Xiangu

## Geography

Xiangu is the umbrella continental name of the major island and its surrounding chains located in the northeastern hemisphere of Talus, north of Ogunde and the Isizalo Sea.

The main continent of Xiangu is broken into regions: the northern mountainous Gorzhu, the Shandra Riverplains to the east and south, central Taogua, and the Kumon Wetlands to the south and west. The islands that ring the mainland to the west and south are called the Jade Necklace, and are made up of the Hi-Oh, Kamakoro, Nippon, and Taikar island chains.

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## History

### The Ages/ Major Events

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#### The Days of Fury

the primordial, earliest period of the world, when the elves say that the first songs were sung not with voices, but the planet itself. This is an era of pre-myth, where proto-life first emerged and the world was blanketed with raging, raw mana that congealed to form the lands, seas, and first creatures.

#### The First Age

Xiangu rose in the northeastern hemisphere of Altheris, led by the mighty Xian empire. The Xian Dynasty was built upon on the unyielding principles of discipline and domination - it ushered in slaves by the thousands for the construction of its mighty temples and strongholds, and to cater to the ultra-elite. Xian was a mighty, if isolationist, superpower of Altheris within its first 2000 years, and began to spread into ancient Ogunde before the nation's own tribes rallied and formed the union called the Circle of Staves to repel them. Even then, the Xian empire grew, developing weaponry and spellcraft that it traded to other nations across Altheris, all while developing their own military might to a frightening level.

When the Sundering occurred, Xiangu was broken away completely from Ogunde, cast far into the Tirwani Ocean, and enshrouded in a heavy mist, obscuring the island continent from the rest of the world for the next thousand years. Legends say that a true hero of Xiangu, sensing the Sundering approaching, broke off the Xiangunde supercontinent and shrouded the cast away continent in the Great Mist, largely protecting Xiangu from the effects of the Sundering and its fallout.

#### The Second Age

Completely isolated from the rest of the world, the mighty Xian Empire quickly fell in upon itself. The vast population of Xian commonfolk, held under a demanding and tyrannical emperor for decades, rose up and overwhelmed the royal palaces throughout the land, ending Xian rule in the wake of the First Age.

Then, without central leadership, the people of Xiangu largely went their separate ways. The mists spared Xiangu's people the worst of the meteorological effects of the Second Age, which left the war-weary peoples free to re-establish cultural roots that had almost been completely lost beneath the Xian Dynasty's imperialism. Separate regions established governments of loose feudalism, led by a governor-guard called a *daimyo*, responsible for caring for and protecting the citizens living on their land.

Xiangu was not completely spared the darkness of the Second Age, however.

#### The Winterthaw

[the end of the Second Age, when the frozen lords and demons that roamed the world were largely pushed back to their own dark planes. The planet has slowly been experiencing warmer and warmer climate farther from the equator each summer ever since.]

#### The Third Age

[the modern era, marked by most of the world’s recovery from the Second Age with the Winterthaw. Also called the “Age of Mending”.]

## Society

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## Creatures

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