-Population: Numbers often fluctuate, but usually remain within the range of 96-97 million (not counting underworld beasts and assorted monstrosities).

-Faction: Red Pantheon (unaffiliated).

-Capital: Hive Vextasrir, also known as the Chasm of Ineffable Odds.

-Government Type: Hive Mind.

-Government Description:

The term “government” is perhaps not altogether suitable for describing the internal structure and functioning of the Vex’lir Swarms. In truth, it is more similar to the natural forms of organisation found in the colonies of certain invertebrates, or, in its heavily magically supplemented form, to the workings of a single, vast living organism. The entirety of the Riglir population is bound to the will of its divine master, the fallen Celestial Servant - and now Red God - Vex’xalar by the means of an enchantment which conjoins their minds with its own. This spell allows the Lurker to issue commands to any number of its subjects at any given moment, and physically constrains them to obey such orders, as though they were nothing more than extensions of itself.

Despite the omnipresence of the curse, a comparatively small number of Riglir is, for various reasons relating to their hatching, afforded a greater degree of freedom in choosing how to carry out the divine injunctions. These creatures take up the position of intermediaries between the god and the masses of its thralls, acting as commanders and overseers (Hive Superiors) or priests and shamans (Hive Prophets). Often, these lieutenants will slightly modify the commands relayed to them in order to better adapt its execution to the current circumstances.

-Head of State: Vex’xalar the Lurker Below.

-Currency: None. The nature of the Swarms is such that internal and external commerce alike are nonexistent, and currency thus unnecessary.

-Language(s): Though the use of speech in the warrens is rare, vestigial remains of the former Riglir languages are still employed for ritual purposes. In the rare occasions members of the Swarms will communicate with the surface world, they have shown themselves capable of using the predominant Elven languages, debased and simplified to varying degrees.



Until about ten thousand years ago, most of the Riglir race had lived near the surface in a feral state, benefiting from its symbiosis with titanic creatures known as Leviathans, so vast and powerful that they preyed even dragons. Scavenging in the wake of these beings, they were able to subsist without forming societies more complex than rudimentary packs or broods, despite being potentially capable of doing so. However, when the Leviathans disappeared for reasons now forgotten, the Riglir found themselves deprived of their greatest strength and unable to survive in the upper subterranean levels they had until then inhabited. They thus withdrew into the depths where some of their number had already made their home, and began to settle its relatively more hospitable darkness.

However, the underworld itself was not without its dangers. Lethal monstrosities stalked its tunnels, and its caverns teemed with treacherous pitfalls and strange life which had never seen the light of day. Worse yet, many thousands of years before its deeps had been inhabited by the cryptic Old Ones. Though that race had died out so long ago that even the ruins of its cities had become virtually indistinguishable from unusual rocky formations, its ancient and powerful enchantments lingered still, spawning countless horrors and anomalies in dim wells beneath the earth. To face these threats, even on equal ground, the Riglir had to grow more organised. And, possibly to the surprise of anyone cursorily acquainted with them, they did, strengthening their communities and turning to the worship of gods for the protection they found themselves lacking. One of them eventually ascended to a divine state itself, becoming the first in a line of Watchers Below who guided the Riglir on the way to civilisation.

However, when Justinian arose and moved against the Old Pantheon, the last of the Watchers was slain. Its celestial servant, Vex’xalar, sought to escape by manifesting in the material plane; however, the hasty and poorly prepared ritual went awry, leaving the Red God crippled in body and spirit. Drawing upon dark forces of cosmic imperfection and decay, the maddened Vex’xalar cast a spell to bring nearly all Riglir under its thrall, absorbing them into an unnatural Hive Mind and cursing all future generations to be born in its hold. Only a scant few escaped the spell’s effects, fleeing south.

Vex’xalar remained hidden with its swarms while the War raged; once it was over, they emerged again, more ferocious than ever, to assail all that were to be found in the vicinity in an incessant series of incursions which continues to the present day. Of particular violence have been their struggles with the influence of the Lord of the Turquoise Scheme, whose Overlays reach deep below and into the very seat of Vex’xalar. Such was the Lurker’s wrath at the intrusion that, two centuries ago, it lashed out with tremendous power, creating the immense Chasm of Ineffable Odds which runs through the center of Materia. In this unfathomable abyss the battle rages still, as more and more horrors clamber out of it to blight the world above.





• One Mind: The entire population of the Swarms is telepathically linked with its master and among itself, enabling them to function more as a super-organism than a nation proper. All acquired knowledge is instantly shared between the millions of Riglir bodies, and, through the action of Hive Superiors and Prophets, their masses can act with an impossible degree of coordination. The Hive Mind eliminates the need for conventional social structures, since the activity of every single creature can be regulated individually to be as efficient in carrying out its tasks as possible. However, such advantages come at a price: not only is the individuality and initiative of most of their bodies suppressed, but the Swarms are heavily reliant on its intermediary leaders to function properly. Eliminating them disrupts lesser thralls, causing them to act haphazardly at the best of their own limited skill. Additionally, all of the Vex’lir Riglir are infected with the Lurker’s madness.

• Myriad Bodies: Ever since their early days, the Riglir have been infamous for their frighteningly rapid rate of reproduction and adaptability. These traits ensure that the species will thrive in virtually any survivable environment, multiplying until they quite literally flood their dens and burrows. Even when faced with heavy losses, they are capable of swiftly replenishing their numbers. This natural prolificness is only increased by the liberal application of mutation-inducing magic, which swells their ranks further in less than describable ways. Thus, despite lacking any sort of technology and infrastructure, the population of the Swarms is colossal and incredibly varied by the standards of all but the vastest nations, and can quickly recover from anything short of complete annihilation.

• Horror in the Flesh: Vex’xalar the Lurker Below, last of the Riglir gods and inheritor of the Watchers, crawls upon the earth once more. Though unable to regain its full power after being weakened by an imperfect manifestation and vulnerable to being fully destroyed, the Red God is a redoubtable foe, inhabiting a gargantuan physical form and wielding earth-rending magical might.

• Unholy Arcana: The Vex’lir spellcasters possess distinctive magical abilities granted by their divine patron and certain ancient Masterless Artefacts. Those include transforming bodies in often gruesome and hideous, but undeniably effective ways, channeling the sinister powers of the Hive Mind to assail the psyche of enemies or manifest otherworldly thaumaturgical effects, and a heightened proficiency at animating skeletons and other bone constructs. However, most of them are fraught with risks for the caster and its allies as well. Transmutation spells are fueled by Vex’xalar’s unstable Theurgia, and thus often backfire in spectacularly ghastly manners, and the influence of the Hive Mind is dangerously unpredictable and often uncontrollable.

• Heart of Madness: Being as of one mind with their god, all Riglir are under the influx of its delusions and savage nature. As Vex’xalar believes to be all inhabitants of the surface and their gods to be servants of the inimical Turquoise Lord, the Swarms are invariably hostile to anyone and anything else, and attempts to communicate with them are doomed to end in failure.

• Ichor and Chitin: While physically resilient and versatile and reasonably skilful in the use of magic, the Riglir have never been gifted with the ability for technological innovation, and the advent of the Hive Mind has wiped away the few advancements they had achieved in the course of millennia. As a result, the Swarms possess no technology to speak of, and can neither devise any nor use what they capture or scavenge. Their workers and combatants are therefore unequipped and unarmed, and rely exclusively on their (often modified) bodies.

• Underdwellers: Rare is the Riglir who rises to the surface for any purpose other than an incursion into enemy territory. The species, in its many variations, is adapted for subterranean life, and the Swarms dwell in a great maze of caverns, vaults and tunnels spanning much of the center of Materia and reaching southwards into Ouroborasian lands, and do not control any territory on the surface. Entrenched belowground, their lairs are difficult to invade for conventional forces, who would be at risk of becoming an easy target for traps and ambushes. Furthermore, the Riglir are thus able to move beneath the holdings of other nations, emerging in the most improbable of places in spite of any defenses on the surface.

• Pit of Nightmares: Though their subterranean nature grants the Swarms some advantages, not even they are immune to the many perils of the underworld. The dim recesses of the earth hide bottomless abysses, strange and dangerous creatures unlike any ever seen on the surface and other lethal portents. Worse yet, ancient lingering spells have, over the ages, permeated entire underground regions, spawning horrifying magical anomalies and twisting wildlife into unnatural and monstrous forms - something which has only been exacerbated by the surges of Vex’xalar’s dire and erratic powers.

• Legacy of the Old Ones: Long ago, perhaps even in the oblivion-shrouded first ages, the caverns that now serve as Riglir hives were inhabited by a race of beings who, their name lost to time, are known today only as the Old Ones. They built imposing cities, temples and ziggurats in enormous vaults, and were adept in many mystical arts. It is likely they disappeared before even the first Riglir walked Materia, but they left enduring traces of their passing. Their cities, though ruined and decayed beyond recognition, are being rediscovered; within them, ancient Artefacts of great power have been found, and vestiges of old enchantments hover below the ground, their might not fully spent even to this day.

• Dark Knowledge: There might be clarity in divine madness. Though Vex’xalar, and by extension the Hive Mind, is severely disconnected from the reality of material and celestial planes alike, its peculiar state seems to grant it a strange insight into the flawed nature of the cosmos itself. It has already shown itself capable of apparently calling forth the energies of universal fraying and degeneration to bolster itself at the expense of the very world’s stability, and who knows what other dread skills it might hold in store?











