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= Empires =

Still left: Carthage, Persian Empire, Arabia

Each country has a religious head and a state head with important smaller rulers (senators and legates, jarls and captains, etc)

Two/three cities/major settlements for each.

Each country has a pretender (at least one).

Sino-Nordic Pact
All Nordic countries are Scandinavian territory. They form the Kingdom of Scandinavia.

Western Russia (West of Kazakhstan, roughly), Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are Sinaese. They form New Sinae, which is governed by the Sinaese Federation(?).

The Hordelands
Greater Germania includes all of Germany, Poland (including that annoying bit of Russia bordering the Baltic Sea), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and most of Switzerland. Not a nation as such, but Mongolian hordes rule much of this territory – the rest is owned by various monster races.

Hispanic-Britannian Alliance
The Britannian Isles - including Albion, Caledonia, Cambria and Hibernia - as well as Gallia Nord (Bourges up) are Britannian territory, as are the Channel Islands.

Imperio Hispania has the entirety of Hispania (except for Gibraltar), the Palma islands, the Balearic Islands, Aquitaine and in theory the Madeira and Canary islands, but there are many a pirate there who would heartily disagree – then kill you.

The British Royal Navy and the Spanish Armada completely rule the waves. There are pirates in the Canary Islands giving the Spanish trouble, and Sino-Viking Raiders giving Britain trouble!! Vikings will raid the Spanish a bit and Pirates the British, mostly though it’s as I just said. Both raid the French, depending on the region.

The Roman Empire
Italia, the strip between Italia and Greece on this map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_province#/media/File:Augusto_30aC_-_6dC_55%25CS_jpg.JPG and Greece – with the Greek borders raised to Sofia in Bulgaria. All territory North of Sofia which hasn’t been assigned to other factions is largely occupied by the Hunnic Empire (their borders are unclear). Egypt is also Roman territory but Sardinia and Corse are owned by Carthage. Anatolia is owned by the Scaleson Caliphate (including Istanbul), east of them is the Persian Empire. The Path of Illyricum.

This Empire is Rome-dominated but in theory Aegyptus is an equal partner - it entered the coalition willingly.

The Holy Roman Empire
The last faction of Europa is an interesting one, because its territories move regularly. This is not to say its borders change or its people move to different lands, the people and borders stay put but the lands themselves move. Some generations ago the horde of orcs raged westward through Germania. Though the Dutch are largest humans you’ll meet, the Netherlands’ army was not sufficient to push back the Horde, so they came up with a strange solution, separating their land from the Continent. The Netherlands became an island, sailing along the coast of Europa, it is said to travel from Aegyptus to the North of Ruthenia. This island has another name than the Netherlands, the Holy Roman Empire. And indeed, although it contains only a small part of the mighty HRE, the Netherlands is ruled by the heir of the last Kaiser – Prince Maximilian I, who would have been the 30th Kaiser after Charlemagne. He lives to this day (often those of Charlemagne’s direct line are long-lived), but he is rumoured to be frail, having aged poorly compared to previous Emperors.

The Netherlands has no reliable allies, holding steadfast alone against threats from European nations and the nations outside of Europa.

Beyond Europa
The territories beyond Europa are considered by civilised opinion to be exceedingly dangerous places. From the vast expanses of Africa to the fractious Holy Lands, to darkest Sinae and Seres - which were abandoned by their native populations, to disastrous effect on the continent of Europa.

Except for Carthage and Aegyptus, not much is known about these nations. What is known is that the Scaleson Caliphate occupies Jerusalem – to the great anger of the Riteguarders and Revelationaries across Europa – and Constantinople – to the rage of the Roman Empire, in particular Graecia. It is also known that the Caliphate has ambitions for Aegyptus, and the wider Middle East.

Less still is known about the Persian Empire beyond the Caliphate, except for the epic tales told about their past battles of these Lizardmen with Greek city states.

Plothooks
Missions to other places/Germany. Come up with an equivalent to the Wells of Power. Come up with an equivalent to the Wells of Power (could be the unique things for each location)

There’s a kill list! They find it on an assassin (or maybe an NPC who turns out to be opposed to their interests) and it has a bunch of other targets on, they can see who is crossed off and who is alive.

