Universe basics
Master word for Saïhan universe is : "let's dodge classics !".
Keep that in mind, to avoid unfortunate background mistakes.
- Goblyns of Saïhan are not coward, nor "moaning" : they are a civilisation ancient and wise, with no equal in warrior's dexterity and smith arts, and in harmony with nature. They are born from the essence of nature and magic themselves : they are so ethereal and 'superior', in many ways, to other civilised nation. In fact, it would be more appropriate to compare them to wood elves or mystic fauns of other game universes.
- Crimson elves are not slender, nor effeminate : their mind are of metal, their behavior rude and efficient, and they all are muscle colossus that know no fear nor beauty. Even if their elvish nature give them an undeniable charisma, and that they share a certain arrogance and a quick intelligence with their peers, Daronoans are more like dwarfs of other universes, in spirit. Fortresses of stones under moutains, baronic nation stable for since ages, pre-eminent smiths, and as sullen as powerful.
- There's no sexim in Saïhan : Goblyns have no "female" equivalent, they are born asexual. Sharras are demi-gods that can take many shapes : men, women, vegetal, mineral, whatever. Daronoan women have the exact same statuts as men, and often the same muscled shape ! Daronoans themselves make no difference between their men and their women, family and love not really being subject they care about. And among wolves society... women are predators dominating them they flee by going to war ! So the less they talk about that, the best they feel ! That's why we will always talk about "soldiers", and not "men", for armies.
- There's no racism in Saïhan : we talk about civilisation in opposition, all good and evil concepts aside. For spirit domination, Goblyns were respectuous of every single life, before Sharras breath warmongering into them by magic meanings. They do not judge, despise or hate, by nature. Daronoans are too intelligent to be of any racism, understanding well defending themselves against Goblyn invasion is a matter of war logic, and not a reason to underestimate Goblyn superiority. Wolves are just predators loving war. What they can enslave, they do, and what is superior to them (for example Goblyns and Daronoans) they know and admit. They have no real grievance in their mind and behavior, they are too much animal to just not fit in the place they know they belong : a place of hunters, waiting for the perfect prey, taking advantage of any weakness, striking, then hiding again.
- Magic doesn't really exist, at least as a weapon of war, in Saïhan. Those Lands magic is called the Magyön, and is more a reality component, that you can find in every creature, strange races or landscapes than in vulgarious fireballs. Magyön is diffuse and rare, and cannot be canalized or dominate to create spectacular effects.
- There are numerous nations, that I will developp as one goes along, but don't forget that, except for small accidental encounters, goblyns and daronoans were at peace until recently. There are no "old legends of epic wars" between goblyns and daronoans. But as those two giants rule Lands of Saïhan, their history and realms are full of other smaller nations, races and creatures, they fought or not from time to time. We can say that goblyns and daronoans have no real epic common history, but each one have its own separate and epic history.
Wolves are an example of it : bound to Daronoans by an old war that Wolves looses, they take advantage of elves implication in the Great War to free themselves from this one-way peace pact to begin a new empire of their own, and expand like never before.
Goblyn and Daronoan nations as a whole lot of allies like this, each one with his history, origins, possibilities and limits. The fact they are not developped is only because Goblyn and Daronoan empires are so huge others can only be inferior and smaller, overwhelmed by them, and so in secondary position for being developped in the game ! But they exist anyway !
- Lands of Saïhan are not suffering from the "Tolkien effect" the world is not getting sadder and weaker with time. That doesn't mean its getting stronger, on the contrary (even if it looks this way, sometimes), it just means old legends have their present equivalent. It's an heroic world, full of mythic warriors able to defeat armies by themselves, full of monsters higher than mountains, fortresses beyond imagination, and strangest creatures, but not an agonizing world, that's for sure !
- There's no element classification, in Saïhan, it's not a pokemon game, nor a magic : the gathering stuff : goblyns are from desert as well as forest, swamp and mountain. Elves, even with a high population density in mountain, live as well in plains, seashores, and swamps. Dodge classics, please, it's not a manichean world ;)
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