The New Dawn: Fantasy Mod for BI

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The New Dawn: The Struggle for Power



The year 451AC (After Cirmacus the Great). The lands of Novalanda are once again calm after the great war between Capasantra and The Greyshadow Kingdom. Both sides took heavy losses in great battles such as the Battle for Shadow's Pass and the Battle of Kasadoroc. The Final Battle on the Great Eastern Desert saw the fall of 2 great leaders. The King Feramus of Capasantra and the Grandslayer Feros fer Blackhand both died in a mighty battle upon the vast wasteland that divides the two kindgoms.

So henceforth, the new age begins, the kingoms of Capasantra and Greyshadow consolidate their losses to preserve their might opon the rest of the land. With the clans brewing for power all around them peace cant last long and only war shall follow. This is the New Dawn.


The land is mainly divided by good and evil, the dominant powers for each being the kingdoms of Capasantra and Greyshadow respectivly. Capasantra has long been friends with the Kingdom of Peroland, trading accross the bay has been long and successful bring much prosperity to both kingdoms. The wingmen too are keen traders with the western kingdoms, their luxury items in return for capasantra's protection from the clan's of the east.

Greyshadow's people live much in poverty, they grow restless of the west's prosperity. Much of the day for these people is spent in darkness of the mines and mills that produce the ever growing war machine. The kingdom is rich in ores that make production fast but their evil ways are not welcomed by the west so trade is sparse. They make their profits only by selling to the Clans that have no morals in ways to get arms to fight each other for power.

-- The Factions --

The Kingdom of Capasantra
Capa city is a bustling centre of trade. Hundreds of ships per day arrive and depart from the port to and from distant lands bringing furs, metals and luxuries to the city. Stores, warehouses, mills and factories are hard at work every day, the people working comfortably within the great city walls that have never been broken.

Capasantarians are pale skinned breed of human, skilled workmen, swordsmen, archers and sailors. Their strength is not of an exceptional standard with the exception of the demi-gods that are few and far between. Capasantarians are not afraid of a fight and will stand up against any enemy that may probe its walls.

The Kingdom of Greyshadow
Shadow City lies beneath the eastern side of the Kasadaroc mountains. Its a vile city clouded in misery and oppression. The citizens work hard every day churning out weapons, equipment and machines to sell to the clans that plague the lands. Smoke and dust cloud the sky, the cause for the mutation of its people. The spiral towers mark the 6 corners of the city, they watch out over the dusty wasteland that surrounds the city.

The greyshadow race are of dark blue/purple skinned people. They are fairly steady in stature, physically stronger than their western counterparts due to their hard work every day. The stronger have darker skin than the weaker. They are skilled in the use of polearms and axes but make quite poor archers, ranged combat is therefore given to the weaker people of the race. The stronger greysahdow's will fight to the death, unafraid of dying.

The Kingdom of Peroland
The City of Peros sits on the opposit side of the bay from Capa City. Trade between these two cities has been common for years forming a tight alliance between its people. Peros claims most of its wealth from its gold mines to the north, they export this gold every day to foreign traders to the west. The people of Peros worship the Angel God of Happiness, they believe it gives them great power to defend against sin and evil.

The people of Peros are pale skinned elves. Generally very nimble fighters and rely on speed to defeat their enemies. With raw materials being rather limited on the western penisular, the people of peros ensure their armour is of the highest quality and that every man is trained to his fullest before entering the field. In times of emergency, the city with recruit people from the western plains as levies to fight along side their main armies. Perosians make for good polearm fighters and exceptional archers.

The Wingmen Republic
The Wingmen Republic sits of the south coast near the great eastern desert. Its defence comes completly from being surrounded by the sea, making it very hard for invaders to mount an attack. The wingmen live happy in solitude from the mainland, trading with the western kingdoms for years. Hara City is made of high towers and shrines to sky, the bringer of light and water.