• Kralhk: The largest and oldest of the hive clusters, Kralhk houses the most important locations in the Swarms' subterranean domain, among which the seat of Vex'xalar and the sacred city of the Forgotten. The under-land here is barren, grim and desolate, with only some particularly resilient insectoid species surviving in the rocky soil. In the north lie the forsaken vaults of the Old Ones, where wander strange energies and presences; further south, the vast sunken graveyards of the Leviathans slumber in their deathly stillness.

- Hive Vextasrir, or the Chasm of Ineffable Odds: The greatest Riglir hive in all Materia, Vextasrir spans the entire center of the continent across, having grown around Vex'xalar's form to span the immense gulf opened by the god's wrath. Its bottom and western wall crawl with the invertebrates' constant activity; surfaces of Turquoise Overlay cover the eastern wall, alternately encroaching upon and losing ground to infinite numbers of assailants. At the lowermost point in the chasm, so deep that even the sunlight does not reach it from the mouth above, the titanic body of the Lurker Below stands, embedded by half in the soil, ceaselessly lashing against the spectral intruders into its lair.

- The Desolate Vaults: The sinister magnificence of the cities of the Old Ones can now largely only be guessed at. Corroded by ages of abandon, their walls and pillars have crumbled and rotten away, growing indistinguishable from the rocky formations around which have crawled into the narrow, winding streets and circular squares. Yet not all is quiet in the Vaults - the powers of the ancient race have not faded entirely, and surreal entities born of rampant magic stalk the silent corridors.

- Hive Velash: Situated on the site of a ruined temple, Hive Velash is where the fearsome Screamers are hatched from a select stock of Riglir and left to grow, fending for themselves from their first days amid the many dangers of the Old Ones' land. Those who survive the trial of Velash, which is in truth less of a hive than an arena and proving ground, are certain to be some of the strongest and most resourceful among the Swarms' elite.

- The Primordial Well: A curious and unsettling anomaly even in the otherworldly atmosphere of the Vaults, the Primordial Well is a place where, through the efforts of either the Old Ones or the Riglir themselves, the last layer of Materia's soil has been breached, opening a gaping hole into the inchoate darkness beyond. Despite the zones surrounding the Well being plagued by particularly terrible abnormalities and unimaginable horrors, the Hive Prophets and Abyssal Brood maintain a strong presence here, and have built strange structures around and within the cavity leading to the limit of the finite world.

- The Boneyards: Where once the mighty Leviathans shook the earth with their steps, now only their great skeletons, interred by time and scavengers, remain in enormous earthen tombs to mark their passing. So large and numerous are these bones that, at first sight, one could well mistake them for a white city built underground by finer artisans than the Riglir, with jagged spines and rigid limbs rising up like towers and ribcages standing up like the walls of a fortress. The Pale Brood dwells in this hell of tangled decrepitude, which never leaves the thaumaturges hungry for materials for their constructs.

• Zattdrok: Adding to eastern Aberys's already troubled nature, Zattdrok was once the first step in the Riglir's southward expansion, and remains to this day the second largest Hive Cluster. In what might be at once the source and reflection of the fertile farmlands on the surface, the earth here is particularly well-suited for life even in the abyssal deeps; as a result, not only are the local hives exceptionally large and populous, but the swarms dwelling there have encountered all sorts of strange beings living in complex and apparently very ancient ecosystems.

- Hive Ulkar: The central settlement in Zattdrok, Ulkar boasts abundant fungus farms and herds of ghoul moles, allowing it to supply a large portion of the cluster with its resources alone. However, it is rich not only in food, but in troops as well, with local Riglir being especially numerous and well-fed. As such, it is the staging ground of most raids upon the lands above.

- The Dim Marshes: A particularly damp spot at the confluence of several underground streams which has over the centuries developed into nothing short of a stretch of darkling swampland. Under an air heavy with humidity and warm with the slow decay of forests of algae, lichens and fungi there dwell creatures never seen elsewhere who adapted to thrive in this improbable and treacherous environment, the most notable of them being the powerful but lethargic bog goliaths.

- The Chambers of Life: Stranger yet than the Marshes, the Chambers of Life are a web of caverns in which, contrarily to what one might expect having observed the laws and processes of natural life, there seems to exist an entire world of beings as alien as they are diverse. Here, the boundary between plant and animal is even less visible than in the Swamps: the Primal beings that inhabit these chambers, both growing in them as trees and moving through them as beasts, are as much of a riddle in their nature as in their survival so deep within the earth.

• Xelkash: Sinking the claws of its many tunnels deep into the south of the continent, Xelkash might be seen as representing Vex'xalar forcefully - and altogether involuntarily - staking its claim as being part of the Red Pantheon, without, for that matter, entertaining anything but savage hostility against the loose alliance of the southern gods. The under-lands here are inhospitable, but not desolate as those of Kralhk; rather, they are more directly harsh and treacherous, full of pitfalls and overhanging damp soil, and few but the hardy ironhide worms dare make their home here.

- Hive Raahkal: The central hive of Xelkash, and the origin of most incursions into East Ouroborasian territory. Raahkal in particular is home to many Azure Brood Screamers, often engaged in experiments to see to what extent they can employ Turquoise magics against supposed direct servants of the Lord, which include anything from witches to peasants to homunculi.

- The Warrens of a Thousand Maws: Within the south's variably rocky and damp soil, some species of great worms and maggots have found an ideal habitat, digging a complex of chambers and tunnels through which their bloated bodies may move freely. On occasion, the local Riglir collapse and divert some of these passageways, forcing the worms to travel towards specially selected locations - often villages or encampments on the surface.

• Sehtekr: The easternmost Cluster, Sehtekr was severed from Kralhk by the expansion of the Stray Palace Overlay in Tramontan, and now remains connected to it only through a small number of tunnels. Due to its isolated nature and unfavourable position, Sehtekr is presently engaged in struggles against the Turquoise Domain and Justinian forces in the west, as well as attempting to adapt to the desert terrain in the south. The region is altogether quite dry, but some recesses contain small subterranean rivers and lakes.

- Hive Starak: Major hive in Sehtekr, from where the Arch-Superior directs works of entrenchment, encroachment and gradual reestablishment of a direct link with the western Clusters. Due to Sehtekr's overall less centralised nature, it is not as large as Ulkar or even Raahkal, but it benefits from direct connections with lesser hives nea and distant alike.

- The Wraith Pits: Though the soil here is nowhere as fertile as in Zattdrok, the local subterranean water deposits have abetted the growth of some dark-dwelling life-forms near and within them. Many small lakes are thus surrounded by circles of undergrowth, through which there move the uncommon beasts which lend the Pits their name: the otherworldly gelatinous wraiths, which resemble the Primals in not being clearly categorisable, but otherwise are as unlike them as anything else in the known world.



-Majority race: Riglir. While once this name designated a single species of semi-sapient, gregarious invertebrate creatures, millennia of natural and magical evolution have made it so that it is now more of a blanket term covering several subspecies with a common ancestor. The modern Riglir vary greatly in shape, size and environmental preferences; nonetheless, they all share some basic biological traits. Riglir physiology is somewhat similar to that of crustaceans, having a hard, chitinous exoskeleton and diverse (but generally even, unless chaotic magic is involved) numbers of segmented limbs. As a rule, they possess sharp and robust claws, fit for digging through soil and rock and often supplemented by corrosive secretions. Being subterranean creatures, they generally have poor eyesight, and mainly rely on scent, hearing and vibration detection to perceive their surroundings.

Riglir are known to be short-lived, with the average life expectancy among them being between twenty and thirty years. To compensate for this, they are highly prolific, breeding twice a year in normal conditions. Under Vex’xalar, reproduction has become an almost industrialised business, with millions of bodies being regularly herded into special hives every cycle. The hold of the Hive Mind on them is then briefly relaxed, leaving the thralls under the sway of natural instincts and mating pheromones (which cause the usually androgynous Riglir to temporarily develop sexual characteristics). Each impregnated individual lays several eggs after gestation, which, if they are not lost or eaten by predators, hatch within a few weeks.

Unlike their free counterparts in the south, Vex’lir Riglir are born with the curse of the Hive Mind ingrained in their bodies, which places them under the Lurker Below’s dominion unless it is magically removed.

Being the only currently living species in the Swarms that is more than sentient, the Riglir are dominant within them, with other creatures under the Hive Mind’s control being considered as analogous to cattle or beasts of burden at best.

Minority races:

- Leviathans (extinct): The species of giant animals that once roamed central Materia. It is said that they might have been the natural predators of dragons, and their size certainly seems to support this theory, as even an average-sized Leviathan would have dwarfed the mighty creatures. Having died out due to unknown causes ten thousand years ago, their bones remain exceedingly well-preserved, many of them still untouched by decay.

- Old Ones (extinct): The first intelligent race to inhabit the underworld, and likewise the first to vanish. The Old Ones' civilisation reached its apex during the first few Cycles of creation, then gradually declined and disappeared, its works falling into ruin. Nevertheless, their semblance remains known to this day thanks to its depiction in the mighty idol of the Lost.

