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[frostgiant]

So, heres my first Attempt at an empire... might make another as a back up for later.
Slaver Werewolfs.

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3pts +2 Doomed +1 red thumb=6Pts

Nation Name:  The Fredek Empire
Starting Government Form:  Aristocracy
Leader Name:  Damian Fredek’han the 2nd.

Leader Traits:
High Priest: A servant of the Wolf God Fenrir, Devourer of the Gods. (-2)

Leader Biography: 
Damian is The High priest of Fenrir, patron god of the Wolfos. As such he is blessed with his Gods power.
Dedicated to the God at a young age, after his trial in the forest.
The trail is a Practice from the early days of the Wolfos, and only the royal family still practices it. A child will be left in the middle of a forest, If, when the parents return in 2 days time, the child is still alive, then he is a worthy child to raise, blessed in some form to have survived. This practice was stopped by the masses when the mothers of said child… reacted badly. It is said that Damien’s mother, left three large scars on his father when she found out what he had done. The rumor must be wrong though because Damien only ever saw two of his father. And really, where could the other one be?
It is said that Damien was found by a wolf, the beast-like cousins to the Wolfos from which they take their name, and the wolf protected him for the 2 days. Afterwards, Damien was dedicated to the God fenrir and his training began as a priest and ruler.
 Damian has trained his whole life to appease the God fenrir and lead his people to Prosperity.

In combat, Damien wears a full suit of Armor, taken from his father in combat as his beliefs require.

When the world began to end, Damien channeled the power of fenrir to create the Gate, calling upon more power from his god then he ever had in his life.

Race Name: Wolfos

Racial Traits: 
Hungry (+2)
The wolfos are a hungry people, with their powerful bodys demanding nuitrition to function. They can inhale enough food to turn the stomach of a lesser race, and if they stray to close during meal time, they might end up on the menu.

Doomed(+2)
Even as all of the enemies of the Fredek Empire marched to war in order to claim the gate, all but a few of the slaves rose up, attempting to claim the Gate and escape their slavery. All of such were put down, but not without cost. Now many a Wolfos had been slain both by the slaves and the enemies’ polities, quick to pay them back for the years of war and slave raids.

Fleet (-3)
A wolfos can be compared to the wind, Running as fast as a horse, This makes them all the better at running down prey… and Slaves.

Slavers (-1)
The wolfos are strong, and as such, all those that are weaker than should be prepared to work for them. The strong survive and the weak must serve. This is the way of the empire, this is the way of the pack.

Armorer (-1)
Fredek the Great, went among the slaves and learned the art of metalworking. The job has become something of a sacred task, shaping the metal into arms and armor, Hide and Claw for the warriors of the Empire. Without them, the Wolfos would be weak. The task of a smith, in the dangers of the forge, filled with flames and sparks is difficult to brave when one is covered in flammable fur. They brave it all the same.

Race Description:
A Wolfos is a tall werewolf like humanoid, Standing Approximately 8 feet tall, with digitigrade legs.They differ from a werewolf in that their faces take on a more… feline shape to it, With a shorter and much flatter snout instead of a wolf-like snout. This includes the jaw structure, much flatter and with Bigger front teeth. The wolfos’s back teeth are actually molars, for grinding plants better than the teeth of a canine.
If a person was to look at a wolfos, then they would always appear hunched, with their back curving forwards and sitting their shoulder farther forwards then the torso, this makes it much easier for the wolfos to attack with their maws from a charge, and aids in their ability to run on all fours for a short period of time.

A wolfos’s limbs always look weirdly out of proportion for the rest of their better, being longer than is expected, with their fingers hanging just past their knees when they put their hand by their side.

The Weirdly proportion limbs, however, truly do pay off when the Wolfos is in motion, capable of Catching themselves when they are off balance with their arms without losing any speed and propelling themselves Scarily fast even in full war equipment. A common game for Wolfos children is “Chase the arrow” using their speed to try and catch a blunt arrow fired from childs bow. This game Becomes “hunt the slave” when they are more mature.

Nation Description:
The Fredek empire was formed when the alpha Fredek came into power, Deciding that he was sick of his people being the butt of many a barbarian joke and many raids by the Forald Theocracy, He began to conquer and assimilate every Other Wolfos pack that he could, All the while raiding merchant conveys that belonged to the theocracy.