The Wingmen people are brown skinned race, smaller is stature to most of the mainland's people but are very light on their feet. They rely on their mobility to defeat the enemy using shock and ambush attacks. They make for good light infantry and archers.

The Sorin Order - The Sun Worshippers
The Sorin reside in the City of Sorinia, "The City of the Sun". It was built by a group of cultists calling themselves the Devonist Militia, named after their leader, Devon Kneilmeiser, an ex-guardian to the first great king of Capasantra. He lost his faith in the 3 Gods when his wife died is crop blaze at his farm in the western plains. The heat of the sun scorched his crops causing them to come ablaze devouring all of the land, this soon became known as the great western blaze of 22AC. He formed a militia made from old friends from the Guard and many of the western farmers who had also lost their homes a livelyhoods to the blaze. They settled nears the mountains of Kasadaroc, north of Capasantra's kingdom. He now envyed the sun for that killed his wife and dreams, and built a temple to worship its might. The city grew, many western farmers and other less fortunate peoples of west joined the militia to start a new life here. The city became known as the City of the Sun! Devon died in 51AC, he offered himself as sacrifice in order to let his wife live, his prayers were not answered. Sorin of Kasadaroc claimed control of the city in 321AC, he brought new hope to the many times besieged city by the Seracom Clan over past two hundred years. His influence was great, bringing order to the chaos and giving them ties with the eastern kingdom of greyshadow. He proclaimed the city be renamed Sorinia and announced his faction to world as 'The Sorin Order'.

The sorin are a fanatical people formed from the western lands. Their armies are made up from fanatical followers of their religion, they are therefore highly impetuous and poorly skilled or trained. Their strength only being they are willing to fight to the death! Their elites can be very dangerous as they have no fear and live only to train for combat.

The Nataru - Forest People
The Nataru populate much of the great western forest, which sits just north of Capa City, bordering much of Capasantra's Kingdom. They are peaceful race of forresters. Their income coming from running saw mills and managing the forrest correctly to benefit their needs. They have peaceful trading standards with Capasantra for many of the recent years but they have been known to sell wears to the Sorin and Seracom too to avoid confrontation.

The Natura are extremely close to their surroundings. They've evolved from simple humans to possessing certain plant like traits allowing them to blend in with their environment extremely well. Their appearance is slightly altered from their human neighbors. Their hair turned green as well as much of their skin. Being so withdrawn from fighting makes them feeble in the face of the enemy, they have very few elite warriors and rely on skirmishing tactics rather than standard battle tactics. Thus, they train for quick strike attacks using light swords, spears and bows.

The Desa Noma - Desert Nomads
Once people of the Pyros Desa they choose to leave due to their harsh treatment and racial abuse. They differ to their former cousins for being of lighter skin. The dark skin Pyros dominated the nation and control of the desert city of Desampien. Haza the Upbringer led the rebellion for the pale skinned people in 393AC, it failed and all paler skinned people were sent into exile. They marched north to settle a new town near an oasis in the desert. To prevent further war the Pyros assasinated Haza in 415AC. The faction was was in much dispute as to who should lead them, many people drifted away in the turmoil, the remaining vowing for power over a deselated people. It came down to man named Ure Desera! he siezed controled of the faction and its people and brought new hope to re-establish themselves as a people.

Desamen are quite poor warriors but are however well accustomed to their harsh environment making it difficult for outsiders. They lack much in physical strength due to their lack of food but are much better skilled than much of Novalander. They do therefore make good bowmen and good at defending their position.

The Pyros Desa - aka. the Pyros
The Pyros are the darker skinned desamen and the one's still in control of Desampien. Led by the House of Pyralgot for many years they have become a trading centre for the desert wastelands with many contacts with the sotuhern clans and greyshadow kingdom. They have fought wars with Capasantra on a few occasions and did once try to invade the Wingmen Isle but failed.

