Seahorse Kingdom

Posting from work, so no maps or anything, but that's OK because its time to figure out what the culture and society and whatnot of these people is like.

Northern Seafaring Centaurs

52 - European, Middle Ages. Classic D&D setting type stuff.

Small kingdoms have 1d2 Primary Races and 1d4+1 Secondary Races. I can use our previous minor races to detail this. Also, we find out how these other races get along.

European Northern Seafaring Centaurs: 1 Primary - Centaurs, and 3 Secondary:

• Humans, in 45 - Separate Communities. If the Centaurs are seafaring, maybe the humans are more inland and tend to farms.
• Ogres, who are 99 - Slaves. Uh oh, not everything is nice in the Seahorse kingdom. 
• Other Centaurs, that are 4 - Completely Intermixed. Well that's nice at least. Horses all get along.

Technology Level: 12 - Savage. Uh, ok. Middle Ages culturally, but Stone Age technically. So they have Knights, Nobility, Chivalry, and Serfs, but only the most basic agriculture and no real metalwork or anything. Maybe they are too tied to the sea and just don't get that whole settling down and building a castle thing.

Government: 29 - Feudalism. Well that matches up with the culture at least.

Alignment: 7 - Lawful Good. Good boat cavehorses. Except for that whole ogre slavery thing, we'll have to justify that somehow.

Subsistence: We know they are seafaring, but do horses eat fish? Do they trade it? They are in a Mountainous Forest region, so 3 - Agriculture, Light is their subsistence system, with a 50% (yes) chance of having some mining.

Population Level: Light Agriculture starts us at a 2, Temperate gives +1, Medium Mountains -1, and Savages -1, for a grand total of 1 - Low. Small villages and towns, no big cities, and large patches of less-favorable terrain.


So, I think it works like this. The mountains of the northern island aren't favorable to the Centaurs, who adapt by building floating raft villages. Humans of the area are part of the kingdom, but remain on the land for the most part, where they farm. As beasts of burden are frowned upon, the Humans tend to farms to feed the kingdom using nearly brainless (so they claim) mountain Ogres to drag stone plows, clear fields, mine shiny rocks that are traded to other lands, and so on. Each floating village is ruled by a Colt/Filly, who is in turned ruled by, and pays taxes in the form of feed and wood, to the king, known as a Stallion.