Tristan “Blood Calls To Blood”
Tristan
“Blood calls to Blood”
Colors: Red, Black, White
Banner: Raven and Swords
Population: 22,695,491
Capitol: Vanya
Government: Socialist Republic
Leader(s): Khaslin zi’Valeryvich, Premier of the Trisviet Union
Languages: Trist, Common
Notable Exports: Airships, Ice, Eldria, Eldric Technology
The Union of the Trisviet Socialist Republic, also known as the Trisviet Union, is a federation that stands alone among the political turmoil left in the wake of the Darkest War.
This nation can be found in the northern reaches of Asarus, an area of the world known for its crippling winters and tracks of untamed wilderness. To the uninitiated, Tristan’s people are as unforgiving and harsh as her climate. However, those who hail from this land find it to be a house of solace amid the post-war chaos where all necessities are provided, and their loyalty to the Motherland is unquestionable. Tristan possesses a dominating presence in the world economy due to the initial discovery of eldria within her borders, and as such, the nation has remained the home of CORE’s operating headquarters. Her people benefit greatly from the various life-altering conveniences granted by eldria, and Tristan possesses some of the largest fleets of airships in the world. Many nations rely on Tristan for the continued support of CORE, and so she flexes her economic might freely, even at the disdain of others.
Divided between the till of the land and the hands of the city, the Trisviets are always at work.
Unemployment is rarely an issue in the northern country, as citizens of the Union are assigned positions of employment and placed where the government believes they will be most useful. To strangers Tristan can seem an uninviting place with no love lost for outsiders, but those who stay long enough find that the cold winds of the north have changed the population into a dedicated, quiet, and reserved people with fundamentally good hearts. The landscape of Tristan is varied, and it is not unusual to see lush rolling hills of farmland backed by some of the world’s most impressive forests and mountain ranges. The Trisviet Union’s major cities rest along popular trade routes and the banks of the Shadowstreams River. Outsiders tend to see Trisviet cities as plain, drab affairs with high walls and firm defensive lines prioritizing function over form. However, in some Trisviet cities the architecture can be quite grand, with the buildings of influential parties possessing round pointed tops, high archways, and bold straight lines.
The Trisviet citizens are wary of foreigners and almost instantly hostile toward those who would disrespect the Motherland, be it an unintentional slight or hurled insult.
They view their country as the sole life-giving force in the world, and the populace of Tristan believes that they should be as protective over the Motherland as the Motherland is over her citizens. Trisviets throughout the Union are convinced that anything is possible through cooperation and determination. As a people they turned back the tides of the rampaging fiends of the Shattered Hand. Brotherhood, honor, and loyalty are all primal forces pushing the Trisviets towards a brighter future, and by their mutual bearing of weight the Union has grown to become one of the world’s strongest and steadfast nations. Crimes of corruption and deception are not easily forgiven by the Trisviets. Unique to this culture is their fervent worship of Uryll, goddess of night, darkness, and shadows. Trisviets believe that their ancestors were granted power over night and brought to this land in the far north by her divine guidance.
The massive scope of the territory under Trisviet control experiences a vast array of climates and terrain.
Tristan’s southern lands are home to fruitful fields and seas of grassland, while her northern reaches are endless expanses of forests flanked by mountain ranges. On all sides apart from the north the nation is surrounded by deep blue ocean. Her summers are warm in her southern holdings and mild in her northern ones. Tristan winters, however, are a sobering sight to behold. The icy grip of winter in the Trisviet Union has prevented countless armies from pressing into her lands, while local Trisviet citizens shrug off the mayhem as just another winter. These winters ice-lock many of Tristan’s ports, forcing the nation to utilize the warm-water port cities of Starivostok, Veriya, and Chite as their main ports. All three of these cities have fallen out of Tristan’s hands in the wake of the Darkest War, however.
