>>82155056
>>82153935
>The Narwhale
>It carries the sword
>it's numbers have been increasing, the tribals know not whence
>The sacred Oil
>The sacred Oil

To add on to that, a) why does Ververia still exist and b) Why is is so big?
If we're going by the political maps devised (i.e >>82147702), Ververia is still a pretty big place, so it wasn't fully annexed by Lapsaria. Is that because annexing them was never part of the war? If so, then what did they gain from the war? Was is a pretty costly thing, and I'm not sure it would have ended without any Lapsarian territory growth unless they were eeither pushed back or if there was some other benefit from it.

>>82155094
Is thisa recommendation for tthe chart itself?

Because I'm not sure where we'd fit it (Supposedly in the Pain/Fish quadrant, unless you ahve some suggestion of ways to move stuff around.

I think the up north is mostly fleshed out. One aspect we COULD expand on is the prisons and mental asylums up in the region. Is there a secret political society in the camp., plotting a revolt? Is the commandant a heretic? Does the secret police have informers, even in the mines?

>>82155140
I don't mind if it doesn't go on the chart. But if it does, that's my recommendation

>>82155118
I think the war was to get more slabs to ground into dust.
So instead of annexing Ververia, Lapsaria got the portion of the territory it actually wanted.
As for why it's so big, maybe mostbof the territory is just tundra or sparcely populated, like alaska or siberia?

>>82155178
Then that raides other questions. The ear was declared for Slabs, but why would ververia be Slab rich if it's so far from the monolith? Is it a consequence of their specific religious practices?

>>82155118
>>82155178
>) why does Ververia
simply, because Lapsaria lost, or at least didn't win well. They responded to SOMETHING with the introdcution of industrial slab knights. They didn't go: Oh right, so slab knights, this new unit we have, works perfectly well, we don't need to upgrade it. They went: alright, this whole thing needed cannons, shit.
Literally the only chart-level canon we have on them is that thes prompted Lapsaria to upgrade some of their knights.

>>82155118
>Veveria, the Venitii's hyper-spastic cousins
>Ancestral grudges against every one of their neighbors in Lapsaria
>Local intrigues induce genuine schizophrenia in the upper castes
>Lower castes ignore it, continue tending the orchards
>State religion centered around worship of an 'ascended' Voivode
>Said Voivode is kept alive in the basement and has been mutating for several centuries
>No longer ambitious, just kind of regrets he put Veveria into a situation where the country needs meds
>Lost most of its fertile land as concessions for the Veverian incident
>Local lower casts experimenting with dust and cannons
>Once they finish organizing the upper castes legitimately don't stand a chance
>There's just one very lost Slab Knight who got taken in by a Low-Caste family and has learned to enjoy apple and pear farming
>Only country where a swift revolution will probably produce an absolutely better situation
>Schizoid Aristocrats and Priests are gonna put up one hell of a fight
>Janisseri tradition, one Janisseri in charge of the mint is the only reason the country hasn't already collapsed
>Mask Traditions similar to the Veniti, but a high-caste exclusive thing
>The North got raided again
>No one cares to help

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Any ideas?

>>82155206
Maybe, there is abit in the docs that they are more totemic than menhir and monolith based.
Maybe they just like collecting slabs and putting on an specific place.
>>82155208
But I also like this near victory, ended with a white peace and a small gain in territory.

>>82155208
I like this. They went in expecting to fight backwater tundra tribes, but the Tundra tribes knew how to use the environment (and what lives in this environment) against the Lapsarians, so they were able to mostly annex/occupy the non-frigid territories.

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I don't know who or why had the idea to make the axes Faith - Pain and Fish - Stone, and I don't know why it caught on so much, but I love how it went and how it goes.

Even if the system (even if I like the dice pool mechanic) and lore dump end up being trash fire, the compass itself and the tidbits that Anons add in those thread area pretty schway, not gonna lie.

>>82155214
so why was this slab knight central then?

I also remember something about the original slab breaker actually being from Vervaria or something?
We need to look through the past thread to see if any information that was lost before we started doing the docs.

>>82155253
It's like a Tank got bonked on the metaphorical noggin and decided to get bonked get into tractor work.
This will probably come up again but for now it's a little light point in a place that doesn't have a lot of levity.

I think I like Ververians as a mostly unimportant tribe, ideally related to the Suuri like someone in the last thread suggested. Unlike the Durites, when the Lapsarians came, they mostly just migrated a little further north, maybe beyond a river. Since the slabs have since gone haywire all over the lapsarians, the Lapsarians haven't given chase.

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Norther border officer
>Saw some shit
>In Akademia they didn't taught this
>Suuri stole all food
>Drink to get warm
>Alcoholic
>Last hand-to-hand was blood bath

>>82155325
Compare this guy and the soldier with the hero and headhunter.
The tribals are having the time of their lives with the Lapsarians in the tundra.
Probably more food them they ever had before.

>>82155325
Big fan of this guy.

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DCMA technician
>Stinks burned oil
>Lungs poisoned with chemical vapes
>Didn't see salary for three months
>Steals and sells machinery and details on black market
>At least, they feed us on job
>>82155325
>why didn't they send me to Southern border

>>82155381
they also, very likely, are getting slaughtered. We're looking a tthis from the Lapsarian perspective and hwo miserable it isto be cold, on foreign territory, and hunted, but at the end of the day, they're still an orgaized, industrialized army with no qualms of killing civilians.

>>82155325
I'd honestly perfer this guy over the Southern Border Soldier on the compass. The Southern Border Soldier makes no sense geographically, and would be more likely just the same as the Lapsarian Infantryman.

>>82155407
Lapsaria also has her resources committed to dealing with the Durites.
The North is cowboy country by comparison.

>>82155424
We should refit him to be the Vastian patrol.

>>82155436
>LIFE HAS MANY DOORS, YAKBOY!

>>82155436
>Lapsaria also has her resources committed to dealing with the Durites.
>The North is cowboy country by comparison
oh yea, it's a fucking farce of an occupation, there's a few penal colonies up there and otherwise it's just a few battalions of Lapsarians with sub-par equipment. It's just that it's not much better for the other side.

>>82155424
Tbh, I just drew him to illustrate my chart for northern border regiment

>>82155407
Eh, a bunch of their cousins died last raid, that's like a whale hunt and a large wendigo attack at once, but they also looted a bunch of trophies, got way more food and the position of hero opened up.

If Lapsaria focuse their effort inving instead of border patrol it would be different, but than again what would they want in that frozen hellscape?

>>82155436
I don't think Lapsaria's agenda or geography necessitate a Vast patrol. Hassym and Massovii and the mountains between them form enough of a barrier. Lapsaria's ambition is more on the coast and out towards the islands

>>82155496
It's not like there's a bunch of whales and potential dredging pit under the ice right?

>>82155461
Potentially, but there's a distinction in that the locals can (and need to) keep their non-combatants out of the worst of it. They also have the home-field advantage, and the wood boys have some banzai-charge mentality.
So melee is an absolute slog and the penal camps are miserable, but for everyone outside of that slog you're up the hill in the woods looking at it going: "Sure does suck over there huh?"
>Sips bark tea.

>>82155499
If their ambitions were coastal they wouldn't have bothered going inland at all. They've banned the pilgrimages but if they actually want to enforce that they need to guard their interior border.

