Technology of Eave: Travel

We are going to deal with the Technology of Eave.  It goes from very high to very low.  It is a world of magic and science.  We are going to talk about Armaments, Communications, Computers, Environmental, Medicine, Power and Travel.  We are going to deal with travel, from the riding and draft kadams, to high level jets and walkers.  Travel, whether it be by the six-legged, slow and ponderous, lizard-like kaddams; or the newest land cruiser put out by Imperial Autos, all depends on the type of environment they are in and for what they are used.

Animals used for riding:

• Cudders are a large six-legged boar-like creature, as big as a large cow on Earth.  They are not normally a riding animal, but some of the college students of Leavestonne have begun to ride them in impromptu races around campus.  It has stuck and the Cudder Races have grown to be a big thing in Leavestonne.
• Kaddams are a slow and ponderous six-legged lizard like creature.  They are native to the higher latitudes and incredibly stable creatures.  They are slow and grew large because they are not very tasty.  There are few creatures in the higher latitudes that will feed on them, but they make excellent draft animals.
• Mikkas are the common, six-legged stags that the elves use to ride.  They are fleet and dexterous able to navigate the forests and even the large branches that the eladrin use as their highways.  They are one of the favorite food of the toshurs.  They are not big enough to carry Spartan Blooded person and can barely carry a normal human.  But the humans of Danaan are raising a much larger version to carry a human.
• Tarns are great birds that live on the eastern shores of the Evalan Continent.  They are called tarns (to the eladrin they are called “dow”) due to the writing of an old Earth novelist of times past.  They are six-limbed creatures with four-wings (greater and lesser) and two legs.  Having four wings make them very nimble in the air and agile in the water when they dive for the great fish that they live on.
• Toshurs are large, six-legged tiger like creature that only the most elite eladrin ride.  They bond to one rider and when the rider dies they become forlorn and will stay with the body.  They are carnivores and naturally green in color.  The additional camouflage makes them very dangerous in the forests and jungles in which they live.  Usually on a low hanging branch on which they pounce on their prey.

Now to the eladrin they are common and not so common riding animals.  With the coming of humans they have brought with them a need for oil and other elements to power their machines.  While they both have very good technology, they do not have much of the fuel available to produce such vehicles.  Scientist from both sides have assumed that there is a lot of oil underneath the forests and jungles that the eladrin call home.  The eladrin will not have any of that!   Tulath has available small refineries to produce much of the fuel that the military uses and they had to take it by force.  They have had to make use of magic to power their vehicles and that doesn’t work to get into space.  The easiest power source to make is simple enchantment to heat up a piece of metal to make steam.  Many of the vehicles that most people use are made of such enchantments.  The military vehicles, especially the artifact vehicles use a high grade fuels and fusion reactors to make.  Danaan on the other hand, thanks to the Barony of Eastaare have begun to pull oil from the seafloor.  Some of the eladrin are uncomfortable with this but the Kingdom of Danaan tries to do its very best not to pollute the waters.

Vehicles.  Most vehicles are made using a mixture of technology and magic.

