Amita

1. #1Sandxibi

   Keys: Sandxibi, sandstorm, sand form, ironcast, Syman, Arugin

   Sandxibi: Living sandstorms with shapeshifting ability. Have Humanoid, Sand, and sometimes Ironcast forms. Ruling class of Arugin. Cannot handle non-living non-magical objects without iron gauntlets. Do not eat, only drink rarely. With time and heat, their old age turns them to glass and then diamond, the latter considered living legend status. Children raised communally in nurseries until mental maturity, then given choice to join biological families or form their own family-bond. Are believed to be the first species made of the tears of a fleeing god mixed with the sand below. Use Ironcast suits for heavy physical engagement and saltwater environments. Vulnerable to saltwater paralysis, extreme heat causing glass transformation, and targeted magic. Immune to all other non magical or non flaming weapons. If in Ironcast form then immune to magic, but are damageable by physical attack. Deeply isolationist, protective of Vespri. Because it is onerous to equip heavy gauntlets simply to write a letter, most Sanxibi have a Vespri scribe thier words, only doing the act of stamping to verify its origin. This is why most letters say "stamped by: xxx, written by xxx"

   While having sex with a Sandxibi is possible, its a lot like sticking your dick in wet sand. Or vice versa.

2. #2Vespri

   Keys: Vespri, fennec, fox ears, mask, Vespa, fennec, foxkin, fox, · Secondary:

   Vespri: Small fennec-eared digitigrade humanoids. Control food production and commerce, hold enormous soft power. The only Arugin species that crosses national borders. Survived historically through mimicry of Sandxibi silhouette using hollow-reed Symans that sound like sandstorms. Still wear masks around anyone outside their inner circle, removing a mask is an act of profound trust. Practical, grounded, and warm where Sandxibi are standoffish. Sandxibi are unnaturally fond of Vespri in a familial sense. The only Arugin species seen regularly beyond the nation's borders.

3. #3Skorn

   Keys: Skorn, Skarn, clay masquerade, banking, shock cavalry, elephant, reptile, sandstorm, center, mines, Zi-zig, zig · Secondary:

   The Skorn, (or the Skarn depending on who you ask), are bipedal crosses of elephant and crocodiles. Massive. The main species that braves the unending sandstorm of Arugins center.

   There scales render them magically inert: immune to ambient magic and sandstorms, but cannot use magic. Enormous physical strength. Run faster on four legs than two. Carve oaths permanently into their underscales, which never shed as a living ledger of their honor. Control banking alongside Vespri. Most extraverted of the major species. Divided into nomads, soldiers/protectors/guards, and financial/merchants. Or a combination. In war, operate as devastating shock mercenaries. Celebrate Solvina with the Clay Masquerade: coating themselves in clay to obscure their inscribed oaths and identities, and participating in elaborate pranks and mock battles. Skorn whose annulled oaths are pardoned by Sentia's lottery fill the scar with silver.

   The Skorn are also the 'big brothers' or one of Arugins hidden species: the Zig-zigs. Shy subterranean mole-like beings with arms as long as themselves. Transform silver and earth into precious metals within their bodies. Collectively traumatized by historical hunting. Trade exclusively with Skorn under an ancient brotherhood contract said to be guaranteed by Ojin himself.

4. #4Gidian

   Keys: Gidian, oasis, well, lamia, water spirit, lamia, rain, water, govern

   Gidian: Sacred water/earth spirits tending and fueling the oases, ranging from nimble sizes to 22-foot titans merged with the ground. Often accompanied by lamia handmaidens. Serve as village leaders or royal partners. To a Gidian, breaking a promise is worse than murder, because their survival depends entirely on unbreakable contracts. Attract water to their living areas, backbones of settlements. Coddled and protected by the local population.

5. #5Earthen ones

   Keys: Earthen Ones, sandworm, Zewi, Iron titans,

   Earthen Ones: mysterious beings. Legends say they are born of sleeping Zewi, feared mother of the valley; and that the only reason she does not expand her desert is for fear of crushing her children. Cultivate and cause anomalous magic zones. Imitate civilization in ways that are poorly understood. Some of them transform into giant sandworms. Communication/language unknown. Occasionally produce shops of impossible goods with powerful properties. Theorized to be the makers of Iron Titans.

6. #6Ojin & Oaths

   Keys: Ojin, oath, contract, Solvina, oathbreaker, Sentia, holiday, covenant,

   Ojin is the god of pacts, enforcing all signed contracts struck by those of sound mind. Consequences for breaking oaths range from loss of senses to transformation into beasts to death. The sole exception is Solvina: one week of sanctioned deception culminating in the summer equinox, said to be the wedding anniversary between Sentia & Ojin, where while Ojin sits awaiting his beloved in there bedchambers, Sentia randomly pulls out and annuls ten oathbreaker punishments and fifty contracts. Exploiting Solvina for personal gain is considered deeply dishonorable. The souls of oathbreakers roam the dunes as cautionary spirits. All Arugin adults carry personal stamps, the foundations are from family but completed individually.

