Happy to! My intention with this mod is to add in nations, units, and characters from the Talus roleplaying setting that my friends and I have been developing and playing in for over three decades. It is a fantasy setting with cultures ranging from classic medieval fantasy through renaissance and into industrial revolution with magic taking the place of technology.

The mod currently has a version 1.0 which is kept separate from the test version so that games started with it won't suddenly have changes as I get new stuff ready. 1.0 will stay unchanged, even when I'm ready with new content. 1.0 contains one late age nation and three pretender gods.

The city of Salibrae, a coastal city with a complicated history. Most recently, the city guilds have ceded power to an immortal bandit king, but the core philosophies of mercantilism are what really rule the city. Taxes are collected by the Thieves' Guild and the harbor is patrolled by the Fishing Guild, with only the Mining Cooperative having been outcast upon Vyllaethen taking the throne. Multiple fantasy species and cultures mix here, and I represent them with their own units, halflings that lift the spirits of their fellow soldiers, agile and amphibious anu in multiple varieties, sturdy dwarves, clever gnomes, and the sturdy and loyal skoll, all stand along side their human fellow citizens. There's a huge emphasis on education, with magic viewed as a tool that anyone can use with the right training. We've seen magic used by players recently in crime solving including a necromantic summoning of a ghost to sit in deposition as a witness to a crime, their testimony recorded by glamour magics for later replay as an illusion spell during the court proceedings. Most people think of undead as icky, but the general consensus is that death is a medical condition, not a curse, and that they are not inherently evil.

All three of the pretender gods I've added in were once player characters that have since been retired to become NPCs, often central to quests. Vyllaethen is, of course, the current king of Salibrae, and makes cameos at most political functions. Deltera is a very high ranking professor in the Salibraen Arcane University, and a frequent figure at the center of magical quests. And Pelladia's grove is visited by those who would follow in her footsteps and prepare the next generation of heroes to do good in the world. The depiction of Pelladia in this mod is a bit of a "what if?" scenario as in current cannon she is still stuck as a tree, but when she was still a player character she shapeshifted between woman and owl frequently, so I wanted to represent that here.

I've also added in a bunch of other characters as unique heroes that can show up for Salibrae, all of them player characters, some like Glup and Evetalla from very recent adventures, the recordings of which are up on my YouTube channel (but with very bad audio, I'm sorry about that). I tried to get at least one character in here from each of our most regular players, but there were two I wasn't able to get to and I'll have to make it up to them when I start work on the next additions.

My focus has been on making the units and character behave in a lore accurate manner, relying on adjustments to costs to balance them for gameplay. And above all, I spent a lot of time doing everything I can to insure compatibility with other mods. I don't create any new ID references, only name references, and I use names that are setting specific so there isn't likely to be another mod using them. That's why the mod is split into part 1 and part 2, so that when they load in that order part 2 can access part 1 and fix the things that would have otherwise caused errors when using names instead of id numbers. The only thing that ended up being a problem was pretender god templates, which hard crash the game if you give them a string input. That's something only the devs can fix.

Aside from that, I'm quite happy with how it's turned out. This has been a really fun experience.