Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26184570-20160503145221

My ideas for Arcanus involve the addition of two new factions. One I would narrate as my own, whilst the other I will only create. This would be the Kilakku (based off of many people, but mostly the Tamil and the Japanese), and the Antuhsas (based off of Proto-Indo-Europeans).

The Kilakku, whilst extensive maritime travelers, want to be left alone, and stay in their grand cities that they have built in the jungle. They speak Japanese in day-to-day life, but for religious affairs, they speak Tamil. Their official terms are Japanese words with Tamil prefixes, suffixes and pluralizations (this is all much like English-speaking Catholics with Latin). Their writting system is one that I am still in the process of creating. It is not a syllabary like it's two progenitor's, rather a true alphabet. It is a smoothed out hybrid of the Tamil and Hiragana scripts. Their religion is much like Shintoism, but spoken in Tamil, with some Zen aspects and influences from pre-Vedic Dravidian religions. They believe that all things have a spirit that must be respected, and all of these things have been given spirits by a great, singular entity.

The Antuhsas are the opposite of the Kilakku. They are pastoral nomads that roam the plains, looking for better grass for their lifestock, and more interesting people to conquer. They speak Hittite for all aspects of life, and their writting system is Sanskrit. Their religion is what we would recognize as Brahmin Hinduism, though there are some small Babylonian, Hellenistic and Odinistic influences. Though they themselves are not pale, they are notorious for subjegating people of darker skin colors, using their religious caste-system as justification for their blatant racism and appropriation. Unlike the pescetarian and passionate Kilakku, when the Antuhsas discover a new lifeform, it's food. Domesticatable, herdable food, but food. No person living on the close-side of the Eastern continent of Arcanus wants to feel the ground shake, accompanied by frightening, Hittite war-cries. 