Second Dawn:Maple Kingdom
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This is a reference document for the LARP The Second Dawn.
The land on the banks of the St. Laurent (or as they say in the Union, “Lawrence”) river was one of the first Ancient cities on the continent, a path from the sea to the resource-rich interior of the upper continent. So too, in the generations after the Cataclysm, was it one of the first to be repopulated. The people of the old northlands, the Ancient kingdom once known as “Canada,” found their cities less devastated than those to the south, but they knew better than to rejoice in their scavenged bounty. The Ancients had enshrouded themselves in cities of metal, glass, and poured stone, hiding themselves away from nature’s wrath, but a people out of harmony with Gaia must, and did, eventually destroy themselves.
The first Maple King is said to have been a man names Louis Penfield, but none know for certain when he lived. The Maple Kingdom started as a small little city-state, the rebuilt city below Mont-réal, founded as a place where mankind could grow again in proper harmony with the world. As generations passed, its status as one of the first real stable cities in the northlands drew countless immigrants, gradually turning Montréal into the heart of a powerful nation.
Today, the Maple Kingdom is one of the continent’s three great powers, under the just rule of King Perceval Ricard. Montréal is a low city of wood and stone and brick, built atop the ruins of the Ancients. Below the streets, in Montréal and beyond, the King’s men dig up the powerful relics of bygone days, destroying those which are deemed to have contributed to the Ancients’ fall, the black sciences.
While religious freedom is frowned upon, the government is otherwise quite laissez-faire, with private corporations taking a far larger share of the economy than direct government activity. Between its strong private business and relative surplus of benevolent Ancient sciences, the Maple Kingdom has grown wealthy through trade. It has no expansionist tendencies, not wishing to tempt the wrath of Gaia by trying to claim dominion over her surface as mere men; however, public opinion strongly disapproves of those nations seen as lax in properly controlling black science. The Kingdom’s army is too small to pose a major threat to either the Plains States or Eastern Union, but its Ancient-equipped commandos are rumored to be extremely effective and lethal.
