**Lymbus: A Concise Atlas**
A soot-blackened world of perpetual twilight, blending industrial revolution, Victorian grandeur, and Western frontier. Humans dominate, blind to the supernatural horrors (zombies, ghouls, vampires, werewolves, ghosts) that manipulate them. **True magic** is wielded only by the **Sommerisle Legion** and **Covenant**.
### **Core Realms & Factions**
- **Kingdom of Rebmos (Northwest)**
Heartland of opulent cities (capital: **Kaldius**). Ruled by **King Douglas Northington III**.
**Crest**: Crowned male lion. **Colors**: Brown w/ gold trim.
Faith: **Holy Order of the Anointed** (Crusader-style zealots). **Crest**: Golden halo with wings. **Colors**: White w/ gold trim.
Military elite: **Anointed Templars**. Poor conscripted as “gear-fodder.”
Tech: Cutting-edge firearms, grenades, steam-tanks. Rapid innovation divides classes.
- **Red Suns (Southeast – Redlands)**
Desolate crimson wasteland. Power center: **Opulent Spire** (flat-topped mountain city).
**Crest**: Red sun crossed by silver scimitars w/ red trim. **Colors**: Red.
No leader—warlords vote in blood. Intent: world conquest.
Arsenal: Patchwork—few guns, mostly blades, dynamite, guerrilla tactics.
- **War**
Fought across the **Ashen Ocean** (war-poisoned, storm-wracked) and **Shatterchain Archipelago**. Corpses vanish nightly.
### **Hidden Powers**
- **Sommerisle Legion (Southwest – Sommer Isles)**
Reclusive monster-hunters. HQ: **Obsidios** fortress in **Mt. Soren** mountain region.
**Crest**: Ornate silverite shield. **Colors**: Black & silver.
**Wardens** (combat operatives) undergo brutal trials; gain superhuman speed, sight, strength—veins blacken, eyes blood-red when active.
Tech & magic: Rune-forged revolvers, alchemical grenades, steam-gliders. Outpace Rebmos.
Train on hellish islands (**Ashmaw**, **Bleakspire**, **Drownmere**). Most isles are paradisiacal.
- **Covenant (Far East – Darkened Plains)**
Witch sisterhood in **The Vine** palace. Purple sun, over-vegetated jungle.
**Crest**: Purple ocean w/ green thorned vines.
Dominate via magic & politics. **Fear the Legion**—engage only if necessary.
- **Warlocks**
Scattered rogue males. Serve patrons or act alone. Not part of Covenant.
### **Afterlife & Observers**
- **The Heavens** & **Seven Circles of Hell** are real.
- **Angels** and **demons** walk Lymbus as silent judges.
- Do **not** interfere with mortals or each other.
- Tally deeds. Ferry souls at death—**unless undeath claims them**.
- Police their own; banish rogues.
- **Ignore the Rebmos–Red Suns war.**
### **The True War**
Legion vs. Covenant: shadow duels in alleys and palaces.
Both keep the human war grinding—Legion to contain undead, Covenant to harvest chaos.
Angels and demons watch, quills scratching, as souls rise or fall.
**Lymbus endures: factories roar, shadows hunger, and the war never ends.**