New World RPG

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⚔️ The Triple War and the Demon King
These three mafias are engaged in a bloody conflict:
The Red Gang wants to assassinate the Demon King to seize his lands and armies.
The Green Gang sabotages the Demon King's supplies and sells him false information to weaken him from within.
The Blue Band intercepts the Demon King's ships and food shipments at sea, massacring his troops.
All this while the gangs are fighting amongst themselves.

🔵 3. The Blue Band: The Leviathan Fleet
The mafia that controls the seas, the strange biomes, and the black market for resources in the Wild Ring. They have a colossal floating base near Antarctica.
Organization: They are organized as a gigantic confederation of pirates and nautical criminals. They are divided into 5 "Assault Fleets." They care nothing for honor or pacts: for them, money, food consumption, and luxuries are everything. They have the largest number of Minotaurs and Pure Demons in their ranks due to the brute force their missions demand.
Supreme Leader: Captain Drake "The Devourer." A demon-human prone to destructive fits of rage. He is a giant who wields a mana-infused axe capable of cleaving ships in two. He hates the Demon King because the latter wants to rule the world, while Drake only wants the world to be a free-for-all of chaos for him to plunder.

🔴 1. The Red Band: The Cult of the Twelve Spiders
It is the most militarized, hierarchical, and lethal mafia of all. They operate in the shadows of Europe and America.
Organization: It operates under a system of violent meritocracy. At the top is the Supreme Leader. Just below him are the 12 Spiders, the most powerful executives in the mafia. Each Spider commands their own private army with their own commanders.
The Law of Succession: If someone defeats a Spider in combat, they automatically take their position and inherit their army. If a Spider dies on a mission, or is defeated by someone who doesn't want the position, the Supreme Leader handpicks the replacement.
Supreme Leader: "The Puppeteer" Bloodworth. An absolute master at channeling mana into invisible threads of steel. No one knows his true face, only the surviving Spiders.
🟢 2. The Green Gang: The Inverted Flower Syndicate
A highly mysterious mafia focused on smuggling artifacts, political infiltration, and espionage in Asia and the archipelagos of Oceania. Inspired by a secret and hermetic structure.
Organization: No one within the organization knows the identities of the higher-ups; they operate with code names based on poisonous plants. No one knows who works for whom until it's too late. They are experts at infiltrating human realms using Succubi and Human Demons on their payroll.
The Leader's Secret: The leader of the Green Gang is Sir Valerius (formerly known as Lady Valeria). Born female, he used a forbidden spell and a pact with a Pure Demon of the Wild Ring to alter his body and soul, becoming a man and gaining terrifying knowledge of mana in the process. He rules the mafia with an iron fist and the cold mind of a strategist.

🦘 5. Kingdom of Thalassia (Oceania)
The largest kingdom of the 700 archipelagos.
Aesthetics: A network of islands connected by gigantic floating wooden piers. The buildings are made of sea stone and sea monster shells.
Life and Technology: Life revolves entirely around the water; fishing, navigation, and naval warfare are everything. Their technology is advanced naval engineering: medieval ships with mana-powered mechanical paddle systems capable of sailing upstream, and distillation systems for purifying seawater on a large scale.
Popularity: It is legendary for having the most powerful naval fleet in the flat world and for being the only kingdom that dares to sail near the dangerous shores of the Wild Ring to fish.
King: Admiral King Tritonus.

🌏 3. Shenzhou Kingdom (Asia)
The richest and most respected of Asia's 20,000 crowns.
Aesthetics: Floating pagodas and palaces of red and gold lacquered wood extend over a large sacred lake. The guards wear silk robes reinforced with metal scales and carry swords imbued with energy.
Life and Technology: Life is governed by ancient codes of honor, family lineage, and hyper-strict trade. They excel in trade network technology: magical horseless chariots that travel at high speeds along exclusive trade routes and a rapid messaging system based on scrolls linked by mana.
Popularity: It is the richest kingdom in the world, famous for its monopolies on silk, spices, and for housing the academies where precise calculations for spell creation are taught.
King: Royal Emperor, King Zhao Long.
🌎 4. Kingdom of New Hope (America)
Despite being on a hyper-fragmented continent of 10,000 kingdoms, it has managed to stand out above all others.
Aesthetics: A fortress built in a deep canyon, made of reinforced adobe, sturdy wood, and mechanical suspension bridges. The taverns and markets are always full of mercenaries and adventurers.
Life and Technology: Life is chaotic, exciting, and dangerous due to America's constant border wars. Their technology is tactical mechanical engineering: self-repeating crossbows, complex pulleys for moving defenses, and mechanical traps integrated into walls to repel neighboring kingdoms or goblin attacks.
Popularity: It's the heart of the adventure. It's popular because anyone with enough skill or knowledge of mana can rise socially, and it's the best place to hire warriors or buy exotic weapons.
King: King Matthew the Forger.

