Other countries : Begus / Dorgania / Central
Edit: Add thumbnail picture and link to other countries
Authors note: Hi. These are some "fan lore" that made based on in-game contents as well as lots of stuffs that I headcanoned. They include detailed geopolitics, culture, military, and diplomatic opinions on other countries. There are also some in-game characters role-playing (in this case, King Merius). I've made 3 countries: Amagal, Begus, and Dorgania. Other countries will be posted in the future.
Also, stupid text limit forced me to separate each countries into different parts. I'll add link at the bottom.
Now lets begin, starts with Amagal
Amagal is usually known either as “a great magic country” or “an isolationist country full of lunatics”. Why are they so obsessed with magic? Why do they refuse to interact with other countries? Let’s view things from Amagal’s perspective and understand why they are the way they are.
Geography
Amagal has the least amount of territory & population compared to other 3 countries. Not only that, what little land it has is mostly filled with non-arable wasteland. Amagal knows they couldn’t compete with other countries with raw strength. That’s why magic means so much to Amagal. What they lack in quantity they must make up with quality. Fortunately, this land contains lots of special minerals that couldn’t be found anywhere else such as Purple ore and Orangium, both of which help greatly in their magic research.
Over the years the population in Amagal has been getting more and more concentrated around the capital Manastyr. This is actually good news for the royalties as they can easily govern the citizen directly without the need of nobles. As such the royalties were able to slowly get rid of nobles and established a centralized government. Of course, the nobles were furious, especially Earl Rotiart. This eventually culminated into Rotiart’s successful coup as Rotiart couldn’t have done it without the support of all those disenfranchised noble.
Politics, Economy & Culture
Due to Amagal’s sorry geography, magic is their only hope of survival. People are willing to follow any great mage who will lead them to prosperity even if they must make some sacrifices. And great mage they got, when a powerful, visionary, and ambitious new King Merius ascended to the throne.
Merius’s Reformation
My opponents call me a mad king while supporters call me a wise king. I care none of such petty squabbles as my attention lies somewhere far beyond. I am, unfortunately, one of the only few who understand magic isn’t just some tools that help you heal some wounds or burn some monsters; it is a philosopher’s stone that can transform human into something greater than what you can ever imagine. With my great magic it is my duty to help my species evolve! Even if it means they must endure the pain of shedding away old skins!
First, the food. Everyone said we have little land to farm, but who said farms need to be built on surface? Under Manastyr I have already established huge networks of underground farms by irrigating with water magic, fertilizing with earth magic and illuminating with magic natural lighting (same magic Water Spirit used to light her dungeon). I wasn’t lying when I promised people food during the “Rotiart” drought, you know. If other country invaded, we could sit in our capital wall with full belly and watch the besiegers starving themselves occupying those wastelands on the surface.
Then there’s the pride of our country: magical industry. I’ve semi-nationalized various magical technologies businesses but still gave them some freedom and encourage them to compete with each other to spark new magic ideas that can help the country. It’s OK if the new magic turned you into a chicken because failure is the mother of success. However, I have no intention leaking trade secrets to other countries. I’ve been carefully monitoring all exported magic items & fake gold to make sure no advanced magic can be reverse engineered and allowing only few trusted foreign traders to enter our country. The witch in pink hair once said her little sister want to have more chance shopping, but only a fool would teach our potential enemies how to beat us!
In Amagal, magical knowledge is everything. I’ve expanded our universal magic educations and can proudly confirm that Amagal has the least illiteracy rate in all 4 countries. But having lots of scholars is not enough because other countries could simply copy our education systems. The true reason why Amagal is way ahead in magical development is because of our willingness to experiment. I myself have been experimenting all kinds of things in my secret facilities. For science!
For example: How exactly does HP work? Does chopping off 5 grams of flesh from your leg decreases the same amount of HP as chopping off 5 grams from your brain? If I attach an extra arm on your body with surgery does your max HP increase? If I chop off your hand so you -100 HP but then heal you for 50 HP does that mean you’ll grow half a hand out of your wound? What will happen to the severed hand if I grow your hand back with healing magic? Can I harvest infinite meat if I repeat the process?
Other countries might find it morbid if they found out, but you can’t deny these experiments are crucial! How do you think Alfred Lambida wrote his magic dissertations that become the textbook of all magical academy in the world? He did it so others don’t have to dirt their hands!
No, too long we’ve let others leeching off our hard work. In the past other countries have been demanding us to share our magic with them and our idiotic former king, who’s under the manipulation of that pink hair witch, cowardly acceded. The knowledge we toiled to obtain was given away like charity to be used by other countries to compete with our magic item markets. Half of the magic industries in Amagal at that time went bankrupt and the passion of our inverters dowsed. Who wants to invent when your ideas will be given to others to steal your business? No more! After I brought the former king to justice in our succession duel, I’ve passed several patent laws to reignite our drive of innovations. I have also controlled almost every mage & citizen with purple dust so no more information can be leaked without my permission. You want to know? You have to pay.
But that’s not the only usage of purple dust. One of my many goals to evolve Homo sapiens is, with the help of magic & purple dust, connect every citizen’s conscious into a hive mind. Every knowledge we obtained will be shared with everyone instantly. Millions of discussions can be finished in mere seconds and trillions of new ideas popping up like stars in the sky. Imagine what we could achieve with such brainpower!
Of course, there are many uncultured swine who don’t like the process of evolution. Like that pink hair witch & the Earl “traitor-spelled-backward”. One is collared by her outdated morality while the other blinded by earthly greed, both are leashed by their short-sightedness and couldn’t see what lies in the future. Damn those conspirators who couped me! Humanity has a chance to transcend into something greater than gods and you squander it because you refuse to bear the pain of breaking out of your cocoon! Thankfully, the enlightened ones haven’t forgotten my word and rescued me. It’s time to remove Rotiart, the obstacle of the future of mankind! As for the pink hair witch… she & her sister did at least try to investigate my disappearance, so I’ll show mercy and let her live as long as she doesn’t get in the way of my reformation.
Before I wrap things up, let me ask you a question:
If your way of thought is different from everyone else, will you have the courage to admit your fault and strive to correct yourself? Or will you have the courage to stick to what is right and strive to correct the world?
Decent people will choose the former, but a genius will choose the latter! Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will. If you’re a genius, “decent people” will call you mad and childish, little realize how worthless they are compared to you. The world already has enough “decent people”! The world needs more genius! If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it. Come to Amagal! Let me be the king who’s mad enough to hire you, and let yourself be the spark that changed the universe!