Here is some excerpts from my unofficial file for the City of Four Vices:
*Each Emperor's Cults
/Fallen Mystics of Sect Daruda
These gangs believe one heretical doctrine (naturalists?) and cast out from
officials but tolerated retaining for their martial strength, they think
they follow the true way of Enlightenment of Daruda who was originally a
hsunchen lord who killed other totem Dragons and consumed their power and
essence for founding True Empire of Kerendaruth.
They use animal form martial arts for incarnating Daruda, and know secret magic to take power from Nichung of Hachuan Shan Mountain. They killed many hsunchens and Horned Ones of Korgatsu in Mountain War and Battle of Lost Horses in Early Days of Godunya Reign. (See Tales #15: about Battle of Lost Hopes) They mainly use animistic power from Spirit World, and think they can transform it into the status of the lord of beasts, dragons.
/Fallen Alchemist Mystics of Thalurzni
This sects can be counted as many branches by their peculiar way of magic
and ways. These so-called Alchemists believe they can achieve immortality
and enlightenment through experiments derived from intellectual theory, they
deny soul without physical body as western Brithini (as some of RW Taoist,
read Henri Maspero’s “Taoism”). In Underworld of Lur Nop, any of them
lose their sanity for common use of narcotics, other poisonous herbs and
metals like mercury.
They perform orgiastic ritual for Wedding of “Thalurzni and Halisayan”, collects poisonous insects in one pit for making portion, commit necromancy and other dread acts. Maybe player characters come to the target of their crazy experiment. They are sorcerers that don’t belong to Western Malkioni sects (as Orathorn Sorcerers). .
/Fallen Lawyers and Traditionalists of Mikaday
Some of them believes that only through Perfect Devotion and Baktism to one
otherworld entity without any spiritual, or intellectual training, they can
achieve enlightenment like pacifists of Yao-Fune. Others are less harmless
and are treated as loyal subjects under true Mandarins, and sometimes work
for them as a loyal subjects or agents of Godunya, even if misguided.
/Fallen War Dragons of Vayobi
Some of Veterans from War Dragons, and malcontents join this party and try
to accumulate wealth by bringing back silver or more special products (like
opium). Smugglers of Orca (most of them haven’t connection to Darkest Power
like Sekeverans or Cosmic Explorers) mostly hide one of sea tunnels in the
maze complex.
*Beijing Dialects and Names of Kralorela Gazeteer Efendi taught me that language always changes and never stop this process, and in Japan, many of Old pronunciation remained to each Chinese Characters, such characteristic is maybe difficult to explain here to phonogram people.....Some classical european linguists insist the superiority of phonogram to ideogram, and time change process from latter to former is inevitable for each cultures,(maybe you might recall egyptian hierogryph and Demotic...) I hesitate to agree with their opinion wholeheartedly though eastern asia could not resist the trend of World promoting speeding up, but I think ideogram is in a opposite sense, superior for keeping the meaning of each records and ambiguous relationship between phonetic language and writing....often ignored by Europeans knowing only alphabets. So ideogram is more suitable for More slow paced age like Ancient Time.
Anyway, each of Chinese Characters can be pronunciated differently in Japanese according to the time that pronunciation was used in the age of China, in Old setting of Genertela Boxed Set, names of Kralorela places and personalities are much similar to Modern RW Mandarin (Beijing Dialect), so Efendi want to apply Chinese Characters according to it, but that makes sometimes applied characters are often unusual for place names, and sometimes. weird.
*Army of Kralorela
Military
As Genertela Box Books told, Archexarch of Seven Dragons and Wisdom commands
all of Four Imperial Corps and Three Fleets of Kralorela, and Twenty Elitest
Warriors, named Five Dragon Warriors are personal bodyguards of Emperor,
under tutelage of Martial Artist School of Heseroon Marn the Faithful
Dragon.
Dominant of Kralori Army is still Heavy Footsoldier regiments approximately numbers 1000 members, and half is armed with crossbow, rest have spear and lance. All of them have swords and Shield.
About Cavalry regiments, though Kralori despise the practice of Horse Nomads since Ancient Age, after invasion of Sheng Seleris, the practical necessity overwhelms Tradition, especially in Siyang and Boshan province. (See Anaxial Roster and old Lodarios Library documents for the history of Horse.) about Chuaran, Palangso, Vuanso), (But isn't there any Cavalry Army in Kralorela? Yes, setting in Old Genertela Box was gregged.)
Certainly magical regiments exists though quite it is minority group, various and mixed type of Battle Magic is practiced like Spearbird Riders and Sunboxers. Dragons are rarely used in Battle, but causing decisive effects it was used in several times in History.
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