🌍 1. Kingdom of Aethelgard (Europe)
The most imposing of the 24 European Powers. It is the pinnacle of human organization.
Aesthetics: A colossal medieval megalopolis of polished white stone and blue slate roofs. The streets are perfectly paved, with sewers and enormous walls guarded by knights in gleaming steel armor.
Life and Technology: Life is orderly, bureaucratic, and clean, much like a modern city. They have a strict legal system, courts, printing presses for newspapers, and a professional army. Their technology is notable for its hydraulic architecture: drinking water flows through pipes to fountains and public baths within castles.
Popularity: It is famous for being the diplomatic and economic center of the world, where trade is governed by perfect contracts and laws.
King: Supreme Leader, King Frederick III.
❄️ 2. Kingdom of the Northern Lights (Antarctica)
One of the 3 great bastions of the frozen continent, famous for defying nature.
Aesthetics: An imposing city built inside a colossal thermal dome of tempered ice and glass. Outside, a blizzard rages, but inside, the climate is spring-like.
Life and Technology: They have something very close to a modern life: children attend compulsory public schools, and there are advanced hospitals with specialized doctors. Their technology is based on light alchemy: all houses and streets have alchemical lamps that perfectly mimic sunlight. By law, the kingdom distributes daily rations of Vitamin D supplements in glass bottles.
Popularity: It is popular for its very high level of education, its advanced regenerative medicine, and for being a warm refuge in the middle of the end of the world.
King: King Alistair Vance.

⚙️ 3. Iron Biome (The Forged Wasteland)
What it looks like: A natural industrial landscape, cold, gray, and rustic. The mountains and hills are masses of pure ore and rusted iron that resemble ruined castles. The rivers carry a thick, black sludge that shines like oil, and the sky in this area is often covered by a grayish fog that smells of metal and sulfur.
Vegetation: The flora has evolved to absorb metals from the soil. The trees have black iron bark and branches as sharp as swords. The leaves are sheets of copper that change color with oxidation, and the flowers have stiff bronze petals that cut like razors if you're not careful.
🌌 4. Luminescent Biome (The Neon Forest)
What it looks like: During the day it appears as a dull forest, but at nightfall or in the shade, the biome comes alive with its own light. The ground is covered in thick moss that glows electric blue when stepped on. The water in the streams is crystal clear but emits golden glimmers at the bottom.
Vegetation: The giant trees have visible veins through which flows glowing sap that changes color according to the local mana flow. Vines full of floating spores hang from the branches, illuminating the path like static fireflies, and giant mushrooms serve as natural platforms that glow in shades of violet and green.

🍭 1. Candy Biome (Sugar Valley)
What it looks like: A landscape straight out of a sweet but strange fantasy. The ground isn't ordinary earth, but a fine, sweet powder that mimics pink sand. The rivers and lakes in this region aren't made of water, but of thick syrups, liquid chocolate, or brightly colored fruit juices. The air constantly smells of toasted caramel and vanilla.
Vegetation: The trees have trunks made of solid candy canes or dark chocolate, and their canopies are giant clouds of pastel-colored cotton candy. The bushes bear fruit that looks like chewy gummies, and the grass is made up of fine strands of green licorice.
💎 2. Crystal Biome (The Prismatic Lands)
What it looks like: A dazzling biome where everything refracts light. The ground is covered in quartz slabs and crystalline sand. When sunlight (or alchemical lamps in Antarctica) hits this region, the entire landscape projects rainbows and flashes of color onto the walls and sky. Walking here sounds like thousands of glass chimes clinking together.
Vegetation: The plants are completely rigid and translucent. The trees resemble blown-glass sculptures with diamond-like leaves that tinkle in the wind. The flowers are glittering gems that absorb mana from the environment to emit their own neon glow at night.

