King Aetius won the battle. Annihilating the Volsiniin army.
With his major victory, Aetius could rally the other city states to his side eventual brining the region that would be known as the Imperial hearth. With the first expiation done Justinian message the king again telling him the new empire would need a new capital. He instructed the king to build this new capital on the highest mountain Iugum Ferreum the tallest known mountain in the world. Aetius took the challenge with pride and for the rest of his reign he spent fulling the request of his new god. More territory was brought under control of the empire through a series of wars. And the construction of the new capital of Urbi Ferro going along ahead of schedule he started the construction of the glorious cathedral of Justinian light. Aetius passed away in his sleep a week later. His death marked the being of house Hydra with his son given the new title of Dominus De Montibus of lord of the mountains. From there Ferreumin expanded its borders throughout the years via a series of wars over the next several decades. Eventually with reinforcements from Sacrosanctia helped pacified the region.

UNIQUE ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION:
Technology: Necessity is the mother of innovation and to the people of the north it is a matter of life and death. This have led to developed advance metallurgy allowing them to create advance tools and weapons to survive the harsh north.
Industry: The Ferreumin people are known around the world to be masters metal workers. Able to forge master crafted weapons and armor. These weapons are made from very high quility steel with Ferreumin blacksmith claiming they will never lose their edge.
Harsh north: The lands of Ferreumin are harsh and cruel. The mountains soil is poor and extensively use magic an advance farming techniques to make it farmable. The local fauna is known to be very hostile to natives. And in the vast Taiga are all filled for monster and other creatures.
Earth magic: What magic is known is a specialized form of earth that allows them to make the land much more fertility. Although they don’t have access to the different types of magic of other nations.
Mineral rich; The Vosta mountains have large veins of ore of all type. Giving the Ferreumin large reserve for high quality minerals to supplies their war effort.

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:


RACIAL(species) INFORMATION:
-Majority race: 95% Northmen: the Vosta mountains is a harsh mother and the humans who call it home have adapted to it. Often refer to as dwarf giant do to blood of ancient giants in their veins. They stand between 10-12 ft tall into a mountain of muscle and sinew towering above other races. The dangers of Vosta have forge them into pragmatic, with and an uncomplicated attitude towards danger.
-Minority race(s):
5% Nature spirits

RELIGIOUS INFORMATION:
-State Religion:
Justinian Orthodox
-Patron Deity: Justinian
-Religion Demographics: 95% the others 5% nature spirits who support Yuwanist.
-Major Holy Relics/Artefacts in Possession: The armor and blade of the mountain lord who is said to grant the user to increase their strength and combat prowess.
-Holy Sites under Control: The cathedral of Justinian light.
-Notable Magical Institutions:
The Earth shakers guild.
Fortress Virunum- the main base of the Inquisition in the Ferreumin.
-Culture: The pragmatic outlook the Ferreumin people carry over to their culture and their religious customs. They express their devotion to Justinain by action rather than prayer. Self-sacrifice is large in their culture with many warriors marking the symbol of their god into their body’s marking them with a consensual curse to make their death useful to their god. Outside of battle the Ferreumins expression of faith is limited with most undergoing the Epiphany of the Perfect World to unite themselves to a single cause. The only glaring difference between the religion practices of the Ferreumin and the western nation is that the people of the north see their emperor as a direct decedent of Justinain themselves. And is consider to be the authority on religious matter within the empire. The northern empire maintains a Inquisitorial organization under the command of the watchman to hunt for threats within the empire.

MILITARY INFORMATION:
Total Military Size: 110,000
Listed Heroes:
Military Doctrine:
The Ferreumin prefers to use shock tactics to use their sheer sizes and strength to tear apart enemy formations. They do this by heavy armored united advancing behind shield walls. Along with berserker to create gaps to exploited with infantry.

Military Units:

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:


EXTRA INFORMATION:
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Full History: WIP
List of Historical Grievances:
The Bloodied
Relations:
Concilio Union
Evernyx
The Birchmen Confederacy

-Population: 20 Million
-Faction: Justinian
-Capital: The Free City of Lorimir
-Government Type: Confederate Elective Monarchy
-Government Description: The United Principalities functions as such, every fifteen years the Elector-Princes of the Realms gather in the Free City of Lorimir, the founding city of the old crusader kingdom, all twenty-five Elector-Princes decide on who is chosen to be the New King of the United Principalities, the Prince elected to be king of the land therefor must relinquish authority of his former holdings to his next of kin as he is moved to Lorimir.
-Head of State: King Alaric of the Principality of Angris
-Currency: Sacros
-Language(s): Aemarine, Aberi(A Collection of several dialects and accents that resemble various forms of English)

Brief Summery
Over a hundred and fifty years ago, a Crusading Army came marching from the Justinian West, bent on the conquest of the Heathen South, the Crusade begun in what is now known as Ourobosia, at one point in the march, old rumors had resurfaced, telling of a Divine Sword hidden somewhere in the Northern Lands of Eirenar, now known as Aberys. Tensions rose as segments of the crusading army had split off and headed north, off to discover this long lost blad.

