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The lands to the south of bugaria is called the southern lands, but we are voting for a real name later on
There are 4 kingdom's down here, but technically one is from bugaria but will touch on that when we come to it
Now here a half joking explanation of these fair lands
THE LANDS ITSELF
There are 5 main regions in these lands, the Forsaken Lands up north, the green fields , the ruins, the field of flowers, and the trees of war
The Forsaken Lands is very similar from the Forsaken Lands from bugaria, because it is the bugarian one, you see, only part of the Forsaken Lands is in bugaria, most of it is down here in the south, and with it, is the termite kingdom, while the termite capitol is in bugaria, most of the kingdom is in the south, and most of the military is here too, and so the flag is different down here
The green fields is just everywhere and it has nothing too important about it so let's gloss over it
The ruins is, well it's the ruins of the roaches, while there where roach ruins up north, the south has a LOT of roach ruins, so many in fact that it's probably the capital of the roach kingdom, speaking of kingdom, the firefly kingdom is built on top of the biggest roach ruin, which gave them quite a technological boost, unfortunately while they do have a lot of roach techm they're still trying to figure out how most of it works, limiting their power as so far they've only figured out electricity, batteries, generators and lamps, atleast, that's all that the government is saying they have, wink wink
The flower field is the location of the 3rd kingdom, the butterfly, kingdom, most of the kingdom is on top of the flowers, including the capital, however, it's not perfect, the flower are pretty, but they bloc, out the sun from reaching the floor, thus creating the "dark lands", it's just the area under the flower's which has close to no sunlight, and the bugs that live there have……adapted to these dark circumstances
The trees of wars is a pair of 2 trees were the arachnid kingdom is located, and the arachnid kingdom…..they're brutal, oh and The trees make gigantic berries, and since they're in spider territory, most of their influence comes from these giant berries
THE KINGDOMS AND RULERS
There's already plenty of Info on the kingdom's in the land section, but there's a lot more
●THE TERMITE KINGDOM
The southern part of the termite kingdom, consists of the termite megalopolis, which is most of the citizens of the kingdom live, not that far from that, there's the termite military base, it's a giant metal toolbox which the termite have repurposed as a metalic fort, where all the soldiers train and the generals plan their battles.
Their leader is at the bugaria part of the kingdom, so here's the closest thing in the southern part of the kingdom
COMMANDER DUX
He is the head of the military, he plans the big battles, he plans the training for new troops, he IS the mind of the military
●THE FIREFLY KINGDOM
The firefly kingdom is built on top of the roach capital, which makes them the most advanced kingdom of all, however while hey know how to use most of the tech, and know how some of the tech works, so far they're only able to replicate the energy generators, batteries, wires, and lamps, meaning that the few hundred high tech weapons they have is all they will have for the next few decades
Now, that doesn't mean they haven't done anything, the pieces of tech they found from the ruins are being used every day to bring prosperity to the kingdom, including the queen herself
You see, one of the many things they found in the ruins, was a strange machine that was able to modify how insect eggs worked, which they experimented with, and created some abominations, and about 23 years ago, the tensions between the fireflies and the butterflies was tense, and the queen had an idea, she and her husband, who is the royal scientist had a great idea, let's take the egg that will become heir of the throne, and infuse it with PRIMAL WEEVIL DNA, yeah, their plan was, create an heir so scary and so threatening that no one would want to try and attack the kingdom from fear of the child
Resulting, in the creation of
QUEEN BESTIA THE FIRST
And the "scary heir" idea worked, kinda, the butterfly kingdom isn't angry at the firefly kingdom anymore, but that's because they found out it was the people living under the flower's that destroyed the flower where the berry vault was on top off, and not the fireflies, anyways I say it worked cause, look at her, she is twice as tall the old queen, for a grand total size of 6cm, she has claws, her abdomen has lots of spikes, and the mask is there for a reason, but she also has fluff, which is cute so hey, not all bad, and while she is scary, and her parents are kinda crazy for willingly turning their child into a big monster, she is actually very friendly! And diplomacy is always her main philosophy
●THE BUTTERFLY KINGDOM
The Butterfly kingdom is the kingdom of, you guessed it, butter flies, it's an interesting place, as the kingdom is built on top of flowers, which makes for a beautiful place, there's no castle, instead there is a palace where the bud god, pluto, he is an strange one as, unlike the bugarian God Venus, Pluto is a lot smaller, and younger, you see 35 years ago a abandoned roach lab was found close to the flower patch, which the butterfly kingdom called dibs on and took everything for themselves, and between the abandoned advanced equipment, they found a room, with a very special seed , they're still trying to translate all the texts, but they have translated enough to realize that the seed, is related to Venus, and thus they planted it in their palace, and over the years the seed grew, and grew, and now they're a giant sentient plant, However they're still young in God terms, and their flower bud hasn't bloomed yet, so they can't talk yet, due to its smaller size they have named it pluto, and by they we mean Venus, as when the seed was planted, Venus knew what was happened, and sent a discipline to tell the butterfly kingdom that it's name was pluto.
