The Great Nation of Zaitrec is beloved of Teclis himself, and marked by the lunar rune of Celennar, the moon-spirit who counsels the god of light. Magic saturates the nation as water saturates a spring: where other Lumineth reserve the higher arts for a gifted few, in Zaitrec even the rank-and-file soldiery study the aetheric disciplines, and a common spearer of its levy might command sorceries that would ennoble a wizard of the free cities.
At the summit of this arcane culture stand the Scinari, acknowledged the finest battle-mages of the Ten Paradises. A Zaitrec host goes to war wrapped in layered enchantment, its foes blinded, slowed, and unmade by spellcraft long before a blade is drawn, and its mages wield the winds of Hysh with a confidence that shades easily into pride. The other Great Nations mutter that Zaitrec shines a little too brightly for its own good, that such radiance courts the very hubris that once broke the Lumineth. Zaitrec, serene beneath Celennar's rune, is inclined to agree, and to shine anyway.
Within the Lumineth Realm-lords, Zaitrec is the radiant pinnacle of aelven magic, the nation forever gambling that genius wielded openly is worth the danger of being seen.
Order of battle
The Zaitrec field the units of the Lumineth Realm-lords, a detachment from the roster:
Other Lumineth Realm-lords formations
IliathaThe nation of unity, where aelven souls are born twinned and whole regiments move like one creature wearing many bodies. Iliatha's Vanari hosts are the most drilled in all Hysh, every pike and arrow falling in eerie unison. Their perfection has a price: when one twin dies, the other fights on with half a soul, and Iliatha forgets none of them.
SyarThe nation of makers, whose forges work sunmetal and aetherquartz into wargear that other Great Nations treat as relics. Syar answered the shame of the Spirefall with craft, hammering grief into beauty until its armies gleam like walking reliquaries. To carry a Syari blade is to carry an apology centuries in the polishing.
YmetricaThe mountain nation of Hysh, whose white peaks hold the greatest temples of the Alarith. Ymetrica prizes endurance over brilliance (near heresy among Lumineth), and its stone-bonded warriors are the anvil on which invasions of the Ten Paradises break. Even its Vanari fight like the mountain: last to move, and impossible to move through.
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