Old Demarchist Kin of Gondwana Populations: Demarch Heartlands: Precursor Monument Worlds Common Polities: Vetkarati Demarchies ​ Where most precursor’s works fell to ruin, the Vetkarat Demarchy is a living relic of ages before the union and empire. This is the Old Kin, the last sovereign vestige of a lineage dating back to the Cambrian Ringbuilders. Their worlds are monuments to uncounted millennia of persistence, carved from their planet’s glowing mantles. Their people whol

Eternal Empire of the Ursu Firstborn Symbiotes Populations: Ursu Symbionts Heartlands: Eternal Fortressworlds Common Polities: Sublime Courts ​ The remnant realms of the Eternal Empire are long diminished, driven from Gondwana's heartlands onto the Marred Frontier. But untold worlds remain where the Ursu symbiotes reign as Gods unbroken, false idols worshipped as heirs to the Ringbuilders. Their strongholds are truly ancient. Stagnant as though they may be, the Ursu have int

Inevitable Vanguard of the great Northern Threat Populations: Umstrands Heartlands: Entrenched Fortressworlds Common Polities: Hegemon States and Warbands ​ Like a warped mirror to the Twin Civilizations, the Hegemony is a conglomeration of a myriad peoples, a culture steeped in influences from the galactic abyss, driven by a false light they call the Ummon-Ur. Its thrust south cleaved through the Eternal Empire and unleashed upon Gondwana the unbound war. The Hegemony’s ine

Peripheral Kingdom of Nanoforms Populations: Polycephal Nanoforms Heartlands: Coalescent Matriceworlds Common Polities: Polycephal Princedoms ​ Zinnober is the sole remaining peripheral power untouched by the expansion of the Mechanist Union. The unspoiled domain enjoys especially attentions of the Eldonian clades fascinated by Zinnober’s extraordinary strand of humankind. The Polycephal Nanoforms enmesh their physiology with the nanite technosphere, yielding unprecedented g

Peripheral Powers of Gondwana Populations: Varied Strands Heartlands: Estranged Homeworlds, Savage Worlds Common Polities: Varied Sovereignties and Coalitions ​ Many are the peripheral powers that have arisen where there once stood the Eternal Empire alone. These are states and polities of predominantly human origin, but long estranged from the Light and the rest of humankind. Some are hostile, some benevolent, some send raiders and interlopers, others emissaries and cultish