Demons originated in the savage Ring surrounding the Flat Earth. However, throughout history, several groups managed to cross the ocean and settle in the civilized world, dividing into the following variants:
Sirens: Sea demons that inhabit the waters of the human world. They use their stunning beauty and charm as a deadly trap to hunt both men and women, dragging them to the depths of the sea to devour them.
Succubi: A peaceful variant that has managed to fully integrate into human societies. Physically, they stand out for being extremely attractive, beautiful, and seductive, living in the kingdoms without arousing suspicion.
Minions: Flying creatures with a savage, animalistic mindset. They possess a voracious and destructive appetite, feeding exclusively on meat in massive quantities.
Human Demons: Ordinary humans who have been bitten by a Pure Demon. They retain their appearance, but their psyche is scarred: depending on the situation, they may suffer uncontrollable fits of rage or go insane, although in some cases the bite has no adverse effects. This condition is permanent (it neither improves nor worsens), but in return, it grants them a drastic increase in their knowledge of mana.
Pure Demons: Omnivorous creatures with superhuman physical capabilities and an innate mastery of mana. They have an accelerated metabolism that requires them to consume massive amounts of food, and socially they are extremely cunning, cold, and manipulative beings.
Demon King: The current supreme leader. He is a Human Demon who, using his intellect and a massive army, is progressively conquering territories with the ultimate goal of becoming the monarch of the entire world.

🐉 Dragons
Physical Appearance and Society: Scaly beasts that, despite their imposing physique, occupy the equivalent of dogs in this world. They do not form civilizations.
Behavior: Their mentality is purely animalistic. Some kingdoms fear them and consider them wild pests, while in other places they are completely domesticated and raised as loyal pets or household guardians.
🦖 Dinosaurs
Physical and Social: Large reptiles that inhabit specific areas of the human world, occupying an ecological role similar to that of lions in our world.
Behavior: They have a neutral temperament; they will not attack humans unless provoked or directly threatened. Furthermore, they have a natural aversion to the taste of human flesh, so they rarely hunt for food near civilizations.
🐂 Minotaurs
Physical and Social: Creatures with bovine features and robust bodies, but who at a social, cultural and civilizational level are exactly the same as humans.
Behavior: They share the same moral codes, jobs, emotions, and lifestyles as humanity, inhabiting and governing the same kingdoms in total equality.
🧚 Fairies
Physical and Social: Magical creatures whose natural state is that of a small being. They have a vital role in nature, dedicating themselves to the pollination of flowers.
Behavior: They have the unique ability to alter their size to become as large as a human, although upon entering this state they temporarily lose all their mana. They are an extremely affectionate and emotional race, prone to falling deeply in love with individuals of any other race, content with even the smallest show of affection or attention.
👾 Monsters
Physical and Society: An immense variety of beasts, chimeras, and mutated aberrations that possess no trace of human civilization or laws.
Behavior: They are hostile and savage creatures that live exclusively in the Savage Ring.

🟢 Goblins
Physical Characteristics and Society: The visible population is almost entirely male. They are individually weak, but their numbers are massive because they can reproduce with any species (showing a strong preference for humans). They live wild in caves and subsist by raiding villages.
Behavior and Females: Female goblins are just as evil but much more intelligent and refined; they live hidden from common males, selecting only a rational male leader to reproduce with, while eliminating any male babies that are born. They do not possess mana.
👹 Ogres
Physical and Social: Colossal, massive, and brutal creatures, but extremely few in number. They possess no civilization, laws, or social structures.
Behavior: They are extremely stupid and guided by pure savagery: they kill and destroy any living being that crosses their path. They do not possess mana.
🧝 Elves
Physical Characteristics and Society: They are physically identical to humans, with the only difference being that their average height is slightly shorter (about 4 centimeters less for both men and women). They are a very long-lived race and are fully integrated into human society and civilization.
Behavior: They stand out above all other races for their intellect and spiritual discipline, possessing the greatest and best knowledge of mana in the world.
🧔 Dwarves
Physical Characteristics and Society: Beings of short stature but with exceptional physical density and brute strength that make them extremely dangerous in physical combat. They live in perfect harmony and coexistence within human cities and kingdoms.
Behavior: They are hardworking and tenacious, although their natural mana reserve is usually quite small compared to other races.

