Nation Name: Skagar
Capital Name: Valla
Location of Capital and Borders:
The two cities are named Trollheim (west) and Dragrak (East).
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Dominant species: Humans.
Minor species: Not any significant minor species however there is a slave class of performing elves accounting for <1% of the population.
Government: Appointed. Basically when the Tharl (king) dies, any soldier blessed by the Flame may declare himself worthy to be the next Tharl. Then a grand arena fight is performed – armored with wooden weapons, they rarely die – and the winner becomes the next Tharl.
Ruler Name: Hella Bane-Bosom. A particularly vicious woman, Tharl Helga is a giant 2m 5 cm muscular matriarch that was born in a storm at sea. Rumors go that at some point she crushed a gnomish merchant under her while having sex with him. She sits on the throne without shirt, showing off her large arms and huge manlike chest.
Heir Name: … Well people aren’t preselected to win the contest but I guess I have to select someone. Stonemouth Laugar. Known as Stonemouth because he tried to crunch a stone with his teeth at some point. He didn’t succeed, his teeth are a mess, but he’s really good with a battleaxe.
Names:
Male:
Ulfur
Bjernur
Thorim
Snokarl
Hallan
Female:
Frina
Silda
Ruda
Nissis
Ithis
Background:
Basically they’re a cross between stereotypes of vikings and barbarians. They worship fire and rage as it warms up the cold terrain they live in. Strength and combat prowess are both In very high regard, and they believe that if you fight well enough during your life, you will ascend to godhood in the afterlife, where you will be part of the bastion fighting night creatures during the apocalypse.
There is a very small class of half-elves – their position is quite weird though. One could call them slaves, but it’s not that simple. They’re unallowed to own property or fight in wars. Their jobs are usually in entertainment, where they work as dancers or musicians. However, they are highly respected in all layers of society and are considered spiritually elevated. Performing crimes against them is much more strictly punished than performing crimes against humans. Still they are considered property, even if fine property, of their superintendents. They often wed humans instead of elves in order to get more menial holdings, which is why their genetic makeup is a mess. A noble usually owns one to two of these slaves. They don’t perform menial work, that’s for the maids and such to do, but they perform entertainment jobs when the noble has guests. Similarly, a city usually has a small group of elvish entertainers that perform during weekends in taverns and during court meetings.
The background for these people isn’t well known. After the fall of the Thel emipre, many elves were killed, and the rise of Skagar and the Vredar faith may have costed many elves’ lives. The best current guess Is that somehow the elves kept their elevated position while becoming more accusto
(will probably edit the above, I need more history.)
Also, in Skagar, they don’t really care about sex and sexuality. There have been many gay Tharls, many female Tharls and so on. There’s no word for straight and gay, no word distinguishing between a male and female position – so you are a Tharl regardless of sex.
They still have male and female names tho.
Religion: Vredar, basically they worship the fire god of the summer who’s really angry and fierce but lights the starry sky to guide the Skagar across the sea.
I’ll repost a thing from my background (eventually I’m going to edit this too)
Basically they’re a cross between stereotypes of vikings and barbarians. They worship fire and rage as it warms up the cold terrain they live in. Strength and combat prowess are both In very high regard, and they believe that if you fight well enough during your life, you will ascend to godhood in the afterlife, where you will be part of the bastion fighting night creatures during the apocalypse.