- Tunnel Skulkers: Large predatory insectoids most common in Hive Cluster Kralhk, where they eke out a living for themselves amid the harsh and unforgiving walls of grey rock by preying on smaller animals such as worms and rodents, and occasionally even minor aberrations. Skulkers have been historically tamed by the Riglir, and were among the first beasts to be controlled through the Hive Mind.

- Onyx Spiders: Enormous, highly intelligent cave-dwelling arachnids, spinning tremendously resistant silken webs. Though so developed as to be entirely sentient and even capable of using tools, onyx spiders are asocial and strongly driven by instinct, a combination making them fearsome predators and impervious to taming attempts. Interestingly, the spiders have devised an inventive method of overcoming mounted humanoid foes by dragging their steed from under them as they charge.
Related to the similar, surface-dwelling Agate Spiders.

- Ironhide Worms: A species of large worms native to the southern burrows, with adult specimen measuring up to twelve or fifteen feet. Ironhide worms possess several vestigial limbs with which they propel themselves through narrow tunnels, frequently reaching high speeds, and proverbially hard shells, which earned them their name.

- Bog Goliaths: A bizarre species dwelling in the Dim Marshes, bog goliaths appear, by all tokens, to be a sort of fungus which somehow achieved the ability to move and act as a sentient creature. Though large and physically very strong, the goliaths are lumbering and apathetic, only reacting violently when harmed.

- Ghoul Moles: Subterranean, burrowing mammals that earned their macabre name by occasionally being found eating fresh corpses, being omnivorous but not predatory. They will sometimes emerge in fairly large numbers to feed on battlefields. Since they are fast and easy to fatten, ghoul moles are farmed in Zattdrok hives as livestock.

- Gelatinous Wraiths: Human-sized, many-limbed creatures found near subterranean lakes in Hive Cluster Sehtekr, their strange shape makes gelatinous wraiths are an enigma as regards their life and functioning. Though normally herbivorous, they have been known to capture other animals with a paralysing poison and consume them by digesting them externally.

- Primals: Even more mysterious than the wraiths are the beings inhabiting the Chambers of Life. More than anything - and indeed if anything - they resemble unnatural fusions of plant and beast, growing in many twisted shapes. Uncomfortably enough, they call to mind the idea of an early, unfinished creation, abandoned due to a flawed design and sealed away so that none may see it.

- Aberrations: The most outlandish of all subterranean entities, aberrations are created by the uncontrollable magical energies pulsing through the Desolate Vaults or erratically unleashed by Vex'xalar, and as such are thoroughly unnatural. No two of them are alike, but all are made similar by the distinct appearance of not belonging in this world, if any at all.





-State Religion: Red Pantheonism.

-Patron Deity: Vex’xalar the Lurker Below.

-Religion Demographics: Given that the Swarms are shackled to the mental dominion of their god, no deviation from its religion is physically possible among them.

-Major Holy Relics/Artefacts in Possession:

• Eikon of the Lost (Masterless): An idol so ancient as to seem to belong to another world altogether, the Eikon of the Lost is believed to date back to the early days of the Old Ones themselves. This imposing statue, despite its incalculable age and the apparent fragility of some of its materials, is surreally well-preserved, bearing not the slightest dent or scratch to show, and remains even now unnaturally resistant to damage. It depicts a member of the vanished race bowing in supplication before a large opalescent gem, held aloft by cunningly fashioned supports of translucent crystal and presumed to represent one of the first deities, or perhaps even the Demiurge itself. As powerful as it is old, the Eikon is overflowing with divine essence. So thoroughly imbued is it that it emanates unearthly distortions of the cosmos’s laws, creating magical anomalies or portentous strength with its mere presence. The Artefact played a crucial part in Vex’xalar’s blasphemous ritual, and continues to sustain the curse of the Hive. The Eikon currently rests in the Vault of the Forgotten, guarded by the Abyssal Broodmaster.

• The Withered Visage (Masterless): A second relic hearkening back to primeval times, though distinctly more recent than the Eikon of the Lost. The Withered Visage is a headdress fashioned from the mummified exo-skull of an Old One, plaqued with silver and studded with precious stones. Those who don it are granted unparallelled osteokinetic powers, becoming capable of assembling bones of any size and shape into redoubtably strong, robust and fast constructs, and maintaining control over hordes of fleshless horrors at once. Furthermore, when worn by a powerful Screamer, part of the essence stored in it can be absorbed by the Hive Mind, enabling other Vex’lir casters to access a limited form of its potential. The Withered Visage is currently carried by Athksarak, the Pale Broodmaster.

-Holy Sites under Control:

• Vault of the Forgotten: Of all the ruined cities of the Old Ones, invisible in their corrosion to any but the trained senses of the Riglir, the one lying in the great cavern known as the Vault of the Forgotten is the largest in its identifiable remains, and the one most haunted by the magical influences of bygone ages. Strange mists coil among the cyclopean heaps of rubble that once were palaces, shrines and pillars, and eerie sounds drift in the maze of the few barely surviving streets. Such is its size and so potent its influences that it might be that it once had been the Holy City of gods now beyond memory. The Vault has become the lair of the Abyssal Brood and numerous Hive Prophets, who ceaselessly work to gradually restore at least a fraction of the city following half-guessed, half-divined designs. The purpose of these efforts remains unclear.

-Notable Magical Institutions:

• Hive Velash Broods: Since performing the necessary ritual to cast a spell requires a degree of concentration greater than the Hive Mind can devote to a single body and, more importantly, a focus upon the sacrifice’s recipient which, due to its monolithic nature, it is physically incapable of (as it would involve the paradox of Vex’xalar sacrificing to and demanding Theurgia from itself), the only possible magic wielders among the Swarms besides the god itself are those Riglir who maintain a degree of partial autonomy in their thoughts and actions. Since, all things considered, the Riglir are anything but wasteful, this potential is exploited to the fullest, with all Hive Prophets and, to a lesser degree, Superiors being capable of spellcasting. However, they are by far not the most fearsome magic users under the Lurker. In a hive obtained from a temple-city of the Old Ones, it has bred a strain of Riglir specialised in performing incantations and directing the obtained Theurgia with utmost skill and efficiency. These creatures, known as Screamers, can exert a far greater control on Vex’xalar’s unstable energies than their normal counterparts, and are divided into four Broods by the branches of magic they are most adept in:

- The Earthen Brood, most numerous and commonly seen of all, specialises in the Red God’s own transmuting magic. Its members’ carapaces are of dark brown and grey colours, and their bodies are notoriously deformed.

- The Abyssal Brood focuses on harnessing the strange powers of the Hive Mind and its magical sources. Its carapaces are black with irregular purple markings.

- The Pale Brood, using the Withered Visage worn by its leader, channel the power of moving and animating the bones of corpses old and new. Its carapaces are of a faded, skeletal white.

- The Azure Brood, the smallest of the four, has as its purpose to experiment with the magics of the Turquoise Lord and learn to turn them against their supposed masters. Its carapaces are of an unnaturally bright azure colour, as in mockery or clumsy imitation of the Turquoise.

-Religious Interpretations/Culture: Limited though its manifestations, and indeed effective substance and utility, might be within the all-controlling Hive Mind, Vex’xalar maintains a semblance of religious rite and canon beyond the strictly necessary utilitarian minimum - perhaps simply out of habit, or for some other less fathomable purpose. Its Prophets do not serve simply as spellcasters and minor taskmasters: following some sort of apparently irregular cycle, lesser thralls gather around them in special chambers or hive sections, and are made to bow and recite ritual chants under the clerics’ lead. These ceremonies, more similar to a puppet show than worship, are typically performed in veneration of Vex’xalar, who is represented with variations of the rather primitive religious symbols used by the Riglir during the time of the Watchers; however, some different versions can now and again be observed, where to the Lurker Below there are added other objects of veneration. Among those, there appear strange signs and images never used before, possibly, albeit strangely, depicting the dead Watchers themselves.

The frequency, magnitude and specific of these rites do not seem to follow any persistent scheme, varying depending on available space, celebrants and victims. Some, held in great vaults with hundreds or thousands of participants, are complex functions, involving otherworldly intricacies in disposition and chant modulation, large idols or murals of alien symbols and elaborate mutilation and slaying of the offerings, whereas others, performed in the corners of lesser hives, may involve only a few dozen supplicants, a crude eidolon and rapid, brutal executions. If something has not changed since Vex’xalar came to power, it is the savagery of the Riglir race.



Total Military Size: Uncertain, due to the Swarms comprising no regular army structures or organisations. The average number of Riglir and underworld auxiliaries ready for or engaged in combat at any given moment can be estimated at slightly less than a million.

Listed Heroes: - To do - Vex’xalar, Skalerak, Voice, Broodmasters, Dweller, Hunter, Archprophet

Military Doctrine: While the inhabitants of the surface may have dimly remembered the Riglir of old as bestial creatures, blindly rushing against their opponents in droves, the Hive Mind has since transformed them from a disorganised horde into an unnaturally cohesive, cunning and relentless force. Their favoured approach to engaging battle remains a massed charge of innumerable bodies, overwhelming any opposition through brute strength and sheer force of numbers; however, this basic strategy is now improved and supplemented with a variety of additions which shift and change to adapt to every challenge the Swarms encounter.