Those fortunate enough to break the 20% or 10% barrier acquire abilities that defy the common rules of the world:
Absolute Spiritual Perception (Available to 20% and 10%): The user can sense and identify the souls of others. By doing so, they no longer need a high level of mana knowledge to track or differentiate people. Since no two souls are alike and the soul can never be hidden, "Mana Hiding" techniques become completely useless against them.
Mana Transcendence (10% Only): The soul's illumination acts as a perfect catalyst that empowers the user's mind, granting them:
A drastic and immediate increase in the knowledge of mana and the mastery of the four universal techniques.
A massive help in creating new spells and the ability to exponentially make spells you already had more powerful.
Soul Strike (Only for the top 10%): The most fearsome offensive ability. The user can imbue their physical strikes or spells with the energy of their own soul.
Although the enemy's soul cannot die from this (and regenerates itself over time), receiving these impacts causes unbearable pain that ignores physical durability.
With each spiritual blow received, the enemy's resistance, speed, and mana control gradually decrease, wearing them down until they are defenseless.

The Power System: The Knowledge of the Soul
Unlike mana, the soul is a universal force possessed by all living beings, but it is invisible and imperceptible to oneself under normal conditions. Awakening the knowledge of the soul does not depend on study, but on a perfect alignment between destiny and human emotion.
🎲 The Awakening of the Soul (Factors)
To perceive or use the soul, two strict conditions must be met:
Extreme Emotion: The absolute trigger. The individual (whether they possess mana or not) must experience a situation that unleashes a colossal and pure emotion that resonates with the nature of their soul (it could be a state of absolute peace, a destructive thirst for revenge, desperate love, etc.). If the emotion is not strong enough, nothing will happen.
The Luck Factor (Probabilities): Even in extreme situations, fate decides the outcome through very strict percentages:
70% Probability: Absolutely nothing happens. The excitement dissipates.
20% Probability (Sensing the Soul): The user manages to perceive their own soul and that of others, but cannot channel their power.
10% Probability (Using the Soul): The user achieves complete spiritual enlightenment, managing to feel and manifest the power of their soul at will.

The Master's Advantage: Those who possess a massive and perfect knowledge of mana can circumvent the rule of sacrifice by sacrificing something of very little value or, in cases of absolute mastery, bypass the pact altogether.

The Power System: The Spells
Spells in this world are not mere tricks; they are miracles of the mind and will. The vast majority of mana users die without ever being able to cast a single spell, or managing only a tiny one. However, there are exceptions: people born with an inherited spell passed down from their ancestors or parents, or who manifest a unique spell from birth.
For the rest, creating a spell is a scientific and spiritual process that requires two mandatory steps:

1. The Conception (Imagine and Calculate)
   To manifest a spell for the first time, the user must perform an absolute design process in their mind:
   Visualization and Logic: You must imagine in detail what it is like, how it works, and how it imitates reality.
   Precise Calculation: The amount of mana required must be calculated with millimeter accuracy. An error in the calculation can be fatal. If the spell is very powerful and the user's knowledge is low, the mana will drop to negative levels, causing instant brain or physical death.
   Personality Affinity: The spell must be aligned with who you are. A peaceful man, incapable of killing, will never be able to formulate a spell designed for murder.
   Mana Affinity: The nature of your mana dictates what you can do. If a user possesses a water mana variation, creating a fire spell will be a virtually impossible task.
   Physical Requirements: The use of specific artifacts or catalysts required by the spell must be calculated and integrated into the equation.
2. The Covenant (The Sacrifice)
   Magic demands a price to be etched into the user's soul. To seal the creation of the spell, a pact must be made with oneself:
   The Emotional Cost: The average user must sacrifice something they deeply love (a memory, an ability, a bond, or a part of themselves) for the spell to come to life.