>>82155496
Oh, any raid will likely come out completely acceptible for Suuri standards. It's more the massacres that happen whenever Lapsarians retaliate (which, as you have pointed out, is not often due to the nature of their presence) that hurt. And of course it is also right to say: well they can't find the tribes easily, and: they can be ambushed in the snow, but as with any semi-modern military, they can really make their numbers count if necessary against a less advanced opponent. I'm not saying the Suuri are being exterminated, just that it's an ugly ordeal for them as much as for the Lapsarians

>>82155530
Bah, any tribe that gets caught by those weaklings that can't even deal with a small breeze deserve what they got.
Did they get too greedy, stayed in a place too long and moved the women and children closer? Bet those dumbasses would also throw themselves at the narwhals and wendigo at the first mimicry.
Good riddance I say! Now if only those neighbour that stile our food last winter would get themselves killed as well...

>>82155492
Oh do you need illustrations for all the regiments? I'd be up for that.
>>82155566
I'm beginning to think the Suuri are a bit dickish sometimes

>>82155578
The new Suuri are full go-getter warrior culture. They didn't come here for the weather, the arrived because there was space and people to raid.
Comparatively the Old-Suuri are almost extinct and the Aemids are just chugging along in the back.

I'd also put their positions on the Lapsari spectrum as such: Old Suuri (Fish)Ie;(Worm) | 'New Suuri' Qamis (Whatever let's me hit good) | Aemids (Yak)

>>82155514
Good seed for a future conflict, but we don't want to steal the limelight from the Durite conflict.
>>82155530
>just that it's an ugly ordeal for them as much as for the Lapsarians
Different anon. I like the idea that the "conflict" is more just opportunistic - dare I say, even casual- for the Suuri, and that they have a numerical and home field advantage. I don't think everything in the setting has to be a death struggle.
The Suuri could make war on the Lapsarians, but they don't NEED to at this time. They crack skulls and swipe shinies when they feel like they'll get away with it.

>>82155618
Yeah, it's a potential plot hook for industrialists, professors or anyone that wants to keep the industry but lose the bargain.
It's food to have those in my opinion, give PCs something to accomplish.

>>82155618
I've been convinced

>>82155657
> The only way to end the bargain with the fish people and keep the industry is to go north and massacre the indigenous people
That's one hell of a choice. I like it

>>82155694
Or change the main fuel to black salt, which other than the conplete overhall nescessary, also means either a massive war with Masovii or becoming completly dependent on them.
There is no easy way out of this.

>>82155578
>do you need illustrations for all the regiments
It could be nice.

>>82155733
can you post the chart with what needs done? PLus any things you wanna have included personally

>>82155740
My fucking sides, all the memes that come out of this setting are god tier.

Where should we put her?

>>82155750
>chart with what needs done
Heh, it doesn't exist, at least for now.

>>82155241
Looks neat!
> Any ideas?
regarding the Geography? Not really. I'm thinking the southern splotches of water are meant to be swamp-esque deals, and having some cold ass swamps for the tundra people could fit

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>>82155772
damn

>>82155775
oh, arent you the military chart anon?

>>82155657
>>82155694
>>82155715
This is all weighty stuff for the players to have to navigate their way through. Good stuff
>>82155740
jej

The Aemids are just watching all this like
>"I have no control over any of this"
>Eats Nak cheese

I feel like the prisoners that escape the mine might wind up with the Aemids. They seem like kind-hearted folks.

>>82155772
>>82155787
[2,8]? though, to be fair, that'd be stretching the definition of Fish to any organic-related mutation/association

>>82155787
Honestly depends on the nature of the worm.
But probably more towards pain, if she was just a normal cultist, she wouldn't get exiled from Kyugoryo.

>>82155813
yes

>>82155787
>Where should we put her?
The Suitor's bedchamber, of course.

>>82155882
> The worms are ribbed for his pleasure

>>82155882
Oh fuck no, he's going to get worm STD.

>>82155814
>"This shit is wiggity-wack guys."
>"So anyways I started selling them droppings and cheese."
I like 'em.

>>82155893
Add it to the list.

>>82155904
Yeah, but those were local.
Now there is going to be a epidemic in Lapsaria.

>>82155939
>All according to the Alerian Merchants scheme
>The Scheme to become rich off of genital-creams

>>82155893
Implying he doesn’t already have a natural immunity

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Ok lads, I'm going to be busy for the majority of today, leaving now and won't be back until evening. When I get back I'll update the compass before continuing on the map. Pic related is the map, I need you all to start naming regions (feel free to just puts names in MSPaint) so I can later do the text along rivers/mountains and what not. I also need folks to place cities.

This is version 1, I'll nicen things up as I go (as much as I can).

To Add:
>>82153935
>>82152412
>>82155325
>>82155400
>>82155787
>>82152774
>>82149961

To Replace:
>>82146534

With all of these we'll be at 117/121, so only 4 more slots to go.

>>82155882
Can Suitor handle the maiden beneath?

>>82156012
Who do you think gave him the gifts, and how do you think they did it?

>>82156012
well, if he can't, I guess the Jessentorf Prince's job just got easier

>>82155996
might have a go at designing a narwhal

I think the grotesque tentacle mouth belongs on the arctic worm, and the narwhal should be more like the whales

>>82156186
My headcannon stil is that the narwhal is just eating a giant squid, so the tentacles are not part of him.

>>82156221
nope that image is of a narwhal with a tentacle mouth. Gotta redesign it if you don't like it.

>>82156236
Headcannon doesn't care for facts.

>>82156256
in my headconon it does

>>82156265
So it's time for a cannon war.
I'm recruiting the venitii.

>>82156284
>God please no my walls
>River gun go BOOM BOOM

>>82156301
What's a taboo or weakness for the Venitii? We haven't explored that much

>>82156314
>The mask stays on
>Oh boy here I go drowning again
>Halal but the meat needs to be pork?

>>82156314
They live in small towns and villages that flood and are quite insular.
And although they use cannons and guns, they are still better using their heirloom crossbows.
Also they spend way too much time decorating their weapons and uniforms, the weirdos.

>>82156360
>A naked weapons indicates a naked man

>>82156314
>>82156360
they also seem to have a big trade off where they sacrifice cutting edge technology (regardless of oil) for long-honed perfection, to the point where they still also construct ballistae

>>82156382
Yeah, reason they are such good cannoneers is that their skill translated well, not because they were cutting edge inovators. The fact that they also have a surprisingly pratical mentality for a people that value tradition also helps.

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>>82156580

>>82156580
And once again, another treasure is dug up from the dredging pits.

remember the salt merchant?

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>Sunset Islands Jungle
>full of rare spices and delicious fruit
>the very flowers sing to you
>hey wait, what's that spike growing out of your skin?
>w-why is IT singing?

>>82156709
Yeah, but I think that the migrant, trader and the transplant ended up taking all of his roles.

>>82156711
Maybe we should connect it with corals to prevent
multiplication of eldritch entities

>>82156810
I think that fits pretty well with the Sunset Island MO

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>>82156810
In this example, it's a land coral type thing; but more broadly the diseases in the Sunset Island jungles are extremely numerous. Everything from boils to the runs to horrible coral-spike zombies.

>>82156855
Are they actual undead, or some sort of rabies humans?

>>82156890
I don't think there's any actual undead in the setting yet, so let's not do that. The coral just puppets them around.

>>82156855
Hmm i can imagine parasitic coral polyps. Thought what if Sunset islanders were able to "domesticate" infected animals covered in coral armour and use them as a weapons? Like imagine how metal will be ride armoured zombie-elephant or zombie-whale controlled by special chemicals. To explain how disease is endemic to islands we can say that corals cannot live at low humidity and low temperature.

Really we don't have to do the coral zombie, it was just supposed to be an example.

>>82156936
Yeah im totally going to draw coral-infested war elephant

>>82156940
yea I feel like coral zombies are a bit left field

>>82157021
>>82156940
Rabid humans with parasitic coral on them fits better.

>>82157040
I agree wholebuttedly

>>82157040
It evens fits previous lore of the corals being mind altering.
It just that this time you don't even have to go out of your way to get fucked over, and you get no high from it too.

