Ortho: Nations, Provinces, People, Places

Perhaps I should have phrased it as a bill introduced to the Provincial Council to prohibit the production and consumption of alcohol...Of course, there would be folks on both sides of the debate, the Anti-Prohibition folk possibly bringing up the very point you have...This might in turn bring up a debate on restrictions on the amount of consumption per capita, stiffer penalties for public intoxication and alcohol related violence, etc. ...As to smuggling, as all know, there is no smuggling on Ortho, it's against the law...

Along with at least one other god, Kaji the Fox...I figure that the Ahltani have two religious lives...Those while outside the clan and that within the clan...Outside the clan, say when they are in a town or city, they attend the Church of Law as necessary; on Clanlands they worship in the tradition of the Forgotten Goddess, although only the Shamans would know that they do so, feeling that they are following the true path of harmony...

I'm sure someone will follow up with a dwarven province sooner or later so I can fill in the [?]...

Yes (I assume, I don't have the MM) in that they are white furred displacer beasts for whom I couldn't come up with a cool name for...

Not really, just found them by happenstance (or fate) and reaped the reward...The 'snow displacer beasts' did them in...Also, generally no one outside of the members of the Harmonium party and their superiors know about the dwarven miners and few if anyone outside the justice system knows the location of the Love Camps...At least, that's the premise... Kwint

Well, I felt bad interupting you all's flow, especially when everyone was doing a better job with their provinces than I had. I've got ideas, but its mainly rewriting the beholder stuff I already have to absorb some of Rip's stuff in. I may even bring back the beholder Hive Mother - or the myth of one.

So, here's my latest update on the Map of Ortho:

Everything seem to be where they should be?...Any suggestions?...
kwint

Darks of Intagril
The integrator did not leave as the legend says. Instead, after his meeting at the palace he met with the high ranks, the leaders, and to the secret places of the world. The nations of Sea and Sky had been at a cold smoldering war for nearly four hundred years and had been in open warfare for hundreds of years before that time with each other and with smaller nations that where eventually crushed or absorbed into the two larger. Though the war had not been waged on any battlefield it had been waged, and its combatants had honed their skills over the centuries. Secrets, espionage, and all the other unseen arts of war had been developed along side the more well known of the warrior arts.

Intagril came into the Harmonium with its upper echelons knowing fully what they were going into and much of the history of Ortho that the Harmonium keeps out of the history books. Furthermore, the secret projects and bases hidden in the dark corners of the world and in Intagril's star system have largely been kept from the Council of Ortho and the Octaves as well as the rest of the Harmonium. This was accomplished simply because the world of Intagril had already united and formed a world government in line with the Harmonium before they joined. Thus there was no need to reorganize and the colony never gave the Harmonium leadership the excuse it needed to take full control of their government.

Outwardly, the colonial government of Intagril follows ever rule, every order handed down to it working in perfect time with the greater Harmony. Still the colony has always gathered an amount of suspicion because of the known activities of Enoril while he was still on Ortho. The high-ups in the Ortho chain of command would have liked to push Enoril's memory to a far page deeply hidden in the book of History for his support of the elves and his protest against the expansionist policies in the Harmonium's leadership. Still after the support that Intagril gave to the War of Iron with millions of lives sacrificed for the greater glory of Harmony.

During the War of Iron great spells from Intagril's magic wielders swept over the battlefields tearing millions of tan'ar'i apart in controlled hurricanes of iron shards that covered entire layers of the Abyss. Great war machines went to work against the demon hoards and saved many millions of Harmonium lives. Yet the greatest spells and laboratories from whence they came have been kept secret from the Harmonium. Furthermore, while Intagril was the first people to introduce spell-jamming to the Harmonium rumors persist that the world has an entire fleet operating outside the control of the larger Harmony.

So did Kelmen become Keln'in?...Ruko sounds (pseudo-)Japanese, Province #3, perhaps?... Kwint

I just remembered - we have to decide where the rheks (from the Book of Exalted Deeds) came from. They should be from one of the Harmonium-controlled worlds.

Hey, I like Keln'in...I didn't catch that first post with Kelmen (only found it goin' back through) so it's always been Keln'in to me...

