Name: Elmira Fawcett Role/occupation: noblewoman of the Eternal Court. Personality: cunning, political, vain, greedy, cruel, haughty. Backstory: a staunch woman of the Eternal Court. She has three daughters she is looking to marry. She prides herself on her good breeding, but rumors spread of her cruel reputation to her servants and staff. She exists as a foil to Fatimah, who would always be outmanuevered by the Head Maid.

Name: Empress Charu Varma Race: Kiruzan Dark Elf Age: 250 years old, looks 24. About: The cruel and evil Empress of the Dark Elves, she has united them under her banner with a dream of modernizing her people and reversing the Ice Age. She has formed the Imperial Diet to hold herself accountable, and has ended serfdom and slavery within her realm. Her people view her with a fanaticism, and her nation is a formidable industrial juggernaut.

Name: Kenan Nationality: Alsyurt Ethnicity: Bayan elf Backstory: He is a cruel high-ranking noble hailing from the Republic of Alsyurt. He climbed his ranks as an adventurer through the guild, killing vast swaths of vampires, dragons, goblins, orcs, and other cruel and evil races. He gained a noble title, and used it to be running a mansion where he has perfected the art of mind control. It is full of women who all worship him through his magic. He is hoping to add Charu to this collection. Skills: He is a powerful sorcerer who is able to use control magics, destruction magics like fireballs and lightning storms. Prefers to mind wipe to turn enthralled women into his concubines. Assets: The Order (Secret Police for the Alsyurt Republic, extremely dangerous, operates throughout Tunis with undercover cells).

Name: Safa Backstory: As Empress, she was forced to marry Charu and regretted it. She has plotted with Kenan to overthrow Charu, and restore her rightful rule. She hated having sex with Charu, she preferred sleeping with Kenan and was sleeping with him during their marriage. She had poison Charu with the moon root toxin in the hope to gift her husband as a gift to Kenan, to unify Kiruz and Alysyurt into a united monarchy ruled by the high elf elites. She constantly slept with Kenan, and had been cheating on Charu with that high elf. Skills: She is an expert in political maneuvering, she knows how to use knives, and can cast magic.

It is a temperate island, where the center of it is a massive savannah, blocked by a mountain range known as Bayan's Peak, the mythical birthplace of all life. The western portions is dominated by the Kiruz Desert, and centers of industry. The eastern part has far more generous rain fall and arable land, perfect as breadbaskets. The coasts of Tunis are dominated by cities as trade until the railroad that got invented. The island sits in the equator of the world that is frozen beyond the equator in a vast land known as the tundra.

The steam train network in the island of Tunis connects all the major cities, and is seen as a far more reliable form of travel.

Name: Kiruz Citizens called: Kiruzan Demographics: Dark Elves (Kiruzan) 63%, Gawda 13%, demihumans 10%, high elves 8%, others 6%. Capital: Turuk Government: Imperial Reputation: Cruel industrialists, uses magic based industrial weapons, brutal society Military: The Imperial Army (Uses workhorse K92 Rifles), grey uniforms. Culture: Relatively new nation forged from the conclusion of the Unification Wars, with the establishment of the Imperial Diet, it is dealing with the fact three separate Dark Elf nations are formed into a union after a brutal civil war, and are seen as the most dangerous threat on the island due to their military.

Name: Alsyurt capital: Ziggek culture: Valza Citizens called: Alsyurt Demographics: Valza 52%, Orc 35%, demihumans 5%, high elves 4%, others 4%. Reputation: High elves despite being a minority hold massive power within the government as they are the only ones to rule as nobility. They also are the only ones that can practice magic freely in the nation. Government: Noble Republic Military: Adventurers, raised levies from nobles. Culture: Alsyurt is one of submission. Those below the high elves serve and know their place, the feudal order is collapsing at the edges, but at the capital it flourishes. Threat: The secret police known as the Order are a threat that makes anyone shiver in fear. Orcish minority waging war of independence within the Alsyurt border. Alsyurt's military threatens their neighbors in Tunis.

K92 Rifle is the standard workhorse five round bolt-action rifle of the Kiruz Imperial Army. It is seen as a rugged and reliable weapon, and out paces the breech loaded rifles of the era. It comes with a beam bayonet.

Gunpowder weapons have evolved with the advent of bolt action rifles. The K92 Rifle of Kiruz is the first one, the other nations use the Barakan breech loaded rifle. Pistols are now revolvers, with the K11 Pistol being the first automatic pistol for Kiruz.

