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==General Info==
* The climate is getting steadily hotter. No one knows why. 
* Animus magic is fading. There are actually more animi than there have been for millennia, but they are very weak. Old enchantments are also growing weaker. 
* There was a huge war a while ago which essentially destroyed the Sand Queendom. 
* The following books are officially non-canon in this AU:
# Legends: Dragonslayer 
# A Dangerous Gift 
# The Flames of Hope.
==Pyrrhia==
===The Endless Desert===
* Former Sand Queendom, they never recovered from the War of Red Sands (which ended in the extinction of the royal line). 
* Hell, on a good day.
* Not endless, but pretty darn big. 
* Do not go there. 
* Ruled by warlords of varying degrees of depravity, the worst being Bone, a yellow-white male SandWing who makes his home in the ruins of the old stronghold. He frequently converses with the dead members of the royal family. 
* Many SandWings fled to the "Rainforest" to escape the warlords, and now outnumber the RainWings there.
===The HiveWing-IceWing Federation===
* Coolest place on the continent.
* A militant lot, they are haughty towards other tribes, and normally kill SandWings on sight. 
* Still a bit conservative about male leaders. 
* The Great Wall isn't what it used to be (a combination of the heat and weakening of animus magic). It's now possible to cross in some places. 
* The rankings are gone, but strict hierarchies persist. 
* The Federation is divided into HiveWing and IceWing administrative territories with roughly equal power and each ruled by a Prime Minister. The IceWing queen is the head of state for both, however. 
===The Diamond Spray Delta===
* The Mud Queendom still exists, but its influence is limited to a strip of coastline, it's ruled by a king, and it's a SeaWing client state. 
* The LeafWings, who had been given territory in the Rainforest, now have their queendom located in the Diamond Spray Delta. Their new Queen is transforming society in accordance with her esoteric occult philosophy. She hopes to one day establish a world-wide utopia. 
===The Sky Lands===
* The former Sky Queendom, and the most diverse place on the continent. 
* Not a bad place to live, except for the whole "Blood Army" thing. 
* The group mentioned above is a roving band of extremely xenophobic SkyWings who want to expel or kill the "invaders", and restore the old Queendom. They idolise the old aristocracy and their leader claims to be of royal blood. There is a 100% chance she is actually descended from one of the guards Peril killed in The Dragonet Prophecy.
===Pinnacle City===
* Located in the Sky Lands. 
* A city-state founded by lower-class SkyWings and dragons of other tribes who fled there. 
* Prosperous by the standards of this world, they are a centre of trade.
* A democracy, their current Consul is a female SilkWing named Jade. 
* They do not kill firescales, but raise them in caves outside the city to become elite guards and soldiers.
===Other cities of note===
* Stonetooth: Another city-state in the Sky Lands, ruled by a council whose members are elected for life (known mockingly as "The Ancients"). Known for being home to a number of clubs and semi-secret societies formed by young and highly radical members of the upper class, such as the Stonetooth Circle and the Disorderly Association. 
* Brightbay: Capitol of the remains of the Mud Queendom, a coastal city. Full of seagulls, starvation, and SeaWing ambassadors.
* Decagon: Capitol of the Leaf Queendom, formerly Glade City. The new Queen renamed it after the ten-sided shape, representing her hopes of uniting the ten tribes.
===The SeaWing Republic===
* They overthrew their royal family.
* Doing quite well.
* Lead by the Grand Assembly.
* They do a lot of trade. 
* They are currently politically divided over matters of foreign policy.
===The Talon Peninsula===
* A bunch of NightWings decided to go back for some reason when everything fell apart. 
* They survived, and live in insular communities without a single central leader. 
* Some of the communities do some trading with the SeaWings. 
===Pantala===
* A whole bunch of SilkWings left their Pyrrhian queendom, following a prophet who claimed they were destined to reclaim Pantala.
* The Breath of Evil had been weakened by the sun's increasing heat, and was annihilated by the SilkWing pilgrims. 
* They were forced to live in the mountain caves and have developed a society that would seem strange even to the Talon Peninsula NightWings, characterised by extreme detachment from material wants.
==Cultural stuff==
===Civilism===
Civilism is an ideology that can be traced back to radical philosophical works written in Possibility and the Queendom of the SeaWings following the War of SandWing Succession. It became a major force in the aftermath of War of Red Sands and is now strongly influential throughout Pyrrhia. 
Civilism has many variants and interpretations, but the general baseline is that the ideal form of social organisation is some kind of polity in which all citizens have legal equality and a right to exercise some degree of control over how said polity is governed.
It is commonly agreed among political thinkers that there are three centres of civilism: The Federation, the city-states of the Sky Lands, and the Republic. The nature of the differences in the philosophical traditions of these three cultures is debated. 
===Religion===
===Legends and Superstitions===
==Dragons of Note==
===The Federation===
====Queen Permafrost====
Current queen of the Federation. Though possessing little formal power, she has vast wealth and resources at her command, in particular a network of spies which she uses in her intrigues with Drift. A large silver dragon, bedecked in ornaments, who seems older then she is. 
====Prime Minister Snowdrift==== 
From a highly conservative aristocratic background. She is a self-taught prodigy with a vast knowledge of geology, astronomy, botany, geography, history, and philosophy. A plump, white-scaled dragon. Her wife is named Heather. Believes that she can save the world. 
====Prime Minister Blowfly====
The son of a lawyer and an army officer. He is a pretty slippery costumer, only dedicated to his career. He constantly talks about his desire to write a biography of Lady Scarab, but he never will.
===The Sky Lands===
====Consul Jade====
Elected leader of Pinnacle City (nearing the end of the third year of her 7-year term of office). Her grandfather was one of the city's founders. A SilkWing with dark green scales. Serious and dedicated, somewhat melancholy. 
====General Dawn====
Leader of the Blood Army. Claims royal ancestry (in reality, she may be the only member of her organisation without noble blood). A ruthless and bigoted individual.
====Dove====
A massive pink SkyWing who is Jade's bodyguard. Silent and ascetic in temperament. He is rumoured to have romantic feelings for Jade, and/or family ties to the Blood Army. 
====Spectre====
A dragon of uncertain heritage, who played a key role in the foundation of the Stonetooth Circle*. These days, he only rarely visits their meetings, and may be in trouble with the authorities. Charming, he loves vicious arguments but never holds a grudge.
*He also coined their motto: "For reason, against tradition! For art, against morality! For freedom, against authority!"
====Jack====
Their name is short for Jackdaw. The animus offspring of a SkyWing mother and NightWing father. Jack was a resident of Stonetooth and was actually in a romantic relationship with Spectre, which they hope to forget. They now live in Pinnacle City. They have been involved a criminal activities in the past, and may be again.
===The Endless Desert===
====Bone====
The most infamous of the SandWing warlords, a being of almost pure malevolence. Small and pale-yellow, he dwells in the ruins of the old SandWing palace, and believes that he communes with the dead. He delights in torturing dragons, in particular by leaving them under the merciless midday sun. His forces are fortunately small. 
===Mud Queendom===
====King Spoonbill====
The current King of the MudWings. The third of six siblings, the rest of his family was killed in the Great Fire of Brightbay when he was two years old. 
====Ambassador Trench====
Permanent guest of the MudWing palace.
===Talon Peninsula===
====Steadfast==== 
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