Sawa Ike
The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
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SETTING INFORMATION
THe 47 Yovshin: Massive statues dedicated and rumored to have been created to entomb the forty eight yovshin who failed to protect the emperor and fled in fear. Their eyes failed to see the dangers and so now theyy are cursed to stand watch forever looking to the old enemies.
Chaina: The corpse city, the ancient and first attempt to rebuild within the mountains for themselves. It actually has been settled over a dozen times each colony meeting a fate that is unknown. The final attempt saw five thousand women, children and their husbands or wives disappear with only an old Atrisian word carved into the gates of the city. The city now has stood for thousands of years as a monument to the dead, overgrown and retaken... or it should be. The legends of it remaining untouched and not even weeds wanting to grow there says something about the legends.
Yeem: Ancient and legendary, the waters of the canyons all pour into and flow from Yeem, an underwater ocean fill of pale and slightly deformed fish, with no light around it and waters that are said to be so cold they can freeze you from just touching them.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Not much actual fact is known about the mountain range from when it was first crossed or what had happened to chase most of the people across it. What was found from carvings and paintings on the rocks by historians show a conflict that led to Taito leading ten thousand clans across the mountains of Nhai. Many perished, from starvation as the soil was more stone and rock then able to support crops, many more became sick as new exotic illnesses seemed to crop up when they were spending to much time in proximity, still some simply gave up and decided to head back. What is believed to have been ten thousand clans.... might have really been inflated to make it wsound that much more impressive... but there is evidence to support that a massive group went through using two fo the main passes. While other forged and scouted trails for smaller groups.
ONce they managed to find their way through the mountains of NHai there was another series of problems. The land was unsettled, ancient and rife with all manner of creatures. From the recounts of the legends and collected oral histories that were first put down. There were mystical creatures throughout the jungles, forests and plains but the people didn't fear. They had the mountains at their back and the great oceans to the north and south of them. THey were safe from harm and as the planet itself was being buitl up so the mountain range was explored. Going far to the north into snowy polar regions or to the deepest south with deserts. As they worked to map it the mountains themselves seemed to go on forever and with new information from ships they are some of the largest on the planet. With only a handful of passes able to let an army or massive amount of people through.
More impressive though is some fo thje stories tha have gone into it, the oldest coming from the first clans, the ones who sought to control everything. THey went into the mountains to build a grand city that would connect them and allow them to observe their once great home. twenty thousand stone workers, soldiers, their families, farmers and servants went into the mountains. Laying the foundation for the Chaina. Massive in thought and with room to expand.... something happened and they disappeared. In fact the city would not see completion for nearly ten thousand years until the Emperor of Sunfiyre saw it completed. Stories of them coming across cave dwelling cannibals, of sickness, of what was before finding them. Still unkown to this dy however we know there were many more attempts and the city itself grew. The white stone carved from the mountains and when the Emperors sister looked upon it having disappeared another group.
"A city so evil, it doesn't leave a trace of life." She dubbed it the corpse city and they sealed the gates. Leaving it to sit there as they had other things within the mountains to worry about. The legend of the shambler, a creature so dangerous it flew over the mountains and was seen by the children. The Gao boys but each tale and description was different. ONe said the creature was sleek like a dragon with scales of black and red, a tail and wings the size of a city. ANother said it was a bird and had talons so large they could clasps and crush one of the temples or houses... Still the others said different things about it and within the next year died from suicides. Their memories cursing them and they were found later. Ending the houses line of succession for Lord Gao only had daughters. Then a thousand years later the thing returned and bound behind it was the boys before being srt upon their sisters descendants.
Other legends tell of the forty seven yovshin who failed to protect the emperor from his assassins. INstead of seeking revvenge, afraid they would be put to death they fled. GOing to the river and Bei Xi, the white Pearl. Their they found shelter in Leng or so they thought but Unaga two hundred and eighty second ruler of House Ike bound them in chains and brought them to the Emperor. For while she loved her sonshe was rumored to have loved the Empress even more. With their desertion they were entombed alive with horn, torch and jar'kai swords. THeir armor and condemned. They failed to see the threat of assassins in life so in death they would look onward forever. Then a finaly tomb was made, Unaga loving her son had come when she was older and infirm, carried around. She was granted a place they she might share her youngest sons watch. All of these work to make the mountains themselves something special.
Still though there isn't much to them, the canyons and rivers where they come out only go so far, the ancient foot paths have been overgrown and Yeem a lightless sea range under the mountains is considered full of creatures even more dangerous. The emperors and Empresses of Atrisia have generall kept it to itself and during the plague, netherworld and other events what has happened to the mountains proved to be mostly dangerous. It has fallen out of use or even defensive capabilities as technology progressed and airships, speeders, starships were built. Now it stands as a place many can see but do not go into unless it is for historical purposes. THe ancient Dragons gate, one fo the larger passes through the mountain opens into the depths of the emperors academy overlooking the city. The others are barely maintained and just ruins. The people of Atrisia though can remember and some of them use the caves to hide out from dangers.
- Intent: TO build on the lore and set up some parts of Atrisia
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[*]Canon: N/A
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SETTING INFORMATION
- Landmark Name: Nhai
- Classification: Mountain Range
- Location: Atrisia
- Affiliation: N/A
- Size: Massive
- Population: Insignificant Population
- Demographics: Human mostly with stories of other things that hide in the deeper caves of the mountains but have never been proven or disproven.
- Accessibility: Wide open mostly, getting into the mountains themselves from the ground can be tricky there are only a few pathways large enough for groups that won't be walking single file. Game trails spider webbing through it and other paths that are unmarked but more for hiking. From the air you can get nearly anywhere within that you can see.