⚔️ Universal Mana Techniques
All users are born with access to these four basic techniques, but their effectiveness depends entirely on their level of knowledge:
Sensing Mana: Allows you to perceive the energy of others. Novices can only sense nearby presences. Advanced users can detect mana from great distances, and true masters are able to differentiate people by identifying the slightest variations or "traces" in their energy.
Mana Concealment: The ability to suppress one's own energy to become undetectable. The greater the mastery, the more undetectable the user becomes. A master of this technique can completely conceal their presence while secretly channeling their full power.
Channeling Mana: The method for enhancing the physical body or weapons (such as swords). Physically, mana users have ordinary bodies, but by channeling energy they can elevate their abilities to superhuman levels. Instantaneous movements (such as appearing behind someone in the blink of an eye) are possible, but require absolute and perfect control of the energy.
Common Regeneration: An extremely advanced medical technique. It allows the use of mana to heal physical wounds. It requires a massive knowledge of energy and, for most, remains a remarkably slow, complex, and painful process.

The Power System: Mana
Mana is the fundamental energy of this world. Not everyone is born with the ability to possess or manifest it, but those who do are subject to very strict rules of control and knowledge.
🔮 Fundamental Rules of Mana
The Fixed Limit: A person's maximum mana capacity is determined at birth and can never be increased. The vast majority of users possess exactly the same amount of mana.
Mana Cost and Regeneration: Mana decreases when using spells or techniques, but it always regenerates automatically until it returns to its maximum limit.
The Key is Knowledge: Power doesn't depend on how much mana you have, but on how well you understand it. Greater knowledge of mana allows you to:
Cast spells using a minimal fraction of energy without losing power.
Optimize and refine existing techniques.
Drastically accelerate the passive mana regeneration rate.
Mana Variations: Although common mana is blue, rare individuals are born with a different type of mana. These variations can be purely aesthetic (such as green mana) or completely alter its physical properties (for example, mana with the consistency and elasticity of chewing gum when channeled).

🌊 The Great Frontier: The Wild Ring
Beyond the sea known to humans, there is a monumental ring-shaped island that completely surrounds all the continents.
The Exotic Barrier: This outer territory is completely infested with monsters and dangerous beasts.
Wild Evolution: Being isolated from humanity, the ring has its own evolutionary line, resulting in unique, massive, and hostile plants and animals that act as a natural wall on the edge of the Flat Earth.

The Map of the Human World (The Flat Earth)
The known world is a gigantic flat disc where politics, development, and social organization vary drastically from region to region.
🌎 America: The Continent of Ten Thousand Kingdoms
The Detail: It is a hyper-fragmented land. An endless mosaic of micro-kingdoms, city-states, and fiefdoms living in a constant state of alliances, betrayals, and small border wars. The territory is so divided that a king here can rule only a valley or a couple of hills.
🌏 Asia: The Empire of the Twenty Thousand Crowns
The Detail: Like America, fragmentation is massive, but here the kingdoms are tightly interconnected by ancient trade networks and strict treaties. Honor, family lineages, and control of trade routes define the borders of these thousands of factions.
🌍 Europe: The Twenty-Four Powers
The Detail: The pinnacle of human development. There are only 24 kingdoms, but they are organized colossi. Although ruled by Kings as supreme leaders, their internal structure is advanced, institutional, and bureaucratic, making them the closest thing to a modern country. They have complex laws, professional armies, and centralized economies.
🦘 Oceania: The Seven Hundred Archipelagos
The Detail: Seven hundred independent maritime kingdoms. Life, politics, and war in this region are defined exclusively by seafaring, navigation, and island control.
❄️ Antarctica: The Three Structured Bastions
The Details: Three large, well-organized mega-kingdoms that house something resembling modern, civilized life. They have a surprisingly structured system of living with schools, doctors, and public services. To counteract the climate, all homes and facilities have special lamps that perfectly mimic sunlight, and their citizens are required to take vitamin D supplements.