- History
- Creation to War
- War to Chaos
- Chaos to Now - Nations
- Irgar
- Jurica
- Lasinia
- Vegdarbarra
HORIZON IS OVER!
The webpage remains up as a permanent archive of game material, mainly for the benefit of nostalgic players - although if you'd like to run a Horizon-inspired game for your friends, that's wonderful too. Horizon will be succeeded by Legacyin Trinity term of 2006.If you like you can look at the (sketchy, incomplete) GM notes as well.
Lasinia
History
Following the collapse of the Imperial reign Lasinia was governed by a senate, overseen by the governor - most recently Lord Thaddeus Avarius. The senate was made up of 14 elected members. Underneath these was the local councils, whose power was at best limited. Civil unrest resulted from the senate's obvious lack of concern for the interests of the general populace and the apathy of Lord Thaddeaus and his sister Portia. The result of this was a bloody revolution, headed predominately by the reputedly violent terrorist group known as the Lasinian People’s Revolutionary Front, the more moderate revolutionary faction (the Lasinian Democratic Assembly) having been crushed in the early stages of the revolution. The popular Lasinian actress Clia Rosto is now believed to have been instrumentally involved in the smuggling of weapons into Lasinia from Horizon. Amongst the prominent figures of the Revolution was Daniel Priestly, a man of aristocratic descent, who was praised at the time by the underground paper the People of Lasinia for having aided in bringing his own family to justice. Towards the latter part of the revolution a more moderate faction emerged in the LPLF, calling themselves the Democratic Eventualists - these individuals eventually built the foundations for the modern Lasinian People’s Party. With the intervention of the the forces of both Horizon and Jurica stability was restored to Lasinia under the force of a new regime. The Avarius siblings were encouraged to retire to their holiday home in Jurica and the LPP became the presiding power in Lasinia.
Current Day
Lasinia, slightly diminished from the aftermath of the revolution and having lost some of its former lands to Jurica, Irgar and Horizon, took a step back from international politics. The records of alleged atrocities during the revolution were sealed and removed from the school syllabus, as Lasinia attempted to rebuild itself. It is only recently that it has started to take an interest in the world beyond its borders. The University of the Enlightened was renamed the National Lasinian University and opened its doors to students from a wider range of social classes than it had before. Under the new constitution of Lasinia, each region would elect representatives to a local Soviet (the word "Soviet" is an Irgar word meaning "committee" or "parliament" - the LPP presumably picked it up through their association with revolutionary Richterist factions in Irgar), and each local Soviet would elect representatives to a National Soviet, which would elect a General Secretary and vote on motions under the advice of the Political Bureau or Politburo. The first elections to the local Soviets were rife with corruption - both on the part of the LPP and of clandestine supporters of the old regime - but the LPP succeeded in winning control of the vast majority of local Soviet seats, and thus control of the National Soviet. Over the next few years, non-LPP representatives on the local and National Soviets were pressured to either quit or join the LPP, in the name of national unity against reactionary skullduggery, and members of the National Soviet who refused to vote in line with the advice of the Politburo were likewise pressurised to get with the programme...About five years ago, the National Soviet (advised, as always, by the Politburo) elected Dainiel Priestly as its General Secretary, and to the new position of Chairman of the Politburo, making him both the official and the de facto head of state. Aside from his work in rebuilding the country, Priestly had also formed the National Guard, his private police force which was charged with maintaining the security of the nation as a whole. They can been seen outside the Lasinia embassy in Horizon wearing the distinctive blue uniform associated with Lasinian pride; the majority of their members, though, are ununiformed spies. The aristocracy has all but vanished from Lasinia and wealth has been redistributed in such a way as to enable equality for all - although naturally the members of the Politburo and the LPP require privileged access to resources due to their vital work in maintaining, defending, and rebuilding the Lasinian state. In time gone by, Lasinia was a distinctly patriarical society but as it currently stands no distinction is made between men and women.
Religion
Prior to the revolution worship of the malign gods, despite being illegal, was all too common. This was stamped out by Priestly’s government. In a controversial move, worship of the Intercessor was later also made illegal, the National Soviet being convinced by a rousing speech by Priestly of the need for greater focus on humanitarianism. "Should charity be the unique purview of a secret society, worshipping an allegedly dead and benign god, whose leaders lurk in the corrupt hellhole of Horizon and refuse to show their faces? No!" In recent years, however, shamanism and cultism seem to have reappeared in some of the more run-down areas of the country.Technology
Steam and clockwork have both thrived in the newly reformed Lasinian society. Under the old regime, clockwork had been the pursuit of the more affluent middle classes, but now it is open to all those of talent. A large region of steam factories, known as the Steam Belt, built up over the last twenty years near the border with Irgar. Grey technology is, however, frowned upon in Lasinia as an unhealthy mixture of the two; indeed, the Grey Order itself is - like the Church of the Intercessor - a banned organisation.Academia
The National Lasinian University - formerly known as the College of the Enlightened - has its main base in the capital of Lasinia. It takes a wide range of pursuits under its watch. One may study mathematics, biology or literature within its walls. Under the old regime, access to the university had been based on wealth and membership of the aristocracy, and most of the students were aristocrats far more concerned with the sampling of fine wines than the pursuit of real academia, and the university was ridiculed by its counterparts in Jurica and Horizon for its “drunken brand of philosophy”. Under the LPP, any who show talent may win a scholarship to the University, and a much higher standard of learning is maintained by Political Officers from the National Guard.Rumours
The factories in the Steam Belt are working on something big... they have been for some time.Alexia Avarius, Lady Portia’s daughter, is a powerful sorceress and she’s looking to take back what's hers.
Daniel Priestly is a cultist of the soldier and he’s planning to use his national guard to start a war… one that will keep his god from dying.
I hear people in Lasinia disappear in the night. You can casually make a remark about the government one day and be gone the next.
The Grey Order are working underground in Lasinia to try and take it over.