• The car is a ubiquitous piece of human technology.  They are very common in Tulath and not so common in Danaan.  They are all enchanted to make use of steam and the higher end of engines make use of the steam capture enchantments to funnel the water back into the tanks to improve their range.  From the two person cars to massive trucks they are all available.  Motorcycles are very popular as well.
• Walkers are large four to six-legged vehicles that he humans use.  They technology makes for them to be very versatile in rough terrain.  In clear terrain, they could go down and travel on their wheels making them very adaptable.  Danaan does not have many of them left since the invasion, while Tulath has quite a few left.  They are making purely magical versions, but they are rather expensive to make, even for the mighty Tulath war machine.
• Tanks and jets are in the same boat as walkers.  They have made simple planes and rotary aircraft and with the oil that with which they are being stingy.  Drones are very common on both sides.
• Mecha are seven to ten meter tall, bipedal tanks with excellent maneuvering abilities in rough terrain.  They are usually fusion powered however and because of that are only used in the case of emergencies.  Ladeline, the archmage of Danaan has been experimenting with human-operated golems.
• Both nations are very good when it comes to the mass transit of its people and goods.  Tualth has an impressive train system which connects the Empire together.  They even have a system of subways and trams for their cities.  Danaan has a system of airships which connects the various plateaus that make up their Kingdom.  The eladrin do like the airships and have made their own, purely magical creations.
• Watercraft, on the rivers of the forest is basically controlled by the eladrin.  Out on the sea however the humans have made significant progress.  In the Northern Kingdom the Barony of Maarke is the king of ships and they basically own the entire Eastern Ocean.  To the south however Tulath has made very little in the way of ships.  They have got a couple of them on the Western Ocean but not that many.
• Tulath and Danaan also have active space programs and Danaan has the lead.
• The eladrin have the ultimate in personal transportation of Evae.  Their ancient ancestors have made teleportation pads between their cities.  It is only in emergencies as it takes a mage of considerable power to active one.  This is how Hanali knew about the duplicity of the Tulath and the atomic destruction of Aragoi.

Zang the Wanderer for FAE Conan

This is a true conversion from Mongoose’s Conan to this FAE version that my friend +Jim Sandoval  did and will hopefully do again!  It is not complete, but it is something!

Go check out +Jim Sandoval  Conan FAE hack!

Zang the Wanderer

Concept: Wandering Hyrkanian Archer

Trouble: Chased From His Tribe by a Jealous Rival

Race: A True Hyrkanian

Class: Nomad from the Cold Plains of Hyrkania

Reputation: Haunted by a Memory...

Str +3, Dex +5, Con +1, Int +1, Wis +2, Cha +1

Refresh: 0 0 0

Stress: mental 0 0 0         physical 0 0 0

Consequences:  -2

                                -4

                                -6

Stunts

Rapid Shot.  By taking a -2 on his Dexterity attack rolls, he may shoot twice.

Mounted Archery

Far Shot.  He may double the range at which he fires

Tulwar, Hyrkanian bow, spear, axe, club, leather jerkin, shield.  Horse and gear

Zang’s sad tale…

Zang is a hunter, a tracker and a warrior without peer, who preferred to be riding the plains on a fleet horse.  He was happy and content and brought forward unto himself many accolades.  He was simple man of little boast, much beloved by his people. It all came down around his ears.  Her name was Jia and she was a fair flower from Khitai.  Taken by the son of a chief, Khosun during a raid on a khitai caravan, Jia was a jewel.  The hyrkanians do not take slaves but Khosun took her to be his concubine.  After the raid, Khosrun asked Zang, who spoke khitai to watch her and in the four days stood guardian over her, he wished that it could have lasted forever.  Whether or not she bewitched him in order to escape, the night before they made it back to the tribe, he tried to steal her away.  Long and hard they rode and in the three days of the chase, he had slain many of his fellow warriors.  It ended with Jia dead and Zang fighting Khosun in which they fell off a cliff.  Zang did not know if Khosun survived, but he had Khosun’s tulwar.  Not wanting to return to his village, he wandered far and away from the plains of hyrkania.

Some pics!

Dark Elves

The Dark Elves of Eave are a dark and mysterious clans of elves who live under the very feet of those that they secretly control.  In The Crossover when the eladrin and dwarves can to this world in the ancient past, the fought armies of goblins and trolls and giants led by the dark elves.  They Crossovered but not in enough time before everything else came though as well.

Dark elves are a myth, a myth that they duly support.  There are those who disappear in the night, never to be seen again, but that is attributed to the goblins.  Most of the times it is, but there are the times when it is not.

The dark elves are very interested in sciences and what it could bring them.  They have approached the Tulath though their goblin intermediaries but that has gone very slowly.  So they have begun to kidnap various people, Tulath and Danaan to interrogate.  They (I should say their goblins) have scoured the land for crashed bits of technology and picked them clean.  They are slowly building a realm of technological, scientific and magical might.