>>82156855
Maybe instead of regular jungles just go with literal land coral jungles? Anything outside the mainland is not for Vast to take.

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>>82156936
Here he comes! *toot full of pain and anger*

>>82157252
That's a bit over the top isn't it? Morrowind mushroom land are cool and exotic, but it might be too much of a shock all at once.
Maybe have some land coral frowing in some trees like vines though.

If we ever do a Sunset Island compass, the axis should be Coral-Flame, Wealth-Power

>>82157295
Coral flame is cool. Any specific reason for Wealth-power? I like it, but want to know you reasoning behind it

>>82157392
Traders vs military

>>82157398
Hmm, I'd rather have something more akin to Wealth-Faith, but we already have faith for the current one.
I think Power can have some overlap with Wealth, but as longa s we keep to other forms of power (Political, Religious, etc) it should be fine. Though this does have the consequence of estabilishing Wealth a very important part of Sunsetian culture

>>82157412
Well what's a good counterpart to Wealth then? I do think the merchants should have a lot of pull. They're the spice islands, after all.

>>82157412
Strength? Glory?

>>82157295
Oh no, it's the revenge of the Synacean Dualist.

>>82157453
It's not really dualism in this case, because the Flame is from the Oil, so if you put them on the regular compass both coral and flame would be fish aligned.

>>82157453
>>82157460
I ahd an opposite interpretation. If Flame is the Volcanoes that have been mentioned before, Flame is another apsect of the monolith, while Coral is neither Stone nor Fish, but something in the middle

>>82157460
>>82157460
I thought the flame was from the volcano.
Am I an idiot?

I'm late to the party, but I'm enjoying what is being created

>>>>82157444
82157474
Thanks for the bump anon, see you next thread.
Here's your (You) ration.

>>82157498
What the fuck happened to that post?
>>82157474
Here it is, I'm not a liar.

>>82157474
playing with dress up dolls is great fun, you should try it

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>>82157481
>>82157472
I wrote the original description of the Coral Peddler and the Sunset Islands, and to me the "Flame from Oil" worshipers were a vocal religious minority that stood against the "evil" coral drug addicts and instead pushed the "cleansing" power of Oil, as well as favoring its military applications.

>>82157513
considering the coral pedler on the compass has clear signs of oil-addiction, yellow eyes and growing scales, that can't be so diametrically opposed

>>82157435
>Well what's a good counterpart to Wealth then?
Faith would be good but repetitive. >>82157444's suggestions are good, but I think thet might have a few of the same issues.
Maybe something like Prosperity - Corruption?
I think the axii being more esoteric might lead to more interesting discussions

> I do think the merchants should have a lot of pull. They're the spice islands, after all.
I also agree with this interpretation, (even thoug it's not documented/developed yet) which is why I think Power would be counter intuitive, as it would imply Wealth isnt power.

>>82157530
I'd agree to that, but the Flame From Oil fanatics are a breed apart. Overall the Sunset Islands have deep connections to both coral and oil.

>>82157435
Oppulence - Chastity?
Property - Nature?

>>82157513
Fair, though I think there's space for both interpretations of Flame, as this can make the dynamics of the compass more interesting

>>82157513
The oil is the cleasing blood of the volcano of course.
The whales are thieves, and by killing them you are retrieving the flame.

>>82157548
>>82157563
Prosperity - Nature might be cool

I'm gonna go to bed soon. If you want a dress up doll drawn for you, give me one or two (not twenty) ideas and I may pick some to do before going to sleep

>>82157474
Well because wojak and supplements are already wall-eyed it's hard to fail at drawing modifications so everybody can contribute to the setting.

>>82157616
I want to see how you think the Yothestein prince looks like.

There's also the wendigo so we can finish up the norf.

>>82157616
Weird shepherd and his sea-cow.

>>82157672
redpill me on Yothenstein
>>82157674
what the hell are you talking about

>/tg/ getting shit done
Sounds fake

>>82157692
>what the hell are you talking about
you know. underwater manatee herders.

>>82157692
The Freeskalön people. They're swamp folk with pig-manatees. Sweet but they'll eat anything.

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>>82155783
>I'm thinking the southern splotches of water are meant to be swamp-esque deals
Tried to show pic-related terrain.

>>82157746
that's what I took it as desu

>>82157692
Shit, there was something last thread gimme a second.

>>82157692
The Jasentorf Prince
>Everyone thinks the prince is secretly an elaborate genius just playing dumb
>Is actually that dumb but things keep going in his favor because his rivals keep undermining themselves out of sheer paranoia and 4th dimensional chessing themselves
>Is genuinely just trying to have a good time and make friends and worst yet believes his rivals are being honest about being his friend
>or does he just want you to believe that?
>Prince is leaving behind evidence for Maid, as she's the best hope for doing something with it
>How the prince gathered said evidence and if he is doing so intentionally is a mystery the maid doesn't have the patience to solve
>wipes his slovenly spittle with a document on plans for the next durite pogrom
>"Here Miss, would you be a dear and take this to the trash for me?"
>The suitor is the only who is genuine with the prince
>This is because he actually believes everything the prince says because he's not paranoid and can't be intimidated
>Doesn't reveal what the other nobles think of the prince to him because he doesn't want to ruin the prince's fun
>As a result the prince and the suitor are good friends
>The suitor doesn't take advantage of this to eliminate the prince or other rivals even though he easily could
>Doesn't need to do so anyway
> the suitor knows the truth about the prince
> He's not scared shitless of how smart the prince is
> He's scared shitless of how unbelievably lucky the prince is

>>82157746
Oh. No clue what to call these, but makes sense.

>>82157768
Part 2
>The Deacon; Impossible! You've entered my most Sacred Sanctum!
>The Deacon; You dastardly Jasen demon... Tell me good prince, before I kill you. Who sent you? How did you get past my traps? And the ravenous mudskippers?
>The Prince; Oh dearie me this is your bathroom? Oh I thought I'd taken a wrong turn!
>The Prince; I'll just get out of your hair, you look like you need to use it way more than I, and I really need to use the bathroom!
>The Prince; Oh and by the way. Your dogs are very cute but they're a little wet.
>Imagine that whenever the prince is "revealed" as that dumb, it just makes the person think he's toying with them

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>>82156221
>>82156186
>>82155996
>with his tusk he hunts
>for his tusk he's hunted

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While I am happy to see all the minor nations getting fleshed out more I think now that we actually have a functional map of lapsarian's territory we need to start flushing out some of it's internals more. Specifically I looked at major cities section of the lore doc and we don't even have a name or location for the capital yet.

So here's some questions regarding that.
>what do we call the capital city
>Is it on one of the four rivers or on one of the bays that isn't Capri Bay?
>What are the demographics of the city?
>Probably come up with some ideas for the Tsarina's palace and the Deacon's Church/Cathedral
>The various districts of the city
>Is the capital the hub of the industrialization or is it another city?
>Cultural Quirks of Capital born Laprasian's versus more rural Laprasians

>>82157672
Isn't the prince already in the compass?

>>82157481
>>82157472

There are two flames : flame from the oil (religious minority, vocal among the sunset isles) and the volcano (Barbaros only).
By default, flame cultists should refer to the first.

I will try to revamp Barbaros to make them less edgy. More like sea fremens than warhammer-tier chaos worshippers.


Oh, and if there is still someplace on the compass

the Barbaros survivor :
>the gods have betrayed him
>used to be the best sailor around
>taught the durite rebel his people's secrets
>will destroy Lapsaria if it's the last thing he does

>>82157692
The Yothestein Prince
>Ancestor was one of the original Princes
>Spent the last 40 years killing his distant cousins
>Has regained his birthright
>I'm not paying those loans, lmao

>>82157768
>>82157790
Wrong prince, even if he is my favorite

>>82157789
I heard, that finns and siberian tribes know name for it.
>>82157791
Honestly, just waiting for Smug Pepe with horn.

