Gilded Host

### **Defenses**

The mountains are heavily defensible with very little military force, also they can control the lava flow and section of areas of their land from attack

### **Commerce**

Their biggest export is firearms to the Imperium Solus, followed by some other inventions and raw materials unique to their volcanic mountain range. Almost all other resources are imported from other nations.

### **Orgs.**

Tawdry Horde, Inventor's Guild, Steamworks Guild

## Description

Centered around Mount Dalvura and the surrounding mountains, the Gilded Host is a collection of several crafting and inventing guilds. Each guild leader is represented in the government and they influence society norms and power structures. Due to their relationship with Tulgga, the nation is centered around crafting and investing and those skills are coveted, praised, and viewed as higher class within the Host.

Made of mostly mountains, the Gilded Host houses most of their people in the caves and tunnels of those mountains. The active volcano Mount Dalvura Has a series of tunnels and caves that are utilized as pressure valves so any eruption from the volcano can be controlled and funneled away from the citizens. They don’t live along the coasts of the continent and rely on trade with Ignar for most of their mined and raw materials.

The Host has always been a loose collection of crafters and inventors, but recently their government has laid down several strict edicts regarding the most efficient use of their citizens time. Though many still craft and invent on their own without any consideration of what others are doing, the trend of the past few decades has been a more united and nationalistic view of what the goals of their citizens crafting and inventing should be.

## Government

A simplistic oligarchy, each seat on the government is called a Chairperson. Each position is earned by being a leader of one of the recognized Guilds in the Host. They all have equal voting power and they rotate who runs their meetings every so often. This meeting leader position is called Councillor and it is rarely coveted as way too much pressure, begging, and criticism is aimed towards the current position holder. Though they rarely enact many laws, a lot of regulations have been passed down from their meetings within the last few decades, trending towards a stronger national government and nationalistic view of craft.

## Crime

Crime can occur within the caves and tunnels of the Host. Most crime is either stealing of rare materials or sometime intellectual theft. Though there has been a strong trend lately of making examples of people who fundamentally upset the natural order of things through these acts, this is forced those on the fringes of society to organize more. A rebel crime syndicate known as Tawdry Horde has grown up in the last few decades and has been a thorn in the side of the Host for some time.

## Geography

Filled mostly with mountains, the Gilded Host is mostly underground with various surface settlements sporadically spread through the mountains. There is a mountain, Mount Dalvura, in the center of it all, which is where the majority of the nation lives. There are various tunnels and valves in place to accommodate for the active lava flow and make the tunnels around it habitable and safe. Since the land is surrounded by ocean, they are very isolated from the rest of the hemisphere.