- Description: Massive and foreboding. The mountains of Nhai were considered impassible once. (with invention of airtravel passing over them is possible) Stretching across the main continent and carving it up. The large mountain range is full of canyons, sheer cliffs and rivers that eventually go into underground caverns leading to lightless seas. The soil and ground is ill fitted for crops, grazing on the mountains it generally sparce the more you go in but near the forest and more fertile farm land it is much better to raise cattle. The main prospect of it is defense as in some places it stretches so high it can leave places in its shadow. In some of the rivers and canyons within there is maybe an hour of sunlight ach day before it passes overhead. The lowest points of the mountain range are very few and at the highest points it goes above the clouds and snow to look out across the continent. There are only five main passes through the mountains themselves large enough at the time to move armies. Each one under Tzu the third emperors chamberlain. each pass holds a fort to prevent others from passing through in numbers that could threaten the empire.
THe 47 Yovshin: Massive statues dedicated and rumored to have been created to entomb the forty eight yovshin who failed to protect the emperor and fled in fear. Their eyes failed to see the dangers and so now theyy are cursed to stand watch forever looking to the old enemies.
Chaina: The corpse city, the ancient and first attempt to rebuild within the mountains for themselves. It actually has been settled over a dozen times each colony meeting a fate that is unknown. The final attempt saw five thousand women, children and their husbands or wives disappear with only an old Atrisian word carved into the gates of the city. The city now has stood for thousands of years as a monument to the dead, overgrown and retaken... or it should be. The legends of it remaining untouched and not even weeds wanting to grow there says something about the legends.
Yeem: Ancient and legendary, the waters of the canyons all pour into and flow from Yeem, an underwater ocean fill of pale and slightly deformed fish, with no light around it and waters that are said to be so cold they can freeze you from just touching them.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Not much actual fact is known about the mountain range from when it was first crossed or what had happened to chase most of the people across it. What was found from carvings and paintings on the rocks by historians show a conflict that led to Taito leading ten thousand clans across the mountains of Nhai. Many perished, from starvation as the soil was more stone and rock then able to support crops, many more became sick as new exotic illnesses seemed to crop up when they were spending to much time in proximity, still some simply gave up and decided to head back. What is believed to have been ten thousand clans.... might have really been inflated to make it wsound that much more impressive... but there is evidence to support that a massive group went through using two fo the main passes. While other forged and scouted trails for smaller groups.
ONce they managed to find their way through the mountains of NHai there was another series of problems. The land was unsettled, ancient and rife with all manner of creatures. From the recounts of the legends and collected oral histories that were first put down. There were mystical creatures throughout the jungles, forests and plains but the people didn't fear. They had the mountains at their back and the great oceans to the north and south of them. THey were safe from harm and as the planet itself was being buitl up so the mountain range was explored. Going far to the north into snowy polar regions or to the deepest south with deserts. As they worked to map it the mountains themselves seemed to go on forever and with new information from ships they are some of the largest on the planet. With only a handful of passes able to let an army or massive amount of people through.
More impressive though is some fo thje stories tha have gone into it, the oldest coming from the first clans, the ones who sought to control everything. THey went into the mountains to build a grand city that would connect them and allow them to observe their once great home. twenty thousand stone workers, soldiers, their families, farmers and servants went into the mountains. Laying the foundation for the Chaina. Massive in thought and with room to expand.... something happened and they disappeared. In fact the city would not see completion for nearly ten thousand years until the Emperor of Sunfiyre saw it completed. Stories of them coming across cave dwelling cannibals, of sickness, of what was before finding them. Still unkown to this dy however we know there were many more attempts and the city itself grew. The white stone carved from the mountains and when the Emperors sister looked upon it having disappeared another group.
"A city so evil, it doesn't leave a trace of life." She dubbed it the corpse city and they sealed the gates. Leaving it to sit there as they had other things within the mountains to worry about. The legend of the shambler, a creature so dangerous it flew over the mountains and was seen by the children. The Gao boys but each tale and description was different. ONe said the creature was sleek like a dragon with scales of black and red, a tail and wings the size of a city. ANother said it was a bird and had talons so large they could clasps and crush one of the temples or houses... Still the others said different things about it and within the next year died from suicides. Their memories cursing them and they were found later. Ending the houses line of succession for Lord Gao only had daughters. Then a thousand years later the thing returned and bound behind it was the boys before being srt upon their sisters descendants.
Other legends tell of the forty seven yovshin who failed to protect the emperor from his assassins. INstead of seeking revvenge, afraid they would be put to death they fled. GOing to the river and Bei Xi, the white Pearl. Their they found shelter in Leng or so they thought but Unaga two hundred and eighty second ruler of House Ike bound them in chains and brought them to the Emperor. For while she loved her sonshe was rumored to have loved the Empress even more. With their desertion they were entombed alive with horn, torch and jar'kai swords. THeir armor and condemned. They failed to see the threat of assassins in life so in death they would look onward forever. Then a finaly tomb was made, Unaga loving her son had come when she was older and infirm, carried around. She was granted a place they she might share her youngest sons watch. All of these work to make the mountains themselves something special.
Still though there isn't much to them, the canyons and rivers where they come out only go so far, the ancient foot paths have been overgrown and Yeem a lightless sea range under the mountains is considered full of creatures even more dangerous. The emperors and Empresses of Atrisia have generall kept it to itself and during the plague, netherworld and other events what has happened to the mountains proved to be mostly dangerous. It has fallen out of use or even defensive capabilities as technology progressed and airships, speeders, starships were built. Now it stands as a place many can see but do not go into unless it is for historical purposes. THe ancient Dragons gate, one fo the larger passes through the mountain opens into the depths of the emperors academy overlooking the city. The others are barely maintained and just ruins. The people of Atrisia though can remember and some of them use the caves to hide out from dangers.
