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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4004345" data-attributes="member: 13966">Well, this is all I have written down for now about the Nega Imperium in my Aurelia homebrew, amidst the Draegi racial entry in my HR thread.  My campaigns have thus far been mostly rural/wilderness adventures, or taking place in a single good kingdom, so there hasn't been a lot of evil-empire stuff going on in the foreground of the campaigns so far."The Mentari tribes who befriended negative energy outsiders to further their power were quickly forced away from the other Mentari tribes, before they could capitalize on their frightening new allies, and these exiled Mentari fled underground for a time, eventually producing half-outsider offspring from relations with those negative energy creatures. Over time, as fewer outsiders joined these Mentari tribes, that part of the race became what it is now, the Draegi, altered humans with distant negative energy outsider ancestry.The progenitors of the Draegi made frequent attempts to conquer the other Mentari tribes on the surface, until the gods destroyed the majority of the Mentari people. Afterwards, the Draegi lived upon the surface but still held many strongholds deep beneath the ground, in the borderlands alongside the Negative Energy Plane. The Draegi now live in various large strongholds and a few sprawling farm communities near those, with nearly all Draegi settlements belonging to the singular Nega Imperium.This government encompasses the sparse underground communities along the Negative Energy Plane borderlands, and also various surface territories held by the Draegi and their few allies. The Draegi have had several centuries, perhaps a couple of millenia even, to build and secure their surface strongholds, and have been slowly growing in number and influence during that time. They have brought several orcish tribes, giantish clans, Gnoll clans, corrupt Dwarven delves, and others into their Imperium as subjects and slaves.The Nega Imperium built by the Draegi is now the strongest power in the subterranean realms, and is strong enough on the surface not to be trifled with. Still, the Draegi were never as numerous as the other common races, so they still don't represent any serious threat, and likely won't for a few more centuries to come. Nonetheless, they have gained allies and slaves for their empire, and are at least a dire threat to a few individual surface kingdoms.The Draegi build their structures to be sturdy and long-lasting, with resilient and strong materials and often a gothic appearance. While the Draegi are relatively barbaric and cruel, their civilization is functional and not entirely oppressive. The Nega Imperium has many slaves who are treated poorly and cruelly, but citizens are allowed to do nearly anything they like without punishment, though Draegi military sentries patrol the Imperium settlements regularly and in great numbers. Citizens who do act against the interests and loose laws of the Imperium are quickly noticed, tortured, and slain by sentries, without trial.However, the ranks of the sentries are carefully monitored and chosen, so most Imperial sentries do not just commit wanton violence. Draegi are generally loyal to the Nega Imperium and its Imperator, but those who feel neglected, left out of important battles or duties, treated unfairly, or wronged by the Imperial leaders may sow dissent occasionally and try to overthrow the Imperium, though such rabble-rousers are quickly ferreted out and dispatched. A fair number of Draegi live outside the Imperium however, living amongst other races and trying to be accepted."</blockquote>

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