Hive Superiors understand the concept of “tactical advantage”, and are generally capable of calculating how many casualties acquiring a given edge over the enemy is worth. Due to the nature of the Vex’lir, Riglir commanders have not the slightest hesitation in sacrificing thousands of thralls should the battle plan demand it, and those latter, fully aware of their purpose, can be relied upon to carry out their tasks just as indicated. Every being, no matter its form, abilities and role, will be certain to employ its potential to the fullest. Much less than a chaotic tide of horrors, the Swarms are as precise and calculating as a mantis luring in and seizing its prey without a single unnecessary movement.

Being accustomed to fighting in narrow and winding underground tunnels, the Riglir are fond of ambushes, pincers and surrounding tactics, pinning their foes in place before bearing down on them with the full strength of their numerical superiority. When forced to meet the enemy in broad, open fields, they will nonetheless attempt to use the terrain to their advantage, crawling behind hills and rocks, skulking in bogs and thickets and even burrowing underground to ensure that their prey has no way remaining to retreat. Wherever it turns, it meets claws and mandibles, spines and poison, humming wings and viscous webbing. There is no escape, and the Riglir do not take prisoners.

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[Voice, Archprophet, South-east commander, Azure Broodmaster]



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West Ouroborasia


NATIONAL INFORMATION:
-Population: 24 million
-Faction: Justinian
-Capital: De Facto: New Sacrosanctia, De Jure: Tiran
-Government Type: Aristocratic and Imperial, technically.
-Government Description:

Technically all that is in the borders of West Ouroborasia is under the direct control of his Imperial Majesty, Istvan Dragcumir and his aristocracy; however, that is not the actual case. Southern cities and major towns are often actually under the direct command of the head of the Western Clerisy, Rozarosu, and are policed by his elite militarized organization: The Red Gauntlets.

Due to the longevity and devastation of the seven year long civil war, a lot of public ideals on government has changed drastically with the help of many aristocrats falling in battle, and thus gave rise to the new De Facto government. While it is said the Emperor consults his Aristocracy for guidance, this aristocratic council and city governing body has been almost completely replaced with Tribunes that were elected directly from the common people, their authority protected by the mob as well as citizen armies known as the Citizen Militia.

The Tribune and Citizen faction originated on the front lines from ransacked and troubled settlements and eventually the ideals of the Free Men spread throughout the Western Empire, inspiring many commoners to take control of both the war and the politics of the nation. While loyal to the Emperor Istvan Dragcumir (mostly due to his own commoner appearance and attitude) they sometimes clash with the remaining aristocracy and have on some occasions voted in a new mayor to a town where there was already a mayor who inherited the title, but the sheer numbers of the Citizen Militia is usually enough to cause the aristocrat to back down. All the good and progress the Citizen Militia has brought to the war and country as well as their overwhelming support from the citizens of the nation has kept them in the good graces of the Emperor, the Clerisy, and the higher up (and more liberal) Aristocrats.

In short, the government is still a top down Imperial government, but it’s politicians are majorly elected from the common classes under the eyes of the Tribunes or Civilian leaders. In addition, some southern regions disregard local politics and are instead under the direct authority of the Clerisy, only challenged by the word of the Emperor.

-Head of State: Istvan Dragcumir, The Soggy Emperor
-Currency:
-Language(s): Ouroborasian

[Short-History Here]
Western Ouroborasia is the Justinian half of the civil war in Ouroborasia and is lead by the crown prince who is vying for control over the Empire, as well as the Clerisy of New Sanctuary. As the threat of magic and red gods grew, so did the common hatred of the dangers this possesses, giving rise to the temptationist view of magic among the local clerisy and the increase in persecutions of witches.

For the first two years the fighting went on strongly, fueled by political as well as religious catalysts, however due to the nature of the civil war, things started to slow down considerable after the fervor hump was passed. Around five years into the now nicknamed “Civil Massacre” the West was struck with another issue, further slowing down the war efforts and further changing the face of power structure in the west: a rain storm began. For the last two years most of the front East and north of the nation has been flooded by frequent and sometimes non stop rain, ruining crops and plantations, and forcing villages to adapt or die. Front line settlements often find themselves devastated by the rains due to the lack of peace available to even attempt to adapt to the weather.

The now nicknamed Drowning War is still fronted by the clerisy, the Imperial Faction (purples), the Citizen Militia, and many independent civilian corps who hold contempt for the witches and even projecti blame of the weather on them. Some notable groups have formed anti witch units and even witch hunting organizations, the most notable being the red gauntlets, a faction lead by the top cleric himself.

It is important to note that while the war started with fervor, it has been widely replaced with a hatred for the war itself and a desire for it to end, but end rightfully and in favor of the people and their newly founded freedoms.


UNIQUE ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION:

Ouroborasian “Powderbane”: Ouroborasia’s environment is infamous for being cold, wet and treacherous. Bogs, swamps, marshlands and dark forests cover both East and West Ouroborasia. Rain is a constant, drenching the land many times a year in all seasons. This naturally miserable environment has been even further worsened by the cataclysmic magical incident (Accused to be a witch superweapon but really a backfiring Clerisy one) which has drenched much of west and central Ouroborasia in floods. Because of this, the civil war is not only a logistical nightmare for those unprepared outsiders, but also a nightmare for anyone using guns and cannons. While guns are still imported and used in Ouroborasia, they are considered far less reliable. Sieges also tend to drag on far longer, with cannons proving to be far less useful when they misfire or fail to fire at all (or simply cannot be moved properly).

Freedom of the People’s Choice. While the religious fervor of the early war has died down, with the rise of the ideas of class freedom and the liberation of citizens from aristocracy, a lot of new fuels have been pumped into the veins of the war.

The common people are for once not fighting a war for lazy aristocrats or far away bishops, but a war for themselves, and their newly gained freedoms, something they are willing to die for. With this wide spread belief of protecting their emerging Citizen government against the encroaching east, the Citizen Militia is often overflowing with new volunteers filled with numerous reasons to join the Citizen’s march against tyranny and to protect liberty.

Due to the cohesiveness of the Tribunal government of the people and their friendly cooperation with the Imperial Government, the Citizen’s Militia is well armed, well fed, never lacking in fresh faces both native and foreign, and filled with a heightened morale expected from a group of people defending their way of life. They will find liberty protected and their voices heard, or they will find themselves dead trying.

Western Magic. Due to the blight of the witches curse and bad run ins with red god magic, magic itself is under heavy speculation in Western Ouroborasia but not outright banned. Red Gauntlets and assisting witch hunting forces roam both the streets and bogs looking for red god magic, and disposing of it as deemed necessary, but also they look for unregistered magic users.

Every magic user in West Ouroborasia must be registered in New Sacrosanctia or suffer penalty, and then to be able to use the magic after being registered, you must have a magic using license, which are not usually handed out liberally to those outside of the clerisy or the clear sight of Justinians gaze.

While this policy rubs against the citizen’s freedoms, it is a better alternative than outright paranoid genocide practiced before the civil war, and it works as an efficient tool in combing red pantheists out of Western Ouroborasia.

Flood Adaptation.

Counter Magic. I suppose Ouroborasia has magic-engineers, craftsmen.. perhaps the people that reproduce these anti-magic tech are genuinely called 'War Alchemists'
A mini portal to unleash Justinian counter-magic.
It could work as a stun grenade
It disrupts spells used by enemies.
And in general disrupts magic
But only temporarily.

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:

Effects of the Rains, red areas showcase the worst of the flooding, purple moderate and unmarked areas are light or unaffected (such as around New Sacrosanctia)



Yellow Star: Tiran
Red Star: New Sacrosanctia
Yellow diamond: City
Red diamond: City under the influence of the Red Gauntlets
Note: Center mass of the Nation is extremely swampy and the two diamonds in the center are actually large towns.


RACIAL(species) INFORMATION:
-Majority race: Humans
-Minority race(s):

Shrimps: Civilized denizens once from the underground, these arthropod bipedal creatures blend into human society but not without some racial prejudices held against them.

Harnians: In the lower west corner of West Ouroborasia lies a proud culture held high by a bold race of Minotaurs known as Harnians. The Harnians migrated to this spot during an ancient and undocumented era, and often Harnian scholars refer to their cultural lands as “Second Home” in their native tongue, implying that they broke off from a “First Home” at some point.

Unlike other Minotaurs of Materia the Harnians do not partake in savage cannibalism or the eating of other sentient races and in fact have little in common with their savage brothers. While still very much a warrior’s culture, they are more reminiscent of warrior poets than brutal barbarians. Their government structure implies that it once was a sprawling political system of lower chiefs and high kings; however, it is now a very tiny political globe often left alone by the Ouroborasian government for the sake of cooperation and peace.

With the conversion of Ouroborasia to Justinianism, the Harnians were forced to limit their traditional religious worship in favor of strenuous peace with the zealous conquerors, but eventually many young Harnians consensually converted if not for the sake of unity.

Their traditional religion is deemed extremely insignificant by the now West Ouroborasia government and hardly considered threatening. The reasons for this is that the secret Harnian religion pays reverence to a long dead trio of gods thought to have perished at least three cycles ago.