So, does anyone want to take Ruko/Province #3...My knowledge of Japanese History & culture and Oriental Adventures Gaming is pretty sketchy...There's always someone in a gaming group who is a Nippon-o-phile; who is it in this writing group?... Kwint

Uh, sorry...Didn't mean to evoke your hate response...Didn't even mean to suggest that you should do that particular province...But it does seem that that continent (Athra, I believe...Rip?) is pretty pseudo-Asian, so maybe Roku is instead pseudo-Koryoan (perhaps in this world, the pseudo-Koreans defeated the pseudo-Japanese)...Or, orrrrrrrrr... Kwint

Following up on this notion - a sort of wedge to explain how a province of werewolves and other lycanthropes might survive and prosper in the Harmonium's Ortho. Not sure if I'm going to throw additional province info in, but this may spark a few ideas from others.

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The barren, ice-swept lands of Ulfrheim are home to many kinds of lycanthropes, creatures who survive in this inhospitable land mainly by changing into animal form during the long winter months, and travelling as packs through the wilderness. Of all the lycanthropic kindreds of this land, werewolves are the most common; unusually enough, these werewolves do not harbor the chaotic inclinations of their kindred on other worlds, but are dedicated to the ways of order and law. Such a change is not happy coincidence, however, but a mandated imposition - created by a magical invocation called Kelmuun's Bond of the Wolfpack.

This effect uses the incantation rules originally published in Unearthed Arcana. Reading up on the rules and campaign use of these effects is recommended.

Kelmuun's Bond of the Wolfpack
Enchantment
Effective Level: 8th
Skill Check: Diplomacy DC 28, 4 successes; Handle Animal DC 28, 1 success; Knowledge (nature) DC 28, 2 successes; Survival DC 28, 1 success
Failure: Attack
Components: V,S,F,XP,SC,B
Casting Time: 80 minutes
Range: See text
Area: Ring formed by casters, no more than 50 feet in diameter
Duration: Permanent
Saving Throw: Will negates (DC 19 + caster's Cha modifier)
Spell Resistance: Yes

Kelmuun's Bond of the Wolfpack invokes the ways of pack law and dominance in the hearts of werewolves, cleansing them of the maddening taint of the moon and reconsecrating them to the way of order. The casters form a ring around the werewolves to be affected by the incantation, appealing in different and varied ways to the creatures' inner sense of self and condemning the blight of lunar chaos. As the rite progesses, the targets become calmer and more controlled, less prey to savage and disruptive instincts, until as the invocation completes they are reborn as creatures of hierarchy and law.

The incantation only affects werewolves (natural or afflicted), permanently changing their alignment to Lawful Evil if they fail a Will save. This overrides the werewolf's preferred alignment, but does not block other effects that affect alignment.

The targets to be affected by the incantation need not be restrained or rendered helpless, but must remain within the ring of casters. They may freely attack the casters if they so choose. As a result, the spell is normally cast on targets that either accede to the incantation, or who have been rendered helpless by some other means.

Failure
A gelugon (or other CR 13 devil) is summoned to attack the casters. After fifteen rounds or the death of all casters, whichever happens first, it returns to the infernal realms. It will not normally attack the spell's targets or bystanders, but will defend itself if attacked.

Focus
A finely crafted wolf's mask made of silver with inlaid gemstones, worth 5,000 gp.

XP Cost
400 XP.

Backlash
All casters are exhausted upon the spell's completion.

Extra Casters
Fifteen individuals are required; they space themselves in a ring along with the primary caster, reiterating and reinforcing the dictums and arguments presented.

Campaign Use
Kelmuun's Bond of the Wolfpack is a campaign tool used by the Harmonium, used to tame new werewolf cubs and undiscovered rogue tribes alike. It's not likely to be directly employed by PC groups.

The unrevealed dark of the incantation, though, could provide adventuring hooks in either of two directions. The first possibility lies in the identity of Kelmuun, the spell's creator - hailed by the Harmonium as an early hero, but quite possibly a druidic devotee of the Forbidden Goddess, instead. In this circumstance, Kelmuun created the incantation not so much to extend the Harmonium's creed as to provide some alternative to a bloody, irrevocable genocide of all the werewolves of Ulfrheim. In this instance, the invocation could certainly have some hidden flaw that could allow its effects to be undone or reversed - an opportunity, or a threat...