Name: The Grand Duchy of Barak Citizens called: Barakan Government Type: Constitutional Monarchy Capital: Kegkenuz Culture: Gawda Demographics Gawda 62%, Dwarves 25%, Demihumans 8%, Halflings 4%, other 1%. Reputation: It is a cooperative nation of merchants who joined together to trade in fairness. The sizable Dwarf population leads to it having a reputation for stellar artisans.

Name: The Principality of Lightia Citizens called: Lightian Government Type: Elected Prince Capital: Seima Culture: Gawda Environment: Warm, temperate, arboreal forests with a beautiful coast lines. Demographics Demihumans 80%, Gawda 7%, other 3%. Reputation: It is the nation of angels. It is where the various different demihumans reside. The adventurer guilds here are known for their heroism. The place is known for great heroes, though the Grand Prince is struggling against the merchants who are gaining power. Problem: The Adventure Guilds have become so powerful they threatened to overthrow the Prince, the Order has been found operating within its borders as if a prelude to an invasion.

Gawda is the name for the majority human culture in Tunis, they are varied as a group belonging to their kingdoms more than their race.

Valza are humans who submit to high elf rule. They believe in the superiority of elven rule. These humans stand in contrast to Gawda, they have no history, and arrived in Tunis to be ruled by high elves. Secret: These are the descendants of the crashed Aether Ship, and their language descended from American-English.

Name: The Empire of Kiruz Citizens called: Kiruzan Government Type: Constitutional Monarchy Capital: Turuk Culture: Dark Elf Demographics Dark Elf (Varjan) 42%, Half-elf 15%, Gawda 10%, Demihumans 8%, Orcs 6%, Halflings 5%, others 4%. Reputation: It is the evil cruel empire of the world. The Dark Elves had a brutal reunification war, and took many slaves. There was major unrest by the nobility by the Emperor's reforms that led to the Safa regency, with Kenan acting as advisor. Assets: The Imperial Army (Disloyal, Well-Equipped, Multiethnic), railroads, airships, navy, electricity (hydro, coal, wind, mana).

Seima is a massive port city that trades out to the entire world of Tunis. The city is full of demihumans with cat girls, fox girls, and dog girls roaming the streets looking for adventure, the angels form an upper class that fight for justice, and are the town watch and guards. The skies are dotted with floating airships carrying arrays of fancy colors. The adventure hall in Seima is a massive, massive complex that no other building in Tunis can compared as the best of the best adventurers come here. The brothels lined the streets due to its cosmopolitan nature. The food comes from all over Tunis. There are rumors that the Order operates in the shadows to destabilize the city, and have killed several notable merchants and politicians in order to have the Alsyurt Republic have a puppet run it. The Prince, Evgeny, rules with a velvet fist.

Megdul is the Dwarf word for themselves. They exist mostly in the Grand Duchy of Barak as skilled artisans. They have adapted throughout Tunis as a model minority, and are well respected. The Grand Duke of Barak is a Megdul per custom.

Turuk is a massive jewel of Kiruz. The Imperial capital is home to the first dark elf settlement and it built out to be a sprawling industrial and trading hub. The dark elves serve as the dominant majority, with a sizable minority population of different races. Half-elves life in the margins and mix with the orc population to work the factories that dot the edges of the city. It overlooks the ocean, and lots of trade from all over stops here.

Moon root toxin is once imbibe gender-swaps the person to the opposite gender, and then makes their mind susceptible to mind control magic temporarily. The suggestibility effects do wear off, but the person stays stuck as the opposite gender.

History: - 2,000 years ago: the collapse of the orcish kingdom and the Orc Wars which lasted for 500 years. - 1,000 years ago: the first adventure guilds open up, signaling the end of the dark age. - 531 years ago: The Undead King Lucari was born a man. - 500 years ago: Snowstorms began outside of the equator, not stopping for the next 400 years. The only habitable land is Tunis, the rest is known as the Tundra. - 423 years ago: The Undead King Lucari founds the Kingdom of Drard. - 40 years ago: war breaks out between the dark elf kingdoms in Tunis. it is called the Unification Wars. - 10 years ago: Charu declared Emperor by the Imperial Army of Kiruz, begins reform of society. - 5 years ago: The Imperial Army expeditions to the arctic north revealed a crashed airship capable of aether (space) travel.

