Elyden Random Plots #7

A scared magnate and owner of a manufactory in the city of Vepar in Lyridia Dhai has disappeared, and amid a biased investigation by local Iron Guardians, the manufactory-workers under his employ are moved to an open cast mine belonging to a business  partner, where their fates are yet to be decided. 

      They are yet to meet their degenerate halfblooded employer.  
 

HALFBLOOD: 1. also Anthropeidos. Those who can trace their ancestry back to an Otherworlder or the descendant of an Otherworlder, or who share traits obviously common to such creatures are said to be halfbloods. Typically a halfblood has one mortal, usually human, parent and another halfblooded parent, which in turn had one halfblooded parent, and so-on, until a direct ancestor who can be considered to be an Otherworlder. Scholars speculate as to the origins of many breeds or houses of halfbloods, and many believe that those who share common traits can trace their ancestry to the same parent Otherworlder; the so-called primogenitor of their kind.

      There are many recognised Halfblooded Houses within the Korachani empire, some of which are relatively powerful, though most 

2. also Asicthai. In a more general and often incorrect way, the term is often used to describe any humanoid creature that is clearly not human. The ancestors of the Two-and-Twenty mortal tribes, the direct descendants of the Demiurges and other creatures often considered fantastical are commonly refered to as halfbloods, even if this may not be correct. In this sense the term halfblood is applied not only to anthroipeidos but also asicthai. See also the Vocabuli Haghori (Haghorum). 

VEPAR: fortified city in Lyridia Dhai, with a very long and tumultuous his. It was capital of the ancient Lyradean government in -234 RM and was mostly populated by Svathi people, who had immigrated there in c. -1300 RM, and the later Amnathi settlers who moved N following the dissolution of the Amnathi ntn. in -589 RM, though bloodlines mingled following the rise of the Lyradean ntn. During the Korachani blockade of Lyradea and Nárthel in 81 RM, the militocratic caste known as the Vepari gained prominence and began militarising the ntn. despite the wishes of the Augurs. The Vepari declared war on Korachan in 85 RM, which would lead to the Korachani occupation of S–W Lyradea, later to become known as Lyridia Dhai. Korachani influence caused Lyridia to abandon Vepar, moving the capital temporarily to Soleas in 91 RM. Vepar would become imperialised over the coming decades, with immigrant patrician families marrying into Vepari nobility.

      Under the Korachani government, Vepar became one of the most imperialised cities, with vast numbers of Korachani immigrants arriving there c. 150 – 220 RM. Indeed, when Korachan abandoned Lyridia Dhai to the Interreges in 1704 RM, it maintained control of Vepar until 2185 RM. Under the Interreges, Vepar became the centre of a small tyranny, where by 2838 a single Interreges umbraphage remained, known as ‘the Lord’, who would subjugate the surrounding lands to his will until his disappearance in 3742 RM. 

      Lyridia Dhai was divided into three realms over the following years, with Vepar becoming the centre of the N-most realm. Its imperial roots are clearly evident, though have been corrupted by time and an emergent culture into something unique (pop. c. 22,200).