Tentaika

Today we are going to talk little about the country of Tentaika. Tentaika is the main setting for Mundus RPG and for the time being the rest of the game world is seen through the eyes of Tentaikan people. For now we will just scratch the surface of this subject and in the future blog posts we will go deeper in to few of the topics we discuss today.

The main inspiration for Tentaika is feudal Japan, but we have romanticized the world and made some modernizations to the regime and to the overall philosophy of how people live and think about each other. In short, by medieval standards Tentaika would be considered a welfare state. However the caste system still exists and the samurai caste rules the country leaving little to no chance for the common folk to make a difference.

What makes Tentaika a welfare state is that thanks to channeling, ritualism and advanced medieval medical science healthcare is cheap or free and it is easily accessible even in small towns. This considerably reduces epidemics in more densely populated parts of Tentaika. The health care is mostly offered by local temples and shrines as they are tasked by the local samurai clan to offer medical help in return for the funding they receive from their prefecture.

Tentaika is divided into eight prefectures each governed by a warrior clan, with the exception of the prefecture of Genkaisha. Warrior clans are powerful samurai clans that have sovereign rule over their prefecture and they pledge their loyalty to the ruling shogun family. Each warrior clan has multiple smaller samurai clans that work for them and have pledged their loyalty to the warrior clan, and each samurai clan has samurai families under them.

In the future we will talk more about channeling, ritualism, samurais, astral planes, prefectures etc. If there is a certain topic you wish to hear about post it in the comments or in the Facebook page and it will be taken into consideration when planning this blog.

See you next Sunday!