No one knows of their existence.  Not the eladrin, not Section Command, not the Order of the Thorn.  Not even you, the reader know about them, for if you did, you might receive a visit in the night from some sharp daggers…

Rules of Eave: Spartan Blooded

I was trying to write up on the Order of the Thorn, the Kingdom of Danaan's spy network.  I gave up after three tries and worked on the Spartans some more instead.  Let me know what you think.  Have fun...

Extra: Tulathian Spartan Training

Permission: Must be Tulathian, a member of the Spartan Blooded race, must be willing to serve in the Tulathian military

Costs: Skills

The Spartan Training extra is a skill that encompasses all manner of weaponry and hand to hand combat.  A Tulathian Spartan may use this skill in place of any combat skill they would use, from Fight or Shoot.  They may also use it in place of any tactics role that they can make to gain some sort of tactical advantage due to their schooling.

Tulathian Spartan of the Third Spartan Elite Guard

Concept: The best of the best in service to the Empire

Aspects: Nothing Can Stop Us; We Are Death Personified; In the Blood and In the Flesh We are Steel

Skills: Tulathian Spartan Training +5, Spartan Blooded +4, Provoke +4, Operate +3, Will +3, Athletics +3, Contact +2, Notice +2, Pilot +2 and Stealth +2.  These are the common skills that they have.

The Third Spartan Elite Guard is only currently twenty in number.  They are led by an old and grizzled Spartan named Janus, the Primus of the Third Spartan Elite Guard.  They are equipped with all manner of artifacts, from the Giant Series Mecha Suits, PPL5 Particle Pulse Laser Rifles and the absolutely hideous Heavy Scribble Laser, nicknamed the “Finger of God”.  They are the elites of the elite and the only ones better than they are the First Spartan Elite Guard.

They have a lot of Spartan Blooded folks running around.  They only reason that they do not have more of the Spartans in such powerful equipment is that they do not have that many artifacts around anymore.  The Tech-Priests already do wonders in keeping them armored and repaired.      

Tulathian Spartan

Concept: a proud warrior in service to the Empire

Aspects: It is in the Blood; Honor Our Fallen Dead; Strike Fast and Strike Hard

Skills: Tulathian Spartan Training +4, Spartan Blooded +3, Provoke +3, Will +2, Notice +2, Athletics +2 and Stealth +1 are common skills that they would have.

This is a common Tulathian Spartan.  He may or may not be trained in Operate, to wear a mecha-suit.  They are trained with everything from a knife to the newest heavy weapons available.

Now those Spartan Blooded of Danaan origin do not have access to the incredible brutal training that the Tulath gives their Spartan Blooded.  In Danaan it is rare to be Spartan Blooded except in places such as the Baronies of Crosstaal and Leavestonne where the major families of danGael, Chan and Kray reside.  Of course, the genes of the Spartan Blooded are strong and every once in a while a woman will give birth to someone that they would call Spartan Blooded anywhere in the Northern Kingdoms.  Most Spartan Blooded people find work in the military, constabulary or some such work that their great size will be a boon.

Section Command

Section Command was borne out of necessity.  The Political Officers were already aboard the UTN Fleet and were instrumental in their many victories.  However they failed when they crash landed on Eave.  In the early years they were as fractured as the petty warlords that split up and threatened the fledging state.  With the coming of the Church of Man they were basically hamstrung and no longer needed.  Remus Coviso saw that the Church of Man was gaining in secret power.  When Tullson II convened power and pulled all the fractured nations together, Remus proposed to reinstate all the Political Officers and to teach the youths of Tulath.  He proposed to have a system of schools and with the schools the political system of the new Empire could be taught and learned and reinforced.  There has been many births since the crash and there was still no way to teach them, so Tullson II agreed.  The youths of Tulath were forced to go to school and with that were then exposed to all the propaganda the state could throw at them.

Section Command was born then.  Slowly Remus started to build his command.  They needed spies internally, so Section 3 was born.  When Danaan was found, Section 4 was founded.  They are a vast network of information.  They let the Emperor know of their existence only when it suits them and they have eliminated certain Emperors to allow others to take his place.  They are loyal to their Nation and not to the man, despite what the propaganda machine may turn out.

