By 3047CA, Nyce had cut all ties with the
mainland save for communication with a number of mage’s
societies. It would be almost three hundred years before Nyce
would open trade routes with the continent again.
Culture
Nycian culture is steeped in clerical tradition and heavier
use of magic than even the mainland. Constructs do most of
the manual labor, including working mines and tundra farms
and spells made permanent make the environment within the
cities livable as well as providing water and lights.
Citizens of Nyce all study the arts and magic
with little concern for learning other crafts. Most know little
to nothing about the mainland except for legends and rumors.
This has led to mass suspicion against all things non-Nycian.
Industry
The Nycians have little need for trade among themselves because
their constructs provide all the resources and food they need.
In recent years however, magical reagent stocks have come
up short on the island, forcing the Nycians to approve trade
of some of their unique construct designs and native wildlife
with Chordin and Callen in exchange for the needed components.
Government
Very little is known of the Nycian government save that it
is comprised of a Queen and some sort of system of judicial
courts. The manner in which a Queen is chosen and the nature
of the courts and appointments to them remain a mystery.
The Nycians have as little to do with mainlanders
as possible, communicating only with the Chordini and Calleni
governments and then only through ambassadors who keep their
faces veiled at all times.
Organizations and
Individuals of Note
The only major power know to the mainland from Nyce is Envoy
in the Queen’s Voice Darchannal Leshrac (Female elf
Bard 10/Fighter 3); the current ambassador. She is an extremely
well educated speaker who claims to speak for the Queen in
all matters concerning the mainland. She travels with an entourage
numbering between fifteen and twenty, but oddly there are
no reports of her leaving the mainland or returning from Nyce.
Teleportation is suspected.
Major Settlements
There are no known major settlements on Nyce, though there
are indications of a number of large settlements on the interior
of the main island.
Locations of Note
The Everspring
The travel journal of the wandering Hessan Knight, Regin Farchild
contains a report of him coming ashore on a misty island off
the Chordini coast while returning from a skirmish with Calderian
slavers. On this island, he writes of finding a natural hot
spring whose waters possessed not only curative powers (which
a number of natural springs in the North possess), but hold
the power to undo harmful magical effects, even reversing
the mutations caused by divinity sparks.
Though Farchild was unable to get his true
bearings during his time on the island, the location of this
miraculous spring is almost certainly on one of the Nycian
isles and given the clustered nature of healing springs in
the North, there may be more than one on Nyce.
Encounters
Nycian envoys tell tails of the usual spirit beasts, but also
of a higher than normal number of naturally occurring undead,
such as ghosts. Fey creatures also seem to favor the misty
islands as many Nycians tell stories of encounters with pixies,
dryads and nymphs, often on peaceful terms.
