So let me lay out the world, and what I'm personally looking for for a spawn. Please refer to the picture in the last post for the world map.
Up in the north amidst the central mountains of that weird peninsula that comes out of the glaciers lies the koopas. Ironically enough, there's a little spot in the middle that temperate, despite being so close to the barren ice wastes. They're surrounded by Neandrethals, Chaotic Beings, Edenians, Jawas, Black Mesa Employees, and Beans. They are on good relations with none of them, but each party is so entrenched with more castles than I've ever seen on one map that not much really seems to be going on.
To the west lies a sprawling, freezing rocky wasteland dominated by the koopa's only arguable ally: An enormous bob-omb empire. In the more temperate parts of that that same region struggle Tulmanians, Pirates, Argenta, and Goblinoids. I don't know the relations between these groups, and the koopa's have no natural land access to this area, but it seems like the bob-ombs are winning.
To the south of the koopa peninsula lies one of the main continents. That 'desert' that everyone's been talking about, is in reality a giant, haunted inland sea. Somehow, there's a fortress right on a rock peninsula overlooking the evil waters at it's narrowest point. I don't know exactly who owns it, but it's likely the Aarakocras who dominate the northwest, have their fingers throughout the middle subcontinent to the south, and have coated their capital region with castles and monasteries. To the northeast, on the coast close to the northern glacier, lies the koopa's second closest ally: A largely rural nation of goombas who have lied uncontested in the cold savannahs (?) north of the mountains that separate them from the rest of the continent. In the northwest part of these mountains lies a cold yellow sand that slowly blends into a temperate white sand desert edged by savannah and grassland. This area will be embark option 1, and is in contact with: Tieflings, Aarokocras, Goombas, Ratooeys, Crobolds, Predators, Bullywugs, Centaurians, and Swinefolk. Of these, Tieflings, Goombas, and Swinefolk are friendly if not allies. To the east is a red sand desert, that if anything is just slightly more convenient in terms of resources with an accessible river, flux stone, and more convenient grasslands. This will be embark option 2, which is the same in terms of neighbors except for the fact that the Aarokocra bastion to the west considers it too far to be of interest.
To the south, the continent is dominated by an enormous mire of marshes and swamps that slowly pool into a much more sinister pot hole in the southeast corner. This region is the uncontested homes of the legions of swinefolk and crobolds who war against the Aarokocra to the northwest and the scattered towns in the middle subcontinent. This area has the same neighbors, except that Aerians and Gnolls start to show up as you approach the middle subcontinent.
The people of the middle subcontinent are in an awkward position. There are a lot of nations that only have a few sites to their name that are trying to eek out their existence between the great powers of the regions around them. To the north are unsuitable swamps, to the south are some even worse conditions that I'll get to. Furthermore, the Aarokocra are trying to take over this region in order to wage war against the Crobolds and Swinefolk to the north on two fronts as well as to stop the northern march of the Itchlarians below them, Crobolds and Swinefolk already considered the region as something of a hunting ground and now have a reason to stake more permanent claims in order to prevent the Aarokocra from getting to involved, and the Itchlarians to the south hope to reach their evil allies to the north in order to push the Aarokocra off the continent so that there aren't any major powers available to contest the Crobold-Swinefolk-Itchlarian triple entente. As we enter this region, the Ratooey phase out, as historically they became a protectorate of the Aarokocra. The Koopas, already being allies to the Itchlarian and the Swinefolk, hope to join the evil alliance of the west on the grounds that after the Aarokocra are removed the alliance can aid the Koopas in turning the northern middle peninsula into their own personal fortress complex. The crobolds, however, resent this idea, and remain coldly dismissive of the idea. Lorewise, it would make sense to try to claim this region for Koopa glory, but geographically it's kind of lame. Regardless, anywhere on the middle subcontinent will be known as embark option 3.
The southern continent is, relatively speaking, a sprawling wasteland. Almost the entirety of the continent is composed of a single Untamed Wilds stretching across a yellow sand desert to the east, an untouched savanna to the west, a shattered rocky wasteland to the southwest, and a tropical savanna squashed between mountains and ocean to the southeast. The Itchlarian bastion lies in a haunted swamp in the middle east, with a second bastion to the middle south, completely controlling the routes around that mountain range. Because of this, the Aerians in the southern savanna have been completely cut off from the rest of the continent, now they prepare to hold off the inevitable war with the Itchlarians for that region. Instead, the Itchlarians have essentially secured an entire continent to themselves, and with a third bastion north of the yellow sand desert, they have gained the means to wage war in the middle subcontinent while claiming the entire space south of them. With a fourth bastion being made to monopolize the passage west of that mountain range as well, almost the entirety of the region is their for the taking unless the Aarokocra can get there to contest them. The west savanna is fertile and uncolonized, but it borders the rocky wasteland that is lorded over by a lich and his black tower over a Terrifying sea and the lands it has polluted. The rocky wastelands will be embark option 4, and the yellow sand desert will be embark option 5. The main difference between the two being that the rocky wasteland is near a tower, but outside of the influence of the crobolds. It would be a noble service to the koopa's ithclarian allies if they could secure either of these hostile regions from Aarokocra influence while they focus on the war to the north.
Relatively speaking, the world outside of the east and the north is relatively unpopulated. In between the east and the west continents is a peaceful collection of fishing towns made and owned by the bottle nosed dolphin men.
South of the two northern peninsulas lies an isolated subcontinent made into a sprawling combine encampment as they prepare for what they hope to be an eventual assault on the Black Mesa Employees and Chaos Beings to the north. For this purpose, they have signed a non-aggression treaty with the koopas, who share the peninsula with their enemies and hope to see them driven out.
The western continent is a rough, unclaimed land. The Mandalorians have managed to build a defensive wall of castles in order to claim the northern peninsula as their own, while sending out founding caravans throughout the continent in the hopes of getting another foothold. So far they have not been successful, but some of these towns have gone unsacked as of so far. South of the mountain range that separates them from the Mandalorians to the north are the orcs. The orcs, similarly to the Mandalorians, have focused more on walling themselves in before spreading out. They have built mighty fortifications along the mountains that enclose the fertile river valley that they were born of. Currently, they're vying for the extreme west coast of the world, as are the Mandalorians. Both empires are doing this, because the zombies of the eastern sinister swamp are unlike their brothers on the other continent. They were able to retain enough of their intelligence to construct warped monuments of obsidian from which they can mount raiding parties against the powers of the continent in order to eat them. To make matters worse, Brigands have set up their main pirate hide out on the equatorial isthmus in order to mount raiding expeditions against the boats of the bottle nosed dolphin people in the central islands. To them, raiding is raiding, and because of their location have effectively blocked any and all expansion to the southern part of the western continent.
This region, just like its eastern counterpart, is a completely untamed wilderness marked by sand dunes and broken crag. The only civilization to speak of on this entire land mass is a single Mandalorian hamlet that even now barely holds itself upright on a plateau amidst the central mountains. For all intents and purposes, the Brigands that have them trapped there consider them a plaything, and enjoy knocking over their town when they feel like it like a kid would knock over sand castles. Due to its lack of big players, I'm going to say no embark options on this continent.
Man, here I was saying I was gonna cut back on the lore, and now I've spent my afternoon making a complete and comprehensive world politics scene. Ah well, I'm gonna put up a poll, tell me if anyone wants to know anymore world information.
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