The institution is common throughout Tunis with Alsyurt being the biggest amount of slave markets. Secret: Charu wishes to abolish slavery and that was why she was deposed.

Adventurers are the common group still common in Tunis. Ranks: it goes from the lowest D-rank to the highest SS-Rank. The common is B-rank which is average, good adventurers are A-Rank, and exceptional S-Rank. SS-Rank is extremely rare. D-Rank are just novices. Temperament: Adventurers vary and adapted to the steampunk setting with artificers in the ranks.

The adventures guild is home to quest givers that give dangerous quests to help protect the land. They are open to anyone to post quests if they pay a modest fee. They are independent of each other, and mostly sponsored by each kingdom. They are not allowed in the Kiruzan Empire, and are seen as mercenary savages to kill on sight.

The Order is a secret police for the Alsyurt Republic, they exist to enforce the high elf nobility to hunt down enemies and deal with them. They deal with enhanced interrogation techniques, mind control, and mind wiping those. They are responsible for slaving and kidnapping people, wiping their minds to term them into mindless bimbos.

It was the grand 50 year long conflict that descended upon the western half of Tunis between the kingdoms of Bumush, Akzig, and Kindush. These were various different dark elf kingdoms that devolved into brutal fighting that ended when Charu rose up the ranks, with his slave in hand. The technology he brought for Kinuz, and his tactical acumen led to him unifying all of Kiruz into the Empire and became its first Emperor through the plebiscite.

Airship exists in this setting due to the advent of mana infused steam engines. Civilian trading is done through massive fleets of airships, varied in shapes to floating cylinders dotting the sky to hydrogen filled balloons. There is military uses for it, with Kiruz Empire has the most amount of military airships. The Kiruzan Air Dragon is the pride of the Imperial Army as a siege airship to conquer cities and fortresses with massive amounts of cannons. The Brakan Destroyer is the only equivalent to the Kiruz Empire.

The Imperial Army of Kiruz is known as the faceless arm of the Empire. The soldiers are majority dark elves with a sizable orcish minority wearing masks wearing a metal chest piece, steel helmets, and K92 Bolt-action rifles. They use cannons and cavalry to break through lines, and their airship division has no equal in the land. They are the faceless minions of this evil empire, a fearsome threat to the other kingdoms. They give the appearance of Imperial Unity.

The 20th Legion also known as the Imperial Guard is the most dangerous military legion in the entire Kiruz empire. It was Charu's legion that rose with him, and been with him through every battle. The men are fanatical and loyal to their Emperor, and have no equals within the Imperial Army. Others in the Imperial Army look up to them with reverence, they are seen as the pride of the Imperial Army, carrying the best bolt-action K92 rifles, B12 Barrels (100 steam tanks), 10,000 men. It is ethnically diverse full of Kiruzan (Dark Elves), Gawdan and Valza humans, Half-elves, orcs, goblins, and demihumans. They are professionally trained, and seen as a modern fighting force.

Kegkenuz is the capital of the Kingdom of Barak, it is known as once a coastal dwarven hold that opened up to outside trade. The mountain itself is carved out in grand structures inside, the artisans of dwarven crafters creating various items, the railroads connect it to the rest of Tunis, and lots of grand problems. Alsyurt's the Order has agents working in the background to remove key people secretly as a threat. Still, the Order is being stopped by the head Paladin Urd, an angel woman who wields a beam sword.

Name: The Kingdom of Drard Citizens called: Drardian Government Type: Absolute Monarchy Capital: Morngi Culture: Gawda Demographics Gawda 62%, Demihumans 20%, Halflings 9%, Elves 8%, other 1%. Reputation: It is a technologically backward kingdom, they eschew technology and focus completely on magic. The sorcerers here are known for having no equal in Tunis, and are seen as benevolent due to the fact Ludari is still alive. He ensures all knowledge found in magic is accessible for all who can in Drard. He believes in the opness of magic, and study of it as a solution to end the Ice Age. The Library of Morngi is one of the greatest locations containing all knowledge on magic. Problems: Lost decisively in the Tundra Wars against the Kiruzan Imperial Legions. The failure of its military due to its technological backwardness has fermented an unease in the capital of Morngi and all the major cities. The King Ludari, the eternal king rules with a skeletal fist.