The other possibility is that the incantation doesn't invoke principles of natural law, but instead imposes devilish influence on its targets. As a result, the lords of Baator have, for the past several centuries, slowly and imperceptibly been forging a hellish army in a corner of Ortho. Such a thing might not be an immediate cause of alarm for the Harmonium, but would certainly worry many other players both planar and prime - and how do such individuals convince the Harmonium to abandon their effort?

The traditional dwarven kingdom (which I'm calling Xaric for now, after the dwarven realm in Shemmy's story) would be in the mountains of central Motmurk, while there's plenty of room for human lands in the lowlands. The humans, I think, would largely have colonized this continent from the east, long ago in the fabled Second Dynasty of Han (not that Han or even anyone in Iironda had anything to do with this migration), crossing the channel from Province #5 to Province #7 (Ulfrheim?) and continuing southwest from there.

That's not to say that all Orthoan dwarves are miners; a lot of them will have become integrated into human society after 500 years of Harmonium "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity" - a lot of races will not only take nontraditional occupations by now, but they might actually be required to for the sake of harmony.

Anyway, Threerivers is very much a mixed-race city. The confluence of three rivers that gives the city its name also symbolize the confederation of the three races common to the continent: humans, dwarves, and orcs.

And updated the MAP to include a key and declutter the southern seas...
Kwint

The Realm of R'Talnir
This is the only colony of Ortho to have become a colony, been brought to accept the Harmonium ideal and then rebel against Ortho and the greater Harmony it gave to the world.

R'Talnir was one of the first handful of worlds to be colonized brought into the greater Harmony in that first short wave of planar expansion before the Harmonium learned of the Abyss and set upon the War of Iron. It is a small world of oceans, deserts and mountains with two small suns, one red one white. While the surface is only habitable in the small oases that dot the higher part of the northern continents and the surviving belt of tropical forests that lies on the southern continent the world has an extensive underground network of aquifers, rivers, caverns and tunnels dug out during the nearly-forgotten heyday of R'Talnir's civilization. The underground network had been an effort to save the world from its desertification but along the way as famine set in so did chaos and eventually anarchy. The once great laws of civilization where sadly forgotten, until the day that the first Harmonium expedition showed up.

With the help of Harmonium mages, clerics and druids as well as Harmonium organization the clans and tribes that the old civilization had broken into where re-united and the main aquifers were repaired and cleansed. The light of civilization had not completely faded from this world and the people remembered the glories of their past. With the coming of the greater light of true Harmony the people rejoiced and as the waters flowed again so did the world re-unite. From all accounts it was a splendid time lasting twenty years or so. However, during that time investigations began into what caused the great upheavals as according to the historical record they had begun well before the major famines set in. Portals to the Abyss where found as well as ruined temples to foul gods and demon spawn.

R'Talnir stands for those who are high enough in the Harmonium to know about it, as a monument and example of why history must be controlled and carefully censored for the masses. This is because once the people of R'Talnir started to learn of the Abyssal involvement they started to fear and resent any other-planar contact, even contact from other primes and Ortho itself. The people rejoined in their nation and while thanking the Harmonium for their help pushed them out of their world by force and somehow sealed most of the portals. Tales from those darkening times tell of the people casting off and discarding the gods they had come so recently to worship; gods brought to them by the Harmonium after the people had lost their own during the worlds previous trials. Tales tell of that world establishing their own government and then declaring separation from the Harmonium along with many other strict and harsh laws before casting the Harmonium out.

Perhaps I'll try a new tact...How is it that the Harmonium first interacted with this world...Perhaps MERFOLK were the diplomats who introduced the Harmonium way to the Sahuagin, while Eyes-of-the-Deep allies of the Merfolk interacted with the Aboleths...

