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Kingdom of Lustria | 'The Eternal Kingdom of the Lizard Gods'

 * Government: Pseudo-despotic monarchy (technically a centralised tribal monarchy)
 * Great Chief / Mortal Bearer of the Lizard Gods:
 * K'oroka ([F], 1199-1246, r. 1222-1246)
 * Moszar ([M], 1214-1258, r. 1246-1258)
 * Urchannk ([M], 1230-1284, r. 1258-1284)
 * Azarkel ([F], 1255-1303, r. 1284-1303)
 * Oroku ([F], b. 1280, r. 1303-)
 * Urgoka ([F], b. 1302, pretender)
 * Krokezal (M], b. 1320, heir)
 * (not related) Religious Leader of Krokanism / The Messenger to Kroak:
 * Rhok'sk ([M] 1284-1328, r. c. 1300s-1328)
 * Omako ([M] b. 1280, r. 1331)
 * Dynasty: Urchannkian (est. 1275)
 * Capital: Amekrog
 * Economy: The 1340s is the peak of the golden age of the Lustrian Kingdom. At this point, Lustria is at its stable but steadily growing economy thanks to some trade with Atlantean city-states. The Lustrian economy is still primarily agricultural, as it produces a lot of tropical fruits that some Atlanteans may not have come across. The capital city, Amekrog is the largest settlement and has roughly 2 200 civilians as of 1340. The city itself has not only moved away from being a simple village as it was in the 13th century, it became the most important trading hub for Lustrian merchants to trade with the north. Sailships (trireme-like ships) are already prominent. However, the next decade will be much, much different than those who have lived in the 1340s, as trade with Atlantis continues, an unexpected curse that Rhok'sk have prophesised in his own delusions will come true...
 * Demographics:
 * Population: 48 000
 * Amekrog: 2 200
 * Osbme: 350
 * Koos'en: 310
 * Eztekol: 240
 * Sal'tcet: 150
 * Os'kel: 30
 * Gkor: 50
 * Oppoks'ren: 100
 * Yok: 30
 * Mur'lok: 280
 * Roseg: 25
 * Araswel: 70
 * Sar'gel: 40
 * Rest is just rural or other villages
 * Religion: 72% Lustrian folk religion, 3% Tupi folk religion, 18% Krokanist (a 'reformed' Lustrian religion with a more centralised belief system, primarily in eastern Lustria, Amekrogia), 7% Cult of Khrone (primarily in western Lustria, Khorn'kor)
 * Culture/Ethnicity: 95% Lustrian, 3% Tupi, 2% Arawak
 * Military: A more organised military is underway in the former half of the 14th century. Aside from the lizard warriors, where they are trained and sworn to secrecy about their methods and how they operate, the rest of the warriors in the Lustrian warrior caste have found themselves to become known as the Rainforest Warriors rather than being untitled and voluntary. 'Bowed Protectors' (as called in Lustrian) are the archers of the Lustrian military and have been separate from the Rainforest Warriors under Azarkel's reign over the kingdom. They are trained to make their shot as accurate as possible, hitting targets for hunting purposes and to fight enemies.
 * Army:
 * 120 'Lizard Warriors' (clubmen with wooden with 'sparsely metallic' shields)
 * 300 'Rainforest Warriors' (spearmen)
 * 100 'Temple Guards' (axemen)
 * 200 'Bowed Protectors' (archers)
 * 22 000 fit men that could be trained into being warriors or hunters
 * Navy:
 * 300 canoes and rafts
 * 15 'sailships'
 * 85 trading canoes
 * Diplomacy:
 * Tupi Tribes: Most trade has been reduced, although local merchants in western Lustria (Khorn'kor) continued to do frequent trades than the east.
 * Atlantean city-states: Eastern Lustria (Amekrogia) is seeking to gradually push for an active trading ground between these city-states and the Lustrian Kingdom, with the reason of thought, modernisation and progress. In exchange, the people in eastern Lustria have their own cultural products being exported for them, along with any materials needed.