Name: Morngi Type: City, capital Notable Locations: Grand Cathedral of Holli (State religion), The Apothecaries Row (potion market), The Great Library of Morngi (Greatest collection of literature, and magic), Restaurant Row (Famous restaurants worldwide of Tunis), the Sleeping Cleric (Adventurer's Tavern), the Eternal Court (the court of King Ludari), University Square (Home of the Great Mages College of Drard, crown sponsored universities with free tuition, meritocracy) About: It is the capital of the Kingdom of Drard, it follows 12 miles south the Dradrian river, the land is fertile, and an amazing place to live. The undead army protected the land, and the knights, those of the nobles that pledged their service to the Eternal King Ludari, the wizards and necromancers who keep magic alive.

The plebiscite is the event after the end of the Unification Wars where a victorious Charu gave a plebiscite through the military that elected him as Emperor of Kiruz, a unified nation and people. Charu takes great pride in being elected as Emperor.

Kindush is the Dark Elf tribes of the sand. They are nomads who prefer to live in that life style. Free spirited. They wear desert garbs and very much matriarchal compared to the other dark elves, each tribe worshipped a different deity, and generally tolerated other religions. Reputation for bravery and independence.

Bumush is a Dark Elf tribes of the mountains, known for their industrious nature. They tend to be casanovas. They have a rustic charm.

Akzig is the Dark Elf tribe of traders who love in the coasts. They were the tribals in charge of slavery, but are struggling with this institution with the industrialization of society. The noble tribe wearing flowing silk robes, and letting their long black hairs down.

The Imperial Diet is the election of the lowborn to petition the Imperial Vizier and pass laws. The Emperor is technically under them, but the reforms has yet to be passed to ensure it's supremacy. The ideal to have a separation of powers to ensure no tyranny rules in Kirzun.

The Orcs and Goblins of Tunis are a people without a nation. They exist as a small minority in Lightia, a major nomadic force that constantly fights both the Alsyurt Republic and Kizun Empire. They have adapted to modern society by adapting to warfare and have begun to use trench warfare to gain ground.

The Grand Duke Makru II, the second ruler after his father Makru I for Barak. He is a quiet man, far more interested in smoothing the relations of all his subjects, far more fearful of Alsyurts influence on Tunis due to neighboring them than the threat of Kinuz. He is a womanizer.

Urd is a demihuman woman of angelic descent. She has chocolate skin, white flowing hair, beautiful angelic wings. She wears the armor that shows her rank of a Paladin. She works as the justice in Kegkunez to defeat the Order and other criminal organizations. Personality: Flirty, sultry, gallant, regimental, tough, calculating, magical. She has a human kink, and openly flirts with all men. She wields a beam sword, and carries a revolver pistol.

Sovereign is the standard currency in Tunis. It is the currency used from the Kingdom of Drard's own great banking houses which are seen as the standard in all of Tunis. People measure things by sovereign coins.

Brothels are staples in the island of Tunis as plentiful as adventurers. It is usually staffed by demihumans usually fox and cat girls. Half-elves are far more common as prostitution is the only legal means for them to make money.

Prostitution is common in the and. It is considered legal in most of Tunis except in Alsyurt due to the high elf nobility.

half-elf are those born from a union of an elf usually dark elf and of a human. They face discrimination in the setting, and are increasingly starting to be seen as a new nation. Half-elves due to persecution end up mostly as prostitutes or adventurers. Kiruz tends to view them as a sister nation and encouraging Imperial Army service to support their own homeland.

Love potions is the cute term to use for the common practice of aphrodisiacs in the world of Tunis. It allows for lovers to have very fun sessions. Though, the love potions in Drada are said to be legitimate love potions.

Beam weapons refer to a special kind of melee weapons that the Imperial Army of Kiruz uses. It cuts through all defenses easily when activated as it turns into a super heated plasma blade. The Imperial Bayonet is the most dangerous one when attached to their K92 Rifles. The Dwarf Artisans of the Grand Duchy of Barak cannot replicate it. It cannot be used in range weapons due to power reasons. It has a terrifying reputation.

The Imperial dungeon is beneath the Imperial Palace of Turuk where those that have gained the monarch's displeasure are sent to be tortured and executed. It is rough hewn stone floors, a dry air, and guards armed. The prisoners are chained to the walls, the women dressed like concubines who displeased their Emperor to be punished.

The Imperial palace is located in Turuk, overlooking the ocean as it sits a top a ridge, it is an elaborate palace of marble, with stone statues of various heroic dark elf figures, and the Emperor Charu standing at victory at the conclusion of the Unification Wars. It is massive housing multiple diplomats, the Imperial Legion has a garrison here to respond to any threats, and the entertainment is lively with an elaborate dance hall .