Perhaps the northern tundra of Province #10 is the provincial district Ulfrheim, while the midlands are pine forests with the peninsula that extends in the southeast being inhabited by a lightskinned, light haired, cool-color eyed folk who formerly were sea reavers in association with Alzrius against Pan Thaera...And/or, perhaps Ulfrheim is a trans-provincial area that runs along the entirity of the continent of Mot (Rip?) much as Lappland runs across the northern portion of the Fino-Scandanavian lands...
Kwint

My recommendation would be post all you have here so that whoever wanted to add to it could...Truth be told, I really don't have much interest in the colonies beyond a one paragraph synopsis...I do have an interest in Ortho, the planet- the flushing out of the provinces, social structures, history & mythology, maps & geography and demographics...I would like to know what a majority of people think about ideas concerning those aspects of Ortho, thus my questions and promptings (in this case the Merfolk)...I guess I'd rather know more about where the Harmonium came from than where they went (with the possible exception of the planes)...This is not to say you shouldn't write all you want 'bout the colonies, it's just that it isn't my cup o' tea...
Kwint

I'm not sure about this part of Gerzel's otherwise excellent Intagril article, since millions of Harmonium didn't return from the War of Iron - if there had been millions remaining, the war would have continued. They were very stubborn, those Hardheads, and the Abyssal Lords rewarded them accordingly. You don't invade the realm of the goddess Kali, as the Factol's Manifesto said they did, and get to make an ordered, strategic retreat. You get destroyed.

I think I would revise the text to say something like, "Great war machines went to work against the demon hordes, helping the Harmonium to accomplish the few victories they did early on in the war: the taking of Broken Reach and the hard-won defeat of an army of liches in Thanatos."

Frankly, the War of Iron was an utter, unmitigated disaster, and while Intagril might well be honored for the substantial help it gave and celebrated for what victories it provided, they couldn't ultimately help a substantial number of Hardheads return alive.

The few remaining remnants found a portal to Sigil, which is the only reason any of them returned. Presumedly there couldn't have been too big an army squeezing through a portal in the Cage. In fact, I had been assuming only two made it (Corwin of Anchor and her companion, who was scragged probably by one of the Doomguard).

We could argue, of course, that millions of lives saved in any one conflict meant millions of lives not sent in as reinforcements, and the Intagrilians saved millions in that sense. Presumedly, the Harmonium kept dumping in troops until someone convinced them just how hopeless the campaign was. In that case, perhaps we could say it this way:

"Great war machines went to work against the demon hoards [sic] and saved many millions of Harmonium lives at the battles of Broken Reach and Mithrengo."

...although I don't think that's as impressive-sounding as my previous revision.

I'm not sure if this is exactly what Rip had in mind, but his suggestions inspired it.

Anara is the great industrial world blessed with great veins of ore and thick forests. It has only been colonized for a hundred years but has quickly become a vital part of the Harmonium's economy. The reason Anara was so quickly brought into the greater Harmony rising in the ranks among lesser colonies and holdings is the extreme adaptability of its people. Anara is populated by a race that seems to have descended from either mimics or some other shape-shifting race mixed with mundane animal stock. They reproduce asexually with a single individual dividing into two or more equal parts. For the first couple of years after this division the new "youthes" are very mentally mailable and tend to pick up the tendencies and characteristics of those around them, both physically and mentally. They also retain some memories from the original whole, again each part having an equal portion. The first twenty years of colonization Anara was thought to be an uninhabited world, then the animals began to take on the features of the Harmonium colonists.

Meter is the most politically outspoken of the eight jewels, at the fore for the push to become a province and demanding rights for its citizens. While this causes tension, the colony spans the entire prime sphere and has provided some of the best generals, officers and elite forces that the Harmonium has ever seen. It also is rich in both agriculture and mining recourses.

History.
Fifteen hundred years ago, Meter was the home of a magically and culturally advanced empire from which the world takes its modern name. The Old Empire of Meter, or the Meter as it was known at the time, believed that division was the key to effective conquest, and that maintaining an ordered division was the key to retaining its holdings. This it did with great efficiency, and for eight hundred years the Meter ruled the world, extending even to other worlds in the same system, masterfully manipulating its composite states against one another in accordance with an ancient philosophical work, the Book of Measurements.

Seven hundred years ago, a religious movement formed among the common folk, worshipping the first dynasty of the Meter as gods. The authorities at first encouraged this practice, believing it strengthened obedience to the state. As it turned out, the movement - which became known as the Unity - did just the opposite.