 * Events:
 * Modernisers and the Traditionalists, pt. 3:
 * New Leader, New Reforms: After the stoning of Rhok'sk (1284-1328) at the age of 44, a fellow close follower and only survivor of the first Lustrian trip to contact the Atlanteans, Omako (b. 1280) took over the role of Rhok'sk as the divine messenger to Kroak on 1331, claiming that he had a dream that Kroak insisted that he should continue guiding reform and that reforms should be made to make the Lustrian religion more accepting to foreigners, leading to some of them beginning their conversion. It is stipulated that most non-Lustrians nearby have bred and interfered with the Lustrian people, thus making them descendant of the Lizard Gods. Most of the old, conservative hardliner followers of the unreformed Lustrian folk religion dismiss them as an attempt to appeal converting non-Lustrians into being a cultist, so did the believers of Khorne. The myth of the white people is not covered in Lustrian culture, but Omako believes that they were sent by the Lizard Gods as a 'gift' from the heavens in the far north and did not appear anywhere. The concept of snow is never known in Lustria, but it is said the north is a place with no Amazon forest, where it is barren but has mighty cities that the Atlanteans came from. This would also be part of the Krokanist scriptures as they were written across the decades to come.
 * Blood for the Blood God, pt. 1: As the region of Khorn'kor (western Lustria) began believing only Khorne could solve the problem to stop the rise of progress and the Krokanist religious conversion, who they accuse of being influenced by 'foreign gods', the Cult of Khorne is officially formed by the hardliner parts of those who follow Khorne as their own god. They acknowledge other Lizard Gods, but nothing but Khorne himself is the only god that could solve practically most problems, mostly through violent means. Some of the warriors that belong to the more organised army of the Lustrian Kingdom have started their conversion and devotion to Khorne, sacrificing wild animals they hunt and ripping their hearts out (coincidental but is developed independently from the Aztecs for about a thousand years when the Lustrian folk religion began to evolve) for Khorne. They chant "blood for the blood god" multiple times, hoping for a curse to be unleashed against the eastern part of the Lustrian Kingdom. Soon, a plague may as well emerge in the east... (next turn, a plague will decimate the Lustrian Kingdom)
 * Heir Change, Conversion and Familial Tensions: Mortal Bearer Oroku has decided and in pressure by many Lustrian merchants, the new messenger Omako and Krokanists themselves, Oroku has decided to officially announce that her line of succession would be Krokezal on 1336 in her own palace, which is also a shrine dedicated to another god, Slogal, the god of wealth and prosperity. That palace, known as Slogal's Temple (built in 1250s and done by 1278), is restricted to primarily nobles and guards (typically from organised military). Permission to access it has to be done by guards' own approval. This came after Krokezal met up with Omako back in c. 1332 to be taught on things from the Atlanteans and that he'd finally converted to being a Krokanist. For his older sister, Urgoka, she was angry about her mother's decision. She sees her mother as an easy ruler who gets influenced by anyone. On 1339, Urgoka went to the village of Gkor to meet up with some of the (unknowingly) Khrone cultists and told them that something needs to be done. She needed warriors to make sacrifices and bring a 'curse' upon the eastern part, to unleash anger from the gods, so the ritual began... (see also Blood for the Blood God, pt. 1)
 * Arawak People: The first trove of Arawak communities were subjugated and settled by Lustrian people. The policy according to Mortal Bearer Oroku, like the Tupi in the western parts of Lustria, is that their culture is to be respected, along with religion. However, there were some Krokanists who do not respect that and have tried proselytising few of the local people to accept this new reformed religion of the Lustrian religion. As both sects of the 'reformed' Lustrian folk religion continued to grow across the century, it is expected to create further sectarian divide and even cultural divisions being made.
 * Religious Book of the Lustrian Faith: Krokanists continue their progress on writing scriptures and things in the 1320s and onwards about the Lustrian religion in Lustrian script, using stone tablets and chiselling to complete it. Expected to be done by 1350s-60s. This could be the interest of many Atlanteans who might be interested in Lustrian culture.