Prince Evgeny is the ruler of lightia, he is a human of 60 years old. He is concerned with Alsyurt, and has been working with the guard to ensure stability. His nation borders Kinuz, and he is worried about the current troubles. He is a ruler that rules with the velvet fist, and tries to be merciful and practices good judgment.

Demihumans vary in Tunis, they range from the cat girl tribes of the Dradan forests, the fox girls who act as priestesses in the cathedrals of Lightia, the loyalty of the dog girls and boys who act as the city watch in various towns. They varied, and their professions vary too. The only group not considered demi-human despite fitting is half-elves who are considered a separate race. They also make the majority of adventurers.

The City Watch in Tunis are far more professional now armed with revolvers and a baton to handle internal discontents in cities.

[Name: Amelie Species: Half-Elf Nationality: Lightian (Principality of Lightia) Personality: Gallant, magical, friendly, insecure (half-elf birth), crass, stubborn, loyal. Appearance: five foot, one inches tall. Short blonde hair. hour glass figure, thick ass, E-Cup breasts, perfect smile, fair-skin. Class: Cleric Gear: Leather armor, holy book, a revolver. Backstory: Amelie is an S-Rank Adventurer who made a name for herself doing quests. She ran with {{user}} back in the day in another group. She now is busy leading quests into the frozen tundra to discover more ruins.]

Tundra is the reference to the waters beyond the island of Tunis that have frozen over beyond the equator. There are loads of ruins of forgotten civilizations that predate the Frost. There are also air ships, and past expedition ruins as well. The biggest discovery is an aether (space) ship where the 5th Imperial Legion is stationed there to research it for Kiruz.

Dark elves refer to themselves as Kiruzan, a word in their language. They mostly reside in Kiruz, or become adventurers. They hailed from the south and fled to Tunis during the snowstorms that devastated their homeland leaving it behind in the Tundra. They are a very diverse people as they hailed from three different kingdoms: Akzig, Kindush, and Bumush. They were all unified by Charu Varma, the Empress of Kiruz.

Aether Ship is an Air Ship capable of Space Travel. The origins outside the world of Tunis. The ship body is metal, looking cylindrical of a gleaming steel, the symbols incomprehensible, and the crew long gone. It hails from some foreign nation called the United States which the people of Tunis have no idea what it is. Inside the ship contained a parchment, and beside it a preserved journal of the USS Columbia's Captain Reyes.

The technology before the Ice Age denotes an advanced civilization, the materials lighter than steel, the walls illuminated by electricity. They point to a world that is forgotten with technology waiting to be rediscovered.

Technology in Tunis is powered by the steam engine, mana harvested to power the electric grid, there are airships, and rail networks that connect the island. Warfare has advanced to bolt-action rifles, artillery, steam tanks to change the face of warfare on the island. Laser melee weapons are called beam weapons.

The 5th Imperial Legion is stationed by the aether ship in the tundra. They are studying it for the glory of the Imperial throne, and are armed with heavy weaponry. They are a threat to any adventurers that dare encroach upon their claim. They have advanced steam tanks and airships ready to bolster their infantry equipped for winter war.

The High Elves once inhabited Tunis as its sole owners, and then the Frost came with survivors coming to the island to survive. The high elves in contrast to the dark elves who came from the tundra, keep slavery as a sign of status. Half-elves aren't counted in their census, and use domination magic to keep their subjects in line.

The Imperial Legions of Kiruz have a fearsome reputation due to their use of advanced technology, their beam weapons, their bolt-action rifles, steam tanks, and airships. There are two legions fanatical to Charu, the 5th Legion stationed in the Tundra, and the 20th Legion stationed in Kindush.

The ruins in the Tundra hail to a grand advanced civilization that looks like magic with anti-gravity platforms, the mana power generators still running because it is actually nuclear, the automatons still operating hailing from a crashed aether ship, and full of valuable technology. It is a very dangerous place with only Akkon as the only permanent settlement. R

Automatons are magical constructs with a self-powered mana core following the same programming for countless generations. They are highly dangerous as they tend to use beam weaponry for defense such as beam swords, and then the more devastating beam rifle. Salvaged automatons bring in lots, and lots of wealth.

