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--- consolidated:sinon:start [2024/01/09 08:47] – [Classes / Archetypes] johnb
+++ consolidated:sinon:start [2025/09/08 10:01] (current) – [Ranks and Hierarchy] johnb
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-====== Sinon ======
+====== Sinan ======
+===== Overview =====
+Just about the only place you will come across people from Sinan is the Drai Shon Archipelago - and they are nasty, unpleasant and VERY xenophobic. They don't even speak the same language as the PCs.
+A mash-up of oriental cultures - that now acts as an extra 'enemy' in the DraiShon Archipelago region. Perhaps ironically, set in the far west of my game world. Primarily a mix of Chinese and Japanese elements, as sourced from various D&D and PF sources - however, there are elements from other cultures involved. This is not intended to add Oriental PCs to the game - it isn't well enough developed. However, they can be a new and (fairly) unknown enemy to provide an opposition. This has never been designed in any detail, although it has been mentioned enough, previously, to gives it basic feeling / philosophy.
+“Warlike conglomeration of empires and states led by Shoguns, Daimyos and Samurai Lords. Very class riddled - Aristocrats rule, fight and control things. Everyone else does as they are told. A bit more LN than LE.”
+===== Basics =====
-I don't know much about Sinon.  I have never run a game there -  although I played some Oriental Adventures years ago ...
 We know that ...
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   * The Shay dynasty of Porters bar came from  Sinon -  generations ago
-But I think that is about it for established in-world Lore.
+But I think that is about it for established in-world Lore.  However, that is generations ago, and there isn't much, except for legends and folk tales, known about the place.
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 ===== Ranks and Hierarchy =====
-There is clearly a system or Higher ranks.  At the moment I just need two of the lowest, who might be leading a colonization attempt, these come from a mix of dynasties.
+There is clearly a system or Higher ranks.  At the moment I just need two of the lowest, who might be leading a colonization attempt, these come from Chinese and Japanese traditions and are not used in quite the same way as they were then.  Not a system for the purists, but one that works well with the rules, does what I need and is intelligible to players.
+^Hann Equivalent^Sinon Title^Just call them^ Tradition |
+|Lord|Gon|Lord| Hereditary Nobility |
+|Lord Dominus|Gonzi|Lord| Junior Nobility |
+|Knight Commander|Daimyo|Sir| Military Order (*) |
+|Knight|Samurai|Sir| Military Order (*) |
-^Hann Equivalent^Sinon Title^Just call them|
+**(*)** a Military Order might be a House Order' that is loyal to a ++Gon's|Lord's)++ Noble House, a religious order, or something different.  It is the structural concept that is important.
-|Lord|Gon|Lord|
-|Lord Dominus|Gonzi|Lord|
-|Knight Commander|Daimyo|Sir|
-|Knight|Samurai|Sir|