Of all the three lands, this is the least hospitable. Its lands are unstable and can shift and change. Its seemingly endless jungles and dense fog can have an army marching in circles. Many areas are prone to sudden floods. Attempts to build permanent structures have resulted in disaster. And the marshes are filled with poisonous plants. This is The Myre. This is the land of the Samurai of the Dawn Empire, their name for the land. Though it is believed a previous civilization had inhabited The Myre long before the Samurai but not much remains of this lost civilization.
Terrain[]
The Myre's territories
The Myre is an inhospitable location that even the Knights and Vikings tried to avoid, only finally invading it to gain an advantage in their war. It is a stretch of fens, crags, and swampy wastelands. Poisonous plants and trees threaten all who aren't careful and its ever changing landscape has been responsible for entire armies vanishing without a trace. Many locations are prone to flooding, rivers swallowing up stretches of jungle one moment before receding into nothing the next.
The Myre is a lush jungle with many trees growing to the size of palaces. Unfortunately, many of the plants are poisonous.
The Samurai have come to utilize the dangers of The Myre to their advantage, creating poison bombs from the toxic plants and using the dangerous terrain to funnel armies into artillery fire.
History[]
The Samurai coming in to settle in the Myre.
After the Cataclysm, The Myre was left uninhabited for a long time as neither Knights nor Vikings wanted to brave what was in there. However, as their war against each other dragged on, they began to expand into The Myre to gain an advantage over each other, little did they know the Samurai had come from across the ocean and begun settling in the swampy lands, having lost their original homeland of Japan to The Cataclysm five hundred years prior after it had sank into the ocean. The Vikings attempted to attack the Samurai with an army but were slaughtered within a day.
By present-day, the Samurai have lived in The Myre for five hundred years, terraforming the continent to reflect a mixture of the original swampland and their own homeland.[1] Since then, they had achieved many feats within The Myre itself. The city of Koto itself was built by the Second Emperor to surround his Imperial Palace, which was also built on a tall mountain overlooking the swampland. Indeed these were great feats, demonstrating the tenacity of these foreign inhabitants.
During the Great Raid, three Viking scouting parties were sent to try to find a way through the swamps; none returned. It was Runa who finally found success when she located maps that would tell the Vikings how to navigate the swamps and enter Koto.
Notable Locations[]
- Kaiyo Kabe - An ancient sea fortress and one of the few places a fleet could safely dock to The Myre.
- Bridge to Koto - The entrance to the Imperial city of Koto.
- Koto - The massive Imperial city of the Samurai
- The Imperial Palace - a nigh impenetrable fortress that serves as the seat of power of the Samurai.
- Kowareta To - A fishing village surrounded by the swamplands of The Myre.
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References[]
- ↑ For Honor Viking Story Campaign, Reconnaissance mission - Newcomers Observable