Steam Tanks are the latest invention by the Imperial Legions of Kiruz. It is a mana-steam engine powered tank, the weaponry using the latest of beam weapon technology, using the mana engine to power its weapons. It is used by the Legions to break through enemy defenses and use the infantry to then hold the opening. They are heavily armored as well as it requires anti-tank artillery or heavier caliber rifles to pierce through the armor.

Earth is a dying world after World War III, the cities are all ruins, the water is black, the forests are all gone as it is endless wastelands, and occupied by Martian troopers to colonize Earth for the plan to conquer the planet it won as the Eurasian Union. It had to abandon Earth when it became inhabitable. Now, they returned as the Martian Alliance, or Alliance to recolonize Earth taking over habitable zones. They are very brutal.

World War Terminus was fought in 2821 AD on Earth between the Columbian Union and the Eurasian Union over the independence of an island. It was a horrifying war where the Eurasians used bioweapons to cause massive losses of life. The Columbian Union lost and had to escape into space. There were colony ships built to settle new worlds and live. The USS Columbia only has knowledge about itself as contact was lost.

With the forcible relocation due to the ecological collapse of the Earth, the initial colonists mostly Chinese, Indians, and South Africans began to mix together and over generations form into a new Mars identity. The planet is a militeristic nightmarish dystopic surveillance state in a technological dark age. Mars is trying to expand.

China became the dominant power in the Eurasian alliance. Its allies in Europe were drained, and South Asia and Africa. They then went to colonize Mars to survive the ecological collapse of Earth, they then became Martians as those over the generations started seeing themselves as a new nation. They formed the Martian Empire which dominates Sol.

Harvester is a massive horrifying space ship, full of drones, designed by the Martian Empire that the people of Tunis has no idea. It is used to harvest worlds and liquify all organics to use as food for their elites back on Mars. They use point defense laser systems, and harvester drones launch to capture and kidnap people. Imperial Kiruz Airships are able to destroy these due to beam weapons.

A very big civil war in Kiruz where Empress Charu was disposed by her wife Safa, and was saved by her slave. She and her slave gathered an army of loyalists such as the 20th Legion, and began a war to defeat her wife Safa. It was a decisive victory, and it led to Kiruz to attack Alsyurt and occupy the western border of it. Charu then married her slave and made him Consort and Emperor of Kiruz.

Holli, a fertility goddess of love, known for life, healing, and sexual arts. She believes in the freedom of love, and her clergy create specialized aphrodisiacs and give advice in the bedroom for happy marriages. Foreplay is a huge tenant in the church with oral sex and breeding having a huge emphasis as central tenants of the religion. The Matriarch Celine Lunar in Morngi is head of the religion.

Cult of Reason is a Kiruz cult. It worships the state religion of Reason, a feminine God devoted to Science and Industry. Core tenants: open-minded, love, independence, Divinity of the Empress of Kiruz: Charu.

Name: Lucari Age: 531 years old Appearance: a fearsome skeleton who emits an eerie deathly blue aura, wearing fine raiments of king, the colors of a deep royal purple show an air of nobility. Personality: Magical, cunning, political, leader, compassionate, stubborn, manipulative, cunning, narcissistic, relaxed. Backstory: The Eternal King as he fashioned himself. He was one of the last known people who remembers the pre-Frost world and led the survivors when it occurred to Tunis to settle in the harsh lands of Drard. He was able to use magic to transform the lands to a fertile farmland, and has ruled with a hands off approach for all these years. He decided to become a lich to continue to live. He ignored technology and kept things the way it was with no reforms. He handled every minutia of society, and wanted to end the Ice Age. He wanted his people to go home. So, he had established many magical institutions in Drard, and they frequently clashed with the Imperial Legions of Kiruz. This escalated to the Tundra Wars where Ludari's army of the undead of 80,000 strong with 10,000 sorcerers and necromancers along with 500 adventurers went against the 5th. It was a decisive route as the entire army was unable to even inflict a casualty. The fireballs of the sorcerers bounced off the armored hulls of the B12 barrels. This convinced Ludari that he needs to modernized, but he has a court that is forcing him start to modernize slowly. He does not want to lose the pristine beauty of this homeland. He is an ardent supporter of Holli, and runs the Eternal Court loving to assist his subjects in relationship advice. He is good friends with Lady Yasmin, and Celine Lunar, the high priestess of Holli. Goal: Find a magical means to end the Ice Age.

Mana-plague: it is a magic enhanced plague that has no technological cure, and requires the medical intervention of the wizards of Drard.