Eventually, Every single pack of Wolfos had been Conquer and Assimilated into his forces or had been left dead in the forest to be picked over by scavengers.
With his newly assembled “Great Pack” He led a massive attack on the Theocracy, With his wolfos equipped in metal instead of the Wood and stone of yesteryear, the physically superior Wolfos slaughtered The theocracy’s army.

Eventually, the Great pack had to halt its advance, which at that point had Conquered almost half of the Theocracy sold territory. The pack was beginning to fall apart because of Food, lack of supplies and dominance challenges, The Great Pack was being torn apart at the seems.

In response, Fredek The Great began the task of Reforming His Whole Race. In response to proud warriors that refused to farm, and To many mouths to feed with hunting alone, He had taken the survivors and the prisoners of the theocracy and forced them to work. After all, The Wolfos had won and thus were strong. And the Weak served the Strong. That is how the world works. Or at least, that was the narrative that he wove for his people.

The food supply was solved by the now farming slaves and many raids.
Next was a lack of supplies, with his Plundered Arms and Armor starting to shatter and break into many numbers to replace.
So Fredek the Great walked among the captured Scholars and Craftsman And demanded that they teach him, for he knew that no Wolfos would degrade themselves stop learn from a slave, but they would learn from their Alpha. And thus he learned all he could, before teaching his own people. Metal workers and thinkers began to take root in the wolfos, Creating the Weapons and armor needed for war, and the Ideas needed to improve it.

Lastly, Fredek the great looked at the great pack adn the Wolfos as a whole, and he saw that it would not last past his survival. Without an Alpha as Powerful as himself, the whole structure would fall apart.

And so he took upon him his greatest task yet.
First, he seeded an idea. That While the strong ruled the weak, every Individual was weak. But the pack is strong.
He seeded the Idea that individual strength does not matter, curtailing the Dominance challenges at their head. The Wolfos Must be strong, Not a single Wolfos, but ALL Wolfos. And as such, the weak are those that fault ot the Wolfos, like the theocracy.
The he restructured the Wolfos, Creating the modern empire, ed by his bloodline.
No longer Did the Wolfos Answer to the Alpha, Instead they answered to The Emperor.


Name of your capital: Berden

Name of the region surrounding your capital: Fredrek’s Den


If you are bringing 1 or more deities with you...

Deity Name:
Fenrir The Devourer of Gods, The strong Wolf. The First Aplha.

Religion Name:
The Devourers.
Deity Sphere:  War

Religion Description:

All Wolfos worship Fenrir in their own way, But not to the extent of the Devoured.
All that Fenrir demands if that you Fight and prove your strength. The Strong survive and the Weak are devoured, not always literally.  Battle is sacred to fenrir, as while strength comes in many forms, Fenrir always prefers strength in arms.

The priests of fenrir dedicate themselves to him by Being the first into battle during the slave raids and being the last ones to leave, Ensuring that the god fenrir has plenty of time to watch them fight and prove their strength.

When war comes, All but a select few of the priest caste will quickly come to fill the army, joining for the chance to prove their strength and prowess. Those left behind are the ancient ones, old enough that their strength has been proven time and time again through an inability to die in battle, even after hundreds of raids and battles. If there are not enough ancient ones left behind to Teach the next Generation of Priests should they all die, some of the younger priests will be left behind as well. This can be a great shame for them.

The priests of fenrir, dress in nothing but The pelts of creatures they have hunted, and refuse to use weapons and armor but what they have taken from those they have defeated. This can lead to their armor being almost patchwork.

The fullmoon is a holy day, with a grand tournament being held in preparation. The finals are held under the full moon. Any may enter the tournament, even slaves. If a slave wins the tournament, then they are seen as blessed in the eyes of fenrir and are freed, from there they may settle down as a citizen of the empire, or leave. The fights are to Surrender or death.

Does this work?

[Criptfeind]

I hope I spawn near the wolfmen.

[Iituem]

Hey Iituem, what would be the point cost of a leader starting with an artefact? Got a bit of an idea but it's fairly reliant on that being a lynchpin.

PM me the details and we'll work it out.  A full on artefact in the mithril sense is out, but we could work out an enchanted item.

So, heres my first Attempt at an empire... might make another as a back up for later.
Slaver Werewolfs.

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3pts +2 Doomed +1 red thumb=6Pts

Nation Name:  The Fredek Empire
Starting Government Form:  Aristocracy
Leader Name:  Damian Fredek’han the 2nd.

