Factions
Here are some working notes on the factions in Legacy of Magic. As I have time I’ll flesh them out with further details, and they’ll each get their own page.
SHEKEMESH: Visaltian Successor
Visaltian successors, claiming descent from Meluha
phalanxes; alexandrian; elephantized; carthaginian
alexander/mongol style succesor states
dominant succesor, seeking to reclaim empire
Pattern Kingdoms
Wind Empire
KYZIKOS: Undead Kingdom
Visaltian successors, claiming descent from Meluha
Ancient nobility, keep alive by necromancy and dark sacrifice
like Islikids, from Artesia
dark history cloaked in propaganda
Ties to tainted catatclysm survivors
PELESET: Desert Jewel
Visaltian successors, claiming descent from Meluha
Persian/Arabian
importance of stars/astrology on deserts/sea
Trade League
Exalted’s Fire Sand cities
Storm Sand, instead of Miasma
ORICHAL: Empire Reborn
vigorous young republic
reborn kingdom from ancient empire
Roman
THEMATIA: Empire Offshoot
Isolated/Hidden carry over from before cataclysm
Scattered remnent nation connected by ancient gates
Byzantine
Crystal Kingdom
priest kings
JHELUM: Magical Empire
SE Asian, Tibetan
Earth Dawn, Dragon Blood Empire, Shirow’s Orion, Jade Empire
Melnibone; wicked empire descendent from just
ruled by spirits/ghosts behind scenes
DAMOT: Former Colonies
giant elephants and snakes
Morning Star elephants!
mercenaries, citizen soldiers
former colonies freed when source empire’s capitol is conquered
ala Phoenicia and Carthage, after Perisans
LU: Tiger Realm
Melhua, China
Ascended rule, like Feng-Shui/Shadowfist
dark history
faught off shadow taint, but still latent
QADESH: Stygia/Zamora Analog
Egyptian influence
horror worshippers
survived via terrible pacts
oldest extant empire
TEUCR: Border Barbarians
Celtic/Germanic
former empire subjects
Pattern Forest
live on edges of miasma
strange flora-beasts
horror resistant, but twisted
revolved from pre-Meluhan ancestors
SUTJ: Horse Lords
Hun, native american, mongol successors
elite carniverous mounts
Recent Migrant Kingdom, with history elsewhere
Nomadic elements from once proud empire
Black Company-esque migrants from earlier era
DINE: High Men
fleeing from dark past, “No man now knows what”
modern nation of migrants descended from remnants of catacylsm causers
or perhaps had been enthralled them
shades of Tolkein’s Edain
ARIYAV: Lush Lands
Punjab, India
Magan, Dilmun, Saba
Rakshasas
Invaders from Outside; own pocket realm
descendants of Meluhan era
POLOVCHYA: Russian/Norse, some Chinese twists
lost dark history, once migrants like the Sutj
Mountain/Sky Realm Pirates
capitol hidden in mountains; Gondolin
tunneled islands atop frozen miasma
DEAD FACTIONS
Visaltia
Oresk
Arzara
Jasper Phillips