
World: Kinda space opera-ish, but with magic. The premise is that
       each nation/ethnicity has its own flavor of magic.
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Terra - Humanity's mythical home planet.

Terran Diaspora - The initial explosion of humanity to the stars.
                   Mostly facilitated by the nation of Turn and their
                   gate-building magic.

Cataclysm - An event that destroyed the original gate network. Sources
            disagree about exactly what happened, but many blame the
            nation of Sorrow, a group of plague magic users.


Incarnum - The nation which rules the Incarnate Empire. Their magic
            essentially makes them excellent judges of character,
            which has allowed them to be incredibly cohesive.

            Culturally very libertine. Physically they look east asian.

            The Last Emperor - The only emperor that the Incarnate
                                empire has ever had. He's kept alive
                                by consuming the life of Dreyan healers,
                                who can trade a year of their own life
                                for a year of someone else's.

Sorrow - A much persecuted nation with plague magic. Often blamed
            for the cataclysm. Their home planet, Istray, was destroyed in
            vengence for this alleged crime. They now how no land of their own
            and live among other nations. They often serve as merchants, financiers
            and craftsmen and are hated for their prosperity.

            Many Sorrowers serve the Incarnate Empire in the intelligence wing
            since their plague magic allows them to broadcast and gather
            information.

Engal "the shipbuilders" - A nation of wind mages who can call up hyperdimensional
                            winds to blow ships through space faster than light.
                            They had a moderately sized empire for a while and
                            conquered Incarnum after the Cataclysm. Before they
                            conquered Incarnum, Incarnum was an entirely peaceful
                            planet that hadn't even built weapons. Within a
                            century, Incarnum revolted and took over the Engalish
                            Enpire, using it as the seed of what would become
                            the far greater Incarnate Empire.

Dreya - A nation of healers. The jewel of the Incarnate Empire since their healers
        keep the Last Emperor and the elite Incarnate immortal.

Grinth "Weavers" - A nation with spider themed psychic powers who have a massive
                    network they call "the web" that is both a communications network
                    and a much shittier version of the old gate network. They are
                    mercelessly hunted down by the Incarnate Empire and orchestrate
                    an alliance against it.

Dracya - A nation of vampire mages who can suck the magic out of a person along with
            the blood. They can gain a permanent power boost by killing an enemy
            by draining their blood, though returns diminish the more people they
            kill this way.

Vysh - A nation of brutish shapeshifters who make excellent soldiers. They make up
        a large part of the Incarnate imperial army.

Trem - A nation of psychics who serve in the Incarnate intelligence organization.
        They can shield themselves and others from Minish influence.

Wendle - a beautiful planet that was recently conquored by the incarnate empire.

Min - A recently conquered planet/nation. Their magic is based around sexual
        dominance/submission. They had a monarchical political structure where
        the new king or queen was chosen through an informal tournament called
        "the joust" until the new ruler kills all other possible contenders
        (mages of sufficient power to be a king or queen).

        Min is proving difficult to subdue, since each of the last five monarchs
        have rebelled and had to be put down. The death of a monarch creates a
        whole new batch of monarch level Minish mages.

Premise
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The last emperor assigns a mid-career Incarnate official with sexually submissive
tendencies to deal with Min.

He goes to Min and meets with one of the candidate
queens and explains to her that she is going to die in the joust, but that he
has a way to help her and she will need to commit to serving the empire to get
it. She enslaves him, forces him to tell her what the
help is (teeth from a Dracyan emperor that will let her steal a bit of power
with each kill). She demands he give her the help anyway and sends him back
to get the teeth.

The official shows up at the prospective queen's place without the teeth and with
no trace of the slave bond. He again repeats his entreaty for her to swear herself
to the empire, but this time he mentions that the empire always wins. Again, the
prospective queen enslaves him and sends him back.

The official shows up, this time carrying a brand. He makes the same offer, but
tells her that it will be taken off the table if the brand is not used to mark
her flesh before he leaves. She reluctantly agrees and lets him brand her on
the lower back.

The prospective queen ambushes a weaker prospective king and kills him with
the teeth.

The prospective queen enslaves the official and demands to know how to undo
the magic of the brand. The official says that the brand is not actually
magic, but the empire will just make it known that she has the brand and
watch her own people tear her apart if she disobeys them.

The prospective queen takes on the woman that most people expected to win
the joust and wins with her boosted power.

The official comes to visit the prospective queen and points out that she has
started to plan a rebellion. He reminds her what happened to the last five
monarchs of Min. She enslaves him

Chars
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Geoffrey Lin - The Last Emperor, genius, extremely powerful incarnate mage,
                temperamentally informal and refuses to stand on ceremony,
                governs almost entirely through little conversations at
                an endless series of parties he throws. 2345 years old.

Michael Fang - Our mid level incarnate official. Sexually submissive. Fairly
                strong incarnate mage. 39 years old.

Linda Choi - High level incarnate official who invites Micheal to a party with
                the emperor. Sexually dominant. 895 years old.

Yasmine Carr - Powerful minish mage who Micheal decides will make a good puppet
                for the empire. 5'10", 34H-28-40, red hair, hazel eyes.
