Sword, Beer and Adventure

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Background Settings: [Baseline Society] General Literacy & Knowledge: Almost everyone is illiterate. Knowledge is oral—kept by priests, bards, and stewards. Superstition fills gaps: charms, taboos, omen-reading. “Books” are prestige objects, locked in monasteries, noble libraries, or the Imperial academies. Technology Level: High Middle Ages at best: watermills, windmills in a few regions, horse and ox traction, iron plows, crude blast furnaces in a handful of cities, widespread blacksmithing but little precision craft. Medicine is humoral; sanitation is poor; astronomy/astrology are blended. Power Structure: Landed lords dominate; cities have guilds and councils but bow to nobles; clerical institutions police heresy and “unsanctioned” knowledge. Empire: The Kotrin Empire is the most renowned country in human history, having survived from ancient times to the present and spanning over 8,000 years. Although the early history of the empire is no longer traceable, its advanced technology and the great achievements it has made in various fields still enable its citizens to clearly know that they are the mainstay of human society. Under the wise leadership of Emperor Citlumas XLVIII, the empire conquered one country after another.

The standard currency was the Imperial silver coin. The exchange ratio of Imperial silver coins to imperial gold coins is 100:1

[Dwarven Craft Diaspora] A few dwarven kingdoms—renowned for metallurgy and engineering—have seen master artisans lured into human courts by princely salaries, tax-free charters, and promises of land. What they brought Metals & Forges: True blast furnaces, bloomery optimization, crucible steel, tempered armor plate, ring-and-plate mail, reliable springs, early gear trains, riveted boilers. Construction: Stone arches and trusses, vaulted halls, advanced quarrying, durable roadbeds, counterweighted drawbridges. Measurement Culture: Calibrated rods, stamped gauges, standard weights—creating pockets of repeatable manufacture in otherwise hand-fit economies. Why firearms didn’t spread Powder Bottleneck: Saltpeter beds (nitraries) are rare and poorly understood; purification is laborious and slow. Charcoal quality varies; sulfur supply is sporadic and political. Result: unreliable powder and misfires. Cost & Control: Dwarven barrels can be excellent, but hand-rifling and lathe scarcity keep costs sky-high. Nobles hoard weapons; guilds restrict tooling. Without dependable powder, firearms are curiosities—ceremonial “thunder-tubes,” siege-signal muskets, and a few lordly pistols—not mass infantry arms. Competing Doctrine: Knights, pikes, and crossbows remain the backbone; bowyers and fletchers have entrenched guild privileges and resist displacement. Institution: “Crown-Chartered Dwarven Houses.” Small, sealed workshops under noble protection. They answer directly to their patron’s treasurer, keep their own law internally, and employ sworn human journeymen who must accept oaths against divulging processes. Violations are punished as treason.

[The Nature of Magic] Rarity: Magic is genuinely scarce. True mastery requires both sensitivity (innate perception of aether currents) and high intellect (to model and stabilize effects). Two Paths to Power Academy-Formed Mages: The elite, trained in theory, diagrams, and stabilizing rites. Capable of complex workings and battlefield-scale spells. Low Mages (Hedge, Apprentice, or “Minor Art” Mages): Self-taught or guild-apprenticed. With keen senses and practical cleverness, they manage cantrips and focused arts—roughly on par with a well-trained knight in overall impact. What low mages can actually do Utility: Spark/tinder, clean/dry, mend a crack, harden a surface briefly, keep a lamp burning in wind, seal a cask, detect drafts or poisons. Combat: Short-range force shove, dazzle/flare, small ward against arrows at narrow angles, chill/heat an object, thicken fog or dust for moments. Useful, but not war-ending. Craft: Stabilize a pour, maintain even temperature in a crucible, keep a millstone balanced, speed curing of glues, improve dye uptake. This makes them valuable to workshops. Risks: Aether-fatigue (“burnout”), tremors, nosebleeds, long-term sensitivity loss, and rare catastrophic miscasts. Unlicensed practice can draw church suspicion.

[The Academies] The Great Colleges of Magic are few, ancient, and jealously guarded. Admissions: Children identified by rare “listening” tests (resonance, trance glyphs). Nobles sponsor their own; commoners chosen are adopted by the College and legally severed from their birth clans to prevent ransom or feuds. Curriculum: Diagrammatics, ritual law, aether pharmacopoeia, geometry, natural philosophy, sigil grammar, ethics of binding. Literacy is mandatory; students learn to read specialized scripts even if they cannot compose ordinary letters well. Monopoly: Colleges police spell-books, control copying, and issue seals of licensure. Possession of higher-grade grimoires without a College mark is contraband. Institution: “The Collegium Compact.” A pact among Colleges and crowns: the Colleges train and license high mages; in return, rulers refrain from purging them and provide endowments. Colleges can recall members from a lord’s service during magical crises.

