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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khuxan" data-source="post: 2779804" data-attributes="member: 38801">What if the conflict is more in the background - there are strained relations between the two factions, but nothing much worse than that. That way GMs can emphasise what they want.No idea.The Border Kingdoms. Mountains and forests. Roughshode barons pay lip-service to a puppet. Problem is, the king's been replaced with a green dragon and is starting to exert his influence. Some barons are kind-hearted and cooperative, some are corrupt and self-serving, and many are part of the Sevenfold Counsel, the real political power in the realm.Emeritus. Semi-jungle. A land settled a couple of hundred years ago by pacifistic merchants who actively opposed war. They remain a liberal voice in the south, but don't look askance (Sp?) at serving themselves if they can foil the northern conservatives at the same time.Teldar. Its people are obsessed with divination and fortune-telling, but the rest of the occult scares them rather. Many slaves.Penal. Dwarves that utilise vast numbers of skeletons and zombies to essentially lift every one of their citizens into the middle class. Essentially their philosophies conflict with the Teldar - a case of slavery in this life or in the next. Infamous atheists, they are sometimes called the God-Eaters. Azerion. A huge rival of Emeritus, Azerion is run by a conservative, upper class consortium that the Emeri clash with ethically and morally. Strong ties with locathah, who help organise raids on the Mesanon.Thrane <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(:" title="Smile    (:"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname="(:" />P). Forced into an alliance with the Penal, this theocracy has determined to turn on them at the last minute. Heavily involved with inevitables.Mephistan. Populated by mephits.Mesanon. Rivals of Azerion, but forced into allegiance with them, the Mesanon are barbaric raiders that offer prayers to deepsea leviathans. Bound into complicated legal agreements they don't understand with the sahuagin that essentially compell them to attack locathah on sight.Epyr. Populated by gnomes and their halfling slaves. Ruled by a savage priesthood that practices live sacrifices. Ironically, these sacrifices actually involve willing 'victims', who become reincarnated after their death. Halflings often become ghouls because of their lust for raw flesh, which the gnomes haven't bothered to tame.Epice. A harmless pastoral nation of peaceful orcs, famed for its spices and wines. Each Epican has a special spirit which they venerate in private shrines. Recently devastated by Penal raids.Zauberai. Enigmatic traders that ride beetles.I've put forward these thoughts to spike ideas. I know some of them might be a little (or a lot) 'out there' for a generic setting, and some of the names, frankly, suck, but I hope they serve some small purpose.</blockquote>

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