RELIGIOUS INFORMATION:
-State Religion: Orthodox Justinianism
-Patron Deity: Justinian
-Religion Demographics: Heavily Justinian with traces of Eastern Religions as well as a small demographic of Traditional Harnian
-Major Holy Relics/Artefacts in Possession: The Vreme, Beacon of New Sacrosanctia
-Holy Sites under Control: N/A
-Notable Magical Institutions: New Sacrosanctian Registry
-Religious Interpretations/Culture : Please see “Western Magic.”


MILITARY INFORMATION:
Total Military Size: 250,000
Listed Heroes: Leotrim, Gjergj, Kastrioti
Military Doctrine: The Military is split into three separate entities under the control of the three different political groups: The Purple Army (Imperial), The Red Gauntlets (Clerisy), and the Citizen Militia (Tribunes).

Under the guidance of the clerisy and wary use of spells, the powers of magic have been used sparingly in comparison to other countries and is not often trusted by most in Western Ouroborasia unless from Justinian or a reliable source clearly related to Justinian and thus manifests itself in the military in unique ways. Notable uses of magic in the military are the consensual curses given to all new Imperial and Cleric recruits and most Civilian militia-men and women, the practice of installing protective magical barriers on fortifications, armor and other objects that might be caught in the crossfire of witches and other sources of Reg God magic (These often are manifested as large geometrical shapes and patterns drawn on walls, armor and the like and then blessed with anti-magic properties. Finally the most noticeable use of magic is strictly given to the Red Gauntlet units known as Executioners. These elite units are tattooed head to toe with noticeable white patterns similar to the patterns used on walls and cities to protect them from magic. Executioners are magic resistant, but a lot of the curses cast on them to protect them from magic, sacrifice their own soul, and the ability to do in field sacrifice rituals cut their natural lifespan down incredibly and sometimes even causes mental instability.

In regards to organization and the war, the Citizen Militia and the Purples do the majority of the fighting since the Red Gauntlets are meant for internal struggles regarding red pantheists; however, groups of Red Gauntlets and especially their executioners are often hired to work alongside the Purples in major battles, while the Citizen Militia prefers not to work with them due to common disagreements between the Witch hunters and the People.

Military Units:

The Knights of the Purple See:

These are an elite group of 189 knights formed seven years ago to protect young Istvan, and now serve as his personal bodyguards while he fights on the frontlines. It is lead by the Hero named Kastrioti and the group of renown fighters are never seen far from their Emperor. Most practice silence to keep the secrets of state away from listening ears but also so as to never commit to close relationships to anyone not in the inner circle. Most do not have publically known names or families, but it isn’t in their secrecy that their legacy was born.

The Knights of the Purple See are renown fighters, being trained in four styles of fighting: the sword and arm, the spear, the bow, and enemy fighting styles, including rudimentary grasps of the Geyser blade. Under the eye of Agim, the force was quickly focused to learn how the enemy fights, to better understand how to win each battle, this ideology has spread through the purple ranks, starting here.

A knight is adorned in light yet protective armor of steel plates, magical wards that deter witch magic and spikes to ward off both familiar weapons and ambushing monsters, but their real bite comes with their unique set of weapons.

Their side weapon is a highly tapered sword fit for slashing foes and punching holes through plate but their real power comes from their primary weapon, the spear. A Purple See spear is very unique in that while it has a long punching spear head, on either side of the base of the head is two hooks, one facing upwards and one facing down, fit for parry’s, captures and other unique movements. The strength of their spear doesn’t end there because just like their magic warding armor, the spears are also enchanted. The enchantments allow the spears to be used to parry physically offensive spells as well as mundane weapons, thrusting the spear through an explosive ball of magic flame could dissipate it mid air, catch it long enough to slam it down into a different enemy or even send it back.

The Red Gauntlets:

While not officially in the army, their sheer intimidating numbers makes them very clearly an army. These troops come in two forms, Executioners and Hunters, the Hunters being the common unit supported by Executioners.

In general the population has a mixed opinion of them as not only do they only answer to Rozarosu himself, but they have been given the authority to execute known Red Pantheists on the spot, and while the process of proving the guilty to be actual red pantheists is streamlined and accurate, most commoners aren’t fond of them bursting into town and killing their neighbor.

Similar to other elite troops, they are usually adorned with anti magic wards on their red stained armor while uniquely the Executioners themselves are an anti magic ward as described in an earlier section. The Gauntlets do not have a standard weapon but swords and menacing spiked maces are the obvious choice for their policing efforts.

Their relationship with the population outside the clerisy is strained as they have been accused of assassinations, murder and other dirty deeds that promoted Rozarosu, and their public attitude of superiority often chafes the citizens where they are investigating. It is assumed that the Soggy Emperor has his own investigative force looking into the matter of the Gauntlets committing crimes (and even off-hand rumors about them being related to the rains) but the efforts are slow due to the war, the necessity of the Gauntlets, and the political power of Rozarosu.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

Magaret: The youngest son of a once prominant Aberysian knight in exile, Maggie was drafted by his older brother to help fight for the purples in exchange for the welfare of their mother.
Yarold: Concerned about his mother and their growing poverty, Yarold signed on to the Purples, and even got a bonus sent to his mother for convincing Maggie to join.
Leotrim: The Unknown Soldier, his presence magically buffs the armies he fights for.
Agim: A veteran of the Gushawar wars, and now the tactical advisor of Istvan.
Istvan: The Soggy Emperor of the West
Gjergj: A folk hero among the Citizen’s Miitia, he is know to carry large barrels of bullets on his back and backs of stones on his hips, it is said Justinian speaks through him and strikes down his enemies by guiding the bullets.
Kastrioti: The Silent bodyguard of Istvan and the leader of the Knights of the Purple See

EXTRA INFORMATION:

Full History:Hyuk
List of Historical Grievances: Hyuk
Relations:Hyuk
Cultural Notes: Hyuck

-Population: 50,000
-Faction: Yuwan
-Capital: N/A; no true capital city.
-Government Type: Nomadic Tribal Confederation
-Government Description: There is no true central government for the Tribes of Artius, as they have never settled down long enough for a government to form. Further, due to their low numbers, their tribes remain in the hands of a few tribal elders. No tribe leaves what is described as the monkeysphere, the point where they stop considering individuals as more than an abstract concept of the group. For this reason, tribes are tight-knit and have never had a need for advanced governance. Any tribes that did require advanced governance were struck down by Justinians in the early days of the War of Sacrilege.

They have, however, managed to create a loose confederation of the various tribes, ending the warring between themselves for sacrifices and slaves to instead focus on pushing out Justinians from their lands.

-Head of State: N/A, various councils of elders handle day-to-day statesmanship in the tribes.
-Currency: N/A, all resources are distributed by the council elders.
-Language(s): Lingea Aurere is the unofficial language of the tribes, an old language which translates roughly to ‘Tongue of the Material Realm’. It is highly local, with heavy variations from tribe to tribe. Elders of the tribes are usually proficient in the elvish languages, however.

The Tribes of Artius have historically been nomadic, spending their summers in the plains surrounding the central mountains, and hibernating deep within caves in the mountains during the winter. They have always been deeply connected to the dirt below them, following the various gods and goddesses of nature. Said to have been there at the beginning of the material realm, as one of the first mortal inhabitants, they nevertheless have lost such historical records to the sands of times, due to their largely oral histories.

They have always been largely peaceful, preferring to remain the austere seers of the steppes and mountains. However, this all changed when the last cycle ended and the god of nature was slain. They pledged themselves to Yuwan, the sole survivor of the old pantheon, in the hopes it would return the world to a full pantheon, where they could once again worship nature.

Their tribes were then, due to their position in the far west, harried by Justinians. Their massive armies slaughtered the tribes who were too large or unwilling to run and hide. Nowadays, the remaining few tribes are strictly nomadic, under constant fear for their life. They strike out at any Justinians who enter their territory, never sticking around long enough for a counter attack to be delivered.

Nomadic Lifestyle - The tribes are strictly nomadic, and are incapable of higher levels of society due to the constant threat of Justinian attacks upon any discovered tribes.
Natural Flight - The Artiuns are capable of natural flight, getting from point A to point B incredibly quickly from the lack of obstacles in their path.
Seers of Nature - The tribes are finely attuned with the material world, capable of great magics under Yuwan making use of natural elements.
Extreme Speed - The tribes are quick, and seem to almost be capable of being in two places at once.
Frailty - Their body’s attunement to nature, speed, and flight has resulted in weak, light bones and easily pierced skin.

-Major Locations of Interest
Mountains are in the north, with steppes in the south. Due to the nomadic lifestyle of the Artiuns, they do not particularly hold any one place in high value, but they do have connections to the mountains and steppes of their homeland.

-Majority race: The entirety of the tribes are made up of Artiuns, with other species simply incapable of matching their speed, power of flight, or nomadic lifestyle. They are magically attuned to the winglike structures that follow them about, and can use them to fly. They are generally white furred, with orange trimmings, though blue trim isn’t unheard of. They stand relatively tall, at 7 to 8 feet.

-State Religion: Yuwanism
-Patron Deity: Adalgar, the angel of natural magicks.
-Religion Demographics: 100% Yuwan, 96% sub-worship of Adalgar. Any other religious worship is shunned in the tribes, and due to constant Justinian incursions, they are heavily united in their hatred for Justinian.
-Major Holy Relics/Artefacts in Possession:
The Spear of Adalgar - this spear is said to have belonged to Adalgar, and is inherently strengthened by the presence of material things. Due to existing in the material realm, this spear is capable of immense acts, such as cutting through the heaviest armor like a hot knife through butter. In fact, it cuts through armor even easier than expected due to armor’s inherent materialism.