Leader Traits:
High Priest: A servant of the Wolf God Fenrir, Devourer of the Gods. (-2)

Leader Biography: 
Damian is The High priest of Fenrir, patron god of the Wolfos. As such he is blessed with his Gods power.
Dedicated to the God at a young age, after his trial in the forest.
The trail is a Practice from the early days of the Wolfos, and only the royal family still practices it. A child will be left in the middle of a forest, If, when the parents return in 2 days time, the child is still alive, then he is a worthy child to raise, blessed in some form to have survived. This practice was stopped by the masses when the mothers of said child… reacted badly. It is said that Damien’s mother, left three large scars on his father when she found out what he had done. The rumor must be wrong though because Damien only ever saw two of his father. And really, where could the other one be?
It is said that Damien was found by a wolf, the beast-like cousins to the Wolfos from which they take their name, and the wolf protected him for the 2 days. Afterwards, Damien was dedicated to the God fenrir and his training began as a priest and ruler.
 Damian has trained his whole life to appease the God fenrir and lead his people to Prosperity.

In combat, Damien wears a full suit of Armor, taken from his father in combat as his beliefs require.

When the world began to end, Damien channeled the power of fenrir to create the Gate, calling upon more power from his god then he ever had in his life.

Race Name: Wolfos

Racial Traits: 
Red Thumb(+1)
The Wolfos are not capable farmers, Slave’s work they claim, and as such no True Wolfos is truly willing to break there back growing food, when there is fighting and other such things to be done.

Doomed(+2)
Even as all of the enemies of the Fredek Empire marched to war in order to claim the gate, all but a few of the slaves rose up, attempting to claim the Gate and escape their slavery. All of such were put down, but not without cost. Now many a Wolfos had been slain both by the slaves and the enemies’ polities, quick to pay them back for the years of war and slave raids.

Fleet (-3)
A wolfos can be compared to the wind, Running as fast as a horse, This makes them all the better at running down prey… and Slaves.

Slavers (-1)
The wolfos are strong, and as such, all those that are weaker than should be prepared to work for them. The strong survive and the weak must serve. This is the way of the empire, this is the way of the pack.

Race Description:
A Wolfos is a tall werewolf like humanoid, Standing Approximately 8 feet tall, with digitigrade legs.They differ from a werewolf in that their faces take on a more… feline shape to it, With a shorter and much flatter snout instead of a wolf-like snout. This includes the jaw structure, much flatter and with Bigger front teeth. The wolfos’s back teeth are actually molars, for grinding plants better than the teeth of a canine.
If a person was to look at a wolfos, then they would always appear hunched, with their back curving forwards and sitting their shoulder farther forwards then the torso, this makes it much easier for the wolfos to attack with their maws from a charge, and aids in their ability to run on all fours for a short period of time.

A wolfos’s limbs always look weirdly out of proportion for the rest of their better, being longer than is expected, with their fingers hanging just past their knees when they put their hand by their side.

The Weirdly proportion limbs, however, truly do pay off when the Wolfos is in motion, capable of Catching themselves when they are off balance with their arms without losing any speed and propelling themselves Scarily fast even in full war equipment. A common game for Wolfos children is “Chase the arrow” using their speed to try and catch a blunt arrow fired from childs bow. This game Becomes “hunt the slave” when they are more mature.

Nation Description:
The Fredek empire was formed when the alpha Fredek came into power, Deciding that he was sick of his people being the butt of many a barbarian joke and many raids by the Forald Theocracy, He began to conquer and assimilate every Other Wolfos pack that he could, All the while raiding merchant conveys that belonged to the theocracy.

Eventually, Every single pack of Wolfos had been Conquer and Assimilated into his forces or had been left dead in the forest to be picked over by scavengers.
With his newly assembled “Great Pack” He led a massive attack on the Theocracy, With his wolfos equipped in metal instead of the Wood and stone of yesteryear, the physically superior Wolfos slaughtered The theocracy’s army.

Eventually, the Great pack had to halt its advance, which at that point had Conquered almost half of the Theocracy sold territory. The pack was beginning to fall apart because of Food, lack of supplies and dominance challenges, The Great Pack was being torn apart at the seems.

In response, Fredek The Great began the task of Reforming His Whole Race. In response to proud warriors that refused to farm, and To many mouths to feed with hunting alone, He had taken the survivors and the prisoners of the theocracy and forced them to work. After all, The Wolfos had won and thus were strong. And the Weak served the Strong. That is how the world works. Or at least, that was the narrative that he wove for his people.

