One x One LORE: Do you think history wants you to have lived?

[Solivagante]

Original prompt: The royal family is dead and gone. The revolution has swept away the corrupt and obsolete institution, and a more just society is rising in the ashes. at least, that's what Character A believes. There is a democracy, social welfare, and non-noble magic holders are no longer relentlessly persecuted. The other nations, all kingdoms and all with varying levels of persecutions of their own, wish to crush the uprising, to prevent it from happening elsewhere. When an amnesiac orphan (character B) is presented by a neighboring kingdom as the missing princess, her mind wiped allegedly wiped by magic, the new government sends Character A as an ambassador to talk Character B down from continuing to claim to be the dead princess.

Prompt by AngryAngryAnarchist.

 

[Solivagante]

The state of the continent:

• Volhynia
• Lutecia
• Pritani
• Zentralimperium
• NotItaly
• NotVenice

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  Seven years ago, the Volhynian people overthrew their monarchy to establish a new and better society. This uprising, followed by a civil war, has shaken the continent, as dynasties now have reason to fear not only their nation's enemies, but perhaps their own people as well. The establishment of an entirely anarchist nation in (name to come), a breakaway state which was previously part of the Volhynian Empire, is yet another threat, especially as it had previously been held by a monarchist faction. The leader-in-exile of the monarchists has just been assassinated on the streets of Senonces, and the east appears increasingly to be a hotbed of revolution and chaos which threatens to spread to other countries.
  
  Before the revolution, Volhynia was an imperial power of extremes, known for the opulence of its palaces and extravagances of its rulers as much as the bitter cold of its winters. The royal family and nobility claimed that they alone held magic, but even before the revolution there were whispers that in fact, they simply killed every commoner mage they found - or worse. The revolutionaries have since publicized documents which, they claim, prove this took place, though other nations have cast aspersions on their validity.
  
  Unique among the region's monarchies, Volhynia allowed royal women to inherit in rare instances: if they had proven themselves in some extraordinary way, or if there were no male heirs. This tradition dates back to Empress Ekaterin, who deposed her own husband to seize control of the nation and ably led it to prosperity. In the generations since, however, inheritance by women has been rare, and the expectation remains that even if a woman were to inherit, she would marry a man who would do much of the actual business of ruling.
  
  Volhynia's patron god is Svyatibog, associated with evergreen forests, deep snows, and the dark of winter. He is often represented as an enormous bear, and Imperial heraldry features a rampant bear on a field of white and green. Svyatibog is a god of strength and endurance, and Volhynian magic is especially known for spells to augment physical characteristics, which were often applied to their military. Stories of (presumably enchanted) Volhynian soldiers fighting after taking terrible mortal wounds, a crazed light in their eyes, are widespread.
  
  

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  Volhynia is Russian in this equation. The breakaway anarchist state is analogous to Ukraine, ironicaly founded by a pro-monarchist conservative military faction which, prior to winning their independence, committed war crimes against magic users and minorities during the civil war. Their leader has just been assassinated on the streets of Senonces, and Mikhail Benson, the man who killed him, is in jail, his fate not yet determined. Not-Ukraine has now been given over to an anarchist faction.

  
  
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  On the temperate western edge of the continent, Lutecia is a roughly hexagonal country bordered by the sea to the north, west, and south, and by mountains to the east and southwest. Its monarchs rule from their palace just outside of the capital, Senonces, and have enjoyed remarkable stability for centuries. The nation is blessed with fertile land and natural resources, but as industrial manufacturing is on the rise, the people of the countryside are starting to migrate from their ancestral lands to cities, especially the capital itself where they hope to find better-paying factory jobs. Senonces, which is several centuries old, is increasingly crowded and dirty, while just a short distance from the city, the royals enjoy the luxury and open spaces of their glittering estates.
  
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  Lutecia's patron goddess is Sulevae, associated with the sun, flowering plants, and freshwater springs. She is represented in religious art as a young deer, but this is not used in heraldry; instead, the Lutecian monarchy uses a stylized iris, a spring flower which grows in marshy ground, as their emblem. She is a goddess of growth and rebirth, and popular belief is that Lutecian healing spells are uniquely potent, though this is subject to debate. There are whispers that her patronage of 'new life' extends to spells which erase or lock away a person's memories, allowing them to be 'reborn' as someone new... whether they wanted to be or not.
  

  Behind the Scenes

  Lutecia is France, with a slightly different timeline. In this world, the French Revolution hasn't happened yet (but might), and neither has Haussmann's remodeling of the capital. It remains a monarchy, but especially after the Volhynian Revolution, that feels more and more precarious. There is a stark contrast between the gilded lives of the nobility and the poverty of many commoners.

  
  
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  Off the north coast of Lutecia, this archipelago is largely unknown to the folk of the continent, as its inhabitants have resisted outside influence or attempts at colonization for centuries. It appears to be largely, if not entirely, covered in deep old-growth forest. A single trading settlement has been established on the island of Guith, just off the southern coast of the largest landmass; the Pritani sell raw metals, worked jewelry, and textiles dyed in beautiful colors. They do not sell anything made of wood, though they are clearly adept at its use and shaping, and have refused staggeringly generous offers for items such as carved wooden bowls or decorative lintel pieces.
  
  The government of Pritani appears to be a loose confederation of tribes, with multiple hierarchical levels of regional governance similar to the command structure of an army. All those who interact with foreigners have been cagey about explaining these details, and while a few Pritani have visited the continent as "ambassadors", it has never been clear if they are in fact specifically deputized, or simply using the term for its convenience and the access it grants.
  
  Pritani's patron god is The Dagda, associated with autumn harvests,
  

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  Pritani is an un-Romanized Celtic British Isles.

  
  
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  Zentralimperium is Lutecia's neighbor to the east. the two nations fought the Prusso-Lutecian over some border territories belonging to Lutecia that ended with effectively no change, but high casualties. while relations have been tenuous in the past, the two nations have gotten closer as a result of the Volhynian Revolution
  

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Magic and Religions:

• Magic
• Dominant Religion
• Other Religions

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  Magic is a genetic trait and is co-dominant, with the specific alleles impacting how strong someone's magic is (ie, their mana pool). Two alleles for magic increases the likelihood of someone having greater magical capacity, though this can also be impacted by epigenetic factors.

  
  
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Technology and Medicine:

• Technology
• Medicine

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[EmperorNorton1]

The Revolutionary Coalition that united to overthrow the Volhynian monarchy was made up of three main ideological sects, each of which possessing numerous subsects. The downfall and demise of the royal family lead to increased factionalism.

• Yellows
• Greens
• Reds

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  This faction is the equivalent of the Bolsheviks, though Mensheviks and Democratic Socialists of both reformist and revolutionist strains also are yellow. This faction won the civil war and is in the middle of transitioning the military dictatorship it was forced to install during the war into a socialist democracy.
  
  The system of governance planned is similar to the United States system. It will have an executive branch led by a prime minister, with several secretaries for internal affairs, finance, war, external affairs, agriculture, infastructure, modernization, education.
  Then there is a bicameral legislature, one is directly population-based without any zoning nonsense (think Israeli elections) and the other is representatives from unions (which are regional, and also farm workers are unionized.) it is 10,000 people per representative(so size of govt will increase as population does), there is universal suffrage for all over 18
  
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  The Republican capitalist faction, their loyalties waver between the old monarchs and the new Yellows.
  
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  The anarchists. Tenuously allied with the Yellows, but only for the immediate war. the most radical faction, holding this ideology is a crime punishable by death in Zentralimperium, after the assassination of the empress by one such anarchist