The Urn of Nature - this urn is the source of the magic for their wings, and it is kept extremely hidden deep within the cave networks of the mountains, for if they were to lose this, there would be no magical force to keep their magical wings attuned to their body. It is unbounded, having been created by the old god of nature for the Artiuns.

-Holy Site under Control: The tribes hold no holy site, their holy sites all having been long since desecrated by Justinian raids due to their inability to be moved.
-Notable Magical Institutions: The seers and elders of the tribes are inherently a magical institution, albeit unorganized and varying from tribe to tribe. They are masters of manipulating the world around them.
-Religious Interpretations/Culture: these vary from tribe to tribe, with some only grudgingly accepting Yuwan and Adalgar, while others revere them as the new goddess and angel of nature. This is a source of conflict within the confederation of tribes.

Total Military Size: 30,000 men. Due to the overlap of hunters and warriors, this is an unusually martial society. Warriors are also hunters, and provide for their tribes.
Listed Heroes:
Abelard, the Wielder of the Spear of Adalgar, Eldest of the Macnamiar Tribe
Jealon, the Protector of the Urn of Nature, Eldest of the Kielan Tribe
Oielan, the Unifier of the Confederation, Eldest of the Uiot Tribe
Ulysei, the Great Death, Slayer of Justinians, Eldest of the Loer Tribe
Iuoes, the Cursed Wanderer, He Who is Doomed to Search, Eldest of the Iuii Tribe
Zealon, the Seer of Seers, the Wisest Among the Tribes, Eldest of the Peor Tribe
Military Doctrine: The tribes rely mainly on hit and run tactics, attacking most often from the air and disappearing before they can be counterattacked. They value speed and decisive action above all else. The best outcome to them is breaking the morale of an army in a few, swift, decisive ambushes.
Military Units:
25,000 Hunters - these units are responsible for the bulk of the warrior lodge, and for providing for their tribes.
2,500 Adalgar’s Lodge Hunters - These are the elite hunters, and few hunters are honored with the ability to join their ranks.
2,500 Seers and Elders - These are the magical warriors of the tribes, and are responsible for defending their tribe and leading it as well.

To come

Full History: To come when I understand the history better.
List of Historical Grievances: Any Justinians, who are responsible for desecrating their holy sites, genociding their populace, and forcing them into hiding.
Relations: Hates Justinians, neutral to other Yuwanic nations due to having never met them, and are relatively cold towards the Red Gods, considering them to be false gods compared to the old pantheons.

The Principality of Evernyx
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NATIONAL INFORMATION:
-Population: 21 million. They are mostly made up of humans, Nephthys Elves, and the Khajiit.
-Faction: Yuwanist
-Capital: Nychta, City of Origin.
-Government Type: Principality
-Government Description: The Nation is ruled over by the Grimoire family. Though theirs is a monarchy, 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 defense against the Justinian.

-Head of State: Prince Regnant Artem Grimoire
-Currency: Drachma, a series of coins made of flattened silver or gold. Lower classes will also use the barter system.
-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 Nyxtis by the nobility. While ‘shared’ by all citizens of Evernyx, there are subtle differences between the ways the higher and lower classes speak it.

(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.
Records of these wars tell of magic Rhea used that would turn a field into an inferno, or armies of creatures that would tear into the ranks of opposing armies, terrifying in power and appearance, only to vanish with the dawn. Though, many of these records were made after the wars themselves, and so their reliability is not certain. However, Rhea does bestow a special kind of power upon those who are most loyal to her. It comes in many forms, and changes with the moon, but is powerful nonetheless.
Evernyx has become recognised as a bastion against the Concilio Union, halting the advance of the false Justice, and as a deterrent for the Empire. Since, their people have grown in number exponentially. An influx of elves from both enemy nations who were willing to sell themselves into slavery in exchange for protection. And the Khajiit races had a surge in their population some time after the death of Rhea. They seek glory on the field of battle, and are particularly fond of times they come across the Skaven.
In recent years, though, Evernyx has come across several instabilities. Among them was the rise and fall of Prince Regnant Nathair, the breaking of traditions, battles and losses with the Concilio Union and the Empire of Zul. And the new, shaky, alliance of the dragon known as Mania. Both necessity and risk to the other Yuwanist states, they cross several boundaries their allies are uncomfortable or disapproving of, but undeniably needed for the survival of Evernyx.

UNIQUE ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION:
(In here, list a number of interesting factoids about your nation that makes it what it is. This could be specific cultural practices, certain applications of military technology, a unique government form, a signature magic style or certain locations. Overall, here is where you should ‘fluff out’ as well as make note of special advantages or disadvantages you have. It is expected that you should have at least one advantage and one disadvantage. I will monitor this section closely to ensure fairness)
Disclaimer: Your 'unique' attributes may not actually be unique.

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:

-Major Locations of Interest:

• The Emerald Spire – (green star) The resting place of Rhea, first princess Regnant.
• Nychta – Capital city of Evernyx, and location of the royal palace.
• Mt.Vigil – For generations, the Vigil has stood and watched for enemies; first it was Remanta’s guard against Evernyx and Rhea. Then it became a towering reminder for the people of the Union.
• Serpents’ Woods – Forbidden to most of the population, the Serpents’ Woods is rumoured to be one of the few places that the ‘Overlays’ still exist in Evernyx. Whether or not that is true, nobody can tell you. In reality, the Serpents’ Woods is the base of operations for Princess Shara and the Oaths of the Dusk.
• The Fortress – The location of the great battle five years ago, known as the Fortress of Norsal to some. Though technically still within the Principality’s borders, they lost control of it alongside the skirmish.

RACIAL INFORMATION:
-HUMANS: 61% - Approx. 12.8 million. The most common race. Roughly a quarter of the human population are slaves, whereas the rest are of varying social status.
-NEPHTHYS ELVES: 13% - Approx. 2.7 million. The majority of the Nephthys elves commonly possess dark hair, extremely pale skin, and slanted eyes that are amber in colour. Most of them are also slaves, due to their origins. The few free elves are among the nobility, though they seem to hold no more love for their kindred than the human nobles.
-KHAJIIT: 17% - Approx. 3.6 million. While there are no noble Khajiit, there are also comparatively few slaves of this race. Khajiit generally serve as labourers, transporters or city guards. They were also a favourite of Rhea’s, and so sacrificing a Khajiit to her specifically will yield less Theurgia.
-OTHER ELVISH: 9% - Approx. 1.9 million. Since Nephthys elves have found sanctuary in Evernyx, and it is often the first stop through to Yuwanist territory, many other elves have passed through in the last three centuries. Some also settled here, and hold similar statuses to their kindred, though more walk as nobility than slaves.

RELIGIOUS INFORMATION:
-State Religion: Yuwanism
-Patron Deity: Rhea, Daughter of the Moon.
-Religion Demographics:
74% Yuwanist
16% Rhean
6% Red Pantheon
4% Justinian
The majority of Khajiit are devoted to Rhea more than Yuwa, but comply with Yuwanism since that was Rhea’s own faith. Then the greatest majority of Evernyx follows both Yuwa, and Rhea as her servant. There are a few insurgents, who have converted to Justinianism or to a Fallen Servant, but the Paladins of the Spire are often swift in tracking down these groups and exterminating them.
-Major Holy Relics/Artefacts in Possession:

• The Eye – This relic, pictured in Rhea’s portrait, can grant wisdom and knowledge to whoever uses it. By Rhea’s grace, she will set out a path to follow in order to obtain the answers you seek. It can also grant various other powers, such as the ability to scry and divine without having to learn the spells to do so, and to see what lies beyond mortal sight.

(There are Bound Artefacts and Masterless Artefacts. Both intensely magical, with Bound Artefacts belonging and borrowing the magic of a still living God, and only working when said God allows it so. Whereas Masterless Artefacts containing the magic of a dead God, can be used by anyone and against anyone. Magical items are useful since they allow the user to cast a spell with absolutely no knowledge of magic and get constant results, with Masterless Artefacts turning the wielder into an inheritor to the Dead God’s craft, and making the Magic His.
Yuwanist Artefacts will mostly belong to your Nation’s respective Yuwanist Patron-Deity rather than Yuwan herself. Each Nation may not possess more than two Holy Artefacts, though if both Artefacts are Bound, you are allowed to take a third one that is Masterless.
Minor Artefacts need not be specified in the NS. I don't feel that a magical sword that cut deeper, or an armor that's more resistant, count as legit Holy Relics.)
-Holy Sites under Control: The Emerald Spire

-Notable Magical Institutions:
Yuwanist magi schools or guilds, Yuwanist universities or magical library-observatories, etc)
-Religious Interpretations/Culture: Most people of Evernyx believe that Yuwa supported, if not directly assisted, Rhea in her formation of the Principality.
(Local views of the religion, possible schisms/heresy, include various local religious-cultural practices, beliefs, traditions, rituals, festivals, etc. Mandatory for anyone playing as Heterodox Justinians)

MILITARY INFORMATION:
(Please note that most names here are temporary and under refinement)
Total Military Size: 130, 000 estimated
Guardians of the Wall: 48, 000
Battalion of the Damned: 34, 000
The Oaken Vigil: Roughly 10, 000
The Oaths of the Dawn: 20, 000
The Oaths of the Dusk: 8, 000
Paladins of the Spire: 10, 000
Listed Heroes:

Sumia. A young noble girl whose family was killed in a raid by the Empire of Zul. Though she was among the defenders for the attack, she is not graceful in the slightest. But, she knows her fair share of details, especially since she can move among the nobility without them knowing her station as one of the Dusk Oaths.
Madame Raven. Nobody knows her face. Nobody knows her real name. But she is one of the Dusk Oaths’ deadliest weapons. She is only deployed in the most serious of circumstances.
Mordred. The so-called ‘Enforcer’. As a member of the Dusk Oaths, he serves to gain information and suppress attacks. A harsh taskmaster, he’s led several response teams against slave rebellions in his day.

