Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170902020736

Merians could be called the 'cousins' of the Rin being the children of the ex-lover of the Rin's founding father. Through this rather complicated relationship rises lots and lots of tension between the children.

While the Rin seek conformity the Merians instead seek enlightenment and the pursuit of pleasures. While the Rin believe in the controlling of emotions the Merians instead are a highly emotional people seeing emotion as both raw power and the manifestation of their fore mother.

Merians as a people live within a Matriarchy with mainly women in charge of all positions and the males being a lesser class. This has lead to the males dominating the warrior and worker classes while the Women fulfill the priestly and artisan classes. They are also organized into a series of ruling clans/families with the dominate clan becoming the current dynasty of 'Queens'. Prominent families are:

- the Hanno Clan

- the Gisco Clan

- the Ephor Clan

the rulers of these families are known as 'Shophets' and on most worlds are the governors and nobles as well as the judges and main administrative body while the other families and people sever their will. Generally the far off colonies are left to their own devices as long as they pay taxes, homage, and loyalty to the 'Mother Clan'.

The military of the Merians tends to be native militia and a few elite formations with the main body fo the army being hired mercenaries and private armies bought from across the universe. These leads to both flexibility but also strife at times.

Now Merian society as a whole is dominated by economics mainly with the males being the main 'salesmen' and the women the administrators/overseers. Either way they expand across the economic universe with all sorts of exotic goods as well as plenty of slaves (the only issue both the Merians and Rin agree upon)

Merians also have their own magic which also uses Cyrus crystal, but their magic differs highly from that of the Empire. They focus of raw emotion and limited training unleashing short but powerful burst of energy this can also be said in the way they fight.

so this is the first post of the Merians what do you guys think? 