Faessaya Oligarchy

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 * hasDescription=Many years ago, the aristocratic families who reigned over Faessaya were noble and just leaders. They owned the richest and most prosperous lands in entire Asperia. During the Golden Age of Faessaya, there was no other faction that could match their wealth, resources, and influence. Then the fall started …. There were generation after generation of spoiled rulers, raised with the attitude of divine superiority and the feeling of an inherited right to own everything and everyone. They slowly but firmly forgot the ways of their forefathers.

The Faessaya Oligarchy was born. Resorting to dark arts and forbidden practices, its Families stopped at nothing in their lust to increase their wealth and power. Now their laboratories constantly work on creating new, wicked but powerful artifacts to help them prevail in battle. Their malicious doctors experiment day and night to bring new abominations to serve them. The weaker enemies are enslaved, the stronger killed. The captured enemy champions, considered valuable, are twisted according to Faessaya’s desire. What the Oligarchy cannot buy with gold, it can achieve with unbelievably horrific torture.

Faessaya always wants more and more, and it is not likely that owning the whole known world will satisfy its thirst.

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 * The Senate: a body comprised of all twelve Oligarchs. The Senate is often the scene of power struggles between the Oligarchs and not once or twice a Senate member found his death in the middle of a Senate meeting. When it comes to keeping the common people under control, however, the Senate is always united and ruthless. Their tools of the trade include propaganda, corruption, treachery and terror.
 * The Major Families: the twelve wealthiest and most powerful families, considered to be direct heirs of the last Faessayan king Sentmardin. The head of each family is an acting Oligarch and a member of the Senate. The Oligarchs are rulers of the major provinces, where they have supreme power.
 * The Minor Families: the less influential families that do not descend from Sentmardin’s bloodline. They are rulers of the smaller provinces, merchants or bankers. The “Minors,” as they are called, are either neutral or serve a major family. Minors do not have representatives in the Senate but sometimes are given important tasks inside.
 * Plebs: the common people: worker bees of the families. Deluded by the wealth of their rulers all they do in their lives is to copy them, hoping that one day they will have enough gold to buy the materialistic goods they crave.
 * Zeros: a zero tattooed on somebody’s neck means he is a slave. He doesn’t have a name. He doesn’t have any rights. He is nothing. Slaves do what masters say.
 * Legions of Fear: the military structure of the Oligarchy, divided into several echelons and ranks. Most of the soldiers are mercenaries who enlist with the desire to earn gold and fame. Many corrupted individuals have forfeited their former factions to serve in the Legions.