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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 5390396" data-attributes="member: 98255">That's a cool backstory. I like it. <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=":)" />The name 'sunpowder' evoked imagery from (IIRC the first) Underworld movie, where the Lycans came up with capsule ammunition that radiated UV-light and was extremely deadly to the vampires.In this campaign, black powder is a jealously guarded secret of the Neutrally-aligned Dwarf nations. They, as a race, are pretty much Switzerland, and do their best to broker peace between warring nations adjacent to their lands.Over time, whether independently or through espionage, two other nations have acquired the technology. One of those nations was a vast and peaceful nation with renaissance-level technology which has since been completely destroyed by a demonic invasion.The other is a nation of Conquistadors, also adjacent to a dwarf nation, but on the other side of the ocean from the Renaissance nation. They employ black powder weapons to conquer, but they aren't very good at it. They have amazing ships, and guns almost as good as the dwarves, but due to political corruption, their conquests usually fall into despotism within a generation or two, and get reclaimed by the local population not long after that.The character in question here hails from another nation that the Conquistadors tried to conquer, but were turned back from. This character took up the defeated enemy's weapons, and left on a ship for unknown lands.</blockquote>

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