Troll girlfriend broke up, have to keep on diet. Stolen by Chad (who is Zeus, he keeps turning into different people/creatures to seduce people/creatures)dw

Orders of Tradesmen: Italy: Gardeners. U.K.: Leerie. Egypt: Something to cool down. Scandinavia: Alesmen. Russia: Bloodmules (youngish men and women who provide blood to the vampires).

A girl's friend is 'suffering from amnesia.' She's forgotten the gnomes that live in the forest. When they confront the girl's friend, she looks embarassed and explains that there never were any gnomes, it was make believe. When they go back to the friend she feels isolated as she was the only one who believed - everyone else looked at them like they were silly or crazy. When the girl's friend agrees to go into the woods with them all, no one shows up.

A man is found on floating debris, he has a backstory but is missing some details.

= History =

There are two mountains, the Western Mountain (the Silver Crown/The Silver King/The Crown of Life) and the Eastern Mountain (the Jade Mask/The Mask of Death/The Jade Baboon). The statues (Baboon and King) have the Crown and the Mask on them, they give life to the entire continent.

The Mongolians invaded China and stole the Mask of Death from the Jade Baboon. The whole of China begins to die. Scouts track the Mongolian Horde back to Russia, they slaughtered scores of the Russians (who unleashed ancient magics in an attempt to stop the Mongolians, resulting in even more destruction). The Horde was searching for the Western Mountain.

China sets up operations in what remains of Russia, helping the local residents fight off the enemies, and refugees trickle over. The Horde had already headed into Germany. The Horde recruits the Mountain Dwellers in Germany and wrecks everyone up. They decide they need the blood of the Chinese Emperor and the Holy Roman Emperor to awaken the Mask and the Crown’s true powers. After killing the Holy Roman Emperor (but failing to secure the Crown) a long war sets in. The Horde think the Silver Crown is with the Crown Prince on the Netherlands, which has now broken from the continent. The Netherlands basically ends up drifting past France, thought to be the strongest nation after Germany (hence why they headed that way instead of north).

The Horde rip through France, killing Charlemagne and some of his Knights, and annihilating huge portions of the French army to get to the Netherlands as it floats along France. They are stopped as the Romans enter the picture with the British and the Spanish, the Lupine Empress (or Rome?) at the army’s head, wearing the Silver Crown. Genghis Khan is wounded, the Horde are forced back towards Germany. They go back to Germany and defend their borders.

The Allies and the Horde constantly clash, eventually the Horde make a dash for China in an attempt to get the Emperor’s blood. The Chinese have been building a wall for all this time, the Mongolians end up not being able to breach the Stone Curtain. The Horde hear the Romans are coming from the South. Genghis unleashes a huge burst of Death Magic, across the region there are now undead and monsters and stuff. The Horde head south to confront the Romans, Genghis and the Lupine Empress slay each other. All the forces now have lost around 20% of their forces, and 10% more are wounded.

France was ruined in the Horde’s invasion, so the Spanish and the British make their moves while they still can. Everyone is put on guard by this, no one trusts anyone and everyone decides to defend their own borders, having weakened the Horde and stopped their assault. Germany (which now includes all of Austria, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary) is de facto ceded to the Horde, though technically no treaties are ever signed. A new Cold War begins between the powers of Europa.

= Gods and Faith =

The Gods are constellations in the sky. When the avatar of the God visits earth one star is missing from the constellation.

The Stallion
Genghis Khan is secretly the Avatar of the God of the plains, the Stallion. He is represented as a three legged horse in the Sky, the last ‘leg’ is Ghenghis Khan, the missing star. Usually there is a woman riding him (the Maiden) but she is not there.

The Gods cast down the Maiden and banished part of the Stallion to the Earth. The Gods had to have a huge source of power to make the land healthy, the Maiden had the power they needed and there were only two Gods in her Pantheon (her and the Stallion) so she was split into two. One part sent to the Western Mountain, one sent to the East. Have one piece of the statue break after it comes into the players’ hands, causing the avatar of the Maiden to emerge.

The Three Dragons
= Europa Generalis =

Lizard Villain dude is really rich and runs a villainous organisation, he goes ‘Drat! Hissss. Foiled again, you haven’t seen the last of me heroes!’