Nilur

Nilur is the largest continent of Bo-Sera, heavily urbanized with remnants of an impressive temperate-boreal forest. Located to Serata's west and Thalume's east in the northern hemisphere, Nilur is known for its beautiful four seasons, with longer winters than summers, and longer springs than autumns. The most northern portion sub-artic, and beyond that are a lower range of Great Peaks. The most notable features of Nilur are two massive lakes, practically the size of seas: the larger Domoj Sea, and the smaller Hayek Pool, no less impressive.

Nilur's giant forest is diverse, with a portion similar to a taiga. Its wildlife has variations of bears, elk, moose, wolf, fox, small mammals, hawks and eagles, and other migratory birds. All bears, curiously, have some form of tusks, and most elks have paws rather than hooves. However, Nilur's heavy industrialization and later development have severely reduced the biome's landmass. The Waking Forest, as it is called, is roughly 30 percent of what it originally was.

The Nilurans are a technologically advanced and economically developed people, with impressive infrastructure systems and industry, and the first Serans to develop human flight and CHORE technology. The economic development was focused around lumber from the Waking Forest and fisheries from the sea-lakes. As the industrialization became more and more rampant with the various governments subsidizing their own industries, the population booms created constant shortages in basic resources.

The conflict that arose from that crisis was between three primary demographics: the Unch near the forest in the north, the Greticans near the Domoj in the far west, and the only deposit of irilumium-67, and the Pelish central in between both the Domoj and smaller Hayek. The Dawn War was brutal, with a spike in weaponization and transportation technology. After six bloody years, Gretican Field Marshall Gerrick Harquev, supreme military commander and de facto political leader, ordered the development of a nuclear weapon designed from new research on the irilumium-67 isotope. The first and only attack upon the Pelish forced them to surrender, and Unch as well.

The history since the Dawn War has been dominated by Gretican rule. Nilur is peaceful as any continent can be, and the irilumium has spawned a newer, cleaner generation of energy, helping ease the environmental destruction of the Waking Forest and sea-lakes. The Greticans rule absolutely over the Unch and Pelish, but have established relatively autonomous governing regions for both. But voting and legal rights are exclusive and privileged, respectively, to Greticans.

Under Gretican leadership, Nilur has become the dominant power on Bo-Sera, boasting the only CHORE flight technology, the most advanced energy use, high-speed communication, and nuclear weaponry. They recently built a scientific observatory on the surface of Gorga'thal. Its status as a super-continent is the envy of Thalume's Rearmest Greatlands, which the Greticans view as nothing more than a "kid-brother."

Underlying the utopian-esque vision is a small but powerful faction of Greticans called the New Guard, fueled by a nationalist-fascist ideology. They view the Pelish and Unch (collectively called Pel'unch) as culturally inferior. Despite no racial differences, the customs and traditions of the Pel'unch differ wildly from the Greticans, and there has been an alarmingly increasing call for cultural cleansing. The faction remains on the fringes, but each popular election has proven more and more dangerous to the Pel'unch.