Anyways, enough about God's in their 30s and let's talk about disasters and queens, while the kingdom is happy and beautiful, it has its fair share of problems, the flowers which the kingdom sits on top of blocks the light from reaching bellow, and thus those who live down there live in the worst conditions possible, and most of them seem to have gone……insane, which resulted in the previously mentioned incident where the berry vault fell because these dark bugs cut down the flower where the vault rested on top, which they thought was the fireflies fault because they saw some weird lights which they thought might be roach tech from he fireflies
But now, you might be wondering, who is rolling this place? Well none other than
QUEEN TABIL III
she is a beautiful purple butterfly with graceful blue wings, and, a scepter, this scepter is called " The triage of essence", it's an ancient roach staff wich can cast 3 different types of magic, frost magic, flame magic, and blight magic, this scepter has been with the royal family since they first arrived, aka queen tabil the first, there is just one problem, the triage of essence is a failed prototype core for their arcane cannon project, why is it failed? IT LEAKS MAGIC ENERGY, meaning that it throws magic everywhere, which can have very weird effects, and the queen holds it all the time, which resulted in tabil the third having the ability to cast magic without the need of the relic, but she doesn't do that much cause it's really, really hard to control the magic, wanna freeze an enemy? Too bad you just burned your friend to a crisp, so yeah she doesn't use magic without the triage
The triage of essence is also unstable, just less so, making it safer for the user, and more dangerous to the enemy
●THE ARACHNID KINGDOM
The arachnid kingdom is home to all kinds of spiders and scorpions, the main building is a fort, where the king and the royal guard lives, they also have a monopoly in the food market as the trees where the kingdom is located makes gigantic berries, apples and Cherries, an thus most of their export is these giant berries, however they prefer to keep these giant berries for themselves, meaning their people have lots of food, and over the years this cause their bodies to be bigger in size, making the average bug/arachnid height being above average, like holy crap 3.5cm tall bees
They Are also considered to be brutes due to Giant sizes and the way their leader is elected is brutal. A competition where 100 people sign up to fight each other in a competition, the first 90 losers are beaten until they're unconscious, normally with a limb or 2 being broke, but the last 10 fight to the DEATH, with the survivor becoming the almighty ruler until their death, in wich a new competition will insue, speaking of which, who is leading the kingdom right now?
LORD MALLE
Lord malle, is actually not native to the south, he was born in the northest north, he moved here in search of riches, and since he is now considered LORD malle, I think he was successful, but how?
He and his friend dustry found an ancient roach cargo vehicle, which they looted and inside they found a very special machine, a machine able to replace body parts with machines, and after a bit of hacking dustry modified it to modify jumping spiders and wasp, while dustry kept the modifications relatively tame, a electric stinger and some special eyes, but malle went heavy on the modifications, robot arm, artificial robot fire ball shooting scorpion tail, metal legs, and the enhancements is how he won the royal competition despite being relatively small to the jumping spiders native to the arachnid kingdom
And that is the lore of the southern lands!, at least the basic lore