>>5263348Pregame Nation: The Arcadic Republic
game it was from: 3QM; slightly altered lategame/post leaving
name used now: The Arcadic Dictatorship
fluff/lore: When the Arcadic Republic was born is was born in revolution; born in the desire to be ruled without kings and without false gods. A nation ruled by mages elected by the mage populace, to lead the city to greatness. As the world was further explored they at first defied the gods' existence before gradually coming to know that true gods did exist; and they were cruel creatures. The belief of Soulims sprung from these findings; the belief that the gods were nothing more than powerful immortals after studying the soul and the events of the world; a point that any man could reach through understanding of the self and world.
In the beginning the Arcadic Republic was bright eyed towards it; yet prideful and stubborn against those who they saw as against them. The years went by and good times were replaced with hardship after hardship. When ash blocked the sun and the world died around them the republic built the city over and created artificial suns to light it. When the eternal night began and the nightmare wars occurred the republic created sunlight golems and fought them back into the waves. When the crystal plague spread it was removed from the republic’s lands and utilized for airships; and transmutative plagues farmed for metals. Wars broke out against sapient golems to the east that turned to a shadow cult to nightmare gods, barbarians to the west sided with a megalomaniac emperor and further more barbarians came after one was defeated, and to the north a cult to faceless gods took hold and invaded when the republic was weakened fighting on multiple fronts. Plagues ravaged the nation over and over, some created through dark rituals and one ever evolving through the magics of living statues.
The golem legions and work force left to join their now sapient brothers in the east; a valuable ally despite it all. The humans that did not flee died in war or in plague, or evolved. In order to survive the hellish cycle of plagues and war those that remained became homunculi; creations of magic born of soul and primordial unprogrammed biomatter that can shift into any biological form.
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