The food supply was solved by the now farming slaves and many raids.
Next was a lack of supplies, with his Plundered Arms and Armor starting to shatter and break into many numbers to replace.
So Fredek the Great walked among the captured Scholars and Craftsman And demanded that they teach him, for he knew that no Wolfos would degrade themselves stop learn from a slave, but they would learn from their Alpha. And thus he learned all he could, before teaching his own people. Metal workers and thinkers began to take root in the wolfos, Creating the Weapons and armor needed for war, and the Ideas needed to improve it.

Lastly, Fredek the great looked at the great pack adn the Wolfos as a whole, and he saw that it would not last past his survival. Without an Alpha as Powerful as himself, the whole structure would fall apart.

And so he took upon him his greatest task yet.
First, he seeded an idea. That While the strong ruled the weak, every Individual was weak. But the pack is strong.
He seeded the Idea that individual strength does not matter, curtailing the Dominance challenges at their head. The Wolfos Must be strong, Not a single Wolfos, but ALL Wolfos. And as such, the weak are those that fault ot the Wolfos, like the theocracy.
The he restructured the Wolfos, Creating the modern empire, ed by his bloodline.
No longer Did the Wolfos Answer to the Alpha, Instead they answered to The Emperor.


Name of your capital: Berden

Name of the region surrounding your capital: Fredrek’s Den


If you are bringing 1 or more deities with you...

Deity Name:
Fenrir The Devourer of Gods, The strong Wolf. The First Aplha.

Religion Name:
The Devourers.
Deity Sphere:  War

Religion Description:

All Wolfos worship Fenrir in their own way, But not to the extent of the Devoured.
All that Fenrir demands if that you Fight and prove your strength. The Strong survive and the Weak are devoured, not always literally.  Battle is sacred to fenrir, as while strength comes in many forms, Fenrir always prefers strength in arms.

The priests of fenrir dedicate themselves to him by Being the first into battle during the slave raids and being the last ones to leave, Ensuring that the god fenrir has plenty of time to watch them fight and prove their strength.

When war comes, All but a select few of the priest caste will quickly come to fill the army, joining for the chance to prove their strength and prowess. Those left behind are the ancient ones, old enough that their strength has been proven time and time again through an inability to die in battle, even after hundreds of raids and battles. If there are not enough ancient ones left behind to Teach the next Generation of Priests should they all die, some of the younger priests will be left behind as well. This can be a great shame for them.

The priests of fenrir, dress in nothing but The pelts of creatures they have hunted, and refuse to use weapons and armor but what they have taken from those they have defeated. This can lead to their armor being almost patchwork.

The fullmoon is a holy day, with a grand tournament being held in preparation. The finals are held under the full moon. Any may enter the tournament, even slaves. If a slave wins the tournament, then they are seen as blessed in the eyes of fenrir and are freed, from there they may settle down as a citizen of the empire, or leave. The fights are to Surrender or death.

Does this work?

I like it!  Interesting empire there.  Fun god too.

[Criptfeind]

How much unrest is the some unrest of Barbarous?

[Iituem]

How much unrest is the some unrest of Barbarous?

10%, but it's 10% as a base multiplier to your race.

[Nirur Torir]

Slow Metabolism (-2), Red-Thumb (+1)

That's actually an interesting combo, given that city-folk will buy food off the world market when needed.

[Criptfeind]

So like, +10% on everything that gives unrest, so if you get an event for +5% unrest, you instead get +5.5%? Is that how things like shrines and priest based governments work as well? Or are those/some of those flat reductions?

And I guess in general since Autonomy goes up to counter unrest as unrest goes up (with some chance of rebellion in between presumably) you could expect Barbarous populations to require 10% higher Autonomy?

Also how would that  work with mixed pops? If you had, say, 30% barbarous pops in an area, and got a +5% unrest, would it total to be +5.15%?

[Jilladilla]

Slow Metabolism (-2), Red-Thumb (+1)

That's actually an interesting combo, given that city-folk will buy food off the world market when needed.