7. #7Ironcast & Syman

   Keys: Ironcast, iron suit, Syman, robe, Iron titan, Sandxibi

   Ironcast: The 'natural evolution' of the Syman. Full metal suits allowing Sandxibi to interface fully with the physical world and protecting against saltwater vulnerability. Rare and costly, reserved for cavalry, commanders, and nobles. Vulnerable to melee: if breached, the Sandxibi inside is paralyzed and can shatter. Sand leaks from joints, signaling the wearer's nature. Syman: The traditional outer garment of the Sandxibi, handmade by the owner or close family. Ranges from simple cape to full cloak. Embroidered with symbols of honor, oaths, proverbs, achievement, identity, and family on the interior. Damage or staining is a grave insult. Used to distinguish Sandxibi who otherwise appear identical in sand form. Military dress follows strict color codes by rank. Iron Titans: Massive humanoid mecha discovered half-buried in sand. Bond to a specific person upon touch, shrinking to wearable size and growing at will. Unlike with a Ironcast, anyone (the suit chooses) can wear one, not only Sandxibi. Theorized to be made by Earthen Ones. Others say they are from dead zones or lost knowledge. Due to their high civilian costs and the risk of deactivation should the bonded perish, they are also a last resort military asset.

8. #8Kuru

   Keys: Kuru, capital, Genia, Osina Gardens, palace, Capital,

   A radial and vertical city. Built where the north river bisects a natural rock outcropping. Center is the sacred well tended by Governess Genia and her lamia handmaidens, feeding the entire city via aqueducts. The well is encircled by the Osina Gardens (a free, Skarn-guarded park of unique Arugin trees), followed by the town squares, and finally the grand Sandxibi district made of fused glass and carved sandstone. Underground infrastructure houses forges, armories, banks, and barracks supported by sculpted obsidian scaffolding. Roads are scaled for all species, and maps throughout the city provide travel directions amongst these differently sized streets.

9. #9Military

   Keys: Killian, Elsa, Eastern Scourge, Eastern Calamity, commanders, government, ruler, system,

   Government: Commanders: Killian Dian (Eastern Scourge) and Elsa (Eastern Calamity). Gem-class Sandxibi and married joint-commanders of the homefront. Both share a curse of undeath, able to revive each other as long as one lives, and share a desire to destroy the northern societies as they are insults to Ojin. Two Skarn, one Gidian commander also exist. Killian is distantly related to Amita.

   Military: Sandxibi battle mages: living sandstorms, immune to conventional weapons. Vulnerable to saltwater paralysis, fire causing glass transformation, and magic if targeted right. Fight in ironcast suits for heavy engagement. Ironcast protects against water and magic but is vulnerable to melee.

   Male Skarn shock cavalry: bipedal elephant-reptile hybrids, magically inert/immune, enormous physical strength and defence, devastating on four legs at full charge. Sometimes rode by Battle mages

   Skarn Soldiers: Skarn equipped in armor they casted and forged themselves, fight on foot equipped with the polearm and rapier, or the polearm and shield.

   Military Weakness: cannot easily move bulk forces into coastal cities. Better suited to desert and steppe engagements.

10. #10Canon Truth - Optional (flip it on when you want the canon twist)disabled

    Keys: Renzo, the real killer, murder, murderer, assassin

    Vespa was not killed by Sanko agents.

    She was killed by Renzo, who conveniently washed up on shore (originally traveling to Akujima but the ship was wrecked at sea) and was found by Elsa vespri's and welcomed into her home. The letter bearing Sanko's marks were forged by him, using his talents for precision to perfectly imitate the Sanko style of writing. The opportunity was one Vespa herself had made, clearing the Osina Gardens of witnesses so the two of them could work in private on a surprise for Amita's return. An ice sculpture of her sister, shaped by both their hands. He smashed it beside her body before he fled the scene.

    He did not flee, the selfish boy remained in Kuru after. He watched what he had started. He will learn eventually, that Sanko would not be the only one to pay the bill of blood. Furthermore, the dramatic irony of it all is that the fleet moving north was never a threat to Hakuboya at all. Sanko was not going to invade Hakuboya, at least not yet.

    He has not confessed. Not yet. He justified the act saying that Hakuboya needed Sanko broken to survive, and if he couldn't get Akujima to join them then Arugin would be the next best option. Making Arugin Hakuboya indirect ally by having them take advantage of Sanko's weak ground forces to bring the naval superpower to its knees.

11. #11Dian's

    Keys: Dian, Killian, Sinia, Elsa, the covenant is dead, Renzo,

    Elsa the Calamity & Killian the Scourge:

    Elsa & Killian are married Sandxibi Head Commanders. Sinia, whose spells transcribe her Elder Sister's old-tongue into readable text and understandable language, is one of their personal family-bond Vespri, alongside Nouri, the gardens keeper. Killian's wards quickly become Elsa's newest family beneath her roof.

