Palladian

The Palladian elves were the inheritors of the Stellar Rosades, descended from a remnant who took one of the old Sky Citadels of the giants for themselves. From this perch in the sky, they decided to turn their eyes to "civilize" the world. They join elvish chivalry with a fanatic, religious devotion to the god Dantalion, which while they claim to not impose by force, institute as state religion in all their protectorates. Their conquistadors, with their breastplate and sharp helmets, delivered by their Flying Armada and backed up by pike and shot, are feared across Uskara. They are not an Evil culture, necessarily, and in fact are convinced of their own Goodness, though they are not blind to the fact that the Heavens do not seem to always agree. Palladians come in every ethnicity and ancestry, defined more by their highly modern form of dress (with huge hats, ruffled collars, and tight breeches) and culture than appearance. To the Palladians, who give little credence to the Axiomatic Church and do not hold Mitra as the legitimate Overgod, Talingarde is a mere backwater rather than island of sacred importance, and this (combined with the isolation imposed upon it by the Kraken) leads them to mostly ignore it. Still, Palladian intrigues occasionally do make their way to its shores.

• Ancestry: Any and all, however the Palladians have a rigid and complicated hierarchy based on ancestry, with elves at the top and quicklings at the bottom, with the other demihuman races placed in different roles in between. Inhumans are at best second-class citizens subject to "indenture", which they justify due to the Central Dogma doctrine around reincarnation. It's kind of fucked up!


• Starting Languages: Low Talirean, Palladian


• Cultural Weapons: rapier, main-gauche, longspear, flintlock musket, longsword. The pike and shot tactics of the Palladians is unmatched in this current day, using simple and replicable tactics with their swelling indentured armies, herded by their eldritch knight conquistadors, who themselves wield the traditional chivalric longsword. However, the rapier and main-gauche has grown far more in fashion in the courts and cities of the Commonwealth, and among the bravos underneath the higher nobility.