>>82157791
Now if only it was pale like the other one, it would be the superior version.

>>82157802
>Barbaros only
Well, someone suggested making Barbaros a part of the Susnet Isles, and if we're planning a specific compass on them no reason not to include the Barbarossians. Though yeah, the term "Flame Cultists" should be primarilly related to the oil ones, we'll find another name for the barbarossians

>>82157834
might make a great white Narwhal, but first I wanna do up an arctic scale worm

>>82157834
no way, mine's much better

>>82155996
Map from last thread btw

>>82157798

I'm pretty sure all of the rivers have their own fleshed out ethnicity at this point so I think one of the bays would be most appropriate.

We still haven't decided which bay is Capri bay
But there's like a dozen smaller bays we could shove the capital into.

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Need name for red region on the map for northern border military chart. Can anons come up with something?

>>82157863
If it didn't have the beard, it would be.
>>82157798
>>82157873
Doc say old capital was between Capri and Timajor, so probably wasn't coastal.
But that can be changed

>>82157884
Perkeland.

>>82157909
Lol, Lmao

>>82157884
well it's north of the timajor, which I think has been said to be a rather barren steppe, so something like The northern Timajor plain

>>82157931
It's not a name, you wouldn't call Scotland just northern Britain.

>>82157893
the beard is what makes it good

>>82157959
The beard is what makes it bad.

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>>82157725
here you go

>>82158012
the beard is what makes it good, and you'd see it too if you weren't blinded by a desire for conventionality. Like look at these two lovers in pic related. You would deny them their unconventional love?

>>82157884
The Venitii Valley?
The Old Gate?
The Trans-Timajor Gap?

>>82155424
>Southern Border Soldier
To be honest, I like the idea of desert troops, but may be let it be auxiliary or colonial forces.

>>82158037
Absolute PERFECTION

>>82157884
Kozijec Pass

>>82158043
That'd be more a far eastern soldier than a southern one. And even then the desert is more gobhi than sahara

>>82157884
I can’t draw on my phone but that smaller bay jutting off the larger should be Capri. The one that a River is emptying out into.

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>>82155996
one question, how exactly are we divying up the rivers?
For example, the rightmost river should be tthe Nemijski since it'd be the boorder with the Durites. But would the Nemijski bee only the right most part of that river? And one of the otehr rivers that feed into it another one of the important rivers? Or would all of it be the just the Nemijski, and the other three rivers are completely separate from them?
>>82158072
Like this?

>>82158037
Jesus that’s great.

>>82158037
Absolutely gorgeous

>>82158037
But the tentacle face is the worm's thing. The narwhal is trying to steal their job!
Good job anon.

>>82158096
Move the Nemijski over, the dirtiest plane is everything east of the initial mountains.

>>82157884
I googled headwaters in Russian and it came up with Verkhov'ya, so how about something like Verkhov'ya Timajor?

>>82158133
Huh, true. I'll move it and add a couple other geographical details

>>82158119
they are brothers and the beard is their eternal bond

>>82158133
Also that one isn't the largest part of the river, so it can't be the one with the name.

Okay, how about for Sunset Islands it is Oil/Flame vs Coral, Wealth vs Secrets.
The Wealth vs Secrets being the conflict between opening the country up to export its riches across the world, and keeping the country's riches close to the chest for their own benefit.

>>82158164
>>82158149
I will try when I get back home to edit to make the Venit more on the map. I’ll see what I can do for those edits.

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>>82158201
Thanks, It'd help
>>82158149
How's this for the ethnical distribution of lapsaria? (More of a general Pictire, since tthe Unification there's been some moving around of some people, but this is their historical lands)

>>82158275
I’m gonna alter the path of the westernmost river heading into the Capri and have it head into the Venit instead.

>>82158164
>Also that one isn't the largest part of the river
The main poart of the river can be te one with the biggest flow. Maybe the longer stretch is comparatively weak, and is thus considered a tributary of one of the more volumous parts
>>82158284
that could work. Would that be te Main body of the Venit river? Or just a tributary since it seems to have nearby competition heading towards the Capri?

>>82157944
though they do call the Siberian steppe the central siberian plateau

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>>82157803
I did another one of the requested drawings

IN HONOUR OF THE NARWHAL BEARD!

>>82158275
Yechods shouldn't have a land really, they should be sprinkled all over the heartlands.
Better to have a place with a high concentration of them that is just one city in particular

>>82158275
Lapsaria of course bleeds HEAVILY into the neighbours. Timajor and Kossoki land is filled with Lapsaria-majority towns and cities

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>>82158306
Truly, the look of a man who knows he's never gonna need to pay his interest.

>>82158326
Yea. Yechods are urbanites. Craft is everything, so you go where the craft is.

>>82158306
Amazing, he really feels like a man that would pull off such this stunts.

He may have become a prince, but he has also become bald.
Was the price worth it?

>>82158275
Change Aemii to Suuri

>>82158395
Makes sense if we are going with Surii neing the collective name Lapsatians give to the northerners.
The aemii are just one more on the pile.

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>>82158326
Fair. I was kinda divided on palcing tem in the map or not, so if there's any reason not to I'll take them off.
>>82158345
>Lapsaria of course bleeds HEAVILY into the neighbours. Timajor and Kossoki land is filled with Lapsaria-majority towns and cities
Oh definitely. this is just the original ethnical distribution of these peoples, nowadays Lapsarian have spread out a lot


>>82158395
The Aemii aren't really part of the Suuri, they're the Yak herders to the north. Though I have added the Suuri

>>82158275
Adjusted a few things, and added some possible locations fo cities. Where should tthe Current capital be placed? I know in the docs it says between the Capri and the Timajor, but where exactly?

>>82158275
So is there spill across the montains of Lapsarian colonization or are they stretched to their limits (and know it, crucially) on that front?

>>82158426
Makes sense.

>>82158426
Put the new capital at the fork between the Timajor and the Lapsari Lowlands. On the western side of the fork:

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So, uh, what exactly happened in Capri Bay?

>>82158521
there's nothing unusual that happened in Capri Bay. It's just temporary closed off for construction. Nothing to see here

>>82158488
The mad prince should be more centralized, he made his life goal of unifying a princedom that was splintered.
So maybe exchange the herder and him?

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as good as I'm gonna be able to do on the arctic worm

>>82158554
Maybe the pale narwhal isn't a true narwhal, but some unholy fusion of worm and narwhal.
It's the settings holy grail.

>>82158549
But surely he wants as many powers to remain with principalities vs the greater state as possible?

>>82158554
would look better on a narwhal desu

>>82158574
or just about the last thing you want see when you're an indentured durite pow mining arctic gold

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>>82158072
>desert is more gobhi

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>>82158417
I think the Aemii are, to a certain degree, part of Lapsaria. So it wouldn't make much sense to group them with the rest of the savages.
Or at least, if they are ethnically related (Which we have no reason to belieeve yet but could be interesting) they are tamed and part of the empire, so it's useful to have the distinction in the map

>>82158431
I think since the Venit stretches outwards more westward, they might have expanded further on that front (though we'll get a clearer picture when CCa expands the map with more of the Venit). But I think tthat almost ecerything east on the Veenit they have occupied semi-extensively. I expanded them a bit westwards to represent that

>>82158475
Not sure I fully udnerstood where you mean. in my view, it should be somehwere with river access, since Riverboats are very important for transportation. Maybe upriver from Timajortura (westwards)?