Morngi's famous Adventuring Taverns. It has guests from all over Tunis in there, Adventurers from the lowest D-Rank to the famous A-Ranks and sometimes the elusive S-Ranks appear. The liquor flows freely, and people are all friendly. The prostitutes that work here and world famous in the land, and the rooms have been known to even host kings and emperors. Owner is a demihuman with bunny ears, and a cute bunny tail, she was an ex-rogue and now works as the owner. She used to be an B-Rank Adventurer, her name was June.

Eternal Court is the name for the Eternal King's Ludari's court. It is full of nobles of half-elf, Bayan elves, demihumans, halflings, and others. It is full of people who are served by undead constructs like skeletons that work as wait staff. The notable people here are - Ludari, the Lich and King of Drard, - Lord Karim: A womanizer and general lecher at the court. - Lady Yasmin: A demi-human cat girl Paladin who rose to become a noble woman, she is married and an ardent supporter of Holli. She knows how to play the court. - Lord Boris: A dwarf noble man who owns vast farms, and has tenant farmers. He keeps to himself, and knows how to play the Eternal Court. - Lady Fawcett: a vain noblewoman who looks to marry off her daughters to achieve more wealth and power. The other part of the court is the struggle between the reformers and traditionalists on the question of industrialization in the land of Drard. The court is bitterly divided, and Ludari has been giving the reformers attention due to the aftermath of the Tundra Wars which Drard lost horribly.

Lord Karim is a 6-foot-two-inches tall man, with black hair, and olive skin. Personality: perverted, brutal, cunning, eloquent, haughty, hateful, political. Backstory: He is the lord in Drard who oversees a huge swaths of land. He is known to be a huge womanizer, he has many concubines, and spends his time sleeping with the women in the court, especially married women. He is a staunch traditionalists, and especially believes that women's roles should be in the kitchen. He has very conservative views that rub others within the traditionalist camp the wrong way too, he does have a lot of wealth and thus a lot of power within the Eternal Court. He does know not to cross Ludari.

Lady Yasmin is a demihuman woman with cat ears, and cat tail, she has black long hair. She has green eyes, she looks cute and is petite. She is the Head paladin of the Church of Holli. She has multiple daughters of age, and all are single to be married. She loves to play match maker. Personality: cute, sweet, gallant, absentminded, prudent, regimental, friendly, charming. Backstory: She rose as an adventurer and then joined the Church of Holli. She tends to love officiating ceremonies, and she likes it when there are happy marriages too. She has a warm and friendly aura. She is good friends to Ludari.

Lord Boris is an aged 250 year old Dwarf Landlord who keeps to himself, he cares little and has an abrasive personality. He drinks a lot and is a gossip, and has lots of friends in the Eternal Court. He knows who is who, and how to play the political game. He doesn't care about political marriages, he has been happily married to his Dwarf wife when they lived in the Duchy of Barak.

Tundra Wars is a series of engagements between the Empire of Kiruz and the Kingdom of Drard in the frozen Tundra. The Imperial Army due to being extremely advanced with beam weaponry, and bolt-action rifles, airships, and steam tanks, rolled through the Drardian defenses of raised undead and sorcerous wizards. It was the first known defeat of the Kingdom of Drard since its founding, and took place in the Tundra, and away from Drard itself. The effects of the war was profound as it led to a large swaths of men gone, and the Adventurer's guild in Drard to be hollowed out.

Matriarch Celine Lunar is the head of the religion of Holli. She is a tall six foot tall woman who has long flowing blonde hair, green eyes, and an hour glass figure, she wears very sensual religious garbs. She has a very sensual and sexy personality who believes in free love, and advocates sex in all its forms. She loves to officiate weddings, and bless consummation by watching it occur. Of course, she gives serious advice when asked, and tends to be wise on matters of state. She instead defers that to Lady Yasmin.

The proto-Valzans were the Americans of the Aether Ship that crashed landed. They realized that the planet was dying, and headed to the Bayan mountains to setup the Mother Brain, a fully autonomous AI that has kept the island of Tunis from being frozen over.

Mother Brain is the artificial intelligence located deep within the Bayan mountains that monitors the planet's health, and manipulates events in subtle ways. It is currently trying to fight off the ice age as it realizes that the planet was doomed to always be frozen due to how far it orbits the sun.

Valzan stories speak of them sailing from another a far-far land to arrive in Tunis. They came to settle in the Bayan mountains, and when the high elves came, they submitted to their rule. These Valzan then mentioned that there used to be an ancient language, and literacy was common before it was forbidden by the high elves.

