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Zyrin

Player’s Knowledge #

  • Description & Ambiance: Visitors to Zyrin encounter a landscape of brutalist, mind-bending psionic architecture with soaring spires that seem to defy gravity. The air hums with a low-frequency psychic white noise, and the streets are filled with Githyanki moving in eerie efficiency. It is a place of cold metal, glowing violet energy, and uncomfortable silence.

  • Government & Public Law: Zyrin is governed by a council of high-ranking technocrats who enforce absolute law through the automated thought monitoring network. Privacy remains a relic of the past as the state utilizes the established psionic infrastructure to monitor for emotional instability or prohibited magical practices, ensuring the populace remains a unified, focused tool of the nation.

  • Exports & Reputation:

    Zyrin is infamous as a xenophobic fortress-state that maintains a total embargo on foreign trade, viewing external cultures and arcane magic as primitive contagions. Their reputation is built on the terrifying efficiency of their Psi-Tech armaments and a military of perfectly synchronized soldiers who operate with a cold, singular purpose.

  • Rumors & Folklore (Unverified):

    • “Commoners whisper that Vylix never truly died, but instead uploaded his consciousness into the capital’s architecture to become an eternal, invisible overseer.”

    • “Scavengers on the volcanic slopes tell stories of shimmering rifts appearing in the deep forests that whisper of a silver void beyond the sky.”

    • “Rumor has it that a rogue Githyanki has been seen meditating in the deep forests, supposedly possessing the ability to shield the minds of others from the state’s intrusive psionic surveillance.”

DM’s Lore #

  • Formal Name: Zyrin

  • Type & Rank: Psionic-Technocratic Hegemony, Regional Power

  • Population: 479,532

  • Language/Name influences: Gith; harsh, glottal consonants with technical and bureaucratic suffixes.

  • Synopsis: A society of liberated soldiers who traded a lich-queen’s mental leash for a self-imposed psionic hive-mind of total surveillance.

  • True History & Key Dates:

    • 6,618 BR: The Great Shift. Vax’ildan the Blade founds The New Red Hand on the volcanic slopes of Volgaard after the link to Vlaakith is severed.

    • 6,590 BR: The New Red Hand is overthrown and The Crimson March takes power, beginning centuries of internal resource wars.

    • 6,241 BR: Ki’thak assassinates the council and unifies the nation into Skoraos, a singularly focused war machine.

    • 893 BR: The martial state evolves into Skorval, a bloated, stagnant bureaucracy of scribes and administrators.

    • 2,034 AR: Following the Stellar Rupture, Vylix stages a coup, fusing psionics with new technology to establish Zyrin.

  • Internal Conflicts & Secrets:

    • The Primordial Glitch: Deep in the dusty archives of Vaxis’karr, powerful leaders found old records from thousands of years ago that contain a secret meant to stay buried forever. These papers prove the Githyanki did not actually start in Kemet but arrived during a strange event that still makes no sense today. The government treats this news like a crime because it ruins the fake history they have forced on the people for generations.

    • The Hollow Epidemic: Total psionic synchronization triggered a wave of neural burnout that leaves people as empty shells known as Hollows. The ruling council uses the victims as biological processors to fuel the city’s defense spires. Families are told their loved ones are heading off to an honorable retirement while their bodies are being recycled into living batteries.

    • The Schism: A tense group of soldiers is beginning to revolt because they believe leaning on psionic machines has made their kind soft. These rebels seek to kill the mind link entirely and return to the ancient ways where power was won with blood and every fighter had to prove their own worth.

  • Key NPCs & Power Structure:

    • Coming soon

  • Economy & Military Might:

    • Economy: The state forces laborers to work under constant mental watch to extract minerals and bio-materials. Every bit of production goes right back into feeding the war machine and keeping the system self-sustaining.

    • Military: The Zyrin military operates as a giant hive mind. Every soldier spends their life training with weapons powered by their thoughts, staying connected through a mental network to act as one single unit.

  • Adventure Hooks:

    • Political: A nervous clerk has uncovered the truth about the Githyanki landing on Kemet and is fleeing for the Githzerai enclaves with stolen data. He needs an elite escort to survive the volcanic wastes and evade the state’s aerial scouting spires.

    • Exploration: The shifting earth cracked open a tomb sealed for six millennia, exposing the brutal history of the Crimson March. Scavengers race to pull sacred relics from the bunker before Zyrin soldiers arrive to burn every trace of the past.

    • Intrigue: Resistance members recruit the group to sneak a resonance crystal into Vaxis’karr to plant a psychic virus. This is the only way to shut down the constant surveillance, but the city’s scanners can pick up on private thoughts.

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