The headcanon for Red-Thumb is an utter lack of relevant farming experience, cave-ecosystems and surface-ecosystems are fairly different; and while we have to research farming, most can probably go 'Ok, show of hands: Who remembers the details of farming? Ok, get together and gather up the ideas then we'll fill in the blanks'. With my guys, it's more 'Ok. How the hell do we even farm?' and everyone just stares blankly ahead.
It symbolizes the fact that even though most will have to start all over again researching farming, that there would still likely be minor tips and tricks to improve crop yield that have survived the migration; tips and tricks that my people don't have due to the fact that they're literally starting from scratch.

[Iituem]

So like, +10% on everything that gives unrest, so if you get an event for +5% unrest, you instead get +5.5%? Is that how things like shrines and priest based governments work as well? Or are those/some of those flat reductions?

And I guess in general since Autonomy goes up to counter unrest as unrest goes up (with some chance of rebellion in between presumably) you could expect Barbarous populations to require 10% higher Autonomy?

Also how would that  work with mixed pops? If you had, say, 30% barbarous pops in an area, and got a +5% unrest, would it total to be +5.15%?

Events that give unrest will give flat unrest regardless of pop modifiers.  But every pop in a territory creates unrest naturally through crowding, which is the main contributor for unrest, with urban pops producing 4x the base unrest of rural pops.  It is this crowding unrest that your race will receive a 10% increase to.

Example:  You have 3000 rural pops and 2000 urban pops in a territory.  That equates to 55% Unrest -> the rurals produce 15% unrest, the urbans produce 40% unrest.  Buildings and autonomy help reduce this, with luxury goods supply helping the most for larger towns (goods satiation that reduces unrest scales where building bonuses do not).

Now, if your race is Barbarous, that 55% unrest increases to 60.5% unrest (55% * 110%).
If instead half of the population is Barbarous and the other half is normal, you end up with 57.75% unrest.
If your 3000 rural pops are all halflings (a normal race) and your 2000 urban pops are all rage-dwarves (a barbarous race with urban preference) you'll see 59% instead (15% from the rurals, 44% from the urbans).

But yes, Barbarous races will benefit from slightly higher autonomy; autonomy counters unrest at a 2:1 rate - at 100% autonomy, unrest will decrease by 50%.

[Shadowclaw777]

@Iituem, any thoughts for my character (civilization) sheet that was posted in the first page?

[Iituem]

Spoiler: Sign-Up Sheet (click to show/hide)

Nation Name: Aeriala
Starting Government Form: Magocracy
Leader Name: Arokka the Roosted
Leader Traits: N/A
Leader Biography: Arroka was one of the most gifted and young of the Wisebirds who left their doomed world in immigration. Often brash and lack of sense for social cues but has developed the higher atonement with meditation and paths of solitude. He is of considerable age for a Wisebird and was unanimously voted for by the other Elders to lead the council. His magical potency has been well-established as it a gift from the Sky, but hasn't fully honed it with it yet.
Race Name: Arakkoa (Birdfolk)
Racial Traits
Fliers:  (-4 Points)  Your people are winged or otherwise capable of levitation.  All your units are fliers.
Prodigious Strength: (-2 Points)  Your people possess twice the strength of other folk.  They are typically far more dangerous in hand-to-hand combat than other species.
Slavers:  (-1 Point)  Your people believed in forcing others into labour for their benefit via cruelty and oppression.  This habit, as well as slaves, have come with you into the new world.  You start with the Slavery tech and embrace slavery as well.
Ponderous:  (+2 Points)  Your people are slow and not given to riding.  You cannot mobilise any sort of cavalry.
Doomed:   (+2 Points)   Only a handful of your people escaped your doomed world.  You begin with half the starting population.
Race Description:
To the unseen eye, the arakkoa look much like large flightless birds. However when they descend to roost on a branch or walk across the ground with their scrawny bird claws does their humanoid and bipedal stance actually reveal themselves. As the Arakkoa stand upright, they might reach of up to 7 feet tall with thick burly muscles and thick claws and talons. They have long, narrow legs that taper to sharp talons that they utilize to climb and walk on the ground. Feathers cover their entire bodies. Their plumage typically denotes membership in a tribe. Males are brightly colored, with feathers of red, orange, or yellow. Females have more subdued colors, usually brown or gray. Their heads complete the avian appearance that have established, a weird mix between eagles and parrots with a rough beak that they utilize for pecking and entire different variations of beaks depending on their tribes. The Arakkoa can spend lengthy periods of the time in the air and sky, and some go as long as days, as they can lock their wings in place and letting the thermals hold them aloft. During military to predatory engagements, they prove to be dynamic and acrobatic fliers with power beyond their moves, moving with remarkable speed and grace, diving to lash opponents with weapons or talons of severe power because of their musculature before turning and flying away. Once airborne, an arakkoa leaves the sky with reluctance and only usually falls down for hunting down their prey such as a fish or rabbit. They often have the same mannerism as their relative birds even with their sapience. They frequency tend to their feathers and speak with avian chirps with their speech. They still are often aggressive in their mannerism, and even biologically stage have developed a competition between superiority of other members.
Society Description: The Arakkoa were originally a bunch of vestigial savage birds who lived on the top of high mountains atop of trees and branches where they asserted their dominance as the apex predator of the biome. During the age of Gods, the Air God had gave sentience and allowed the Arakkoa to begin their own primal societies as tribes and little communions were they began to create a society for themselves. Their society was very militaristic and brutal, with a heavy focus on strength and power and only the strongest living. This avian race was often aggressive and dominated the lesser sapient species into slavery and tribute, they were often honorable with their dealings and never resorted to backstabbing or subterfuge as their means for warfare. When they encountered other races, their response was to seek conquest. Convinced of their innate superiority, the Arakkoa decided it was only their destiny to enthrall the other races to their military might. For much of their history, the Arakkoa lived as tribal hunters. Their constant warfare slowed their technological progress and path to a functional civilization. However during these dark and primitive ages for the Arakkoa, the Air God gave a boon of the "roosted ones" to the avian sapients. Many of the Arakkoa had left a path of solitude and enlightenment in which they became the wise-birds for the primitive tribes of the Birdfolk and became the elders that led their societies. However things were not to be, the Earth God challenged the God of Air for superiority during these ancient times and send beings made of rock and stone, which led to a horrible conflict between muscular birds and earth elementals, a brutal conflict with both sides getting heavy casualties. It was a Pyrrhic victory for the Birds and it gave them a innate phobia of the ground for the following generations, making them ponderous of the ground. However the Earth God was still vengeful and with the power of gods created earthquakes to tremors that devastated the population. The Air God with final power sent a portal and allowed the Arakkoa to migrate away from the plane of gods to the material realm.

