History

World Weep Opening History

In Holomog, the Omwa, rulers of the regions of Holomog, bound in divine ritual to the very earth, were not able to travel and participate in the failed First Heroes March against the mad alchemist Mathesis. It was a shock to them and the rest of the nation when their divine connection with their matron goddess Mazludeh and the Celestial Concordance they had struck with the Empyreal Lords of the upper planes was shattered. Rending these Omwa from near avatars of the land of Holomog to ordinary mortals. At first, they turned to Divine ritual to attempt to bypass the Worldweep and commune with the outer planes, but these rituals failed. The Omwa and their magi turned to the other traditions, and their desperate, improvised rituals became corrupted and twisted, inadvertently leading to even greater destruction. The Omwa's body and mind broke and shattered into some fractal otherness, but they had connected once more to the land of Holomog. These corrupted Omwa, no longer operating in the interest of their people, began turning nature against the nation. The Omwa immediately attacked everything around them following the completion of their rituals, commanding the earth to twist, warp, attack, and eventually destroy the settlements they had once ruled.

Age of Collapse History — Era of Fractured Lands

In the centuries that followed the sudden silence of their Goddess, the people and nation of Holomog were at war, quite literally. The Fractal Omwa slowly traversed the regions of Holomog, warping forest, mountain, river, and all other manner of environment, rending giant scars across the nation wherever they traveled. The pockets of population that endured were forced to become nomadic, as no permanent settlement would survive if an Omwa came near. For centuries, these populations would adapt and come to thrive in their new circumstances.

Age of Renewal History

Following the word of the defeat of Mathesis and the observation of the end of alchemical experiments, the various people of Omwa gathered in the largest council in the nation since the Age of Lost Omens. It was decided that elite forces between the nomadic groups would train together and form elite teams of artifact scavengers, attempting to find ways of eliminating or perhaps even reversing the fractured Omwa. In the decades since, several victories have marked defeats against the Omwa; however, these victories come at great cost, and the people still push for better methods, so as not to destroy the very nation in their quest to free it.

Government

The various pockets of population all maintain their own forms of government as they migrate across the lands of Holomog. A large council is gathered every season on the solstices and equinoxes to share knowledge and discoveries in their quest to reclaim the country from the Omwa. With the defeat of certain Omwa, some permanent settlments have begun developing in recent decades, often hosting these councils.

Points of Interest

The Cerulean Spiral in the bay of Tinhri has held host to a Theocratic Monarchy of Chaos worshipping Ganzis and other humanoids. Far away from the domains of the corrupted Omwas, the protection of the structures that curve inwards, as the Spiral name suggests, has allowed a maritime culture of coastal expansion that continues its creep, ever-expanding the outer lip of the spiral.
The Crescent Cove is a three-tiered settlement where structures exist under the water for merfolk in the ocean, land structures for coastal humanoids, and a grand wet dock between the two. The communities have formed a symbiotic relationship that survived the Age of Collapse, and allows them one of the larger positions of power in the Southern Garund political table.

Anuli in the Nwanyi region of Holomog is the largest existing settlement within the lands of Holomog, and is hoping to become the capital of an restored nation. Once occupied by a strong shattered Omwa that utilized the Magebe Mountains as armor and weapon. A pirate queen claiming to be a descendant of the Red Sister Banna lead an assault a few decades ago. Backed by her crew, marked adventurers and hired mercenaries the pirate queen claimed the first victory against the Omwas in the Age of Renewal.

Organizations Within

The Red Sisters is a guild of pirates based in Anuli that attempts to turn their efforts against the corrupted, greedy, or otherwise cruel nations and individuals of the world and reinvest in the welfare of Holomog. Revitalized centuries later by Red Sister Banna, whose family had kept the original exploits of the Red Sisters as their oral tradition, this new crew operates much more like good-natured priveteers than the pirates they claim to be. They serve as the nation's largest standing militia force, and swear fealty to the Big Sister, a pirate queen who runs Anuli and may serve the rest of the nation in the future.

The Vortex is a chaos-worshipping cult based in the Cerulean Spiral region. The Vortex has small sects that worship different tenets and ideas of the outer planes and their relationship to chaos magic. Regardless, the dominant ideology is a desire to maintain a spiral of expansion leading ever outwards of the Cerulean Spiral. They are the second faction to defeat a corrupted Omwa when their spiral forced them into an overland fight in its geometric curve. There, the head of the Vortex unleashed torrents of wild magic that was said to shatter the land the Omwa commanded.

Major Conflicts

The reclaiming of Anuli city was a joint venture of the Red Sisters pirate crew, hired Katapesh mercenaries, and volunteer marked adventurers from the Second Hero's March. It was the first major conflict that defeated the corrupted Omwa demigods through the shattering of a mountain. The scars of the shattering have filled with water, creating new harbors and a system of natural canals.

The First Expansion of the Cerculean Spiral marked the event where the Vortex cult's spiral expansion of territory brought them behind the bay and into the territory of one of the Tinrhi Omwa. This fight was held between the Vortex cultists and the Omwa, which resulted in a massive spell ritual that shattered the land beneath the Omwa and expanded the Tinhri-Obari bay by several miles due to the fissures and cracks resultant from the fight.

Events in the Age of Renewal

Several smaller expeditions and the settling of lands in non-Omwa-controlled and territories have been made as the people attempt to reclaim their ancestral homes. A small network of scouts map out the ever-shifting territory and the slow patrols of the Omwa to ensure settlements and outposts stay supplied and connected, making the beginning of a spider-web of a connected nation.
The Red Sisters and Petrified Maidens of the Field of Maidens have repelled several scouting parties from the northern nation of Geb, and celebrate the destruction of a particularly arrogant Blood Lord. Something the nation of Geb denies to the outside world and censors within its own nation.
A ratification of trade agreements and common law in this decade has been proposed by the Red Sisters of Anuli to the web of settlements scattered across Holomog, marking the first national constitution attempt in the Age of Renewal.

Other notable changes from the past Golarion

The general population and characteristics of inhabitants mirror the past Golarion. There is a high number of mercenaries, pirates, and other bands of outsiders who intend to try braving the Omwa-dominated wilderness and reap the various treasures lying in the abandoned cities and ruins of the old nation. They tend not to get along with the settled peoples, but some do settle down and add a vast number of diverse backgrounds to the scattered towns and villages.