Flavia. One of the most competent of the Dawn Oaths’ captains, she serves at the City of Tueor. She has been tested in battle a multitude of times, but her true mind lies in strategy.
Tyro. Tyro’s station is the city of Frysta. While his methods do not always garner the approval of his guardsmen, they say that his arrow flies true. He has endured hardship as a Khajiit in power, but as his name gains ever more renown, fewer try his patience.

Luna. Luna is new to her station. She is a skilled swordswoman, but commanding paladins is not easy for her, given her youth, and her low birth. She will defend Rhea’s name whenever it is called for.
Arthus. A noble-born elf, nobody truly expected it when he signed up for the Paladins of the Spire. He was an object of interest for a while, given that he is certainly no Nephthys elf. Mentioning this to him causes a strange reaction in him, and he will leave the room.

Ser Keran. Unlike most members of the Battalion, Ser Keran went there willingly. Young and fresh-faced, he believes it is imperative that the line is held. His charisma and courage often inspire the men to greater feats.

Lady Tresa. One of the four generals of the Wall. She has command of the First Legion, where the fighting is often tough. Despite many offers of marriage from prestigious aristocrats, she has always turned them down. No soldier will disobey her.
Lord Virgil.One of the four generals of the Wall, commander of the Second Legion. Unparalleled in his in mastery of the griffon’s reins, he will often be found on the outskirts of the battle, where he can assist and direct wherever it is needed.
Lord Damon. One of the four generals of the Wall. He commands the Third Legion. He looks to the advice of his subordinates and tacticians often, and from it, crafts battle plans for many situations.
Lord Menador. One of the four generals of the Wall. Commander of the Fourth legion. To most people, he is a commanding figure, who is not easily disobeyed. Despite being one of the less attacked sectors, he is nonetheless a strict taskmaster.

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EXTRA INFORMATION:
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Full History: (Your nation’s history following the major eras/cycles. Remember to align it with the settings history, as it is hard for nations to live in an isolated bubble here)
List of Historical Grievances: Given its location, the Principality of Evernyx has long bordered both the Concilio Union and the Zul Empire. The recent, catastrophic battle is just one example of the many clashes between the three.
Relations: (What are the established relations at the start of the RP; this can either be simple as “Hostile, Cold, Neutral, Warm, Friendly” or a detailed explanation of each relationship per nation)
Cultural Notes: (Anything cultural of note or unique about the nation that isn’t

The bloodied.
The bloodied have varied flags, most consisting of actual red painted minotaur skulls, or when actual banners are made they show a stylized red pair of minotaur horns. Depicting the horns of their leader drenched in blood.
Background is usually colourless or black.

NATIONAL INFORMATION:
-Population: 312.000 roughly.
-Faction: Red gods / Unaffiliated.
-Capitol: None
-Government Type: Meritocratic dictatorship
-Government Description: The bloodied are led by Kraam "God-eater" "Foe-hammer".
Government being a generous statement for the Bloodied seeing they are a roving warband of elite soldiers. Leadership is granted by Kraam who decides who are worthy to lead based on ferocity and cunning.
Currently there are roughly a dozen chiefs in charge of contingents of the army. Under the chiefs are bosses who lead hundreds of soldiers each. Each chief commands several bosses.

-Head of State: Kraam God-eater.
-Currency: Whatever they can get hold of. Internally food and weapons are used for bartering. Externally looted gold and other riches are used for bartering.

-Language(s): The Bloodied speak Taurish. A brutish and grunting language. However all of the members can at least decently shout commands and demands in Amerine albeit with an amount of grammatical errors which would have many Justinians claim heresy just from how they butcher their language.

History of the Bloodied.
The vaunted reign of Zul The blood lord lasted a century, the red god had managed to forge powerful weapons and armour infused with blood magic to enhance its potency and durability in and out of combat. His massive army of minotaur and satyx slaves cursed with strength and ferocity, the elite given armour of steel and magic alloy and with weapons of similar nature.

The Bloodied he had named them, baptized in constant battle and conflict. Forced to enslave their own kind to fill out their ranks, then cursed by their red god to become violent potent warriors, at the cost of almost half of their life-spans.
Zul the blood lord was a red god of great vanity and greed, unpopular among other red gods in the region because of his many raids and wars against his neighbours.
He used the bloodied to forcibly gather blood sacrifices to empower himself and his magic. He elected shamans who would ensure his armies were given the magical potency they needed, in the form of battlefield magic and empowering wargear. With his army he forged himself an empire. True, nothing as impressive as Yuwan or Justinians, not even as impressive as many other red gods. But it was a reign of war and bloodshed.

He himself was once a human, or what looked like a human at least. Clad in once white robes, forever stained with blood. He bore massive gauntlets which helped him cast his magic. He had long blonde hair and would be considered handsome by some.
His warchief, his right hand and leader of the Bloodied. Kraam Foe-hammer was a large minotaur who had sworn himself to Zul when he was younger. In exchange he was severely cursed, to be the most powerful of his soldiers, the mightiest commander. But would live only a third of his life.

After several massive mass slaughters and forced sacrifice of large portions of his troops, Kraam however got tired of the rule of his master.
He spoke with the shamans to get rid of him.
It was a cunning plan, it took several years to fulfill. Only the vanity of Zul and luck made sure the plan was not prematurely exposed.
The shamans gathered Theurgia in secret, stored in vessels. Some vessels were urns, others were people, some were armour and weapons.

After the massive battle of Triskellion, the plan was set to motion.
The shamans prepared the sacrifice, it was to look like a regular sacrifice for Zul, to empower his armies and rule Materia.
But it was here where the trap was sprung, where Zul's avatar went to the sacrifice, the shamans were ready together with thousands of new slaves to fuel Zul's armies.
The ritual had begun, all the prisoners began to shrivel and die to fuel the ritual, Zul had even helped until he realized something was wrong. He stopped helping, began to withdraw his gift from the shamans who died in dried husks one by one as Zul denied them.
But the rite was in motion, as Kraam entered the ritual circle and stabbed the butt of his axe into the back of the head of Zul when he wasn't looking.
Kraam had brought the skull of a fallen celestial servant from a battle with Zul, it was used to fuel the ritual further as he tossed it to the floor as Zul turned around.
Now the ritual began proper, as the energies of Zul was being forced to succumb to Kraam, he figuratively and literally began to eat Zul alive. For a simple battleaxe to the head would not kill a red god.
But the ritual, figurative and literal eating of one would, and Zul screams ended as Kraam's rooar began, blood dripping from his mouth as energies blasted out from his eyes. So much power, it could not be contained.

With a blast, Kraam detonated and turned into a swirling bonfire which began to rise, the entire hill was set alight with a swirling vortex of fire and blood. The shamans were burned alive and Kraam being in the centre of the pillar did not stand a chance.
It reached several kilometers into the heaven, an event which surely would draw the eyes of many.
The screams of Zul could be heard in both the celestial sphere and Materia for several minutes, for thousands of kilometers.

After a couple of seconds which felt like hours, the pillar got thinner and thinner until it with a final swirl disappeared. A lightning bolt struck from the heaven into the center of the ritual circle.
And there stood Kraam, reborn.
Now a manifest red god.

This happened about 5 years ago.

UNIQUE ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION:
Of magic born The bloodied have a lot of magically empowered wargear. Swords, axes, polearms, armour, shields.
Usually enhanced with unnatural sharpness and/or durability, some have more obvious effects like flame.
They also have a tradition of empowering themselves with curses.
This makes their already strong warriors even more potent.

Of magic unborn The cost however is their short lifespans. Few having a maximum age over 30. The longest living bloodied was reportedly 47. When usual minotaurs have a slightly longer lifespan than humans, Bloodied have about half that.

Lost and alone The Bloodied roam the world. Who knows how long they will actually last. They are powerful warriors. But lack land.

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
Top right, in the former empire of Zul. The Bloodied roam the lands they once forged. An empire falling apart without the ruling hand of Zul.
On the western shore of the former empire of Zul lies Zul'goroth, the former capitol of the empire of Zul.
This massive fortress city has proclaimed independence. And is not under the influence of the bloodied.
They are in the process of renaming it Westhaven, however the long dread reign of Zul makes the name-change a slow process.