The Arakkoa migrates from a Doomed world was of an unexpected one and desperate attempt to leave the plane of gods, they roosted in a mountain top and created their society and advanced from their tribal state. One part that is ironic of their society is that they desire freedom for themselves but anyone lesser only deserves to be chained to the stronger.  Sacrifice is an integral part of the social fabric, with a cultural emphasis on blood. War and combat are still vital aspects of their culture. Adults must prove themselves to have at least some level of fighting skill in order to be accepted into society. The Arakkoa's innate nature is reflected in their empire's diplomatic relations (or lack thereof) with other sapient races. They see other species as inferior and are almost eager for war with others and to make sure that they subjugated properly. They now roost in their mountains and listen to their Wisebird Council to lead their society. The Wisebirds have developed a form a of Magocracy with a heavy emphasis on progress and science so that their race can survive in this new world. The tribe's have reformed in unison and had allowed the Wisebirds to sophisticate society into the elders leading the masses. The new reformed society has referred themselves as "Aeriala" as their association with the sky.

Name of Your Capital: Talon's Roost
Name of the region surrounding your capital: Empyrean

Diety Name: (Tas'la) The God of the Sky
The Spirit of Blood, the Spirit of Honor, the Spirit of Strength

Religion Name: Aerialism

Deity Sphere: Freedom (Ironic?...)

Religion Description: the Arakkoa religion is pretty simplified as it is a combination of shamanism, animalism, polytheistic worship and ancestor worship. They believe in the central almighty entity known as the "Sky" or as they call Tas'la who gives freedom and power to the Arakkoa people. The Sky also communes with three lesser entities known to the Arrakoas as the "subservients" which are the three spirits that serve the Sky and Arakkoa race. The spirit of blood gives the Arrakoa power in sacrifice and brutalistic rituals as well as warfare, the spirit of honor gives the Birdfolk a sense of dedicated tradition and hatred of subterfuge, and Strength gives the avian sapients the sense of superiority and subjugation that they created a knack for. Their main stride of the Sky God is "freedom", but they believe only the strong deserves freedom and egalitarian rights. In which the Arakkoa have dedicated their path to strength and power so that they can be on the top and keep their freedom with the Sky. As with everyone they consider nearly everything to have a spirit of magical property to associate it with it which makes for their shamanism and animalism. They even have developed respect and worship for their deceased in which they pridefully state they want to be more powerful than their ancestor, as they directly state this to their ancestor's corpse or grave.