The land of Eirenar was riff with barbarism and savagery, all under the dominion of the Red God Utarr, it was a land the Crusaders would gladly tame and take for themselves. Five years pass, the sword is found, and the barbarians are pushed further east as the Crusader Kingdom of Aberys takes its foothold over the land under the Lordship of the New King, Arthanus the First.

Five decades pass, and troubled times befall Aberys, the King, Mordan, prematurely dies from a plague that gripped Aberys for a time, leaving no heir to claim the throne. Noble Houses soon begun to bicker as to who will claim the throne, bickering soon escalated to civil war, a war which would last six years before the Clerisy finally intervened and put a halt to the hostilities.

After nearly a month of negotiations, an agreement was finally settled, one that would satisfy all the Noble Houses, with the death of the King, the old Kingdom had ceased to be, and so, a new order wold rise in its place. Aberys was now divided into twenty five Principalities, each lorded over by the Noble Houses, forming a confederation of aristocratic states, all would vote and agree upon who would the next king every fifteen years.

A hundred years later into the present day, the United Principalities of Aberys still stands today, but ever more fragile and at risk then her predecessor as she is beset on all sides by the enemies of Justinian.





Major Cities:
-Lorimir(Capital of the United Principalities)
-Faywell(Capital of Gallomour)
-Flicrora(Capital of Weshland)
-Prifsall(Capital of Aidden)
-Llanbert(Capital of Velldon)
-Arthanus(Capital of Angris)
-Corusati(Capital of Cromstal)
-Etivine(Capital of Galash)
-Rothsdell(Capital of Rowan)
-Vedrence(Capital of Harrington)
-Beddow(Capital of Lytton)
-Ulwaild(Capital of Markinswell)
-Howell(Capital of Crawford)
-Norridge(Capital of Sherriden)
-New Randarus(Capital of Sevrus)
-Gaildows(Capital of Taaffe)
-Kordu(Capital of Moramond)
-Wynhold(Capital of Alnwick)
-Risca(Capital of Kesston)
-Balinter(Capital of Amran)
-Aernin(Capital of Uthron)
-Talonfell(Capital of Meliodas)
-Caerwys(Capital of Nudden)
-Ferndale(Capital of Caradin)
-Goldcliff(Capital of Tiran)
-Feniram(Capital of Talgarth)

Castles/Points of Interest:
-Sacrosanctian Northern Fortresses
-Fortress of Dawnshield
-Lorimir Palace
-Gallomour Darkwoods
-Winefields of Lytton
-Mountains of Aberys
-Fortress of Stonehill

RACIAL INFORMATION:
-Majority race: Descended from the Old Crusaders, Humanity reigns over the lands of Aberys, making up a good portion of the population in Aberys.

-Minority race(s):

• Drimor: 12%
  The Drimor are race of bipedal Boars that first appeared thousands of years ago, created by the God-King Ashenlur. Before their brief descent into savagery, the Drimor were proud warrior people, with honorable virtues they once upheld vigorously, however, once their Paragon, Utarr has fallen into darkness, the very same darkness had seeped its way into the collective psyche of the Drimor race, however, this stranglehold would not last for an eternity, once many Drimor were shown the Light of Justinian, but many more resist the Justinian's embrace, and continue to willingly follow the dark path of their Fallen Paragon.
  
  The Drimor are rather unique in that, the race itself is divided into differing groups, which they themselves uncreatively simply refer too as the Hooved and the Non-Hooved. The Hooved Drimor are the more beastly of the two groups, resembling more like the squatted Pigguts, only of more taller and more often then not, hunched. The Non-Hooved however, have more "human" features, standing straight like men, feet and hands like men, their only discernible features of course are their boar-like faces.
• Piggut(Creation of Goldeagle): 10%
  The Pigguts, unlike their larger cousins, are still considered the outsiders in Aberysian Society, their savagery still ever present and their behavior shows it. Pigguts are about the height of a grown mans hip and are often found wearing ragged cloths they steal from their victims and are known to devour sentient flesh, despite the heavy taboos. They prefer unfair numbers and ambushes but suffer from stupidity and superstition. They often only form small bands or tribes with rocky leadership. They look like little pig men standing up and have six fingers and two cleft hooved feet.
• Minotaur/Harnian: 2%
• Elf: 5%
• Centuar: 5%
• Satyr: 2
• Other: 1%

-State Religion: Orthodox Justinianism
-Patron Deity: The Lands of Aberys once were under the dominion of the Red God Utarr, but has now since been forcibly dethroned by the Justinian.

