The Chimera Legion's Empire?

Since I discovered Empire LARP, I've been toying with the idea of changing the setting for the Chimera Legion. I did a little sketching and came up with this.

Note that the names are not final. This is just a first draft.

The Cultures

The main human cultures are listed, along with their historical inspiration. The human cultures are:

• The Isles (Scottish / Gaelic)
• Chevalia (western knights)
• Norsia (Viking)
• Nevora (Renaissance / Tudor)
• Aridia (Arab / Moor)
• Sirilia (Slavic)
• Olympia (Greek / Roman)
• Palmyra (Egyptian)
• Taiyotochi (Japanese)

For the most part, I chose the cultures from the Themes section on the Dark Knight Armory website. I added Arab / Moor and Egyptian to fill in the southern continent.

In general, you can see that the culture locations are historically inspired. The exception is Taiyotochi (Japan). Japanese culture seems popular so I wanted a relatively nearby homeland where it made sense that such characters appear in the main setting.

The Empire

My initial thought was that the Empire would consist of Olympia, Palmyra, and perhaps Nevora. The other cultures would be allies or enemies, depending on the flow of the campaign.

I am now thinking of expanding the Empire to encompass more of the human cultures, de-emphasizing conflict between the cultures and focusing more on the inhuman enemies.

Enemies

The map also shows four major groups of enemies that plague the human cultures. In the north, we have the Unseelie (dark elves) and Orks. In the south are the hyena men. And in the east are the Dark Magi (necromancers and their ghul minions).

Other Non-Humans

The setting includes two major fantasy races aside from humans.

Dwarves live in the mountains, especially my version of the Alps. This gave rise to Robb calling them the yodeling dwarves.

Elves are not shown but they do exist. The come from the Otherworld, however, so they have no territory in this world. Some elves will travel into the human world and stay for a bit.

I don't have halflings. I prefer to leave them in Middle Earth, but if someone really wants to play a halfling I can be persuaded to accommodate them.

What's Next?

 I have no definitive plans for changing our setting. I'm just jotting down ideas right now.