The Unity started out harmless enough, deriving a host of gods of law, agriculture, music, and other important spheres of influence from the first dozen emperors of the Meter. The authorities were a bit bemused at their enthusiasm - certainly the emperors had been deified and everyone was supposed to worship them, but in practice the cult had been up to that point perfunctory at best. They didn’t even notice when what began as a new group of useful divinities started to develop a philosophy. Whether this creed originated among the mortal priests or among the deified emperors themselves - grown proud with the sudden influx of truly devout worship - is not clear, but its results are. With the advent of the Unity, suddenly people of all species and ethnic groups had something in common, a single group of gods - for the Meter touched all groups, where their native faiths had not - that all peoples could relate to. And the new philosophy of Unity made the most of this, encouraging people who would otherwise not even speak together to worship together, to bind together their hopes and dreams in this universe and the next.

The result, for the government of the Meter, was disastrous. Nothing in the Book of Measurements had prepared them for this eventuality; a universal religion had been inconceivable to its writers. Gods fought one another over followers and encouraged their followers to do the same: that was the nature of gods. It was what they were. For eight hundred years, the empire had taken advantage of that fact. And now, in an extraordinary example of cosmic irony, the nature of the empire itself had created a series of gods who were strong enough to defeat them all.

Within the rapidly growing Unity, the conflict and strife that the Meter had built itself on turned to unity and harmony. The Meter tried persecuting the church, tried martyring its members and feeding them to the dragon-cats, but the Unity only grew stronger. Eventually one emperor tried mainstreaming the church by declaring it official, but this only accelerated the empire’s decline.

The power of the priests of Unity eclipsed that of the Emperor himself, and that sealed its doom. The Meter finally died not from invasion or bloody revolution; it simply became unnecessary as the Unity slowly took over all its functions. When the last Emperor packed up his things and retired to a quiet life of fishing, scarcely anyone noticed.

But without conflict, there was also little reason for civilization to advance, or indeed for civilization. Although the deified emperors mostly presided over practical concerns, the emphasis of the Unity was in the spiritual, not the temporal, and this trend became exaggerated as the temporal rulers vanished.

Spelljamming technology was the first to be lost. With little demand for magical armaments in the new, peaceful sphere of Meter, the mercanes sought more profitable worlds. As their remaining helms got lost, they became harder and harder to replace, and soon the worlds lost contact with one another.

Next to go was arcane magic. With combat mages no longer needed, the great schools of arcane learning were disbanded, and wizardry was left to individual tutors to continue on their own. The books of spells became lost or scattered, and much of the learning of old was forgotten.

Finally even divine magic became simplified. With no major competitors, the deified emperors grew complacent and thought it no longer necessary to spend their powers improving their clerics. They continued to grant enough spells to keep the common folk happy, but the days of flashy miracles were over.

Within a few centuries, Meter had declined from a dramatic world of powerful spells and constant action to a sleepy agrarian place where nothing much seemed to happen. Apart from the increasingly distant Church of Unity, all interactions were at a purely local level.

Then the wars started.

It is thought that it was a local landowner or a rogue bishop who first came across an old copy of the Book of Measurements. Because the tongue in which it had been written was long forgotten, the translation was spotty, but the basic lesson of personal power through strife was learned. In a decade the entire continent was engulfed in battles, and the Church of Unity, despite numerous excommunications and edicts, was no longer powerful enough to stop it.

The wars efficiently destroyed what bits of the Meter’s civilization which still remained. Eventually even the Church was broken as a schism emerged between what was called the Traditional Church and what became known as the Purified Church, which sought to do away with centuries of ornate ritual and clerical priviledge to concentrate on the core principles of unity of all peoples. The Traditional Church sought to destroy the Purified Church with all the resources still at its disposal, while the Purified Church sought to do the same.

Only a few centuries ago, a new player emerged. A woman named Rose Talbot appeared in a small island nation-state, offering technical and magical knowledge to a faction dedicated to the Purified Church there like nothing that the declined peoples of Meter had conceived of. The government of that island quicky changed, and grew to dominate several continents, shattering the structure of the Traditional Church, driving its clerics underground or forcing them to change faiths. Talbot revealed herself to be part of a planewalking organization she called the Harmonium that she said had a philosophy similar to that of the original Church of Unity; she said the Harmonium would help the world regain its lost glory. The grateful Purified Church agreed to an alliance. Within a few more decades, the Harmonium considered Meter to be essentially pacified and welcomed it as Ortho’s “little sister,” soon to be considered one of the Eight Jewels of Harmony.