There's a lot I like about it.  Fliers make for a particularly interesting strategic option.  Couple of points, though.  1)  You need either a High Priest or a Pious race to bring a god through the gate with you.  If you do, I would suggest 'chaos' or 'trickery' as valid forms for a freedom god.  2) Be aware that you are starting without a known mana source or existing magical knowledge.  This isn't a problem in the long run, but be aware that your start will be fairly mundane until you can acquire this.

[Terenos]

Spoiler: Here There Be Spoilers (click to show/hide)

Nation Name: Trelia

Starting Government Form: Aristocracy

Leader Name: Virik 'Thrice-Lucky'

Leader Traits: None

Leader Biography: Virik Thrice-Lucky was born the 2nd son of the Great King, average in many respects, but capable and headstrong. When the End War began, he found himself thrust into conflict nearly every day. Fighting for his life, for his people, for everything they held dear. His soldiers say the enemy cannot kill him, as three times he has avoided lethal blows by what seems to be divine providence.

There are no members of the royal family remaining, their crusade to buy a new future claimed all but Virik.

Race Name: Trelian

Racial Traits: Bloodlines, Doomed, Prodigious Strength, Stalkers, Vulnerability (Psychic), Warriors,

Race Description: The Trelian are a short, stocky, bipedal race with hunched shoulders and a powerful intimidating physique. They keep their hair close cut, and dress in many dark layers. Most move without footfalls, and know it to be a great honor if their enemy falls unaware of their presence.
They honor the path of the warrior greatly, and most play at war even if they choose not to become professional soldiers.

Nation Description: Trelia begin as a collection of small tribes that banded together in the face of an overwhelming enemy. An enemy that screamed in their minds and tore their sanity to shreds. Devoured their memories and their will. Long have they fought, and their martial traditions stretch back to the very first generations.

When the Doom came, and began to swallow the world as they knew, they were afraid. Long living on the fringes of habitable land, they suffered the worst, whereas their ancient enemy seemed to prosper. Suspecting the Enemy was responsible, a great campaign was launched with whatever weapons and allies they could muster. A long grueling war that saw most of their people lost to warfare, or simply gone without a trace back home.
When they broke through the trifling remaining resistance they found no civilians. No soldiers. Merely empty streets and buildings, and in the center of the capital a grim standing gateway that flickered with dwindling arcane power. Through a sacrifice of blood, the shamans managed to bolster the dimming light, and Virik led what remained of his people to a new land.

They fear greatly their Enemy is here, but the forests are bountiful, and the seas plentiful. Compared to where they came from, it is a paradise they will defend with blood and fire.

Trelia is a fairly normal feudal aristocracy, with a reasonable sprinkling of meritocracy. Those who can, ascend, those who cannot, live their lives peacefully.

Name of your capital:  Vash Nagoth

Capital Region : Ilnos

May expand later. But food calls and I wanted to get this out there.

[frostgiant]

@Iituem If we wanted a Magic to make Golems, like out of Stone or metal. would Necromancy lead to them with animation or augmentation?
Just want to know because I'm writing up a second nation sheet... I like to make more than one when making factions.

[Shadowclaw777]

There's a lot I like about it.  Fliers make for a particularly interesting strategic option.  Couple of points, though.  1)  You need either a High Priest or a Pious race to bring a god through the gate with you.  If you do, I would suggest 'chaos' or 'trickery' as valid forms for a freedom god.  2) Be aware that you are starting without a known mana source or existing magical knowledge.  This isn't a problem in the long run, but be aware that your start will be fairly mundane until you can acquire this.

Edited, added the Barbarous Trait and removed the slaver trait since it make since because they are birds and added the High Priest as to allow the pantheon to exist.


Also if I could with trait I would call hungry, ravenous, for my species because it seems so much more fitting.

[Jilladilla]

So, since you're giving out pointers, is there anything blatantly wrong with my Sheet Iituem? Anything that doesn't seem to fit, likely not brought up to speed with one of my many pre-post edits? Stuff that is greatly lacking/needs more backstory explanation? I ask mostly because, well... I did pass out halfway through posting it, probably forgot things in the process.

Also, I second Frostgiant's question.