House Arcades
- Capital: Arcadia (8,000)
- Hilltop Snow Jesters’ Temple provides burial & reanimation services
- The Panopticon grants instantaneous vision across the continent sharp enough to make out individual people provided the operator’s attention. (Practically, you know all orders & movements as soon as they happen & can watch for specific events in specific places.)
- 32 loyal Jiangshi (6,440 fearless BR w/ full Retainers, $4,800/month)
- Every month, you may replace 1, up to 32.
- Leader: Lord Arcades (Lv8)
- The Commoners distrust you.
- Bonus Victory Agenda: Expel all foreigners from Glass (the coralers, Venetians, Hydreans, etc.) or return them to the servant caste where they belong (the salamanders, harpies) — either alive or (un)dead.
You are the son of a line of fore-fathers going back to the earliest age of Glassian history, and this war has gone on long enough. It’s an embarrassment to your blood. An initial effort to revive the ancient imperial infrastructure has seen success, and so you now seek its end through the judicious application of your unparalleled black magic combined with the power of the Panopticon.
You are a necromantic isolationist. Total control over Glass is the only way to drive out the invading forces — and your only hope of posing enough of a threat to drive out the demonic creditors you’ve borrowed from in order to fuel your ambitions. You are sworn to the island’s people, gods & history, but have contempt for the immortal Kain as a failure & a coward who ran from power in a moment of weakness. You will be better. Man cannot shy from horrors when they’re what is needed. There is only one grip strong enough to reforge this empire, and it is yours.