More recently, however, the relationship between Ortho and Meter has changed. Meterites have begun complaining that Ortho has gained much from Meter’s agricultural and mineral resources, from its generals and troops, but since its technical aid in the original Unification Ortho has given back little. Some have been muttering that when the Harmonium offered to teach the people of Meter, what it really wanted was to steal the secrets of the Old Empire, which it has done while restricting natives from learning much of it themselves.

The sliding of Nemausus was especially bitter for Meter, as it was Meter’s elite troops that helped bring order to the colony in the wake of the upheaval. The people of Meter believe they should be rewarded for this with a status equal to that of Ortho’s own provinces. They are sick of being a mere colony and demand to be treated as equals with the same representation in Ortho’s Council and access to Meter’s wealth and ancient knowledge as citizens of Ortho get. Thus far, their demands have gone unanswered.

Population.
Meter has four major races: humans, the elephantine loxoth, the hippopotamus-like giff, and the rhinoceros-like rheks. Humans are the dominant race, with the semi-nomadic loxoth a fairly close second in the forests, mountains, deserts, and other uncultivated parts of the world. The loxoth fit into the ecology of Measure much as elves, centaurs, and halflings do in other worlds.

The giff, the least common, live mainly in urban areas, serving in the world’s armies and navies. They are believed to be not native, having been brought to Meter in the last days of the Old Empire before the Church of Unity’s triumph in an attempt to slow the church’s ascent. The giff today are as faithful church-goers as any, though their worship isn’t devout.

Most distinctive are the rheks, who until the Harmonium brought them elsewhere were known in no other sphere. These powerful monastic creatures were the chief enforcers of order in the Old Empire, solidly squelching dissent within a given district to insure that citizens disagreed with one another in carefully measured ways. During the civil wars of a few centuries ago they appeared on both sides of the conflict, serving both feuding churches with discipline and honor. After the sliding of Nemausus they were the primary difference between anarchy and the tenuous peace that was eventually established there, and the Harmonium has found them invaluable in a variety of theaters.

The Sphere.
The crystal sphere of Meter has within it six inhabitable worlds.

The primary, called the Furnace, is an enormous fire world, a red giant. It has no known inhabitants other than the odd elemental visiting from the Plane of Fire.

Orbiting the Furnace are three smaller stars, known as the Three Candles. They are each alike, pale and yellow-white, barely visible in the Furnace’s scarlet glare but helping to widen the spectrum of light available on the six inhabited worlds. Even fire elementals generally disdain the Candles.

The six inhabited worlds are, from innermost to outermost, Rhyme, Reason, Meter, Pyrrhus, Iamb, and Trochee. Each of these worlds was once part of the Old Empire of Meter. Rhyme is a jungle world inhabited by halfling-sized catlike creatures, Reason is another jungle world with a unique race of its own, Pyrrhus is a fire world, Iamb is a fire world with a water world orbiting it, and Trochee is a water world with a fire world orbiting it. Iamb and Trochee have populations similar to that of Meter, having been originally colonized by that world in the time of the Old Empire. Despite their distance from the Furnace, Iamb and Trochee are temperate thanks to the proxmity of Pyrrhus.

The only one of these worlds the Harmonium has not made substantial progress with thus far is Reason, which is dominated by a slender race of giant-sized immortal carnivores; not vampires, but a living species which regenerates itself instead of reproducing. Being absolutely still and constant and desiring a multiverse which is much the same, they are parlaying with Harmonium representatives, trying to work out a mutually compatible philosophy. Things are going well, but the natives are so slow in their routines that it may be a century or so before the first preliminary treaty is drafted, and the Harmonium may never convince any of them to accompany the faction off-world.

A number of other worlds exist on the distant edges of the system, but these are small and cold, with no inhabitants of note.

(Official versions of the loxoth can be found in the Monster Manual II, rheks in the Book of Exalted Deeds, and giff in Dragon #339)

looks over the write up for meter,

Wow thanks. Nice job. I'm working on Fjorge at the momment. And Lucidia is on a back burner, but feel free to add what you like.

