Sarisungi Ideas

Traditions
+10% National Tax Modifier
+10% Manpower Recovery Speed

Gangs of SarisungIn the forty years since the end of the Brothers War, Sarisung has had nearly no central power or government. Instead, it has been run by an anarchy of warlords and gang leaders, who have each attempted to assert control over the former Heart of Haless with their own private armies. With no nearby power strong enough to challenge them, the gangs have waged war on each other for half a century and show no signs of stopping as they leverage their abilities to dominate each other once and for all.
+15% National Manpower Modifier

Information BrokersThough the name implies that it is a mercenary band, the Grey Company are primarily spies and information brokers, a business that deals in whispers and delivers on promises. Their agents are trained in infiltration and subterfuge, allowing the Company to work behind the scenes and manipulate their enemies to whatever ends will bring them the most power, wealth, and control. They have grown fabulously rich by delivering information and have used their mastery of soft power to bring down countless enemies who would have seen them destroyed.
+20% Spy Network Construction

The True AuthorityWhen the gangs first began to assert their influence over Sarisung and war for power, the Grey Company worked from the shadows. By inserting their agents into the offices of the largely defunct government, the Company was able to gain strangleholds on the legitimate levers of power that existed in the city. Impotent though the government may have become, its blessings for the Grey Company’s activities lent them legitimacy, and the Company invested heavily in maintaining an image of the government’s functionality. Combining their illegitimate operations and successful gang wars with their functional control of the former civilian authority has led the Grey Company to preeminence among the gangs - if there could be said to be any entity representing the government of Sarisung in the mid fifteenth century, it was the Grey Company.
+1 Yearly Devotion
+1 Yearly Legitimacy
+0.3 Yearly Republican Tradition

Regional TiesThough they are based in Sarisung’s districts, the gangs of the city have influence that extends into the underworld of many countries and metropolises throughout Haless. From common ruffians to shady nobles and prominent government officials, many are in the pocket of the gangs and help facilitate their interests across the continent.
+10% Trade Power Abroad

Outcastes and ScumWhile the gangs of Sarisung are far from bastions of justice and goodness, they do have certain aspects which make them attractive for the downtrodden. Functionally meritocratic, any can rise within the gangs, though they do tend to favor villainous knaves and backstabbing criminals. As such, there is never a shortage of ambitious individuals around the gang leadership, willing to work to prove their skill.
+1 Possible Advisors

Defenders of FreedomWhile the gangs are far from promoters of individual liberties and rights among the people they govern and extort, they are fiercely independent when it comes to the idea of foreign rule. If anyone is going to rule Sarisung, it will be one of them, not some Bom princeling or upjumped Prahbij. Though their struggles against each other are fierce, all will fight to defend the city walls when called to hold off an invader. After all, Sarisung is their home, too.
+20% Garrison Size

Unite the CityThe aim of the gangs of Sarisung has long been the same - to unite the City. Though its riches are well diminished, its potential is grand were it to be reforged from its fractured pieces, and all are well aware of this. Though their methods differ, the Heart of Haless is a jewel that is desired by all, and whoever finally succeeds in uniting the city will bask in the glory of a restored Sarisung!
+1 Yearly Prestige

Ambition
+15% Reinforce Speed