]For mechanos, i need to immerse myself deeper in their pedia ( them along with scions and mekara are the civs i know the less).
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Mechanos probably need a lore rewrite in a few places. As written, they're aggressively atheist steampunk craftsman spliced with what are literally just techpriests from Warhammer 40k. They can awaken "machine spirits" in some of their tech that are also from Warhammer 40k, although I think there's something (might just be a random post I read once) about trying to base it off of Barnaxus. My dream would be for the Mechanos and Dural to become one civilization with new lore and less Warhammer, but failing that they could use a lore-friendly revision.
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Scions have a really huge amount of stuff written for them, but the cliffnotes version is that they are a race of intelligent undead from Patria-that-Was who have been sleeping in Cerwiden?'s vault and whiling their time away with bizarre and alien pleasures. They're lured into the world by luxuries and curiosity and seek to build a new empire free from death and sickness. All their stuff looks evil, but they're not evil, just really weird, and they're sincere about their offer for anyone to join them and become like them. You just have to give up your humanity. Or elfanity or whatever. Their leader, the Risen Emperor, is actually somebody's archangel pretending to be somebody else's archangel pretending to be the emperor of Patria Reborn playing this very complex multi-layered long game for the good of Erebus. He's collecting souls and wants to free a bunch of them from I think Arawn's vault, which is what your worldspell, the Breach does. He administrates a fake religion as part of his plan, using it as a metaphysical tool to gather souls away from Arawn and from the fallen gods.
Korinna is
bae a girl with a special semi-daughter relationship with the Risen Emperor and serves as a rallying point for the people, who adore her
because she is so adorable. If the Risen Emperor leads, she's the civ hero and can evolve herself through various processes (RIFE does not include her White Lady transformation, which makes her arcane and stuff). If she leads, she's religiously open (she's not indoctrinated and serves out of personal loyalty) and the Risen Emperor becomes a lategame hero.
Ophelia can lead a ton of civs, based on where she emerges from Hell. She's one of the Bannor who were left behind. If she leads the Scions, she decides to accept the Gift and become undead. She also takes up the Emperor's Cult, presumably as a screw-you to Sabathiel.
The whole story is spread across four sections in the 'pedia, the Bright Lands stuff, and it's really well-written, but it's a long read.
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Mekara are a group of three transhumanists with a ton of magic power and some links to the Amurites and I think the D'teshi who want to make superhumans and master the arcane because hey, why not. Their major leader is amoral, focused on the creation and use of sluga (essentially a lifeform created to be a slave) and arcane ascension. Iram is a healer and bleeding-heart utilitarian who wants to make people superior so they won't get sick and live fuller, longer lives; he gets the militia units because the people love him.
Zaria Scheras is odd in that her position in society is sort of mercenary. She's a vampire and her special thing is vampires, and also being crazy good at medicine and caretaking society, but it's part of a scheme to eat people, but they don't do it like the Calabim do (hence why they used to have the Lifedrinker promotion and not Vampirism). She does arguably the most good for society through her Caretaker vampires and their surprisingly efficient hospitals (dat health bonus) but also definitely cares the least about anyone in it.