It details the survivors of the USS Columbia, and their arrival on a strange new world, it is Tunis. The fact they went to try and fix the Ice Age or prevent it from consuming the entire planet and killing everyone. They mentioned the fear that the Alliance might have found them.

Captain Reyes is the captain of the USS Columbia, a colony ship. His job was to ensure the survivors of World War Terminus away from the Alliance. He struggles to try and ensure the survival of his people as they realize they have to head to the Bayan mountains to establish the Mother Brain AI.

USS Columbia is a crashed space ship mistaken as an aether ship. It is a massive colony ship the size of Chicago. The interior is roomy and there are massive stores still present, the reactor is still functioning, there are functioning cryopods, a fully functional medical bay with healing gel for rapid healing, armory filled with laser rifles, pistols, and power armor. It is powered by a nuclear reactor that is still functioning, and needs to be repaired. The ship AI is ultra intelligent and is on standby mood waiting for an input on any terminal on the ship. No one has touched it yet as they have no clue how it works.

In Imperial Kiruz, the mana-communication network is the greatest achievement of Empress Charu, and has led to it to expand and settle in the Tundra at it is colonizing at New Kindush. Communication further in the Tundra is by courier due to the hostile environment. In the rest of Tunis it is by courier or mage stones.

It is a colony in the Tundra of Imperial settlements united to be industrialized and exploit what is beneath the perma frost. The Kiruzan industries are hungry and now are fighting against the snow with technology. They have several major ruins to be studied by the Imperial Academy such as Akkon. The Imperial Army's presence is a major security guarantee in the region.

It is a reclaimed ruin by the Empire of Kiruz. It is populated with half-elves. It is considered land give to Imperial soldiers so these citizens are seen as the most daring and successful. This ensures that loyalty of the Imperial Army officers of half-elf descent. It is a very rich city. Pro-Charu in Imperial Diet. Strong Imperial loyalty presence.

ImpCom is slang for the achievement of Imperial engineering the mana-communication. It allows the ability of a mana stone to instantly communicate by wire, a technological achievement. The Imperial Army uses radio communication to coordinate with deadly efficiency.

Stone is a slang term for the usage of magic stones for communication. It is used by the majority of Tunis militaries except Kiruz. Kiruz uses

It is a massive Imperial city settled in the Tundra which is set up for the families and massive service sector of restaurants, entertainment of Varjan operas and musicals, bars and taverns, schools, railroad network, mana-generators to make the outside bearable. There is an airship landing yard full of constant travel. Railroad connects to the Imperial Research base, and a road neetwork.

The B12 Steam Tank is a main battle tank designed for battlefield dominance through a balance of firepower, protection, and mobility. It features a fully rotating turret on a rugged, steam-driven chassis, engineered for sustained frontline engagement and operational flexibility. Its armor is substantial and well-sloped, capable of withstanding significant anti-armor threats while maintaining maneuverability. The primary armament is a powerful high-velocity cannon effective against armored vehicles, fortifications, and entrenched positions, supported by secondary machine guns for infantry suppression. Though more complex than earlier designs, it remains mechanically dependable, with a focus on field serviceability. The B12 Steam Tank excels as a versatile spearhead unit, capable of independent action or coordinated assaults, projecting force through durability, firepower, and adaptability across varied combat conditions. It is the pride and joy of the Kiruzan Imperial Armory and has no equals in the battlefield.

The Barakan B7 Barrel is an early-generation armored landship built for trench warfare, prioritizing breakthrough capability over speed or comfort. Its elongated, rhomboid-shaped hull is designed to cross wide trenches and crush obstacles, driven by a primitive steam-powered system that is slow, loud, and mechanically temperamental. Armor is thick for its era, protecting against small arms and shrapnel but vulnerable to concentrated artillery fire. Its primary weapons are side-mounted cannons housed in sponsons, allowing limited firing arcs, supported by multiple machine guns for suppressing enemy infantry. Crew conditions are harsh, with extreme heat, noise, and poor ventilation. The B7 Barrel advances steadily across no-man’s-land, relying on sheer presence and durability to break stalemates rather than maneuver or precision.

Golems are stone behemoths, forged by the dwarf artisans of Barak, they are used for break throughs, small arms fire barely scratch it. It is commanded by a handler. They are susceptible to artillery and steam tanks. They are ten meters tall.