Echea
Tags: state
Government & Peoples
Government Type: Magocracy
Primary Inhabitants: Echi (Goshwen)
Population: 150,000
Stability: Stable
Core Values: Knowledge, scholarship, magical prowess, elemental control, skill
- Echea is controlled by a combination of scholars and elemental masters in a large council. Access is granted by a combination of invitation and majority vote from general population.
- Echea is largely a meritocracy. If you are smart, you are respected by your peers.
- Elemental magic is largely valued, as is technical skill. Although the Echi hate the Cogheads, they begrudgingly respect their skill.
Economy
Size: Large
Tech: Very developed
Primary Exports: Magitech, education
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- Echea is home to some of the largest, most influential universities in all of Alaria. If you wish to master an element, many choose to come to the Echean universities.
- They have paragon attuned elementalists within every discipline.
- The universities also require you to work on artifacts part time. These are sold and help fund the university.
- Echea exports a high quantity of magical imbued artifacts, bringing in large quantities of wealth.
Military
Size: Small
Quality: Extremely high
Enrollment: Voluntary
- The Echean military rarely forms, but when it does, it is absolutely terrifying. The universities double as military training academies, and citizens who attend them are required to also take classes in military tactics and combat. This results in highly capable, extremely talented elemental war casters making up the majority of the Echean military forces.
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Capital: Adi Assabehta
Cities: Adal
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Primary Conflicts
- Echea is frequently the trophy of military endeavors, since it is seen as a wellspring of wealth and education to be harnessed. However, invaders have never made it to the capital.
- Echea houses many children of foreign royalty who wish to see some of the knowledge of the Echean universities rub off on their offspring, with variable success.
- Despite hundreds of years passing, the vicious hatred between Echeans and Cogheads continues. Echea conveniently ignores the Coghead genocide only 50 years ago that killed all the cogheads in echea.
- A mad scientist scholar hypothesized about the existance of a flip site of the Material Plane. Unbeknownst to anyone else, he managed to open a portal to the other side, binding the entire city of Adi Assabehta to Zylogmus Eternus. Now, people are mysteriously dying throughout the city, and some people are fleeing. Many people don’t think this mysterious death thing is real (or think it’s caused by other reasons), so most stay. The scholar was the first to die (freak coincidence), and no one suspects anything. Portal undiscovered. The capital will slowly empty out over the next few years as people realize that there is something causing people to mysteriously die.
History
Two centuries ago, Cogheads and Echi worked together in the mountains. The cogheads created the machinery, and the Echi created the magic. The mountains were jointly ruled over by the two races. A friendly, but fierce rivarly between the two races existed over which technology was better—magic or machines. The Echi declared victory when they had created infinite resources from their elemental artifacts, but the Cogheads countered by developing a machine allowing them to steal the very elemental attunement out of another creature’s body. They used this to say that they had in fact won. Of course, this was disputed by the gnomes. In retaliation, the cogheads sucked the extremely potent elemental attunement right out of a Echi figurehead. This was seen as an act of war, and the Echi massacred and drove the Cogheads out of the mountains. The Cogheads have never forgiven the Echi for the brutal massacre, and the Echi believe it was totally justified. This conflict has spread across ethnic lines, and many gnomes and goblins who had nothing to do with the history now have variably extreme views towards the other.
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