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Welcome to Meridia, a newly discovered continent steeped in the unknown. Encounter unfamiliar races, exploit vast untapped resources, and rule your domain through economy, faith, and unrest. Conquer these lands in the name of the homeland, or break away and carve your own legacy in defiance of it.

The Economy is a Living World. You Just Manage It.

You don’t command, you influence. You pay wages, not rations. Your settlers use that coin to buy, sell, and live in the economic world you’ve built through imports, market access, and infrastructure. Their free will is your most powerful tool and your greatest constraint.

Your real challenge is the market itself: a dynamic simulation of supply, demand, royal taxes, and opportunist merchants. A boom in wool might fund your expansion, while a sudden metals crash could break your tax quota. Your task isn't to micromanage lives, but to steer a living society through these unpredictable tides of commerce, where one season’s profit is the next season’s crisis.

“Folk think the new world’s full of riches. Truth is, it’s full of things that don’t like being called ‘new’.”
Lord-Admiral Carinth of the Second Fleet

Your authority is not absolute. It is exerted through systems that develop wills of their own.

Hire swords to defend your borders, wage war on rival realms, or bend weaker neighbors into vassalage through force or diplomacy; armies, mercenaries, and retinues pursue their own ambitions and can return from campaigns empowered, broken, or dangerously disloyal.

Competing gods, restless populations, and old-world prejudices shape your realm as much as conquest does: spread a state faith for powerful blessings, tolerate heresy at the risk of riots and purges, and manage racial tensions through compromise, manipulation, or brutal policy.

Embark on your journey to Meridia. Guide your people. Endure the challenges.

“When they said the Meridian forests were ‘breathtaking’, I thought it was a compliment. I realize now it was a warning.”
Final entry, Journal of Elara Voss, Surveyor-General