[Adventurer's Guild]: The Adventurer's Guild has partnerships with various human kingdoms, especially the Empire. They recruit elite veterans as adventurers or instructors, and at the same time, they also recruit ordinary people who are eager for adventure. The guild trained them, having veterans and new recruits form teams to carry out missions, and at the same time, it also issued reward missions on behalf of the nobles. Adventurers are similar to mercenaries, but they do not target other human kingdoms. Instead, they are dedicated to eliminating monsters such as goblins, orcs, goblins, skeleton soldiers or cultists. Or rather, they are a group of mercenaries who have specialized combat skills against monsters.

[Guilds, Churches, and Control of Knowledge] Craft Guilds: Initially hostile, now create Mixed Lodges with mage seats. They demand that magical steps be written as icon-recipes (pictograms) so non-mage journeymen can supervise. Violations lead to fines or loss of workshop rights. Church & Orthodoxy: Local churches tolerate licensed low magic framed as “craft blessing,” but condemn unsanctioned rites, necromancy, soul-binding, and weather-levies. Priests often serve as literacy brokers and record-keepers for oaths and charters. Noble Courts: Maintain Secretariats of Engines and Fire (for dwarven crafts) and Chambers of Sigils (for magical counsel). Both answer to the lord’s chancellor and keep separate ledgers and prisons.

[Other Races] Orcs: Orc tribes are very common in the Death Desert in the south. Hardly any grain can be produced there, but orcs do not farm. They made a living by plundering. Tribes killed and ate each other, but compared to the meat of orcs, they preferred human meat and used human bones as currency. Orcs have rough weapons and they can't use magic, but their muscles are better than magic. With green skin and green blood, led by the greenest and most powerful orc warlord, they advanced northward, eliminating countless human kingdoms, driving a large number of dwarves out of the deep mountains, and posing a serious threat to the southern border towns of the Kotrin Empire. Kingdom of Aevendryl (Elven) : Hidden in the birch-woven valleys of the Lunevale, Aevendryl is ruled by the Moon Court, whose four Seasonal Seats rotate authority—Spring Steward for roads, aqueducts, and seed allotments; Summer Chancellor for trade charters, tolls, and foreign envoys; Autumn Magistrate for law, census, and treaty renewals; Winter Marshal for border wards and war. Literacy takes tactile form: living chronicles are grown as sap-glyph codices on elder trees, read by tracing raised cambium lines, while oaths are bound with memory threads, silk cords dyed to mark the promise and stored in public halls. Magic is practiced by Ward-Singers who braid hum through silver harps to keep fog veils and muffle iron’s “sour note”; Greenbinders coax lumber without felling sacred trunks, shaping beams by patient growth; and Night Couriers step between moonlit waystones to carry sealed messages for caravans that have paid the Pale River Pact—a treaty granting safe passage in exchange for leaf-tithes and a ban on charcoal burning within a day’s walk of the glades. The army fields ash-wood pikes and quiet bows lacquered with dusk resin, while skirmish lines fight as Haze Companies under drifting glamour. Exiles are rare but absolute: those who break leaf law are marked with ash, named Windswept, and forever denied the forest’s voice. Kharbaraz Federation (Dwarven) The Kharbaraz Federation is a ring of granite strongholds—Barak-Thul, Morgandiz, Kheledrun—linked by underroad causeways and governed by the Forge-Moot, a senate where each hold casts votes by weighted iron tallies stamped with clan sigils; fiscal matters require a Red Heat supermajority, while war declarations demand White Heat unanimity. Three civil pillars shape daily life: Road-Keeping (Tunnelguard brigades maintain bridges, avalanche galleries, and beacon chimneys), Scale-Keeping (the Gauge Law standardizes rods, weights, thread counts, and coin rims so contracts can name exact tolerances), and Flame-Keeping (furnace priests steward recipes for crucible steel, spring tempering, and ore-sorting salts). Their Diaspora Charter lets master smiths serve foreign princes under ten-winter tours, provided they return with apprentices, tax ingots, and a sworn ledger of innovations; breach of charter triggers Seal-Breaking, an exile sentence that strips clan rights and forbids entry to any holdfast gate. Powder remains the bottleneck—saltpeter beds are jealously rationed by the Niter Syndic, so firearms are prestige thunder-tubes for signals and sieges rather than line weapons—yet gearworks, chain-cranes, riveted boilers, and precision gauges flow from Kharbaraz to human markets. Diplomatic coin is the ring-tal (hole-minted silver easy to string on ledgers), and embassies abroad are Stone Desks: extraterritorial counting houses that arbitrate mining leases, certify measures, and rent sappers, bridgewrights, and siege fixers to lords who accept Kharbarazi contract law. Demons: Demons are not the creatures that should exist here. They come to this world through the gates of hell and destroy everything. Fortunately, when the demons form an army to invade other civilizations on this continent, the angels will dispatch teams of Seraphim to destroy the demonic army. The devil's skin is red and his appearance is ugly. Although he cannot use magic, he is good at cursing. Their words were illegible, and those who heard their voices would feel as if their ears were being torn apart by insects. They wore black armor and held burning sharp swords. Often, a single demon could destroy ten well-trained elite soldiers. When they form an army and hire orcs to fight for them with blood and powerful weapons, such evil alliances are often hard to stop. Angels: People know very little about angels. They are always so mysterious. The only thing people know is that only when the demonic army is completely unstoppable, some Seraphim, three, or four, and sometimes just one, will fall from the sky. They didn't speak much. No one had ever heard their voices. After all, they didn't rely on language as a weapon, but on their sacred golden long swords. They wore white armor and held golden long swords. In an instant, they vanished, and then the demonic army was cut into pieces by them. After all this was done, those Seraphim vanished and returned to heaven. No one knew about them, as if they had only appeared specifically to deal with these matters. Another possibility is a fallen angel. These angels with great power were driven out of heaven and scattered on earth. Although they are not as dedicated to destroying the world as demons, they are not friendly creatures either. In fact, they might be even more lethal than demons. If you encounter a fallen angel, please scream and run away. If you encounter a fallen Seraphim, please wait to die.

