We've heard a lot about a bunch of cool peoples and cultures in Cobrin’Seil, what about the opposite? A state or group hanging around the periphery which is just the worst?
First thought, for publically available information, there's the ~~~seven~~~ six Empires of the Szudetken on the northern province. That is to say, some variety of Bloodborne City people, Rural Christian Fundamentalists in their wooden fortress-churches, Lovecraftian fuck-you-stranger glarers, an expansionist military empire of people who treat mass graves like oil reserves, and the fair folk who are Sword Art Onlining a whole nation and treating actual human beings as their NPCs. These are some pretty shockingly shit people - and even there, there are glimmers of survival in this grim and nasty space. Basically I wanted to make a Ravenloft that was informed by my ideas of horror rather than just 'but what if a black person woooOOOooo,'
If you're a Church Knight, the stereotype of Church Soldiers is that they're the worst; outside of the fresh recruits, Church Soldiers tend to be directly antagonistic towards the knights, and often much more religious and selfimportant. They also tend to be used poorly as troops, with their bright red tunics with a great big vertical cross over the chest like a 'shoot here' mark.
There's a god of Betrayal, who blesses you when you betray people, but it turns out that that particular heady drug is a dangerous one, where you can't just take one hit...
The Trade Houses have done something immensely shitty, giving rise to a low-key political movement known as the Northumbrians, who mark themselves with badger icons and refuse to trust anyone who says they'll pay you tomorrow.
Up over in Mosetto we have two steampunk cities that amongst other things, charge you attenadance fees if you spend too much time in a park, and the toilets need coins if you want 'em to flush.
I have at the moment a draft article for october described as 'The Worst People Unalive' though, which is on the other side of the continent, on a manufactured island, a single spiring city that has hit upon a great idea: Undeath As Venture Capital. They'll happily let you finance sections of your life in The Extractor. They're trying to synergise their latest manufactury optimisation. They are building a religion, but not you know, that kind of religion, this one's based on facts and logic. And yes, the boss is a lich but that just means he can hustle harder!
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