• Section Zero: Section Command leaders.  It consists of the Duchess and the lead for each of the Sections.
• Section 1: Propaganda.  The largest propaganda machine on Eave and they work for the Duchess Coviso.  Their front is a publicity and marketing company.  They secretly work on forming, organizing and implementing propaganda in the Empire.  It was Section 1’s idea to allow the an assassination attempt on the Empress and Section 5’s job to see that she was never in any real danger.
• Section 2: The Teachers.  The Teachers look for those student of special worth and slot them for possible recruitment.  Not all of the teachers are members of Section Command but you can bet there are at least one in every large school. 
• Section 3: Internal Security, the secret police.  They just report what they find, they don’t do anything else to make sure that they aren’t found and Section isn’t compromised.  They have infiltrated the Church of Man and know about the secret vaults, but have yet accessed them.
• Section 4: External Security, the spies.  By mandate, they are not allowed to spy on the Empire of Tulath itself.  They currently have at least twenty spies in the Northern Kingdom.
• Section 5: Special Forces.  Made up of Spartans and non-Spartans alike, they are very dangerous force.  If they do their job right, you don’t even know that they are there.  They are there to eliminate those factions that are too dangerous to let live, but too public to let die senselessly.  They are masters of that “accident.”
• The Political Officers.  Political Officers (or Commissars) are publically known not as part of the Section Command but as part of any large, non-Spartan unit.  They are all part of Section Command however and keep the loyalty of the troops in line.  The lead Commissars know of Section Command.
• Section X: Experimental.  They make and experiment everything that the Section may need from weapons to gadgets.  What they are currently working on is rather unsettling as they take prisoners and experiment on them.  They are trying to create bio-weapons that target the eladrin!  They are also working on the nature of magic.  They have come up with some technological items that negate the magic fields that they produce.

The Kingdom of Danaan, Part I

Danaan is a bucolic nation of generally good and hardworking people.  Descendants of the Earth Fleet that crash landed on Eave it took them a great long while to gather their forces together and make the best of the world.  It all started with their main Battlecruiser Danaan crashed into a large lake at the base of a plateau.  Many of the crew were forced to evacuate the ship and the eladrin of Hanali collected them all.  The ship’s captain, Admiral Markan Andahar was surprised to see a boat come out greet them.  A single eladrin armed with only a slender sword and a bow, was on the boat that seemed to glide in the water without any means of propulsion.  They were both rather fearful of each other, but curious as well.  Admiral Andahar was surprised to see a somewhat intelligent being, seeing as how in orbit, nothing technological was found.  Tovar of the Hanli was surprised to see these humans that dropped from the heavens.  It was tense at first, until Tovar cast a spell that allowed them to communicate with each other.  They say that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and for all their advanced technology Admiral Andahar and his crew could not figure out how Tovar could do that.  When he asked, he just said it was a simple spell.  Magic.  Needless to say that Admiral Andahar unsure about what to do, but the decision was taken from his hands.

The eladrin had just found out how evil the human were.  Prince Elaor and the Aragoi was just slain by the humans of Tulath.  Suddenly the flight deck where the parlay was being held was filled with eladrin, all armed and armored.  Overhead flew an eladrin airship borne aloft by magic.  It seems that they were all invisible, the humans only getting a glimmer of some weird energy from their sensors.  It became tense as they faced off against one another as more humans came out including a mech.  They came to extract their prince and Admiral Andahar stopped his people from firing.

The next couple of years were intense.  Danaan was slowly collecting there people that was scattered across the land.  They eladrin found many of them and returned them.  The eladrin found out that they were two separate forces of the human that fought in the stars and that the ones from the Earth Ship Danaan was not aligned with them.  Eventually the elves seeded them the plateaus, seeing as how the humans could not leave their world.

Tir was the name of the lake that the Earth Ship Danaan landed in.  Danaan Tir soon became the capitol of the Kingdom of Danaan.  Soon they shot out and claimed other plateaus after they developed the airships.  They began to map out this world which they had taking a more and more feudal aspect to their society.  This was mainly due to the eladrin, because when Prince Tovar asked them who their king was.  They have a king now along with eight baronies, each barony acting as a state that works for the betterment of the whole.  They have knighthoods and orders and guilds, very much in opposition to what Tulath has.  Danaan is about the people.