>>82158531
No, seriously, good part of the Fish/Pain quadrant reference Capri Bay. I wouldn't mind leaving it purposely vague if the compass was the only source of info on the setting, but by now some extra details would be good.

>>82158581
He wants things to be more centralized into the hand of the twelve princes, now that he managed to be one once again.
The minor states can go burn for all he cares, but unless he could pull of the impossible twice and get the crown, he will oppose a single leader.
So his agenda now is oligarchy.

>>82158137
>Verkhov'ya Timajor
Verkhovoy Timajor

>>82158521
An unfortunate rebellion against the Tsarina had to be put down and the region is currently under martial law as economic reconstruction is underway.

>>82158640
I think what we have by now is that the last battle between the Navy rebels and the State happened in Capri Bay, and the defeat of the rebels helped seal the Bargain.
Ever since, that whole area has been haunted by ghost ships/ghost crew/ghost tentacles, and the likes

>>82158640
it's already plenty specific. There was an uprising, the background of which is well known, it was smashed with conventional means, the losing side that wasn't in the air looked for help from the deep and the help came in the form of making Capri Bay their cradle of ghostly immortality (or at least unageingness)

>>82158395
No, the Aemii are fine where they are on there. The Suuri ought to be north of the mountains and into the tundra. Like this>>82158426

>>82158521
Freedom died in Capri Bay.
>>82158355
>Yea. Yechods are urbanites. Craft is everything, so you go where the craft is.
Makes sense

>>82158666
>Ever since, that whole area has been haunted by ghost ships/ghost crew/ghost tentacles, and the likes
Is there any evidence of this? I think this is just secessionist/aerialist rumormongering.

>>82158679
>the losing side that wasn't in the air looked for help from the deep
I don't think it was willing. At least, from what has been discussed, the"Bargain" mentioned in the description of the Capri Bay Ghosts is the same bargain that brought the Oil, and the battle at Capri Bay was somewhat of a sacrifice for the Brackish Ones.

>>82158666
There was also something about the cities and towns on the bay being depopulated afterwards and falling into ruin, people being taken into the mists. The cleaner squads gotta be cleaning something.
>>82158679
As far as I know the last captain and the capri bay ghosts didn't go willingly, they were sold out by the deacon to seal the bargain.

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So, I think it is the best name suggestion and we can keep them both here. All agree?

>>82158737
I think I like the latter better

>>82158705
>I don't think it was willing. At least, from what has been discussed, the"Bargain" mentioned in the description of the Capri Bay Ghosts is the same bargain that brought the Oil, and the battle at Capri Bay was somewhat of a sacrifice for the Brackish Ones.
As I see it, Capri Bay wasn't any kind of sacrifice in the metaphysical sense that they had to pay some blood debt or whatever. It was just the findal step by the Tsar/the Deacon to full adherence to the boons of the bargain. It's the point of no return: Once you've actively murdered everyone against it, there are none left that aren't children of the king.

>>82158679
>it's already plenty specific. There was an uprising, the background of which is well known, it was smashed with conventional means, the losing side that wasn't in the air looked for help from the deep and the help came in the form of making Capri Bay their cradle of ghostly immortality (or at least unageingness)
See, I wouldn't say it's specific, because I thought that it wasn't a crushed rebellion against Ancient Régime, but betrayal of loyal men by Tsarina to sacrifice them for the Bargain.

>>82158755
We can use Verkhovoy Timajor as official name for the region, while the small valley will be better known as Kozijec path.

>>82158759
>Once you've actively murdered everyone against it, there are none left that aren't children of the king.
Huh, i didn't think of it that way. I quite like it.
The onlyproblem with this interpretation would be some of the wording in the compass, that seems to imply the people that died were to a certain degree a payment (Brackish ones: "Collected Payment for the Bargain"; The last Captain: "Taken by the Brackish Ones")
These two pieces of lore could be unrelated, but I think it'd be pretty off. So we know to a certain degree the death of the rebels was payment to something, though what is a good question

>>82158808
That's not a problem though if you assume that the way he was taken was by forcing him into an unwinnible scenario. He was taken by the brakish ones liek a daughter may be taken by an abuser, he was forced to embrace them. And the sailors were collected as payment in exactly that non-metaphysical way above: Those which did not die were driven into the arms of the deep.

Could someone explain why there's tension between the Kossoki priest and the Lapsarians? I thought the Kossoki were supposedly devout in the Lapsarian faith.
And does the Lapsarian faith contain the worship of all 4 deep ones?

>>82158772
I think the timeline we had a couple of threads ago helped sort the order of events and make thing a bit clearer, but we haven't really incorporated the information we crystalized from that timeline anywhere. We should probably do it

>>82158865
just ethnic tensions. From the side of the Kossoki priest, it's the common Kossoki attitude that Lapsarians can be tricked and exploited as much as you want as long as it's not hurting the faith, and from the side of the Lapsarians it's the idea that Kossoki are unwashed savages that soemtimes have to be removed to make room for more important stuff.

>>82158865
Because the Kossoki priest is loyal to the Lapsarian faith.
The Deacon has betrayed the faith and went for the King Fisher, but it's still faking being the head of the faith.
Kossoki priests are probably being purged under the excuse of betrayal or ethinicity, when in truth is killing true faithful and putting tjose that are actually loyal to the Feacon himself in place.

Can't find lore for Hassyim, plz hlp.

>>82158865
Lapsarian faith worships no deep ones, they worship a sea god in the more conventional sense.

Think like Poseidon

cults dedicated to the king and his court are outlawed in Lapsarian lands

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>>82158958
> "Oh, fuck you stone man. Maybe you and I should settle it right here on the oil-ring if you think you're so tough."

>>82158967
Is that all?

>>82158958
> The Hasyym, mountaineers whose gods were abandoned to worship pure oil, feverishly loyal to the Lapsarian crown (who supply them oil). While technically not part of Lapsaria, the Hasyym have grown so dependent on their Oil and Exports they are almost completely dominated by them, both Economically and in Spirit.
Still very WIP, but this is the general gist

>>82158962
>they worship a sea god in the more conventional sense.
>Think like Poseidon
that is not settled lore, that's still debated in the google doc. As the guy who made all the religious wojaks, I included a lot of fishy hints, but not to imply that they were worshipping an Ocean god but just as a fun metatextual reference to their current corruption

>>82158958
Afghanistan, but oil is their drug of choice.

>>82158977
All that matters, yes

>>82158981
What real culture I can relate to them?

>>82158865
Tensions are mostly down to the extreme disrespect for royal authority on the part of the Kossoki, and the Lapsarian view that if they're not following the crown on crown land they should be purged from it.

>>82158988
>>82158962
There's also one idea that they were iconoclast stone worshippers.

>>82158948
>>82158962
could you elaborate a bit more more on the Deacon subverting the faith, and what the difference is? I wasn't here those earliest threads.
>>82158977
Pseudo-Arab oil addicts who have whored out their country to the Tsar.

>>82159000
People like to associate them with middle eastern influences (Like >>82158996), but the specifics of their culture are still up in the air.

>>82159000
Here you go
>>82158996

>>82159019
I thought that was for Ververia

>>82159000
They're Caucasians. Like, Mountain Caucus Caucasians.

>>82159025
There is a lot that is still undecided, but there also many ideas on the doc.
I would take a look on the kossoki and political section to get some of the basics.
There also was the timeline one anon was working on, it also helped.

>>82159025
>could you elaborate a bit more more on the Deacon subverting the faith,
The Deacon helped make the Deal with the Ocean Gods/brackish Ones/Hooks, and has remained in contact with them ever since, appeasing the Ocean Dwellers and pushing for their needs.
But the original faith of Lapsaria isn't the Ocean Creatures, but something else (Apparently still under discussion), so by dealing with these eldritch creatures an pushing their agenda, the Deacon is corrupting and subverting the Lapsarian Religion, as he is the head of the religion and his actions/words have a heavy impact on the worshippers.

>>82159067
Iconoclast Ververia idea appeared later, and for a completly different reason. (Bot having acess to the vast/surii influences vs jasentorfs fleeing the country after losing their heated religious debate and converting a pre-tsar).

>>82159137
Although if both were stone iconoclast, the ververia campaign could add an extra layer of betrayal.
These two countries that were one of the few that agreed on the issue suddenly going to war against one another.

>>82159093
That said all that business is only really known to the Deacon

Like I said before, the issues between the Kossoki and the Lapsarians stem from the fact that the Kossoki generally don't pay taxes or tithes, travel where they want without regard for borders or property ownership, don't use Lapsarian minted currency, doing most of their business with the bartering of goods, and have individuals or bands that on occasion turn to banditry to get loot or just cause issues for Lapsarians, whom they don't particularly respect as they find their way of life makes them weak and culturally repressed

>>82159181
>That said all that business is only really known to the Deacon
Probably, but tat doesn't stop other priests from judging he's acting odd regardung their faith and start resenting him for that.

Here is a new version of Barbaros. The original, edgier one was what young Lapsarians learn at school


>Volcano island, much further from the Vast than the rest of the archipel (symptom of the monolyth's growing influence over the sea)
>The sea is a benevolent father, he brings food and freedom to the worthy
>the land is a brutal and fickle mother, she may burn and explode any time
>Barbarosians live most of their lives on their ship. They are peerless sailors.
>Spending time on land is unhealthy, cowardly and evil.
>Develop unique shipwright, including whale bones in the construction for extra sturdiness and flexibility
>take away the pain with corail, oil and meditation
>Most of them show some minor mutations
>when the sea is flat, you'll find most of the crew floating on their backs around the ship
>ruthless pirates, they have been ransomming most of the archipel for as long as anyone remembers. Several expeditions failed to thwart them
>Captain Sefa alledgedly circumnavigated the Vast all the way to Jem-Kyugoryo, and came back with mountains of precious stones.
>The other sunset islanders don't have too much to fear, though. Cultural proximity and religious edicts turned piracy into surprise taxation/trade opportunity
>to heretical, stone-worshipping mainlanders, there is no such mercy. They are enslaved and sold to the sunset markets.
>There are no slaves on Barbaros. No stranger is allowed to set foot on the sacred island and live.
>Twice a year, for the solstice celebrations, every captain sails back to Barbaros, their holds full of treasures and captives.
>To thank the ocean for its generosity, gold and gems are thrown to the sea.
>To quench the volcano's thirst for blood, prisoners are thrown into the pit. A select few are held above the crater, breathing noxious fumes. Their delirious babbling are the only way to predict the mountain's demands.

>>82159330
>That was until the fire witch came. The fumes did not weaken her the slightest. She was grey-skinned, white-eyed and her breath smelled of sulfur and death.
>She prophetized a time of war and struggle, a time where Barbarosians would have to prove they were the true heirs of the sea.
> She asked for gold, jewels, servants, but above all she asked for Lapsarian blood.
>A conflict was inevitable either way. A recent increase in whales population had made ship building much easier, and Barbaros' main export much less valuable.
>Lapsarian whalers were caught, pillaged, sacrified to the volcano.
>Even their mighty cannons merely kept them safe in the open. Should visibility decrease, and the nimble sloops would catch the steamers off guard, board them with a shipful of fanatical demons, or blow up their fragile engine with a well-placed oil bomb.
>Lapsarians answered with airships and aviation and, for a while, it was a standstill. The spice road was Barbaros', the oil trade was Lapsaria's.

>Then came Our Lady in Grey. A monster of a ship, unlike anything they had seen before. All attempts to stop it failed miserably as it cut a bloody path through the archipel, bringing the lapsarian fleet in its wake.
>One thing the Lapsarian's school books depict with great exactitude is the battle for Barbaros, the crushing defeat of the islanders, and the bombardment that followed.
>On the third day, the volcano erupted as the Lapsarian navy departed. It was the summer solstice.

>The sea had a new chosen people. There has't been any serious attemps at a counter-attack by the barbarosian exiles.
>Every crew either died or fled this fateful day. Cowards and dead mens don't make a good army.
>Scattered, their diaspora did bring one last curse upon the landdwellers.
>Fish cults have been appearing steadily on the coastline during the pas years. Barbaros may be destroyed, but its forbidden knowledge lives on.

>>82159181
>>82159199
>>82159093
Alright, since the people who are legally heretics are in fact alligned with the deacon, the Order of Ichtys suppresses who? Or is that still WIP?

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>>82159569
I tried to answer it here >>82159343
tl;dr : the Lapsarians fought a foreign people for king fisher's favors.
Their diaspora is spreading uncontrolled fish worship everywhere, especially among the regime's opponents.

>>82159569
it surpresses all manner of heresies that pose a threat to the Deacon, whether they tend monolith or fish, and it does also actually surpress hooks and such, in an opaque labyrinth of mutual secrecy.

>>82159330
>>82159343
Could someone just read the few sentences on the square of the king fisher before doing stuff about his 'favored'

>>82159604
Cool. The Battalions could use some nicknames to make them unique. Maybe the cities they come from and such.

>>82159809
I wrote this from the Barbarosian's perspective. The fight with Lapsaria was just a regular war for water supremacy,but to them it was the proof that King Fisher had abandonned them.

>>82159000
Do you have to relate them to a real culture???

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>>82157791
Thought of an idea to keep both Narwhals
>The Arctic Tongue worm
>relative of the predatory arctic worm
>Parasite that infests it's hosts by devouring their tongue and latching themselves on in it's place
>use a toxin to prevent the host from moving it's jaw so it can't bite the worm's tendrils
>when they hatch they are roughly the size of human hand, but they keep growing throughout their lifetime
>largest specimen ever found was inhabiting a great white Narwhal, a larger species than the more common black arctic Narwhal
>It's unlikely they can grow much larger as the great white is the largest species that can be found in arctic waters
>theoretically could inhabit a human, but no cases have been documented

>>82160094
I like it, but it would probably need another way to not be biten off rather than just stop chewing, unless it's a parasite that doesn't care if it's host starving to death.

>>82160094
>>82158554
>Predatory Arctic Worm
>evolved to hunt on ice and sea
>blind, it detects prey in the sea through the use of specialized organs that run the length of it's body that pick up the electric impulses of it's prey's nervous system
>on land it uses it's bristle like fins to detect the vibration from prey's footsteps
>burrow themselves into the ice, and launch themselves upwards when prey are near
>can usually be found in large groups, and the vibration from one attacking will usually cause nearby worms to spring from the ice and attack as well.
>eat a lot to store energy in the harsh arctic environment, an adult worm can consume up to two adult human males.

>>82160172
it would likely just allow the host to have enough of the prey to survive

>>82160172
The worms wouldn't just replace the tongue, but also take over the functions of the now petrified jaw as well, using its tendrils to snare and rip apart prey which it then feeds to the narwhal.

>>82160309
I'm glad my little joke character is getting mileage.

>>82160281
This works for me.

>>82159604
for the record, the pluralization, singular and demonym of Kossoki is Kossoki

The language is like the people, it carries only what is necessary

>>82158554
You forgot to make the background transparent.

>>82160684
this is true, I'll probably get in and edit that when I can

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>>82160757
I ended up editing to go on the doc, but if you have the original file it might be better.

>>82160821
yea I still have it, I'll just have to cut it out manually cause just making all white transparent is gonna poke a bunch of holes in the worm

>>82160309
>>82161343
This is the type of high art that the Tsarina hangd in the palace.

>>82161343
>Every night before I go to bed I hear them screaming Perkele and using each other like drumsets
What a fucking nightmare.

Is the tree bark bulletproof?

>>82162260
At this point? With the materials the New Suuri have?
Yes.

>>82162374
That's fucking scary.

>>82162260
Probably a bit, might be able to tank a shot or two depeding on who good it lands.
Surii trees are fucking bullshit, gotta thank everything that bark is heavy, otherwise we would have to deal with the local chieftain and the tribals in full bark.

>>82162377
Yes.
Now affix your bayonet soldier.

>>82162260
Most treebark is normal tree bark. However, a certain type, prepared a certain way known only to the Suuri tribes, makes for very lightweight and penetration-resistent plates.

We haven't named the tree yet, so feel free to.

>>82162386
At that point I dunno if bayonets will do much. I'd pull out a grenade instead.

>>82162260
if you hit a thick bit it might stop it, you definitely don't wanna be around when they get in fishbone shanking distance though

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>>82162374
The Suuri are basically just really cold zulus but the bullet resistant hide shield are replaced with stong tree

>>82162439
cartridges don't exist yet

it's early percussion hours out here

Honestly, the surii and the venitii are my favorites cultures so far.
They feel like they are in that sweet spot for me between familiar and strange, having enough uniqueness without being too overwhelming.

>>82162458
But volley guns are possible...

>>82162409
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03W9l0G6ymo

>>82162509
Lapsarian organ guns tearing arctic tribals to shreds is the only music I need

>>82162439
>>82162458
I think there was a pre-cartridge weapon that existed in real life like this, a Puckle Gun, but they saw no use beyond the prototype stage. But still, food for thought.

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>during raids, the suuri will not hesitate to pilfer coins from dead or dying Lapsarians even though they do not use the currency, preferring to barter
>instead, they take their bounty to their tribes armorworkers or weavers and have the metal embedded in their wood armor, or sewn into their hide undershirts.
>this doubles as armor and decoration; the metal strengthening the armor and the decorations show how successful their bearer has been during battle

>>82162586
would have tried to drawn the shirt on a suuri but I'm shit at drawing

>>82162586
This does feels like something they would do.

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>>82162577
It’s flintlock too
Extra kosher
I could totally see this in the Lapsarian army, and I feel like they’d be pretty handy on the airships

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>>82162548
>Suuri tribal warband cresting the hill, forming their famous "Mammoth Tusk" infantry formation to flank and overwelm the enemy at the same time
>Type 48 Rifles firing volley upon volley into the waves of tribals, all seems lost
>suddenly from over the next hill - barely heard above the howling blizzard - comes the first set of shells from the volley guns, as rocket batteries open up to provide indirect fire support
>"Praise the Deep for the Venitii"

>>82162623
So what’s gonna be main rifle of the northern border force?

I’m thinking like old flintlocks converted to percussion, so they don’t take the new production rifles away from the Durite front

>>82162586
I like this as a concept, but we have people with bark Armor, People with Coin Armor, Ceremonial Hero clothing, etc etc etc.
Unless we're able to clearly make these concepts in unison, it'll just feel like something where we throw in together everything that sounded cool, but the whole will be discordant

>>82162685
They use the coins as the eyes of the animals in their bark armor.

>>82162685
Well there was the idea that suuri was just the name Lapsarians use for all northern tribes, kinda like how Europeans just called everyone in the Arctic eskimos

So could be a few different tribes.

>>82162707
>So could be a few different tribes.
That's how I was seeing it as well, but it's important to make this distinction clear when we're putting it down in writing.

>>82162623
>>82162661
If they had the money and motivation to suppress the Suuri, they could try and make a go of it - but as of right now the Lapsarians hold the zones they want and stick to fortified positions where Suuri charges aren't useful. The Suuri aren't trying to eradicate the Lapsarians, they enjoy their loot too much, and trolling them is too fun. The Lapsarians aren't trying to wipe out the Suuri, just hold the goldfields and hot springs (where the asylums are, to help patients heal). To well and truly break the Suuri would require the proliferation of the railroad and the extinction of the Narwhals the Suuri depend on. And that's just too damn much money.

It's not a extermination/death battle, and neither side wants to escalate it to one. Yet.

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>>82162685
I feel like it works pretty well with the general idea of the suuri being a bunch of different tribes each with a different tradition or style of armor making, especially since both the general designs of the wood armor and the coin armor are both taken from real Tlingit armor.

>>82162738
Not too mention there's nothing of true value in the tundra, at least for Lapsaria right now.
And the Surii are hardly united, so it's not like they could push south in mass ou of nowhere.
Potential plot hooks is the lifeblood of settings

>>82162725
But the Lapsarians definitely don't make a distinction. It's kind of like how Rome saw the Gauls, unified under a "king" that was just the leader of a confederation against Rome in actual fact.

>>82162794
>ancient strange ruins are discovered by a prospector in the frozen wastes
>the university wants to investigate them but they’re deep in Suuri territory
>local hired guns and explorers set off on an expedition for the university to see that the secrets of the ruins stay within Lapsaria

>>82162923
I was thinking more about this
>>82155514
>>82155694
>>82155715
Or a Surii Pc party unitying the tribes and deciding to have a party at the capital.

But the more the merrier.

Changing the topic a little bit:
>How does the salt trade in Lapsaria work?
>are the Masovii pushing it in an "official" category?
>Besides the prized Black Salt, what kinds of salt are there?

>>82163021
There must be some sort of calming salt, so they can be used as drugs.
Maybe a salt that helps cauterize wounds, the sand salt? Hurts like a bitch though.
And there's also slat salt. It makes things salty. That's all.

>>82163021
>>82163053
Black salt is industrial fuel. Kind of a coal equivalency. Longtime exposure could both rot the lungs and cause hallucinations of some kind. Could be used as a drug but would be the equivalency of huffing straight diesel.

Red Salt could be the drug version. Pure red would be old school shaman-quality stuff, while the version peddled in cities would be cut to hell and back and would be off color to a degree. Shades of color could represent quality. Worst version would be cut with black salt and would pretty much just be krokodil.

White Salt is just straight up table salt. Would still be a huge trade item.

Sand Salt will near instantly stop open wounds from bleeding and will prevent infection from setting in but is a horribly painful experience and the skin there (though still flesh) will always have a sand-like texture. Trying to fix internal injuries or head wounds with sand salt has horrifying and usually lethal results.

>>82163235
>>82163235
Pink salt is an ultra relaxing drug that dims pain, very much like an opioid in effect. Special treatment of this drug causes memory loss, which in old Siglaff was only used as the most dire of punishments.
Now in the modern age, pink is frequently trafficked out into Lapsaria where it is sold for 'medical treatment.'

Chromatic salts are very rare, and will induce longevity in the consumer. However overconsumption can be fatal. In old legends, when Masovii was a kingdom the first King Lecht sought the 'rainbow salt' to achieve immortality, and for his arrogance his body turned into Chromatic salt after swallowing heaps of it. Afterwords, his statue was devoured by the court, who swore to never indulge in such things. While the legend of Lecht is considered fiction, many noble lines of the Masovii trace their legacy back to 'court members' of Lecht who allegedly partook of his salts. The Siglaff also have a version of the tale, and many tribesmen still proudly proclaim the old Masovii sent back the remaining rainbow salt left over from Lecht.

'Mustard' Salt is a very dangerous type that can knock a man out and kill him in only a few minutes. While it is too strong in smell to be used as a poison, the Siglaffi and later the Masovii made use of the salt as a means to end the suffering of terminally ill and mortally wounded people.

