• Europe circa 1500

Nations

World’s End

• Contains Thrown Axe, Broken Shield, etc
• Due to its distance, is in less contact with The Lord’s Church and The Circle
  • Not long since it has followed pagan animist religions
• Has had perpetual conflicts between the aristocracy and the working class
• Has a king who is very much a figurehead, with power coming from the nobles
  • The King’s Guard essentially act like feds
• Tension between World’s End and Saules has been explosive since the ousting of a (World’s End friendly) Saules duke on the channel coast.

Stamps

• No, seriously
• Every family member has a generational stamp which the patriarch/matriarch of the family holds
• For nobles and the king especially, messing with these is a BFD which will land you an execution in an instant
• Nobility and royalty use ink stamps, everyone else uses wax

Military

• Fortress ships
  • Tough blocks of stone bolted onto wooden ships
  • Once landed, can be rolled on logs for an easy base of operations during a war
  • Needs a lot of people to haul, but that’s something World’s End has no lack of
• The King’s Guard
  • Dressed in purple regalia, the king’s personal army
  • Basically seen as a nowhere job protecting a king with no real power
  • Seen by many as a pathetic waste of resources, as often they divert major resources away from the actual army

Amavo

• Major banking hub city-state
• Basically kept alive by its use as an independent banking entity
• If any indebted nation tried to invade it, Amavo would leverage its debt over other nations to protect them
• Former capital of The Imperial Empire
• The rest of the economy is absolute shite because the Doge’s Council is full of bankers who pour everything into banking
• So despite being able to purchase farmland, they choose to just import everything
• Enormous inequality
• The bankers of Amavo have been given special leave by the Lord’s Ear to legalise usury just for them, this goes back to The Imperial Empire

Beach head winery

• Imports wine from nearby cities
• Closest part of Amavo to vineyards of Trienza
• Hangout for various mercenaries looking for jobs

Groups

The Patrician’s Circle

• Will sometimes use liaisons if the job is particularly dangerous and could reveal The Circle’s existence
• Stringently anti-violence, the only thing that’s kept them alive thus far

The Agenda

• Previously: Installing feudalism into the world
• Now: Ensuring their strong presence in the new world, New Gaia
• Sow chaos in nobility and the markets so they look elsewhere
  • Destabilise the old world by inciting/exacerbating wars between parties
  • The Saules-World’s End war
• Use the banker to pressure other bankers into financing expeditions to New Gaia
• Use the Cardinal to get the Lord’s Ear to preach about the need to colonise New Gaia

The Lord’s Church

Doctrine

• A “Lord’s Agreement” is something that is strict and cannot be broken without eternal damnation
  • To be in effect, a priest or cardinal is required to observe, sign off, and send a copy to Hollow’s Parish
  • It isn’t just for business transactions, these are agreements for some of the biggest things in one’s life