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Cultures & Races[edit]
Boeotians: Large nation of industrialists and capitalists whose home was claimed by the Deadborn after a long war. They are typically seen as crass, talkative, and impulsive. Found everywhere in Eschaton, they commonly find work as merchants, soldiers, or laborers. Some are merchant lords or members of the Syndicate.
Cambrions: People from the coastal lands south of Eschaton, mainly sailors and fishermen. Considered by many to be a grim, selfish, and dour race. Found mainly in the Cromlech, the Fastness, or the Core, they often find work as laborers, innkeepers, and servants to the uppertendom. A few have managed to get seats in Syndicate.
Cyrenaics: Tattooed and tribalistic people who joined together to form the city-state of Cyrenaica, home to many philosophers and astrologers before it was destroyed by the Deadborn. Currently looked down on by many cultures as primitives and simple-minded warriors. They are mainly in the Rookery and work as laborers, soldiers, bodyguards, slaves, and criminals.
Eschatonians: People native to the city-state of Eschaton, inventive and productive. They are collectively seen as duplicitous and stubborn by other cultures. They are the dominant group in Eschaton and don't let the refugees from other lands forget it.
Izedi: A people that worshipped nature spirits who turned out to be in league with the Deadborn. Their priests used many of them as sacrifices in the Wrackful Ritual that destroyed their steppes homeland. Their typical stereotype is as fatalistic cynics and superstitious mystics. They are found in the Rookery, the Cromlech, and occasionally in the Fastness working as priests, servants, and artisans.
Lydians: A nation of artists, poets, and scholars, they were members of the most advanced culture of the World That Was. Viewed as corrupt and debauched by others, these pleasure-seeking intellectuals were caught unawares by Deadborn. They are mainly found in the Cromlech, the Fastness, and the Core, typically finding employment as artists, teachers, and advisors to the uppertendom. Some of the Lydians' wealth rivals that of the merchant lords.
Singalese: People from the distant and industrious island nation of Singal, once ruled by a god-emperor who was slain by the Deadborn. Most other cultures think of them as weak, strange, and overly mysterious. They are mostly found in the Rookery, finding work as laborers, slaves, servants, and machinists.
Yezdegerdians: A race of nomads who created the vast desert empire of Yezdegerd before it was utterly consumed by a massive sandstorm called the Samiel. They are typically seen as brutal and greedy by other cultures. They are found all over Eschaton working as merchants, artisans, servants, and laborers.
Zingaro: Mountain people who lost their homeland of Zingar to the first Deadborn, now a race of wanderers. Looked down upon as rogues, cheats, and accursed by other cultures. They are found mostly in the Rookery and work as entertainers, criminals, slaves, and artisans.
Languages[edit]
Attic: Language of Lydia, often spoken by scholars and priests.
Cyrenaic: Language of Cyrenaica.
Singalese: Language of Singal.
Telugu: Language of the Izedi and Yezdegerdians.
Volapuk: Language of Eschaton, Boeotia, and the Cambri Isles; a polyglot established centuries ago and now spoken by most of surviving humanity.
Zingari: Language of the Zingaro, rarely seen in written form.