Desamen are quite poor warriors but are however well accustomed to their harsh environment making it difficult for outsiders. They lack much in physical strength due to their lack of food but are much better skilled than much of Novalander. They do therefore make good bowmen and good at defending their position.

The Freema Novalanda - Freemen of Novalanda

The Dogma Nutora - The Dog People
The Nutora are evolved from primitive dogs. The Nutora offspring are born as as these same dogs before they are taught by their elders how to stand up, talk and perform all the tasks of their humanoid neighbors. The Nutora gained their independence from humanoid masters in 103BC (before Cirmacus), when they began to attack them using both weapons and their primitive instincts before migrating south into the desert.
It was not long before their took on their own masters greed, raiding humanoid settlements and forging their own nation of the Nutora. Although after their onslaught against the humans, the desa and the elves, their new found greed and lust for power turned into themselves. A civil war between the House of Dogma and the House of Wolfhound broke out. The war left the nation crippled and defenceless. The houses cut their losses and each retreated to either side of the desert preserving a mutual truce for neither to cross it, although this truce has long been forgotten and war could rise again.

The Dogma and since had dealings with the pyros desa and some minor trading with capasantra. Their people hold onto many of the old exisiting ways while inheriting some of their local neighbor's tactics and weaponary styles. They look much like their primitive ancestors with much of their fur still in place but have grown much larger and stronger but still as vicious.

The Wolfhound Nutora - The Wolf People
The Nutora are evolved from primitive dogs. The Nutora offspring are born as as these same dogs before they are taught by their elders how to stand up, talk and perform all the tasks of their humanoid neighbors. The Nutora gained their independence from humanoid masters in 103BC (before Cirmacus), when they began to attack them using both weapons and their primitive instincts before migrating south into the desert.
It was not long before their took on their own masters greed, raiding humanoid settlements and forging their own nation of the Nutora. Although after their onslaught against the humans, the desa and the elves, their new found greed and lust for power turned into themselves. A civil war between the House of Dogma and the House of Wolfhound broke out. The war left the nation crippled and defenceless. The houses cut their losses and each retreated to either side of the desert preserving a mutual truce for neither to cross it, although this truce has long been forgotten and war could rise again.

The Wolfhound have since adapted to the eastern style much embracing much of greyshadows weaponary but mostly prefer their traditional light and vicious infantry tactics. They look much like their primitive ancestors with much of their fur still in place but have grown much larger and stronger but still as vicious.

The Seracoma Nudaine - aka. the seracom
The Nudaine people have been the main individual aggressor against the elves of peroland over the past few hundred years. The elves have always been able to keep these barbarians in check push them back from their borders on the west coast. Recent times have seen the Nudaines develop their bow skills as to counter the elven archers but they still dont match the elven precision. The Seracoma family came into power of the people after the original founding family were eliminated in 348AC. The Seracoma have vowed to expand their power from the north west corner of this island using a combination of new technology and old fashion agression!

The Nudaines are a grey skinned people, they often paint themselves in tatoos and like to decorate their armour in the blood of their enemies. Their barbarious style comes through to make them strong but unskilled warriors but have become somewhat more adept with bows since their previous wars with the Peroland Elves.

The Solohorn Neyfara - aka. the solohorns
The Neyfara live in solitude over on the Eastern Coast, occupying a rocky penisular and somewhat penned in by the Greyshadow. Their culture is not much dis-similar from the greyshadow. They mine the hills that gives them much resources to generate their war machine.

The Neyfara have dark skin and very well built. They rely much on their armour to protect them, rather than any use of skill. This makes them very hard to break down and results in many long battles. The Neyfara have become used to this and makes them very hardy and gives them great stamina.

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This page will update with more information as I write the descriptions with a preview of each faction each week showing the units in production.

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Thanks goes to BelgradeWar for his shield concept designs.
Thanks goes to HalfThere for giving his insite into faction concepts.
Thanks goes to Braden for His Unit Names.