I'm looking for the empire names of the Hissho and the Umbral Choir. The official wiki has the names of each empire (United Republics of Raia, Geniocratic Demarchy of Hekim, ect.) but it has not been updated for the Hissho and the Choir. Does anybody know there names?
Posted Aug 5, 2019, 6:19 PM UTC
I got you fam.
In the Hissho main questline, the Hissho emperor is referred to as "Iyolo Blackgyr, emperor of the Hissho Bakufu." In our home tabletop game, we refer to it as the "Bakufu of Tonatsi" in reference to their principal deity. A Bakufu is a Japanese term that can be boiled down to "military government." The origin and meaning of the word is more complicated, but for our purposes, it is more or less the same as a "shogunate." Think the system of governance feudal Japan had.
The Umbral Choir are more complicated and, as Cato9Tales implied, hardly have a government as we would recognize it. They have only recently come to recognize the idea of individuality amongst the Choir's constituent entities. In their questline, they frequently refer to things called "mind-gestalt" and "over-gestalt" seemingly implying the idea of a hive mind type viewpoint. As such, trying to tie their governance to a singular phrase or word won't ever really capture the whole picture, but if I had to try, I would probably call it simply "The Mind-Gestalt."
Thank you!
I don't know if the Umbral Choir even have an empire name, given that they are not used to being more than one person.
For the Hissho, I'll have to ask Slowhands when I get a chance.
Thank you for the assistance.