RACIAL(species) INFORMATION:
-Majority race: Minotaurs. Roughly 75%.
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-Minority race(s): Satyx. Roughly 23%.
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Others. 2%.
The Bloodied have a few odd ones out. Humans, elves, gnoll. They are very few, but alas they exist.

RELIGIOUS INFORMATION:
-State Religion: Follows the orders of Kraam God-eater. Whom also act as their deity.
-Patron Deity: Kraam God-eater, foe-hammer.

-Religion Demographics: Basically everyone is devoted to Kraam.
-Major Holy Relics/Artefacts in Possession: Red fists of Zul.
These gauntlets are the only physical remains of Zul, taken by Kraam and worn with pride. They are said to make ritual spell-casting easier. If this is true is not known.
They can however drain the body and soul of someone it touches should the wearer want it. The victim is left a dried blackened husk with its soul becoming a sacrifice which the wearer can use.

-Holy Sites under Control: They held a site believed to be of great power. However they blew it up.
-Notable Magical Institutions: The Bloodied shamans.
-Religious Interpretations/Culture: None known.

MILITARY INFORMATION:
Total Military Size: Around 190'000 soldiers. With 30'000 super heavy elite infantries. The rest of the entire population is in the baggage train.
Listed Heroes: None yet.
Military Doctrine: Usually charge, pillage and burn. The tactics of the bloodied never was overly complex.
Military Units:
Regular soldiers.
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The regular soldiers are not very regular at all. As in it is a complete ragtag bunch of cursed warriors armed with whatever weapons they could get their hands on.
A whole lot of them has had their arms enchanted, but very few have armour of any notable quality.

Dread warriors.
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The curse of the dread warriors is even more dire of the regular soldiers. Their skin not wanting to stay on, parts of their muscle falling off and their eyes turning to an inferno.
Often decked out in more gear, focusing on dangerous weapons. Few armed forces in Materia are as as dangerous as the dread warriors as the magical energies take over where their own flesh and bones fail. Enhancing their strength and resilience to supernatural levels.
The dread warriors are rather uncommon, but small groups of them are often brought together to completely annihilate smaller formations or parts of larger ones.

Elite guards.
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Clad in blackened plate armour, often carrying massive metal shields and wielding axes and spears. They have first priority for magically enchanted wargear and each one of them has magically enhanced wargear.
Forming roughly 30'000 strong, this elite vanguard is led by Kraam himself. Forming a battering ram which annihilated enemies in field battles. Some soldiers have even been seen to be hit by artillery fire and return to the line after a short stagger.
These warriors are the most disciplined and ferocious of the minotaurs, satyx and others are considered to weak to even consider a position of elite guard.

Javelineers.
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The ranged contingents of the army. Almost no minotaurs fight like this within the bloodied. And if they do it's with large throwing axes.
Javelineers refer to the most common ranged weapon within the groupings, but all sorts of ranged weapons are used. With the exception of blackpowder arms.
The overwhelming majority of Satyx are javelineers. Their speed and nimble frames and massive jumping capacity makes them suitable for the position.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
Kraam God-eater, foe-hammer.
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Kraam's form can be hard to focus on, he appears to be constantly furious. But in truth is not. He is a massive beast, 4 metres tall, standing a full metre over normal minotaurs.
He wears the red fists of Zul, made of blackened steel with a glint of red which seems to bleed dark tar-like red blood. Along with blackened steel full blood steel armour. Enhanced with lightness and strength.
Kraam is the lord of the Bloodied, no more will someone use them without reason, no more will they be sacrificed at a whim, no more shall their kin be enslaved against their will.
The bloodied will now fight to end this madness. True, the only way might be similar to the way their old wretched master Zul envisioned it. But this time they have a leader who cares about them.
Materia belongs to mortals. All gods except Kraam will be cast out!

Krûl dread master, blood spiller, skull-crusher.
The former master of the Bloodied. Performed Zul's orders without hesitation. Most of the worst vile atrocities the last 50 years performed by the Bloodied were under his supervision.
He died as the curse finally claimed his bones and soul, he was 47.

EXTRA INFORMATION:
[optional stuff you may add]
Full History: (Your nation’s history following the major eras/cycles. Remember to align it with the settings history, as it is hard for nations to live in an isolated bubble here)
List of Historical Grievances: (Who are your historical enemies at the start of the RP) Loads of people.
Relations:
The principality of Evernyx. The Bloodied have been a thorn in the principalities side for decades. Pillaging their lands and taking their people. The Bloodied and the principality is therefore not on the best footing starting out.

The Concilio union. The union has suffered against the bloodied. Only their artillery has been enough to halt the Bloodied. That and their numbers.
However, the union has also been subjected to raids and unsavory acts by the bloodied for decades. The union and the Bloodied are therefore not on the best footing either to start out.

Friendly with Justinian, it really likes Kraam and they both drink beer every weekend.
Cultural Notes: (Anything cultural of note or unique about the nation that isn’t mentioned under religious interpretations/culture)

-Population: 16.2 million (legal residents, according to census)
-Faction: Yuwanism
-Capital: Zurqar
-Government Type: Theocratic Monarchy

-Government Description: The Sukhrabid Dynasty governs through a system of checks and balances. At the pinnacle of its hierarchy is the Shah, who exercises total power over the state. His rule is legitimized by his bloodline: a descendant of the Proto-Lamashi warlords that first brought Yuwanism to Eudaz, and those that defeated the adherents of the Old Pantheon's dead gods.
Below the Shah is a system of bureaucracy and departments, put in place to prevent fraud and ensure transparency. Most importantly, this 'safety net' ensures decisions are not made that circumvent the Shah's approval. Every office is managed by a deputy, who reports directly to the Shah and keeps records of all actions of the state's officials.
The Shah keeps his ministers under control by encouraging a competitive environment among his bureaucrats. This has led to a meritocratic society, rather than one based on heritage. Officials are pressured to govern in the best interest of their leader and the state, rather than their own.

-Head of State: Shah Baraz II
-Currency: Tuman
-Language: Eudazeans speak a language derived from Old Edukar, with many loanwords and characteristics borrowed from Lamashi and Gushawar. With some hurdles and omitting more exotic words, a speaker can converse with a speaker of Uudhinite Edukar. Pure Gushawari is commonly spoken in the east, and Lamashi is used regularly by the ruling dynasty and its administration.


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-Major Locations of Interest:

• Zurqar: The capital of Eudaz and powerbase of the Sukhrabids. This sprawling metropolis has always been the seat of Eudaz's rulers, from the ancient Edukeshans to its Yuwanist overlords. As a result, it boasts an array of cosmopolitan features in its architecture and culture. Eudazans can buy goods from Gushawar and beyond from vendors on streets hundreds of thousands years old. The Royal Palace sits at the epicenter of the city, a tangle of sharp spires that pierce the sky. Servant homonculi roost among the towers and can commonly be seen darting to and from the palace to other parts of the city. Zurqar also hosts the headquarters of the Sanguine Circle, Eudaz's most prominent coven of wizards. Within the confines of their halls, they conduct clandestine rituals and weave spells in Yuwan's name.

• Sarnassa:

• Caburh:

• More to come.

-Majority race:

• Humans: Eudazean humans are ethnically related to the Uudhinites and Ouroborasians, all having a common Edukeshan background. The Edukeshan archetype is dark of hair and olive-skinned. Occupation of Eudaz by Yuwanist peoples has created an abundance of diversity in its genetic stock. Eudazenas place little emphasis on race, concerned more with nationality and tribal affiliation. Other ethnicities are also common, most of them being Yuwanist peoples. Gushawari populations are numerous in the east. Refugees from Ouroborasia and Aberys have settled in Eudaz throughout the last few centuries. Justinian minorities and Red God worshipers can be found in small numbers. The latter usually hide away from public eye, in the wilds.

-Minority race(s): WIP




-State Religion: Yuwanism
-Patron Deities: Worship of Yuwan was introduced to Eudaz over a thousand years ago, after Eudeye's celestial servants failed in their rebellion. Yuwanist warlords brought with them their religion, converting the defeated masses while laying claim to their lands. In the time after the rebellion, when Eudeye had been long dead and Yitizer imprisoned, the Edukeshans had few to no active gods to call upon. Many gladly turned to Yuwanism to fill this void of faith.

-Religion Demographics:

• 87% Yuwanism
• 10% Red Pantheonism (Axohaan, Ephemem, Ishnanneh)
• 2% Justinianism
• 1% Other

-Holy Relics in Possession:
-Holy Sites under Control:
-Notable Magical Institutions:
-Religious Interpretations/Culture: With the rest of the Old Pantheon dead, popular belief maintains that Yuwan is the defacto head of the pantheon and deserves to be Materia's one true god. Because of her survival, she is thought to be the only one capable of standing against Justinain and other rogue gods.


-Total Military Size: Approximately 81,000 (standing), 243,000 (in wartime)
-List of Heroes:
-Military Doctrine, Equipment, etc.:
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-Military Units: (including air cavalry and navy)

• Shah Baraz II
• Grand Vizier Behnam
• More to come.

-History:



-List of Historical Grievances: (Who are your historical enemies at the start of the RP)
-Relations: (What are the established relations at the start of the RP; this can either be simple as “Hostile, Cold, Neutral, Warm, Friendly” or a detailed explanation of each relationship per nation)
-Cultural Notes: