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General

  • Called the Republic of the Undergrowth, is a very limited democracy led by a council of eleven people (+ one open seat)
  • Formerly called the Kingdom of the Undergrowth, a monarchy under the Valanidiá royal family
  • very prejudiced against all “new” forms of magic
  • Exception is healing magic, which has been a part of the forests culture for longer than their kingdom existed

History (Short Version):

  • Discovery of "new" Magic
  • Reluctant Acceptance of Magic
  • Devastation caused by Magic
  • Training to combat Mages
  • The Queen's Murder
  • The following Chaos
  • Return to Order

Goal:

  • To drive out all “new” forms of magic, at least from their country if not the whole forest
  • To discover the truth about the night the queen was murdered, and bring the people responsible to justice
  • To find the Queen's brother and have him join the Council to give the new Government legitimacy 

Reasons for their Goal:

  • Their country was ravaged by Bandits wielding Mages
  • A group of mages killed their queen
  • Parts of their territory was devastated by bandits wielding magic almost immediately afterwards, they do not know if it was a coincidence or planned

Culture

  • Has developed a tendency towards Collectivism
  • Prejudice against mages and people from the Magic Faction
  • They usually live in bigger buildings with multiple families
  • They prefer to build in the shade of trees or cliffs, and rarely build in the trees
  • Prefer light and simple clothing with more exposed skin rather than less
  • Popular colors for clothing and decoration are dark green and brownish-red (color of fertile soil common in their land)
  • Close-knit Communities
  • Escape from Civilization for Privacy

Animals part of the Faction:

  • Eastern red-backed salamander [Common]
  • Eastern cotton tail (Rabbit) [Common]
  • Northern cardinal (Bird) [Uncommon]
  • White tailed deer [Rare]
  • Eastern fence lizards [Very rare, almost only the royal family]

General Style of Clothing:

  • Short, light clothing
  • often expose their stomachs or arms, but prefer to keep their entire legs covered
  • same colors as decorations usually, dark green and brownish-red

Coloring Scheme:

  • prefer darker shades of green or browns
  • use (brownish-)red for contrast, used less than green

General Design of Classes:

  • Fighters and Healers prefer the lighter clothing common to their people
  • But healers usually wear lighter green colors, and prefer to have their faces covered
  • Rangers cover their entire bodies to blend in with the environment

Preferred classes:

  • No magic classes, only support healer classes and potential variants
  • Classes focused on anti-magic combat, less prepared to deal with non-magical threats like heavily armored units
  • Majority of classes are agile units that can kill mages as fast as possible before they can cast their magic
  • Class Archetypes by rarity:
    • Rangers [Common]
    • Healers [Slightly uncommon]
    • Fighters [Uncommon]
    • Mages [None]

Style of Architecture:

  • Prefer to build wide, not tall
  • Their older buildings used to be very stylistic, but they started to build with a more utilitarian style
  • Prefer to incorporate the surroundings instead of changing it to suit the buildings
  • Usually build in the shadows of large objects like big trees or cliffs
  • Building hidden from sight because of smaller bushes and similar flora
  • Buildings use dark wood preferably, and sometimes stone if its available
  • Decoration use dark green and brownish-red

Main Biome:

  • Enormous trees
  • thick bushes, often thorned
  • predominantly larger flora, and often vines ranking around buildings, trees or cliffs
  • often foggy, lots of moss

Naming Conventions:

  • The name of their faction is "Republic of the Undergrowth"
  • They call themselves the "Shaded People"
  • Names of places usually either reference Shadows or the Undergrowth

 

Artifact

Backstory

  • First Discovery
  • Development of a Settlement
  • Activation of the Artifact
  • Tragedy inside the Artifacts Cave
  • Aftereffects of the Tragedy lasting until Today
Origin:
  • It remained undiscovered inside the heart of a cliff ever since the ancient civilization left it there
  • The entrance was covered in a cave in far later, and very likely unrelated to ancient civilization
  • It was uncovered after a powerful earthquake
Discovery:
  • More than a hundred years ago, during the time of the last queens great-grandfather
Knowledge about the Artifact:
  • They only know what they can observe with their eyes
  • They have not figured out exactly what the conditions are for people to be replicated as constructs
  • No one has ever come close enough to turn it off, if such a thing is even possible

General

Nature of the Artifact:
  • The actual artifact is found within a cave, but anything inside of its territory (the cave) is considered part of the artifact
  • Produces artificial constructs imitating anyone or anything that has passed through its halls in the last 100 years (clones random units from the Anti-Magic Faction)
Use of the Artifact:
  • They keep it tightly guarded
  • Use it for training occasionally, and sometimes let adventurers try their luck inside the maze

 

Quests

  • Encounter the former Court Mage that disappeared the night the queen died and discovering the truth
  • Finding the lost brother of the queen to bring him back and let him claim the open seat on the council
  • Working with the only survivor from the time the Artifact first activated to uncover clues about the original purpose of the Artifact(s)
  • (Minor Quest) Driving Mages out of their territory
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