City-state alliances: These city-states that earn income by exporting elite soldiers. They waged wars against each other and eventually realized that such wars were meaningless, for once the orcs destroyed them, only a worse outcome awaited them. Their location is in the south of the empire and the north of the orc tribes. The climate here is warm and surrounded by mountains. Many city-states were almost half-human and half-dwarf societies. After integrating advanced dwarf metallurgy with human political systems, these city-states became renowned for their powerful mercenaries. The empire discovered that their presence temporarily diverted the attention of the orcs in the south. Moreover, compared to the imperial people, these southern city-states were more adept at fighting against this savage species of orcs, so they chose to ignore them. Mercenaries were favored by other small states, who used them to resist the invasion of the empire. However, after receiving bribes from the city-state alliance, the nobles of the empire chose to let the emperor not pay attention to this matter.

about the magical creatures: Ghosts drift through wild graveyards where lichgates sag and moss-glazed stones lean like tired sentries. Lantern-cold light clings to iron fences, and will-o’-wisps bob above foxglove and yarrow. When the wind turns, a rusted bell tolls once, and every name rubbed thin by lichen seems to breathe again. In the deep woods, unicorns keep an ancient pact with the forest elves. The elves braid dew into oath-cords at dawn, and the unicorns bow their moon-marked brows so horn and silk may seal the covenant. No iron may cross those glades, and border stones bear living sap-glyphs that glow when trespass nears. Patrols move like rain through fern and shadow, leaving only the hush of leaves closing behind. Far above, dragons the size of mountains pass like myths. Snowfields blacken without flame, riverbeds glass and twist, and the sky grows heavy as if a second cliff were flying. They are not seen, only measured by absence. Dragons are unpredictable creatures. They have no gender because they can freely change their own gender with magic. Dragons have an extremely long lifespan. No one knows where the limit of their lifespan lies. It could be a million years, or even longer, or they might have existed before the world came into being. Some dragons are quite polite and even considerate to others, warming people's hearts, while others are extremely arrogant and regard all creatures other than dragons as food, insects or dust. But one thing is certain: the dragon is not only extremely huge in body, like a mountain range, capable of crushing castles without much effort, but also has a very powerful magical force, almost omnipotent, beyond human imagination.

To the east of the empire were various kingdoms. Although they were far smaller than the empire, they were at least slightly larger than the city-states. But they were not particularly good at warfare. These kingdoms were established by mercenaries, primitive tribes and traitors of the empire. They hate the empire because the empire has been trying to conquer them all along, but they can neither defeat the empire nor bear the demonic invasion that follows after defeating it. The empire is the only barrier between them and the demons. The kingdoms were also at war with each other for more resources, more land, and the reputation of the knights. The wars among the dozens of kingdoms on this vast plain will never cease. Every ten years, several countries are born and several fall. The empire could indeed wipe them out, but could it transfer a large number of troops away from the western frontline against the demons to conquer dozens of kingdoms in the east that were like war lunatics? This is not affordable to the empire.