Xi'anlin
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| Xi'anlin | |
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| Culture Level | Oriental Dark Ages (5)[1] |
| Ecology |  Full
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| Climate & Terrain | Temperate forests, hills, and mountains[2] |
| Year Formed | Approximately 555 BC[3] |
| Population | |
| Races (%) | Humans, Elves, Half-Elves, Dwarves[2] |
| Languages | Xi'an[4] |
| Religions | Celestial Gardens[1] |
| Government | Independent townships governed by councils[1] |
| Ruler(s) | None[1] |
| Darklord(s) | Lai Niangxue[1] |
| Nationality | |
| Analog | Ancient mythic China[5] |
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Geography
Xi'anlin is an Island of Terror 150 miles in length and 100 miles in width. It is a realm comprised mostly of mountain, but periodic lakes, hills, pine and bamboo forests, and villages periodically dot the landscape. The terrain smoothly blends together as if no transition is out of place.[2] One of these forests, Sanzhou Grove, was later remade its own domain.[6]
Society and Culture
The people of Xi'anlin tend to be a hardworking, peaceful sort. Most of them are farmers, fishers, and craftsmen. Elves, half-elves, and dwarves are known in this realm but not feared as in other lands. Magic is not a feared phenomena but rather seen as more of a distraction whereas war is abhorred.[2]
Religion is the common link between the people of Xi'anlin. The people follow a naturalistic faith that emphasizes the importance of humanity's balance with nature as mediated by nature spirits.[1]
Xi'anlin was created by Dion Fernandez and introduced in the Midway Haven netbook Navigaccio.
Chronology
- 405 BC (Approx.) - Lai Niangxue dies waiting for her love, Lung Ma.[7] Lung Ma's bones are buried the very same day.[8]
- 435 BC ((Approx) - The Civil Wars of the Yinshi Empire end. The Lai Noble Family abandons their estate in the country to return to their urban holdings.[9]
- 555 BC (Approx.) - Several travelers, including a man named Bei Xu, are snowed in at Daoming, so they retire to the local inn. Bei Xu's likeness to Lung Ma draws the delusional ghost of Lai Niangxue to him. When his friends try to intervene, she mistakes them for bandits sent to take him away from her again and kills them all before embracing "Lung Ma" and accidentally killing him too. These tragic events the Mists to claim Xi'anlin as their own.[3]
References
- ↑ Nebula Obscura p.19
- ↑ Nebula Obscura
- ↑ Navigaccio p. 41; she waits for Lung Ma "more than 350 years after her death"
- ↑ Navigaccio p. 42-43
- ↑ Navigaccio p. 40; "30 years after Niangxue's death"