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>>82163053>>82163235
>>82163372
Loving the salt details. Will round out the resource very nicely.
Have a meme for your troubles.

>>82163404
>that lord colonel of the airforce
kek

>>82155056
>A beautiful young sculptor emerges in one of the cities, crafting a masterpiece
>Her heritage becomes the source of much debate, as it is unclear whether she is of Durite or Lapsarian origin
>The debate carries with it the weight of propaganda as the Durites wish to claim her and her work as a symbol of the rebirth of the Stonesong and of Durite nationalism
>The Lapsarians wish to claim her as a way to humiliate the Durites -- "we can outdo you at your own ancestral arts"
Who is she? What did she sculpt? Does she have the gift of Stonesong?

>>82163235
>>82163372
>>82163021

Blue Salt comes from salt rocks that are washed up from the ocean. When sprinkled among sea weed fields they grow fallow and are unable to reproduce. Was summarily outlawed when one seaweed plantation owner used it to destroy one to many rivals.

>>82163404
good one

>>82163235
I like all of these.
>>82163372
Chromatic feels like it's stepping on oil's toes, but I like the myth.
Pink seems to be more a refined form of red rather than it's own thing, maybe by carefully mixing other salts together?
Mustard I enjoy because it means that in there is going to be war-crimes in the future.

Anyway this has been salt review.

>>82163476
Chromatic is kind of the inverse of the oils. Where Oil has gotten ubiquitous, Chromatic salts are basically non-existant now. There's no whales to produce them, and the veins of Chromatic salt have long since run dry.

>>82163463

A sculpture of the Tsarina of course, so beautiful and life like it rivaled the real thing. She has the stonesong but isn't a durite but lapsarian born but she keeps this all a secret for the sake of her sanity. She still gets dreams that keep her up at night, of stone and song and rune and of places and things she has never seen or been to and she fears what these visions might mean.

Ok, I am finally back from being out all day and will add all that stuff to the chart we've been waiting on.

>>82163463
An Aemid.
An Yak.
She has the gift of a good hammer arm.

>>82163021
>>82163235

As for how the actual salt trade works, well it's mined like any other stone but the different types of salt mines are scattered throughout Lapsarian land. Of course the there's many potential but yet untapped salt veins in durite territory.

The mining process is grueling as miners require cumbersome breathing helments to keep from breathing in and succumbing to the salt particles suffocating the air down there. Especially dangerous Mustard salt mines as you can imagine. Pink salt miners have to be reprimanded to keep their helmets on in order to keep them from getting so blissed out they can't work.

As for the movement of the product. For far off mines horse drawn salt caravans are formed and have to hire local militia or adventurers to protect the caravans from salt addicts or bandits.
For salt mines closer to to cities horseless carriages and armed city gaurd help protect the caravans.

Once in the cities proper the salts that are legal products are sent to factories to be cut, graded for quality, and packaged before sending them out to the shops.

Illegal salts on the other hand, such as red salt, have to be smuggled into the cities and are used in what amounts to basically crack dens, and as said earlier, cut to hell and back with other cheaper salts to keep cost down but still give customers the high they want.

>>82163667
>>82163476
I like this, but I feel like Pink salt should be a version of Red salt. Like the most commonly used or most accepted version of it. Cocaine vs Coca leaves type deal.
Red is the uncut stuff, Pink is what everybody wants and what the wealthy get, the off-color stuff is what the poorer have to make do with, the almost brownish stuff being what the suicidality addicted make due with.

In Lapsaria it could be a thing where the sale of Pink is legal and the use accepted (as long as it passes a shade test) but other forms of red are illegal. Red because of its use by stone shamans, and the off-colors for being unregulated and dangerous.

>>82163404
Lapsaria has all the watches, but the Durites have the time.

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>>82163235
>>82163372
>>82163469
As one of the people who's probably wrote the most for the Masovii, I feel like having eight different kinds of magic salt is sorta fucking silly. There's enough going on there that this feels like overkill.
I'm more a fan of there just being regular salt, and black salt, which does enough on it's own. As far as the drug effects, it's the same thing as people huffing petrol or the like, except now in a snortable/topical powder form.

>when Masovii was a kingdom
Masovii was never a kingdom. It's a commonwealth of tribes. They were each their own but have joined together long quite a while ago into the commonwealth.

>>82163667
>the different types of salt mines are scattered throughout Lapsarian land
They're not in Lapsaria. It's a completely different country.
>As for the movement of the product. For far off mines horse drawn salt caravans are formed and have to hire local militia or adventurers to protect the caravans from salt addicts or bandits. For salt mines closer to to cities horseless carriages and armed city gaurd help protect the caravans.
Mines are established as being under the jurisdiction of the Shamans, who oversee the salt producing areas both religiously and politically. They're horse based people, so the salt is likely moved that way. It's less a business and more of an institution - the salt trade is directly controlled, carried out, and protected by the government.
>Illegal salts on the other hand
The movement of black salt into Lapsaria is done through Sligaffi smugglers. The legality is a grey area politically - and is kept there because of Masovii influences in the Tsarina's court. The need to smuggle it in is not because of an outright ban, but largely due to opposition from the Oil-based Tycoons and riverbarons, who have been actively trying to wield their own influences (and small private armies) to disrupt industrialist businesses that use Black Salt instead of Oil - attacking shipments and the like.

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>>82163882
>Be Laprasian City Constable
>Perform a raid on a salt den
>Half the addicts scatter as the officers swarm in, the other half to blissed out to even notice or be able to moved if they did
>my officers pin the dealer to the wall, A fuckin' sligafi by the looks of him
>Whip out my red salt quality color swatch and compare it to the open bag on the table
>It's a dark muddy red, almost as low quality as it gets
>"Alright you scum where's the good shit" I demmand
>rifle through his pockets and find a pouch of some of the purest red I've ever seen
>"Alright take him to the station, we'll figure out who his supplier is later, bring in a wagon to haul all this shit out of here"

>>82164049
I agree with nearly all points here.
> I feel like having eight different kinds of magic salt is sorta fucking silly
So do I. There is a current gap regarding recereational salt usage, and I think having another fuel/drug like oil would be repetitive so black salt shouldn't be it, but we certainly don't need a whoel rainbow of different salts.
> It's a commonwealth of tribes
This.
> They're not in Lapsaria. It's a completely different country.
I assume this was a mistype from anon, but in case it wasn't, yeah, salt is Mined in Masovii/Sligaff
> he legality is a grey area politically - and is kept there because of Masovii influences in the Tsarina's court. The need to smuggle it in is not because of an outright ban, but largely due to opposition from the Oil-based Tycoons and riverbaron
This. Having the conflict be more economical than actively legal is much more interesting, and helps provide more interesting dynamics within Lapsaria.

>>82164049
>>82164089
I feel like limiting the salt types to Black, White, and Red might be the best way to do it. That way you still get the industry salt, salt salt, and drug salt without getting too crazy.

>>82164049
>>82164089

Alright fair enough, didn't actually know where salt was coming from, I assumed it was mined anywhere salt veins could be found.

With that said, how about we just stick with Black, White, and Pink

Pink salt is a real thing in the real world and comes in a variation of shades. We could have the pink stuff be the common use pain reliever but the hard shades of red being basically opium.

>>82164113
>I feel like limiting the salt types to Black, White, and Red might be the best way to do it. That way you still get the industry salt, salt salt, and drug salt without getting too crazy.
Was about to type this.
Hell, if we need more salt types maybe combining these salts result inn differnt things. Like Mixing Red and White Salt results in a less actively agressive drug that's used for medicinal purposes and as an anesthetic (Like Opioids), but it's not a resource found in the wild outright.

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