World Building thread

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>>54991938
needs battle lolis

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>>54991938
Thankfully I saved the map of the setting!
Some questions for each nation
>Who lives there?
>What are its national values?
>What sort of magic does it favor?
>Has the Revolution reached this nation yet?

So far we have:
>The Republic of Theerok
>Holy Archonate of Shiabal and Lakang
>Bol-Tak Etek
>>The Great Desatali Protectorate "The bloated Empire"
Will be posting the details for each in separate posts since they are long.

>Republic of Theerok

>What are its national values?
The people of the republic value loyalty to the state and its traditions of selflessness and civil service
>What sort of magic does it favor?
Mainly earth magic that they use to construct buildings and roads, though it is used for mining in the northern mountains and defensive operations in warfare as well.
>Has the Revolution reached this nation yet?
Whispers of it have reached the republic and while anti-state groups have popped up here and there in the large coastal cities, but nothing violent has occurred thanks to the state police, the Special Police.

>Bol-Tak Etek
Desc:
Swarthy skinned hunter gatherers migrating from one island to another hunting respectably. Any outsiders found trespassing are murdered and eaten.

Values:
Group of Elder leaders with knowledge they pass down about the islands, their history and how to hunt while maintaining the ecosystem. They cannot be challenged and you only become a leader when you grow old (and not senile) with info valuable to the tribe. Mostly surviving warriors that become to old to keep up with the young hunters become the elders but there are a few gatherers with plant and fishing/wildlife knowledge.

[cont]

Every couple months they uproot their makeshift village and set sail to the next island. The population is slowly increasing but at a very managable rate. Usually only 3-8 children are born a year. Inbreeding however is beginning to cause strange physical effects to form in certain births. 1 in every 10 babies are born with some physical or mental defect. The shaman has to confer with the spirits when this happens. One of the spirits agrees to watch over the child as they grow by allowing themselves to be bound to an object, called a fetish, a seashell, a stone with a natural hole in it, an animals claww ot tooth, ect. This object is given to the child and they are told to never part with it as long as they live. The spirit will guide them in times of need or possess them if they become too vile hearted. Cannibalizing their own, defiling their ancestors, or killing an elder are major crimes. Known as the 3 Laws. Punishment is death and sealing their spirit away into a special banishment fetish where they are buried or cast into the sea. (If there is a volcano on any of the islands, that's where they will be cast into.

>Holy Archonate of Shiabal and Lakang
>Who lives there?
Three main ethnic categories, the La farmers of the central lowlands, the Cheu farmers of the south, and the Annat herders across the mountains. They follow ancient mysticism that varies between monotheism, polytheism, and pantheism based on the community in question.

>What are its national values?
A strictly hierarchical state under a birth-based caste system with the top caste serving as lawmakers, philosophers, and religious leaders. Respect is their core value, particularly towards elders and castes higher than your own, who cannot be questioned.

>What sort of magic does it favor?
Magic is practiced only by the elite in their secluded temples, who seek enlightenment and truth, practicing sight of the future and the unseen present and calculating the decisions they can make.

>Has the Revolution reached this nation yet?
All mention of the revolution is met with whipping and forced religious obsecration at the nearest shrine to Ayahut the merciful.

>The great Desatali Protectorate "The bloated Empire"
>Who lives there?
The heart land is the holy island of Moros and the northern lands along the Great Passage.
Here is where the Desatali originated and where the Empire is the strongest. The (ethnic) Desatali have lived here since time immemorial, first as fishermen and merchants, but after the Blessing as unparalleled farmers and Herbalomancers.

South of the heart lands is the land of the thousand streams, home to so many different tribes and ethnic groups that all but the most traveled lose track of it. Some of the tribes swore fealty to be part of the Blessing, some out of fear, some had to be conquered.
Today some groups are Desatalised, especially along the coast, while some groups still live by their ancient ways. As long as the taxes are paid they all have a great amount of autonomy.

In the very south is Bakur. Acquired by trickery, as Bakurians would say. About fifty years ago the Desatali Emperor married the daughter and only child of the Bakurian King. By Bakurian law her Uncle would have inherited but by Desatali law she. A few 'accidents' later, she was the heir by Bakurian law, too.
The people that like in Bakur are proud and not too fond of the Desatali.
>What are its national values?
'Prosperity and Friendship' at least in theory.
The Desatali value knowledge and piety, but they aren't too heady about it.
One of the most important things every Desatali does is to give thanks for the Blessing, their unique type of divine magic that increases the fertility of their lands tenfold.

>What sort of magic does it favor?
The Blessing, a divine Herbalomancy which allows them reliable and bountiful harvest of a wide variety of crops and control over many different plants.
Aside from that all types of 'utility' are common, in warfare fire is the element of choice.

>Has the Revolution reached this nation yet?
It has, but not much came of it yet:
Desatali proper is too prosperous to allow the Revolution to grow. Empty bellies would grow discontent, but thankfully this isn't a problem here where even the poor don't have to go to bed hungry.
in the Land of the thousand Streams the ideas of the Revolution fall on many different ears: Some Rulers crush any ideas of change, while in other regions they already democratically elect their Council. But overall the smothering embrace of the Protectorate stops even the idea of independence here.
Bakur thou is the hotbed for the Revolution: All but the most powerful Lords are discontent with the status quo. Ideas of revolt, revolution and independence are in the air, but ideas for it range from the return of the royal Bakurian bloodline to a democratic nation.

Aaandd that should be it. Feel free to contribute with your own nations/lore!

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>>54992305
aw fuck that cool

I'm drawing a walled off, serene crater island thing, that dips down in the middle right before a dramatic peak at the rear of the crater

rock colors to come at the same pace of the sk8r boi, which as we all know is 'c u l8r boi'

operative word being, l8r

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>>54994029
fucking love the tropics

If I'm giving each of my players a vision does the length matter? They're all seeing different things and a lot have about a page while a few have like a quarter. The ones with longer ones are basically getting monologued at by things which may or may not be pissed at them for just being there while those with shorter ones are seeing important objects (which they'll be drawn towards).

>>54992305
>mfw my map gets picked up by another worldbuilding project
Awww! Love you guys!

>>54995086
No problem! I love stuff like this, especially in /wbg/ where not a lot of collab work is done. Hopefully we can get this map filled with nations though.

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My river placements aren't totally retarded, are they? I avoided forks almost everywhere (the oversized delta on the far West involved human influence).