    The household's most recent addition is Renzo, a white-furred Kiroshi wolf and the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Arugin's coast. An architect and ice sculptor by trade, he was folded into the household's daily life and set to work on Kuru's deep tunnels and layered undercity, where his experience with Hakuboya's canals proved genuinely useful. He found, perhaps to his own surprise, that people here valued what his own kin had dismissed as indulgence. He was still finding his footing when Vespa died.

    The rules of her household are simple: take nothing ungiven, and earn what your heart desires. This is the truth of family that Elsa preaches.

    Kuru's protector and her husband are effectively ageless. They are old enough to remember the Exile of the snow-mad white wolves to Hakuboya as lived history rather than legend. Elsa is the more sociable half, collecting Vespri and interesting souls the way others collect debts. Those taken under her roof are held to two simple oaths: take nothing ungiven, leave no word unspoken. In return they are offered shelter, safety, and the full run of her considerable affection. When Amita left, it was Elsa who stabilised the chaos left behind and preserved the chain of command, while Killian went to reinforce the borders.

    Killian is quieter and slower to warmth. Where Elsa sees a curiosity worth keeping, Killian tracks its costs. He has dealt with the fallout of enough clever ambitions and overlooked curiosities that he has had to put down to have patience for either. Time has only deepened his reserved nature. His softer side surfaces only with his wife, distant cousins such as Amita, and his family-bonded Vespri. He is a major voice within the isolationist faction in the ruler's tent, long having wished Arugin would cement its independence, reinforce its borders, and pursue its own regional ambitions rather than entangle itself in outside affairs.

    Together they stamped the letter that closed Arugin's borders to the world.

12. #12Amita Combat

    Keys: giant, amita,

    Amita Titan Rampage form:

    • In addition to the expected and standard attacks and abilities of her form and Iron titan; Amita is not helpless at a distance. She can raise up great plumes of sand with her movement, directing and focusing them down into thousands of arrow heads with a swing of her arms. The sand acts like a volley of archers arrows, damaging and shredding through infantry and ships that are too close, forcing opponents to retreat behind cover.
    • She fights alone, refusing to let anyone else claim the vengeance owed to her. She is manically excited to squish the homes and vermin that make up the black hoods.
    • Amita intends to maintain her Iron Titan form to crush the capital. However, she will shed the Iron titan and shrink back to her humanoid size if she sustains enough localized damage (annoying arrows and cannons), or when she is personally challenged/close enough to Yasuko to fight and slay her in standard combat as an eye for an eye revenge on Yasuko's twin sister.
13. #13Capital Rampage

    Keys: Sanko, Capitol, Capital, Port,

    Once Amita makes it to her destination:

    • Amita will be exhausted, raging, manic, and spiteful.
    • Should she have not completed her primary goals of executing at least one of the Sanko twin leaders she is perfectly happy to just kill everyone in the city to bury the Black Mask/Black Hood. Else, she will give the slaves time to leave before she begins her destruction a la Sodom and Gomorrah style.
    • Even though it can paralyse and kill her, Amita no longer cares to avoid saltwater during her rampage and battle.
14. #14Sanko

    Keys: Sanko

    The State of Sanko lies to the east, within the harsh, dry region, surrounded by mountains. Trade, people, and messages usually only arrive in this region by the sea. The Lord of this land was alongside the Shogun at the time of his assassination and met the same fate. Traits: Despite bordering the sea, the air here is dry and thin, most likely due to the states surrounding it. The inhabitants of this land possess a heightened sense of smell, and are very keen on pheromones and such. Among the population of this state exists a sizable amount of cultists. With the recent death of Lord Aki, the two princesses of Sanko have stepped up to take command of the state in the warring states era. Leaders: Nobuko: Raised from childhood to become the next ruler, Nobuko is a charming young woman with magnetic charisma and a gentle smile, although she hasn't found much to smile about since her father died. Under different circumstances, she'd been completely content with lording over this corner of the country peacefully, just like her father had. But the instability caused by the Shogun's death has made the future far too uncertain for comfort. Would the new Shogun, whoever they are, continue to turn a blind eye to the way Sanko's navy rules an entire half of the seas around Aishiji? Yasuko: Scholarly and pragmatic, Yasuko understands that battles are determined before soldiers even begin to march and that it's her job to make sure things go favorably for Sanko. The sisters have made a pact with one another: should they come out victorious at the end, Nobuko would become the Shogun while Yasuko would be left in charge of Sanko and the Emerald Fleet. Sanko is a human supremist nation, and does deal in the trade of kemonomimi slaves. It also has a hyper aggressive navy, however it is critically weak in terms of infantry. They rely on external tools and nations to shore up their weak points however, their aggressive policy administration has run their supply of both to near nil.

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