Tegrios

## Executive

### Systems of Government

Tegrios has two levels of government, national and continental. Each country has its own council, the High Council. Then each of those councils elects a single member to ascend to the Western Summit Council. These council members are the ones who pass the continental laws and decrees that affect the people of Tegrios and their everyday lives.

### How Laws Are Created

There's no official monarchs in Tegrios, only councils in each country. The chosen representatives of each council meet in the winter of each year to discuss potential new legislation continent wide, and speak on how each country's individual laws affect trade and diplomatic standing between countries. The laws that affect the entire continent is as follows:

#### The Resource Decree

One of the oldest and most constant laws in Tegrios is the Resource Decree, which is a law based around the difficulty of acquiring and cultivating certain resources essential to survival and the effect it has on the Tegrios population as a whole. There are currently 2 clauses in the decree, and they've been culminated and adapted over the millennia.

* **Clause I: To tamper with the supplies of your fellow Tegric is to dismiss the lives of yourself and everyone around you.** In Tegrios it was decided that tampering with any resources related to the health and safety of the public, such as food, water, medicine or store houses. It has also grown to encompass more abstract things such as livestock, mining caves, lakes and rivers, and trade caravans.

* **Clause II: To withhold resources from those who need it when you have the opportunity to assist, is a vile selfishness.** The Tegric people, while cold and stoic towards outsiders, care greatly for each other. They view the whole continent as one far reaching community, and as such they try their best to share spare resources and manpower where they can afford it. If one settlement or city refuses aid to those in need, when they are more than capable of delivering it, then they're decreed a self-sufficient state and cut off from the rest of the continent and it's support system. A harsh punishment, but selfishness and greed are things that are rarely tolerated within Tegrios.

## Inhabitants

### Intelligent Species

##### Tieflings

It's more common to find Tieflings in Tegrios than anywhere else, With such a cold, harsh environment to survive, the natural hot-blooded and hardened nature of Tieflings makes it an easier environment for them to inhabit. The seclusion of the mountains grants them relief from the more judgemental views of other places such as Grinesh, and the natural vicious temperament of demons that was passed onto them helps them command respect in a place that demands no weakness.

##### Harpies

While harpies do live in Tegrios, they don't live in communities like most people in Tegrios. They're solitary creatures, who prefer to nest in caves with themselves, or in some cases their young as well. They'll fly to the south of the continent in the spring for mating purposes, but the mates rarely stay together past the mating period, Instead they will go their separate ways, returning home.