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Tamizhagam, The Black Desert
Tamizhagam is a mostly desert island found in the North Blue. It is where a religious human populace made it their home, and is home to a sentient insect race and an expansionist rat mink tribe. Surrounded by the large desert called the Black Desert with little to no seafood around its waters means that food is scarce - forcing the people of this island to instead build crops for food. This leads to mostly if not a complete vegetarian lifestyle with meat being extremely rare that only of those royalty and the rich is able to afford a taste. Building a city near its the water, their humbled beginnings started to grow and eventually built into the city known as Varansi. With their near complete vegetarian lifestyle, the people began to adopt a religious philosophy of pacifism (Buddhism) when they first seen Genbu, a massive turtle with a pair of snakes as its tail crossing the Black Desert leading people into believing Genbu to be the God of Tamizhagam. The crossing is the first and only documented sighting, Genbu has never been since but a riddle - carved in stone detailing the possible route that Genbu took is written upon as a riddle - that only a person of wit and intellect may understood. During the infancy of their nation, the discovery of two new races inhabiting Tamizhagam has led to tension amongst the people of Varansi.
The first are the warmongering Rat Mink clan known as Clan Mors - far into the Kamet Pass where it is reportedly said to made their home. Conflicts and raids from the Skaven are far and few, thanks to the Black Desert, making directly across the desert to Varansi is difficult. However, recent years of this conflict has given rise to more attacks - leading to a slow bleed out of the populace in Varansi thanks to their pacifism philosophy, even with a local militia force aimed for self-defense and peacekeeping, not willing to kill invaders directly has only made the Skaven more daring. As such, groups of people has started to deviate in their pacifism and into more militarism, aiming to change the religious philosophy that the people of Tamizhagam has cultivated for centuries - creating heresy and fanaticism much like a rebellion.
The second race that the people of Tamizhagam has discovered is the existence of the indigenous insect race located mostly in the confines of Mudarai Forest, with several species sometimes located outside and around the Black Desert. An ecosystem of giant insects of their own habitat. These insects whilst does not possess much of any expansionist behaviors like the Skavens, depending upon their species may be aggressive or passive/docile towards their peers. Because of their discovery, the people of Varansi has build a town known as Patna near the forest in hopes to better understand the race and individual insects as a whole, hoping to one day find co-habitant with their species. Map Link
Varansi, City of Lights
Varansi, ruled by Emperor Ashoka is a large beautiful city built through centuries of hard work. Known as the City of Lights, prior to Patna Town Varansi is the only location in Tamizhagam that shines in the middle of the night. A safe haven for the citizens. Known for their Pacifism and Vegetarian lifestyle, Varansi cuisine is is said to be very popular. In this city, martial art training have been popular due to changing times, the people of Varansi is well-known for their archery which is treated as a sport in the city despite never truly used for killing. Due to the increasing wealth gap between the nobles and commoners, the poor have become poorer, particularly in the slum districts which have led to the emergence of a heroic outlaw known as 'Karna', a robin hood to help the poor. In recent years, Varansi has come under attack by a ferocious enemy, a Rat Mink clan known as the Clan Mors, leading to the increase in support for more militaristic views to deal with their enemies, with the recent use of chemical warfare, the people of Varansi has develop masks to help combat the poison attacks made by the Skavens. Unbeknownst to the people of Varansi, their sewers have been used to infiltrate the city by Clan Mors. The defense of Varansi as well as the problem of 'Karna' has been left to Duryodhana, a corrupted and greedy General.
Varansi Farmlands
The farmlands serves as a docks, trading hub as well as the main location for agriculture. Surrounding the farmlands are large amount of crops used to feed the people of Varansi as well as Patna Town to an extent. Unlike the city itself, the farmlands does not seem to come under attack by the Skavens, but have met with pest problems with giant insects quite frequently outside the town. Otherwise, the farmlands are generally speaking rather safe. In the farmlands, archery contests are held yearly. The current archery champion of Varansi is Tantia Bhil, or also infamously known by some as 'Karna', the heroic outlaw or robin hood.
Patna Town
A town of mostly research. Patna serves as the forefront of understanding the insect race located within the region. In this town, one may notice the existence of not just humans, but large docile insects tamed by the humans for various purposes such as transport, storage and even labor work. Here a bridge is built for one to may through into the forest without crossing the large river.
Kamet Pass
Through the vast emptiness of the Black Desert stood the mountainous pass known as Kamet Pass. Here is the home of the Rat Mink clan, Clan Mors. The powerful Rat Mink tribes, a bunch of near feral and unstable clan of Rats, they would call themselves the Skaven, giving themselves a new name separating themselves from the other Minks, though whether there are other similar Rat Mink clans is unknown however. Possessing incredible intelligence, these Skavens are fully capable of technology to a certain extent. Beneath Kamet Pass, they built a city, called the Undercity that span a complex underground system that even managed to stretch all the way into the sewers of Varansi as well as into the caves of Mudarai Forest. The Skaven are seemly in massive numbers but have not waged a full-on war with the people of Varansi for reasons unknown, seemly content to skirmish against the them instead. How Clan Mors are able to function as a society has been nothing but bizarre, the people of Varansi has believed that despite their unstable and near feral characteristics, they most likely function on a very brutal society with a caste system. These Skaven has only self-interest and deals with constant hunger on a daily basis, infighting between Skavens are very common for control over power and resources. Despite all these, Clan Mors managed to seemly engage other races in warfare with apparent evil genocidal crusade, using primarily medieval weapons to even guns. But what made them dangerous is their use of chemical warfare, using poison in various ways to fight. These Skavens have been called the Black Plague of Tamizhagam, a disease that needs to be cleansed.
Mudarai Forest
A massive forest located at the other end of Tamizhagam, home to the giant insect race. Whilst primarily an ecosystem consisting of wide variety of insects, animals and birds have been seen living in the forest as well. The Mudarai Forest possessed not just massively large trees but also normal sized trees that would been seen in jungles. Most giant insects are generally human-sized on average though rarely, they can be normal sized or even having sizes larger than humans. Insects in the forest are either passive or docile, typically those of behaviors tend to be herbivorous, and rarely even predatory insects that do not view human races as normal food source - or aggressive which are carnivorous insects. Much like all natural ecosystems, there are several territorial insects, mostly apex predators of the insect world, of which is referred by the people in Patna Town to be Kings or Queens, making them extremely dangerous to encounter. The Mudarai Forest is mostly been unexplored for the most part.
The Hidden Grotto
Deep within the mostly unexplored Mudarai Forest is a stone statue on a mountain. Inside the statue, in truth is the location of Genbu - hidden. A grotto, whereby only by either completely stumbling upon it through sheer luck or follow the clues of the ancient scroll located in Varansi may one have a chance of finding the Divine Beast. Strangely, the mountain which the statue has formed over is extremely durable to the point where attempts to destroy the statue is effectively impossible no matter how strong the force is. The mountain statue is believed to be naturally occurring rather than an ancient race of civilization carving it out of the mountain. However, to have such a coincidence seems to be impossible.
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