Histories of a Distant World (side-blog of the von Drachen Chronicle)

  On Imperial Society By Lord Inquisitor Ahab Leonidas von Drachen To describe the Imperium as odd would be something of an understatement, having a number of influences from ancient Rome and Celtic Europe to the British Empire and America. The Imperium can be both Familiar and strangely Alien to the new arrival or Transplant as we call you, this isn't an insult or dehumanising label as some have called it. It is a temporary status and statement of fact, I had it myself coming from Britain in 2025 AD (Anno Domini) to 5650 IC (Imperial Calendar), it would be better to consider the term you as a Transplant as the same as Refugee or Immigrant. A simple status, nothing more. However, as a Transplant you need to know this.  In the Imperium order is kept by four bodies: 1.         T he Body Politic or the population of the Imperium itself, it’s social strata and accompanying social mores relevant to where in Imperial Society one resides. 2.    ...

A very Brief History of the Imperium  By Dr Nullintra Barrirae Though we know little of the earliest times of Human civilization on Amaria what we do know is that the very first Human Transplants appeared somewhere around what is now Founders Park in the Imperial Capital Nova Roma, they were made up of the Ninth Legion of old Rome, the Roanoke Colonists, several members of both the Imperial Senate, the Catholic Church and a smattering of Celtic, Pictish, Norse tribesmen and a handful of Lycanthropes of whom rapidly worked out that, to borrow a phrase, they weren't in Kansas anymore. It took even less time for them to band together to defend themselves from an Orc raiding party on its way to assault the nearby Dwarf Ironskull stronghold. The humans successfully defended themselves from the Orcs and built a fortified settlement where the Imperial Palace and Religious Quarter of the Imperial Capital now stand. This new fortress on their doorstep got the attention of the Lords of the I...

  The Fall of the Eldar. By Dr Rekton Blackbringer Though we know little of the Eldar themselves, beyond the Temporal Refugees that arrives in the year 5665. Those Refugees being a somewhat artistic conclave rather than a scientific, military or political organisation, so having little useful information on their society beyond what the Imperium can glean from the few interactions between the Conclave and the Imperium as a whole.  What we can say from what we have learned from the Conclave and Imperial Archaeologists that the Eldar and their nation known as the Eldar Hegemony was an egalitarian meritocracy that allowed for fluid movement between social strata. with a heavy focus on beauty and practicality in their technology and architecture, their magical practices are not well known but it is theorised that it was similar to the practices of Elven High Magic on the World of Toril in the Gygax Multiverse (Often Known as the D&D Multiverse). The Hegemony spanned the e...