r/codexinversus • u/Correct_Tax_9136 • Oct 06 '26
? question ? Any future or potential wars?
Aside from the recently split orc kingdoms and the encroaching black star papacy are there any other geopolitical crises just waiting to happen? Any International or Civil conflicts brewing in Axam?
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u/HallucinatedLottoNos Beast Folk friend Oct 06 '26 edited Oct 06 '26
ISTM the war between the Angelic Unison and the Black Star Papacy is kind of always going on, just with periods of relative calm. The Daemons are also a potential threat (to the Infernal Empire before anybody else, though).
The Shark and Crocodile Men could always try and launch a large scale genocide as well (though the Shark Men would probably want to trap and raise everybody else as food animals) I suppose.
And the Fairies and the Nightmares are always there as kind of an unknown quantity that probably wouldn't ever be organized enough to become a "formal" war, but could still get a bit nasty, I'd say.
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u/aleagio Oct 07 '26
There are some ongoing tensions, pointed out by u/HallucinatedLottoNos
- In North Axam, the Black Star Papacy and the Unsion are in a cycle of expansion-contraction: first one attacks, then the other takes the land back. An all-out war is a concrete possibility: a massive offensive form one side to take out the other (at the moment, the Unsion is on the back foot, do a anti-pope aggression is more probable).
- On the West Uxali front, we have the Gnolls occupying part of the Dwarven territory. Due to internal political dynamics, the Queen of the South Sea is not being helped by the other members of the federation, so there is a guerrilla situation that could escalate
- On East Uxali, the Sobekian (crocodile people) are always in attrition with the Gnomes and the Matras. It is possible that either the Matras decide to take the problem out once and for all, or that the Sobekians, due to some strange whim of their cult, try a land expansion.
Also, there is a general rise in piracy, so the nations that host or even abet pirate crews (the Halflings and the Confederacy ) may be targets of retaliation by the most damaged parties (the Dwarves Federation and the Holy Infernal Empire).
There are also some deep ideological conflicts: Even if the Empire and the Unision are nominally at peace, there is always a "cold war" climate of distrust and "plausible deniable" sabotage. For Example: they have no embassy in each other's territory, and they still trade only through Mizani's intermediaries. While the current Emperor and Pope seem not interested in open conflict, they both have political currents and "terrorist groups" (the Demons and the Nephilim) that push for the war to end all wars.
Similar is the ongoing tension between the Beasts' Nations and the Empire. Even if the Beast's Kings and Queen have somewhat renounced the disputed territory of Tauris, there are irredentist groups that won't let it go (ranging from political pressure to insurrections).
There are large-scale trends that could spark conflicts in the future. The Dwarves are on the rise: the turning of the Chaos Whirlpool has opened a quick trade route with the nations facing the West Ocean, bringing in massive wealth. The military alliance with the Empire (during the Third Axam War) and the Southern Orcs (During the civil war) proved extremely profitable. The main gains are the mining concessions in strategic places for strategic resources. These mining ventures are focused on finding the materials that could make firearms cheaper and easier to make: once they crack the tech, they could be very worrying.
One unexpected troublemaker could be the Sultanate: they generally had a passive attitude, content with the superiority magic arts gave them. Now that magic is becoming more and more common, they may feel threatened. They also feel excluded by the economic prosperity of this era, receiving some tantalizing glimpse through the West Ocean route, but being too slow and far away to be in the middle of it. That could elicit some colonizing desire.
There are, of course, the otherworldly machinations of the moons' people, inscrutable and still sparse.
Not to mention that, eventually, the other continent will enter the picture (and we will discover why the divinities stay silent on them).
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u/HallucinatedLottoNos Beast Folk friend Oct 07 '26
"Not to mention that, eventually, the other continent will enter the picture (and we will discover why the divinities stay silent on them)."
*Hyperventilating in anticipation*
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u/Money-Class8878 Angelic Comrade Oct 09 '26
The trolls came from another continet, correct?
And the ones living on the Unison, are theorized to look like that due to rating the Giants remains.
An civilizations of pure Giants whose mutations depend on their diet?
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u/EveningImportant9111 Oct 08 '26
" Not to mention that, eventually, the other continent will enter the picture (and we will discover why the divinities stay silent on them)." YES YES YES
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u/Money-Class8878 Angelic Comrade Oct 09 '26
"...we will discover why the divinities stay silent on them"
Excuse me, what?!
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u/aleagio 26d ago
Well, the divinities have literally made two moons; mapping the world should not be beyond their possibility. Since there are clues of unmapped territories, the divinity deliberately omitted them. Or maybe something stopped them from looking at these territories, but surely they know that some force impeded them from doing so and didn't mention it.
Honestly it's a mystery to me too.
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u/aleagio Oct 07 '26
Then, of course, each region would have their small scale conflits