Regions and Slang

🖤 Khar-Thirn — Ruled by House BlackStone (2,000 years)

kharic dialect 

Culture: Ruthless, hardened, survival-first.

People: Thick-boned, scar-worn, bred in shadow and steel. From the peasantry to the nobility, pain is a teacher. Strength is law.

Beliefs: "If it wins, it's right." They revere victory over virtue. Mercy is weakness.

Architecture: Gothic cities built from echo iron and boneglass, designed to outlive gods.

Code: Backstabbing ain't betrayal if it secures victory.

Peasant Role: Enlisted young into bloodwork(ancient blood magic) or wall-building. Feared but respected.

Motto: Unbroken. Unbent. Unending.

unofficial Saying: "If it breathes, it bleeds."

Sub-vassals: House Graven, House Durmholt, House Silmarra and more

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🔥 Drenn'Shaal — Ruled by House Pyruin

Culture: Welcoming, passionate, full of life… but deceptive.

People: Beautiful smiles. Warm touches. Then gone in a blink. Many trained in the deadly art of Riven Dance, a close-range assassination killing form.

Beliefs: "A warm fire draws prey." Charm is a blade.

Architecture: Lava-lit halls carved into crimson cliffs. Heat-run steamworks.

Code: Never strike first — but always strike last.

Peasant Role: Performers, poison brewers, death-sellers in silk.

Saying: "The flame welcomes all."

unofficial Saying: "To smile is to strike."

Sub-vassals: House Vurrix, House Sennael, House Draam.

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❄️ Eiranthus — Ruled by House Vaelwyn

Culture: Noble, cold-blooded, intellectually cruel.

People: Regal posture, elegant attire, silvered speech — and utterly brutal on the battlefield. They do not fight dirty. They fight precise.

Beliefs: "Emotion is frost. Reason is blade."

Architecture: Frostglass palaces with mirrored halls. Everything symmetrical, deliberate, and deathly silent.

Code: Never raise your voice. Just raise your knife.

Peasant Role: Taught poetry, etiquette, and war since birth. Artistry and blood often blend.

Official: "Perfection in All Things."

unofficial Saying: "To smile is to strike."

Sub-vassals: House Elyvien, House Rhymere, House Droskyn.

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🌿 Mycera — Ruled by House Marrowel

Culture: Wild, sacred, primal.

People: Barefoot warriors. Covered in root-ink tattoos. Speak to animals, walk with beasts. Houses are grown, not built.

Beliefs: "The soil is our mother, and death is her song."

Architecture: Living cities. Root-fortresses. Moss temples that move with the season.

Code: Kill to protect the balance, not to dominate it.

Peasant Role: No hierarchy — all Mycerans serve the forest.

Saying: " Preserve.Nurture.Remember"

Unofficial saying: "The Wild Takes Back Its Own."

Sub-vassals: House Oruveil, House Nem, House Thaskra.

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☀️ Caltherra — Ruled by House Solthein

Culture: Fanatic, radiant, supremacist.

People: Fair-skinned, golden-eyed. Consider themselves "sun-blessed." Believe all others are lesser shadows.

Beliefs: "Light is law. We are light."

Architecture: Blinding temples built to catch the dawn, echo chambers that amplify sermon.

Code: Convert or cleanse. No middle ground.

Peasant Role: Indoctrinated early, treated as holy laborers.

Saying: "Only light may rule."

Unofficial saying: All That Burns Was Meant To

Sub-vassals: House Kerynth, House Solmarr, House Jurell.

SLANG

Dustborn = someone born outside noble bloodlines; commoners, freefolk, or peasant-born warriors.

• traitor = "shadebound"

• Origin: Those who move in shadow, bound by no oath.

• Used like: "He went shadebound on his whole house."

• Harsher version: "Oath-bleeder" (for betraying a blood oath).

Kharic language

vaera- mother in

khaen-son

Khar- Father

thraek-brother