The other cities, the capitols of the Baronies are as follows:

• The Barony of Crosstaal, ruled by House danGael.  The current Baroness of Vorra danGeal.  They stand at Harro’s Wall to the South.
• The Barony of Eastaare, ruled by House danEvan.  The current Baron is Distan danEvan and his wife Jhass.  They are on the Eastern shores and have developed into great sailors
• The Barony of Holdingford, ruled by House danAven.  The current Baron is a man named Coaran danAven and his wife Hylise.  The danAven family are in the center of the kingdom and are the richest family.
• The Barony of Kassingtonne, ruled by House danHanno.  The current Baron is Martin danHanno and his wife Sera.  The developer of the first airships.
• The Barony of Leavestonne, ruled by house danRahn.  The current Baroness in Kanna danRahn and her wife Tully.  A full 60% of the food for the Kingdom is grown here. 
• The Barony of Maarke, ruled by house danTaere.  The current Baron is a widower named Kemmon danTaere.  The Colleges of Danaan are located in this Barony.
• The Barony of Stormtonne, ruled by House danTaven.  The current Baron is Aylen danTaven and he is married to Beyissa of Hanali.  This is the first union of man and eladrin and they are the emissaries between the two kingdoms.
• The Barony of Torringtonne, ruled by House danKavel.  The current Baroness is Syval danKavel and her husband Forret.  They have the active space program of the Kingdom of Danaan.

[If anyone would like to know something specific about the World of Eave, do let me know.  Feel free to leave comments on anything and I will answer as I can!]

The Empire of Tulath, Part I

The majority of cities that are under the control if Imperial Tulath are old dwarven holds, keeps and cities, so much of Tulath is located underground.  Much of what is theirs are connected by impressive train lines that keep the flow of trade goods and most importantly food.  Because of their mountainous terrain they are in they have little to no arable land in order to grow crops.  The ancient fields that the dwarves once used are no more, having been reclaimed by the forests and jungles of the elves.  To feed their large population they have had to beat the elves and slash and burn incredible amounts of land and then hold it from the elves.  Some years are lean, some years are feast.

The capitol of Imperial Tulath is a city named Narimath, to honor Admiral Tullson Narimath.  It was a medium-to-large dwaven city, the first city to ever found by humans.  Over the course of time they have spent on Eave they have dug out the sides of the mountain in which the city lay so it can breathe.  It is a serious feat of engineering.  The Imperial Court is there running the Empire, a huge bureaucracy that seems to be running well.  A cathedral to the Church of Man is there and it shows Admiral Tullson Narimath as a saint in the stained glass.

The Empress is a young girl of thirteen, but to say she is a figure head is a lie.  Corrine Norimath hautTulath is Spartan Blooded.  Even though Tullson II was not Spartan Blooded, it is common for the Emperors and Empress to take Spartan Blooded for their significant other.  She already stands close to two meters tall with blonde hair she keeps short due to the rigors of combat.  She is consoled by the Duke Koromikos and trained by the First Spartan Elite Guard and schooled by the Church of Man.  She has already seen an assassination attempt and she ended up having to slay the two elves form Galadon that tried to kill her when she visited the UTN Tulath.

The UTN Tulath is the spiritual center of Tulath.  It is a hard won battle to take it and keep it and keep it they have.  They have cleared a massive perimeter around the ship and it is the heart of their military.  Tulath City has sprung up around the massive ship and the train line that goes to it is heavily patrolled by Spartan troops on the ground and fliers from the Air Corps protect in from the air.  It is from there they control the various bits of the forests.

