The Nobility

The Hungry Empire provides leisure for the nobility on top at the cost of near slavery for the many on bottom. The Empire depends upon a particular brand of intensive agriculture which produces excess food. This is necessary because excess food produces excess population, and the Empire need excess population to conquer and expand.

The Nobility on top view the many on bottom as resources, serfs and slaves and property. As a result, the Nobility see death as the enemy- the destruction of their property. As such, the Hungry Empire has few methods to control population besides expansion. Expansion leads to war, which- ironically- leads to death. Which drives need to repopulate. This perceived need to constantly grow and populate means that woman must be placed in a subordinate position to maximize breeding potential. This requires The Empire to institutionalize an objectification of women in order to maintain this unequal and discriminatory system. This objectification of women results in sexism and discrimination. This sexism in a necessary feature of keeping the Hungry Empire running.

The Lesser Kings of Arcadia

  • Toothring
  • Sandhart
  • Sharpwind

The Great Houses (and their Historic Empires)

  • House Mercantor (The Merchant Empire)
  • House Urd (The Peasant Empire)
  • House Coronus (The Theocracy of the God Kings)
  • House Temander (The Conquering Horde)
  • House Pericles (The City States)
  • House Augurson (The Anointed Republic)
  • House Selterk (The Enlightened Theocracy)
  • House Treisary (The Naval Empire)
  • House Dubh Soltar (The Xenophobic Empire)
  • House Mammidar (The Pilgrim Empire)
  • House Brandiker (The Castebound Kingdoms)
  • House Greillin (The Worker’s Paradise)
  • House Washerkin (The Dream Kingdom)
  • House Uggerbrand (The Kingdom of Fear)
  • House Zarzentine (The Twilight Empire)

The Remnant Houses

In the age of the Foglands, the Great Houses have Fallen. The Remnant Houses are all that are left.

  • The Gallow Lords (Controls the Ribcage)
  • The Salt Lords (Controls the Drowned City)
  • The Science Council (Controls the Skylines)
  • The Butcher Lords (Controls the Wastelands)