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Cultural Setting
Money
The money is composed of metal dice with the faces of the leader of each race coined. Each die is made of an alloy of a rare metal with magic property thus creating their value. There are 4 different materials for the dice:
- copper: detect magic
- silver: impervious to magic
- gold: store magic
- platinum: perturbe and nullify magic
60 dice of the lower metal worth one die of the upper metal.
Military
- Squad (9-10 soldiers, sergeant)
- Platoon (16-44 soldiers, 2-4 squads, lieutenant)
- Company (62-190 soldiers, 3-4 platoons, captain)
- Battalion (300-1,000 soldiers, 4-6 companies, knight)
- Brigade/Regiment/Group (3,000-5,000 soldiers, 2-5 battalions, commander)
- Division (10,000-15,000 soldiers, 3 brigades, commander general)
- Corps (20,000-45,000 soldiers, 2-5 divisions, Marshal)
- Army (50,000+ soldiers, 2+ corps, Marshal general)
Politics
Each Race as is own governing system:
- Dwarf: The dwarves are gathered in clan, the Assembly of the clans presides the life under the The Mountain, they reunite every other month in the Keep.
- Elf: The elves have a monarchical system, the King/Queen governs the Great Forest in the capital Bellmöral. They have absolute power.
- Human: The humans have a constitutional monarchy, the King/Queen does not have absolute power, they reside in the City and can be deposed by the House of Count assembly. Each county is govern by the local Count/Countess.
- Orc: There are four tribes: the Shad'alars in the blue island, the Niz'itirs in the black islands, the Torgl'ods in the green islands and the Muxv'uls in the red earth islands. Each tribe is lead by its shaman leader.
- Troll: Each family is lead by their mother while the great-mothers must the conflict between the family in the Great-Mothers gathering at the foot of the Life Pillar.
The are currently two political sides:
The Association: the research, craft and sell of new technologies, with a majority of Human, Dwarf and Gnome, also called the City side. It is mostly composed of gnomes, dwarves and humans.
Moto: The future is onward not behind.
A famous proverb says: Put a Human, a Dwarf and a Gnome in the same room for one minute, and next thing you know, you can buy a pair of flying shoes.
The Family: the understanding of each other, of the fauna, flora and all the nature of the land, also called the Home side. It is mostly composed of elves, trolls and orcs.
moto: Understand before you act.
History
- ~5000 b.a.f: Age of Gods, gods walked among the livings, the age stopped at the fall of the First Empire.
- ~3000 b.a.f. Age of Legends, the doublers where nearly as powerful as gods, the age stopped at the fall of the Second Empire.
- 2692 b.a.f: Creation of the University, the Six Wise ones of the races decided to create a place where people can learn and gather knowledge, creation of the current calendar.
- 2213 b.a.f: Age of Glory, the gods unchained there wrath on mortals believing to be Gods. The monsters roamed the lands. The age stopped at the fall of the Third Empire destroyed by the Cataclysm.
- 0 a.a.f.: Age of Faith (current age), there are less monsters, people have started to follow their faith, maybe a bit too much.
- 454 a.a.f.: The wonders of the Master Maker, the Master Maker built the City, the Home, the Keep and the curent University buildings.
- 1421 a.a.f: Creation of the Family
- 1435 a.a.f: Creation of the Association
- 1914-1918 a.a.f: Start of the Great War, War between the Family and Association
- 27/07/1914: Assassination of ?, the heir to the County of ?.
- 28/07/1914: Start of the war
- 04/11/1918: The Explosion in Shade Valley, both side accused the other.
- 07/11/1918: The Count Grovethrive unleashed all his power
- 10/11/1918: The Family army is devastated, the Count died after killing the last opponent
- 11/11/1918: the impossible lovers, Maëri and Elanor, seized the control of the Association and the Family, putting an end to the Great War.
- 09/08/1919 Maëri gave birth to the Twins, they are promised to lead the two camps: Göriador the current leader of the Family and Gwendoline the current leader of the Association.
- 05/02/2108, Today