-Religion Demographics:

• The Justinian: 88%
• Red Pantheon: 12%

-Major Holy Relics/Artefacts in Possession:
The Old Crusaders had at one time, had came into possession of a lone holy relic, simply known as the Celestial Blade, said to be forged with the soul of a long dead God of the Old Pantheon during the War in Heaven, Legends of the blade and other lost relics in the south spread through the west, leading to the Aberysian Crusade and the founding of the Old Kingdom. The Blade has long since been found by the old crusaders, and now rests in the Golden Armory of Exalossa, waiting to be wielded once more.
-Holy Sites under Control: N/A
-Notable Magical Institutions:

• Oratorium: Headquartered in the Free City of Lorimir, the Aberysian Oratorium functions like any other, acting as a sort of secret police and Inquisition in Aberys, a group feared both by the peasantry and nobility alike, if any is suspected in consorting with witches, other unholy forces and heretics, there will be no mercy to be had.
• The Order of the Radiant Dawn: One of the Four Knightly Orders of Aberys. Under the guideance of Grand Master Alisha Astor, The Knights of Radiant Dawn are a rather unique set of individuals, with many members of the Order being a particular brand of zealous and pious, mostly due to their Paladin training. The Radiant Knights are skilled in limited range of holy and elemental magics, and the Order is often found actively working with the Aberysian Oratorium in hunting down witches, heretics and heathens.
• The Sacred Institute of Tymedus: A Prestigious place of both Learning and Worship, a clear counterpart of the Red Pantheonist Solomonanţă of East Ourobosia.

-Religious Interpretations/Culture: N/A



Total Military Size: The combine might of the abyersian feudal armies, knights and various other groups amount to a total of 100,000 strong.
Listed Heroes:
Arilin The Golden
Princess Rosella of House Weshland
Zaiel Yenn
Nythoalas Sheadros
Urom Goux
Military Doctrine:
Military Units:




DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

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 million legally recognised residents (though no functioning census exists), plus around 2 million illegal Ghouls. Total of 25m
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

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 since the civil war, the witches are the chosen children of the Goddess Ephemem (or other Red Gods), blessed with the 'witch curse', a right to rule over lesser beings. Witches dominate the government and army of East Ouroborasia. Their numbers grow into the hundreds of thousands. They are trained in shadowy covens and diabolical 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, now 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 a new heretical form of Red-Justinianism, a syncretism used by the witches to maintain control. Where this syncretic heresy has not been used, 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 that followed the Witch Plague gave all the reason in the world for generations of Wretchkin to rise up violently. 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 milita's 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 has gifted upon the land of her followers a miasmic fog, one crafted from and made of magic, a divine intervention from the great curse-maker. 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 Great Cursemaker. 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. Dark experiments take place in the school and classes range from learning how to shape-shift cats to forcing prisoners of war to kill and torture each other to death. 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.

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.

• 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



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 Eudaz, Uudhin and isolated communities of Far-east Ouroborasia, though both have also been corrupted culturally by Gushawar and Axohaan respectively. The majority of Ouroborasian people today are Aemorian and Aberysian 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 77.5% of the legal population (and 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.

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 (Does maintain an anathema Justinian clerisy to keep the Justinian minority in line)
Patron Deities:

• Ephemem - Ephemem, also known as the Goddess of Witches or Great Cursemaker. 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 to embracing the Turquoise Scheme, rejecting her fellow Eudeye disciple Yuwan and the Old Pantheons belief in harmony between Materia and the Celestial Plane. 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. A goddess of spite, curses and defiance, she is worshiped by those who often hold grudges or seek revenge, thus making 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 Healing of the Ancient Pantheon, and thus is also the patron of doctors and healers.

• 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 the patron of rebellion across the world. Axohaan has long been the traditional god of Ouroborasia, having taken over the role of the Eudekeshan peoples patron following the fall of Eudeye. 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.

• 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, Hearth, Home and Motherhood. Following 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. She is often associated with beauty, putting her at odds with 'the little upstart' Mastrix. Her presence is great, stretching across Ouroborasia and even Gushawar. Were it not for her own disregard for 'greater purpose' and Ephemem's machiavellian ways, she may be more than a corrupter of mortal souls for fun.

• 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 does reach across from Aberys, 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:
-58% Red Pantheonism
-23% Orthodox Justinianism
-19% Anathema 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 syncretic Restorationist Church, representing the Anathema Justinians that while nominally follow Justinians teaching now politically align themselves under East Ouroborasia's rule. 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.

• 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.

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:
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