The ArchFactions
Three great powers have become dominant in the past few decades: the technological Illustrados, the theocratic Templars, and the independent Free Tribes.
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The ILlustrados Union
Overview: Like the eternal sun, the Illustrados Union has arisen from the midnight hours of the “World that Was”. They use their technological prowess to bridge more than two dozen different communities beneath a unified front. With pistol and sword and gunboat, they have lent shelter to the survivors of the World beyond the Fall, inviting the worthy to join in their illustrious Union.
Where flies the Concentric Suns of the Illustrados flag, vox-comm towers and magna-storm shields are raised to the heavens alongside it. Caravans and fleets speed between these bastions with food, tech and trade. In this ruined World Beyond the Fall, the Illustrados Union stands as a symbol that human spirit which cannot be felled by monstrosity or calamity.
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The Sanctified Temple
Overview: The religion of the Shattered Mother has ever been in the shadow of human myth, worshipped and revered by the various faiths and legends of pre-Fall humanity. Some faiths saw her as a powerful dragon or empress while in others, she has taken the part of the suffering martyr and the tormented matriarch. It was through her beneficence that humanity was wrought from stardust and soul. It was through her mercy that humanity survived the apocalypse that should have obliterated them. And now, it is her strength that allows the Templars their magic and the power to protect the world after the Long Fall.
The Templars of the Shattered Mother stand now as her faithful and her soldiers. They seek to spread her word and her shield from the north to the rest of the American continent and the World Beyond the Fall. Through blood, pain, and mercy, the Oracle-Avatar directs the Temple as voice of her Goddess and few can resist their dire will, their potent arcana or the terrible might of the Templars.
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The Free Tribes
Description: The War of Embers wrought devastation across the North American content as humanity waged terrible battles for survival. The Free Tribes arose from the threat of invasion and solidified from the threat of extinction.
As a whole and as their Subfactions, the Free Tribes are fiercely independent of their business and their destiny. However, this co-mingled alliance has resulted in pacts with enemy against enemy and with raider against avenger — the first steps to a peace that once eluded the tribes and communities that make this Archfaction who they are.