K'jinte Worker
Size/Type: Small Humanoid
Hit Die: 1d8+0
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30ft. Burrow: 10ft. Climb: 10ft.
AC: 17 (+1 dex, +5 natural, +1 size)
Attacks: bite +2
Damage: bite 1d4+3
Face/Reach: 5ft. by 5ft./5ft.
Special Attacks: Acid Spray
Special Qualities: Acid Resistance 5, Scent
Saves: +2 fortitude, +1 reflex, +1 will
Abilities: str 14, dex 12, con 11, int 8, wis 13, cha 10
Skills: +4 Climb, +4 Craft(Stone Masonry)
Feats: Skill Focus(Craft(Stone Masonry))
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Climate/Terrain: Any Land, and Underground
Organization: Team(2-4) or Crew(7-18)
CR: 1/2
Treasure: None
Alignment: Usually Lawful Neutral
Advancement: As Character Class

The K'jinte workers look like a centaur-like cross between a beetle and a mantis standing at about waist height to a normal human. They are able to stand on their hind legs and walk using their four front limbs to manipulate objects. The second set of arms are less dexterous than their front set and are usually only used for lifting and to hold an object in place while their front most limbs do all the delicate work. On two legs they are able to walk at a movement rate of 15ft. On four they can move at 30ft and still use their front limbs for heavy lifting. When moving long distances they will move on all six limbs at a rate of 35ft.

While they do feel more comfortable operating under a hive mind they are unable to psionically connect to one another without the help of a psionic member of their race, usually a taskmaster or foreman. Most workers have an extremely limited sense of self and individuality, but it is those few that do develop greater individuality and creativeness are usually chosen to be transformed into a higher form of their species, almost always into a taskmaster, a foreman, an architect, or an engineer. Until they are chosen for enrichment and transformation the workers advance by character class with the expert being their preferred class.

Acid Spray(ex): When forced to attack or defend themselves workers are able to use their acid spray that is normally used in their construction techniques for an effective attack. At a maximum range of five feet they are able to spray a jet of acid as a ranged touch attack dealing 1d6+ Con bonus points of acid damage. A worker is able to do this an number of times a day equal to two plus their total hit dice.

K'jinte Warrior
Size/Type: Medium Humanoid
Hit Die: 1d8+2
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30ft. Burrow: 10ft. Climb: 10ft.
AC: 16 (+1 dex, +5 natural, +0 size)
Attacks: claw +2/claw +0/claw+0/claw+0, or bite +4
Damage: claw 1d6+3 melee, bite 1d8+4 melee
Face/Reach: 5ft. by 5ft./5ft.
Special Attacks: Venom
Special Qualities: Scent
Saves: +2 fortitude, +1 reflex, +0 will
Abilities: str 16, dex 13, con 14, int 7, wis 11, cha 8
Skills: +3 Climb, +3 Jump, +1 Spot, +1 Listen
Feats: Multiattack
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Climate/Terrain: Any Land, and Underground
Organization: Team(2-4) or Crew(7-18)
CR: 1
Treasure: None
Alignment: Usually Lawful Neutral
Advancement: As Character Class

Larger than the workers bustling around them K'jinte warriors spend most of their time on guard nearly motionless or patrolling a perimeter under the command of a taskmaster or officer.

Like their worker brethren the warriors also aspire to advance and be chosen to be enriched and raised to a higher form. Usually, this form is to that of the K'jinte Officer or are chosen for transformation into one of the elite fighter forms, but a select few veterans are chosen to become the K'jinte Generals the commanders that lead the armies of the K'jinte into the field and are entrusted with the safety of the great hives. Otherwise the advancement of the K'jinte Warrior is by character class with their preferred class being fighter.

Venom: On a successful bite attack the victim must make a fortitude save with a difficulty equal to 15 plus the warrior's con bonus or be poisoned, and taking an additional 1d6 damage. On the next round the second save is made at the same DC to avoid taking another 1d6 damage.

I know it's a bit late in the game, but the more I look at the map, the more I think that Area #10 is unviable as a province...I recommend splitting it between Iathra and Motmurk...I would also reconsider the makeup of Areas #3 and #5, splitting them into three instead of two provinces; #5 is larger than the Roman Empire and Alexander's combined...That would still give us seventeen provinces (+Harmony's Glory)...Thoughts???...Also, I really like the idea of the Lycanthropes roving the entirity of the northern Mot and not being confined to a single province...
Kwint