Corinsfielder Ideas

Traditions
+10% Infantry Combat Ability
+2 Tolerance of the True Faith

Witch HuntsCorinsfield's story begins in Escann, when groups of early Corinites set out from Ionntrás to found new communities of faithful. One such group settled in the Magocracy of Esthíl, but in little time they noticed that many of their people were disappearing.\n\nThe truth as to why was quickly discovered: Esthíl’s mage-queen, Varina Escer, was using them as sacrifice in her pursuit of lichdom. Thousands of faithful met a fate worse than death as their very souls were sacrificed to dark magic. Those who escaped had no place to return to, for Ionntrás had fallen to Esthíl's sorcerer armies. Desperate, the survivors rallied behind Father Godwin, a preacher who had received a vision of a new nation for the Corinite faithful, and fled Escann to seek this promised land in Aelantir.\n\nThe memory of the horror that brought them to Aelantir lingers in the minds of the Corinsfielders, and they deeply detest magic of all types. Corinsfielder communities suppress or expel any culture within their realm which permits the study of magic, and magical practitioners are decried as witches and killed on sight.
-20% Culture Conversion Cost

CorinspoppiesThrice the Corinspilgrims were wounded, thrice they faced hopelessness, and thrice they persevered. Escann, and Esthil, marked the first. Second was the turmoils of arriving in Aelantir: Uelos' Lament swallowed a third of their transports — and when they arrived, the Trollsbay was dominated by Adeanic settlers and heathen natives. Third was the perilous Cliffs of Ruin, which claimed a quarter of the remaining men in treacherous climb — and when they had been conquered, they were hounded north by tattooed warriors and horned monsters.\n\nThe few remaining Corinspilgrims were exhausted and nearly out of supplies when they came across a lush prairie filled with red flowers that resembled poppies. The beleaguered settlers took the sight as a sign from Corin that they had at last found their new home, and named the land Corinsfield, dubbing the flowers "Corin’s Poppies". As the settlers soon found out, the crushed petals of the flowers could be used to make a deep red dye, which would soon become both the chief export of their burgeoning farmsteads and the symbol of their religious devotion.
+10% Production Efficiency

Keep Your Rifle by Your SideAs the first farms were being plowed and the first cabins built, the perils of the Ynn River Valley’s placid-seeming fields and forests began to make themselves apparent - enormous predators, unstable ground, and wicked monsters such as the dreaded Wendigo would fall upon any who wandered too far from the protection of the group.\n\nWith danger lurking around every rock and gully, the Corinsfielders developed a healthy paranoia that led every man, woman and child to carry a musket with them wherever they went and to rigorously drill with their guns. As a result, the people of Corinsfield have become renowned sharpshooters, and any who would approach one of their fortified communities in war would do so under a hail of deadly-accurate musket fire.
+15% Land Fire Damage

The Red SentriesThe numbers of the Corinspilgrims were devastated by their long march, with less than half of their original number remaining by the time they arrived in their new home. The land itself was fertile and conducive to farming, and the need for many hands to work the fields led to a strong push for large families that would become integral to Corinsfielder culture. In the 1600s, the average Corinsfielder couple would have between 6 and 7 children, and families of 12 or more were not uncommon. Coupled with an early age of marriage, this tendency to large families led to a massive surge in population, and by the 1640s the Corynn river was one of the more densely populated tributaries of the Ynn.\n\nCorinsfield's insistence on firearms training was imposed upon its large population giving them a huge pool of potential soldiers to draw upon when the need to defend their community arose, and the militias of Corinsfield, colloquially called The Red Sentries, were always well staffed and swelled with sufficient recruits.
+20% National Manpower Modifier

The Call of CorinDespite its xenophobic and isolationist streak, Corinsfield was a highly collective and generous society for its members. One of the most obvious ways that this manifested was the "Call of Corin", a weekly gathering focused on community improvement and public works. Every Sorrowday, Corinsfielders would gather at their meeting house or temple and join forces to work on a new community project, which could range from building a new house for a recently wedded couple or repairing the town’s waterwheel to laying down a new road or preparing collective food stores for the winter.\n\nThese constant community improvements would make the towns of Corinsfield quietly prosperous and constantly changing, and although they were never as grand as the big cities of Cannor or the Ynn proper, travelers would liken them to points of light in a dark and unforgiving world.
-10% Development Cost

All Men Are Equal Under CorinIn Cannor, magic was often synonymous with aristocracy. The hatred of mages endemic to Corinsfield evolved over time into a hatred for all nobility and such elites, magical or no. By and large, Corinsfielders believed that all men are created equally and no man must impose his will over another without their consent. Corinsfield placed great emphasis on this belief in their governmental and religious structures: their administrators and lawmakers were elected for brief terms and could be removed from office if they went against the will of the people. Their preachers were not ordained, but were instead regular members of the community, and all men were encouraged to read scripture, discuss, and come to their own conclusions about Corin’s faith.
+1 Yearly Devotion
+1 Yearly Horde Unity
+1 Yearly Legitimacy
+0.3 Yearly Republican Tradition

The Fadhevychi InterventionCorinsfield never emulated the crusades of its Istranari brethren, until 1786, when Lord Adrahel II of Fadhevych brokered an alliance with the reclusive Corinites, seeking to overthrow Emperor Calrodiy VII of Sarda.\n\nThe Knights of Fadhevych, joined by the Red Sentries, met the Imperial army and achieved an amazing victory. But for Adrahel, it would be a short-lived one: the captain of the Corinsfielders, Ichabod Roose, questioned Adrahel during the extravagant victory party and came to the conclusion that the rebellion was motivated by nothing more than personal ambition, and so he seized Adrahel and executed him for his act of treachery.\n\nUnexpectedly to many, Adrahel's execution was met with applause by the Ynnics, who saw in the Corinites a possible saviour from the corruption rife in their land. By the end of the day the banners of Corinsfield flew over Fadhevych.\n\nAn emboldened Corinsfielder-Fadhevychi army pushed further into Sarda, onto the Ynnic holy city of Adbrabohvi, which surrendered quickly to avoid the destruction of millenia-old artifacts. Roose promised no harm would come to the city, but rogue Istranari seeking revenge for their failed crusade disobeyed and pillaged the city at night. Losing hope for a victory, the Sarda Emperor proposed an armistice and Corinsfield, already feeling overextended, swiftly accepted. The crusade was over, but the Ynn River Faith would never be the same.
-1 National Unrest

Ambition
+10% Morale of Armies