Big City RPG: Yup, Here We Go Again!
So here's some additional information about the foreign powers.
Dflen: The land of funny hats. A materialistic culture who likes their hats fancy, and decorates their hats with all their finery. Their people are marked by excellent shoulder and neck strength to support their most prized possession. Noted for their mercantilism and machining.
Alurlab: The land of weird swords. The number of swords that an Alurlab person wore on their person indicated their station in life, and the number and variety in their general possession indicated their wellbeing. There has been a terrible inflation in the sword count etiquette in recent years, however, and Alurlab royalty are expected to wear upwards of twelve swords on ceremonial occasions. Surprisingly adept at the natural sciences.
Lense: The land of audacious speech. The people of Lense like to speak loudly and pompously and are regarded as noisy by the people of other nations. To speak softly or discretely in Lense is a sign of duplicity, and is viewed as something that only schemers do. Their armies and warriors have unflinching morale, and their engineers an excessive exactness.
All three are rivals to one another in the international scene, and have a presence in Mansiil, although the Dflen presence is greatest, and Mansiil is generally viewed as their territory.
Also, about your home of Shorgee:
Shorgee is a land of culture and refinement, they have the finest entertainment, philosophy, and food throughout the world(?). Their most representative activity is drinking tea, but oh, no, did you think they just drank boiled leaves?
No, they are past drinking boiled leaf water, in fact the people of Shorgee put everything that is not hazardous, and some even mistakenly put stuff that is, into their drinks.
It is the sign of a profoundly cultured individual to be able to brew a tea that no one else could discern the ingredients to, but nonetheless found pleasant. For the past five hundred years, competitive tea brewing has been an imperially sanctioned sport and yearly, the winner even gets a position in the imperial bureaucracy as the master of tea!
Dflen: The land of funny hats. A materialistic culture who likes their hats fancy, and decorates their hats with all their finery. Their people are marked by excellent shoulder and neck strength to support their most prized possession. Noted for their mercantilism and machining.
Alurlab: The land of weird swords. The number of swords that an Alurlab person wore on their person indicated their station in life, and the number and variety in their general possession indicated their wellbeing. There has been a terrible inflation in the sword count etiquette in recent years, however, and Alurlab royalty are expected to wear upwards of twelve swords on ceremonial occasions. Surprisingly adept at the natural sciences.
Lense: The land of audacious speech. The people of Lense like to speak loudly and pompously and are regarded as noisy by the people of other nations. To speak softly or discretely in Lense is a sign of duplicity, and is viewed as something that only schemers do. Their armies and warriors have unflinching morale, and their engineers an excessive exactness.
All three are rivals to one another in the international scene, and have a presence in Mansiil, although the Dflen presence is greatest, and Mansiil is generally viewed as their territory.
Also, about your home of Shorgee:
Shorgee is a land of culture and refinement, they have the finest entertainment, philosophy, and food throughout the world(?). Their most representative activity is drinking tea, but oh, no, did you think they just drank boiled leaves?
No, they are past drinking boiled leaf water, in fact the people of Shorgee put everything that is not hazardous, and some even mistakenly put stuff that is, into their drinks.
It is the sign of a profoundly cultured individual to be able to brew a tea that no one else could discern the ingredients to, but nonetheless found pleasant. For the past five hundred years, competitive tea brewing has been an imperially sanctioned sport and yearly, the winner even gets a position in the imperial bureaucracy as the master of tea!