The largest city Tulath is Altair.  Named for the star system Altair, it the central home to the Duchy of Coviso.  The Church of Man controls the largest foundries on the planet and they are found here.  Unfortunately the Tech Priests and the current Duchess of Coviso do not see eye-to-eye.  Duchess Dheyla Coviso controls most of the propaganda for the Empire, a job at which they excelled.  She also secretly leads the spy cabal, The Section that along with The Church of Man keeps the Empire strong and unbroken.  They eliminate those that seem to be unassailable and do stuff like let the elves know of a secret ways through UTN Tulath to attempt to assassinate the Empress.  She was in no danger, but the boost to popularity among the populace went through the roof.  They do what needs to be done.

There are like six other large cities and countless towns throughout the Empire. 

Rules of Eave: Goblins

Goblins are not like the goblins of yore.  They are about five feet tall, thin and green skinned which is impossible tough.  They are mean, vicious and bloodthirsty creatures that move in the shadows, because they have a sensitivity to light.  Singly they are sneaky but get them in a group and they are a force with which to be reckoned.

They are a very spiritual people, but they bully and cajole the spirits of Eave to do their bidding.  There are corrupted spirits, such as those in the Aragoi Wastes.  The land has not healed in the nine-hundred plus years since it was the target of nuclear attack by the ancient Tulathians.  These spirits are much sought after by the goblins as they are angry and unforgiving.  It takes a goblin much skill, cunning and provocation to cage such a spirit to use.

Race: Goblins

Aspects

Blood in the Shadows, The Darkness is my Friend, The Spirits Guide Me, Warrior of the Burnt Hand

Racial Skills: Goblin

You can use the Goblin racial skill to know the flora and fauna of the underground area, use this as a survival skill and to avoid hidden dangers.  In addition, pick one of the following flavors; you may pick more at the cost of one stunt or refresh each.

• One with the Spirits: You may use your Goblin racial skill to cast spells relating to pain or sneaking, even if you have no other magical ability.
• Fearsome Mask: You may use the Goblin racial skill in place of Provoke.
• Thick Skin: You may use Goblin instead of Physique to determine your physical stress and consequences, and you get one additional minor physical consequence.
• Sneaky Sneaky: Use the Goblin skill in place of Stealth.

Rules of Eave: Spartans and Eladrin

Hmm, I am using the optional races from the Fate Toolkit.  The eladrin are just the elves listed in the toolkit.  From there I have redesigned the Spartan Blooded into a racial ability.  Hope this works.  Leave comments below!

Race: Eladrin
Aspects
The Experience of Centuries, ”I Know These Woods.”, The Long Game, Magic in the Blood, Perfection in Everything.
Racial Skill: Eladrin
You may use the Eladrin skill to recognize useful flora and fauna, know your way through the woods, or notice hidden dangers. In addition, pick one of the following flavors; you may pick more at the cost of one stunt or refresh each.

• Elven High Magic: You can use Eladrin to cast spells relating to nature or growth, even if you have no other magical ability.
• Perfection in Battle: Choose Shoot or Fight. When you’re using the traditional armaments of your people, you can use Eladrin instead of the chosen skill.

Race: Spartan Blooded

Aspects

It is in the Blood, For the Empire (or the Kingdom), Killing Machine, Proud Warrior

Racial Skill: Spartan Blooded

You are one of the Spartans, having enough blood in your line to claim Spartan heritage.  You stand above others, a giant.  You may use the racial skill Spartan Blooded instead of Physique to determine your physical stress and consequences, and you get one additional minor physical consequence..  You may choose the following the cost of one stunt or refresh each.

• Frightening Presence: you may use your Spartan Blooded skill in place of Provoke.
• Paragon Immune System: You may spend a fate point to cancel the effects of a poison or a disease effect that is affecting you.

Fate, Strategicon, Saga and more

Well, I have had a couple of people express their interest in the Spartans and what I can do to make them more balanced.  I will think of something worthwhile.  I am thinking of making them a race or something… hmm, I am thinking.  I didn’t get the Toolkit until after I wrote them up.  In addition to the races, they also gave us several ways to work magic and I am thinking of a way to work the magic that permeates the world of Eave.  So many things to do.  I may be doing one in the Strategicon events of games in February.  I have read Saga and I am seriously thinking of doing a game in that setting at the very least.