The Continent

The Continent is a strange land, one of contrast and extremes. There are only two main seasons on the Continent, with brief transition periods in between. The sun scorches the land for 120 days of the year then exeunts leaving the world in darkness for just as long

Several unique groups vy for hegemony over their neighbors. Alliances and coalitions rise and fall, with no one people able to gain the upper hand in the fighting.With the reappearance of the dreaded Tumult, a powerful current separating the Continent from the old world, it is anyone’s guess who will come out on top. Will you be able to lead your people to victory over your adversaries?

Lore

  The Continent came to be settled many thousands of years ago by a nomadic steppe people called the Göçebe.

Almost a millenia prior to now a group of pilgrims from the West established themselves there, who would call themeslves the Rischnoy.

Followed by their cousins, the Bergmenschen…

Next were the commerce driven Jaiting who multiplied rapidly.

Lastly, a great military empire called the Dominion decided to make the Continent a new theater in their centuries long conflict.

    These 6 people held sway for many years until an event now called the First Tumult made navigation to the Continent impossible. Cut off from their progenitors and the rest of the world, the Continent became a battle for hegemony, with the clear odds-on favorite being the numerically superior Dominion. In 210 AT (After Tumult) a coalition against the Dominion was formed and the disease-ridden Dominion was overwelmed and defeated. Reduced to a fraction of its former territory and highly fragmented, the Dominion would never again reach such heights.

     Ever since the War of the Coalition, at least one of these 6 powers has been at war with another for the entire 423 years. The Rischnoy battle the Pagans in holy wars of conversion. The Jaiting and the Imperium wage perennial civil wars and the Hoxons battle amongst themselves when they are not holding off raids from the Skargad. The Skargad battle everyone, as is their way.

     The First Tumult subsided roughly a generation after the War of the Coalition, with new interested parties setting to work on the less developed Continentals almost immediately. The Umndeni managed to carve a chunk out of a Dominion coastline where they grow their presence by the day, and the Yukimoto have created a haven for piracy and plunder on a former Skargad isle. 

     It seems the Continent would have been completely divided between these old world powers had it not been for the Second Tumult, even more devastating than the last, able to destroy even the most advanced Jaiting Galleons in its currents. There are many lines to be drawn, progeny vs progenitor, Pagan vs Triumvir, outsider vs Continental. Now the fate of the Continent is anyone's guess.

The Commonwealth

The Commonwealth emerged after the fracturing of the Reich, caused largely by religious differences. Unable to survive as independent Duchies, the southern and more populist nobles were forced to band together to defeat the more powerful northern royalists. With a constitution (the first on the Continent) celebrating nouveau riche upstarts, the Commonwealth is full of people of low birth looking to make a name for themselves.Though they have fought many wars against the Republic, their shared faith has made unlikely allies of the two Hoxon polities.

The United Kingdom of Great Yolgovy

  After the War of the Coalition settled the problem of possible Dominion hegemony for the time being, the Rischnoy were beset by a unified Göçebe. It wasn’t until the proliferation of firearms that they were able to resist with any efficacy. Soon after the Poskolish fought a 9 year war of independence, with relations very tense to this day. The United Kingdom is also infamous for straining relations by way of its Holy wars, both for those attacked and the church-obligated foreign participants. Yolgovy has had a run of bad luck with its leaders in recent years, culminating in the current succession crisis the United Kingdom is still experiencing. A successful coup was staged to oust the possibly mentally disabled and politically uninterested hereditary leader, but now political power comes from the sword and not from the mandate of god.