The Marcati are former Marcians who once braved the Sea of Beasts to colonise Albain’s often brisk, northerly isles. Since the ascension of Queen Ignala, the isles have been embroiled in a bitter civil war between the Queen’s Loyalists and the Black Cat Royalists.
Both factions retain much of the Old Marcian ways, yet new customs have seeped in through contact with the Traysians and the Dajeians—one shaping them with the influence of peace, the other with the call of war.
The red rose is a sacred symbol, said to carry the soul of those buried beneath it. It is also the emblem of the Queen’s Loyalists, who claim Ignala is worthy of her crown. The Black Cat Royalists reject such notions, favouring the Dajeian belief that only men are fit to rule. They fly the flag of the black cat—a symbol of death—and deride the Loyalists as “rats”, pests they vow to eradicate.
In truth, all the Black Cats have achieved is to thin the populace of both isles in a needless stalemate—a war of attrition that has dragged on for over a decade, with no victor in sight.
The Marcati are former Marcians who once braved the Sea of Beasts to colonise Albain’s often brisk, northerly isles. Since the ascension of Queen Ignala, the isles have been embroiled in a bitter civil war between the Queen’s Loyalists and the Black Cat Royalists.
Both factions retain much of the Old Marcian ways, yet new customs have seeped in through contact with the Traysians and the Dajeians—one shaping them with the influence of peace, the other with the call of war.
The red rose is a sacred symbol, said to carry the soul of those buried beneath it. It is also the emblem of the Queen’s Loyalists, who claim Ignala is worthy of her crown. The Black Cat Royalists reject such notions, favouring the Dajeian belief that only men are fit to rule. They fly the flag of the black cat—a symbol of death—and deride the Loyalists as “rats”, pests they vow to eradicate.
In truth, all the Black Cats have achieved is to thin the populace of both isles in a needless stalemate—a war of attrition that has dragged on for over a decade, with no victor in sight.
The Marcati are former Marcians who once braved the Sea of Beasts to colonise Albain’s often brisk, northerly isles. Since the ascension of Queen Ignala, the isles have been embroiled in a bitter civil war between the Queen’s Loyalists and the Black Cat Royalists.
Both factions retain much of the Old Marcian ways, yet new customs have seeped in through contact with the Traysians and the Dajeians—one shaping them with the influence of peace, the other with the call of war.
The red rose is a sacred symbol, said to carry the soul of those buried beneath it. It is also the emblem of the Queen’s Loyalists, who claim Ignala is worthy of her crown. The Black Cat Royalists reject such notions, favouring the Dajeian belief that only men are fit to rule. They fly the flag of the black cat—a symbol of death—and deride the Loyalists as “rats”, pests they vow to eradicate.
In truth, all the Black Cats have achieved is to thin the populace of both isles in a needless stalemate—a war of attrition that has dragged on for over a decade, with no victor in sight.
The Marcati are former Marcians who once braved the Sea of Beasts to colonise Albain’s often brisk, northerly isles. Since the ascension of Queen Ignala, the isles have been embroiled in a bitter civil war between the Queen’s Loyalists and the Black Cat Royalists.
Both factions retain much of the Old Marcian ways, yet new customs have seeped in through contact with the Traysians and the Dajeians—one shaping them with the influence of peace, the other with the call of war.
The red rose is a sacred symbol, said to carry the soul of those buried beneath it. It is also the emblem of the Queen’s Loyalists, who claim Ignala is worthy of her crown. The Black Cat Royalists reject such notions, favouring the Dajeian belief that only men are fit to rule. They fly the flag of the black cat—a symbol of death—and deride the Loyalists as “rats”, pests they vow to eradicate.
In truth, all the Black Cats have achieved is to thin the populace of both isles in a needless stalemate—a war of attrition that has dragged on for over a decade, with no victor in sight.
The Marcati are former Marcians who once braved the Sea of Beasts to colonise Albain’s often brisk, northerly isles. Since the ascension of Queen Ignala, the isles have been embroiled in a bitter civil war between the Queen’s Loyalists and the Black Cat Royalists.
Both factions retain much of the Old Marcian ways, yet new customs have seeped in through contact with the Traysians and the Dajeians—one shaping them with the influence of peace, the other with the call of war.
The red rose is a sacred symbol, said to carry the soul of those buried beneath it. It is also the emblem of the Queen’s Loyalists, who claim Ignala is worthy of her crown. The Black Cat Royalists reject such notions, favouring the Dajeian belief that only men are fit to rule. They fly the flag of the black cat—a symbol of death—and deride the Loyalists as “rats”, pests they vow to eradicate.
In truth, all the Black Cats have achieved is to thin the populace of both isles in a needless stalemate—a war of attrition that has dragged on for over a decade, with no victor in sight.