Tian Xia is their ‘Asian fusion’ continent, has a lot of different regions and governments all dreamt up by a very wide cast of writers in Asia, but most seem to be from Shanghai and Hong Kong.

I am told that if you speak some Asian languages, these are very fun names to look at.

Big bads:

cw: spider

cw: spider

cw: spider

super saiyan cat

adorable forest fey

tanuki!!

racially diverse ‘western’ explorers and refugees, technically a ‘hong kongesque’ situation without brutal colonialism:

this is qin shi huangdi except the elixir actually worked

qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

before anyone gets weirded out by the elves, all pathfinder elves look like this, even ones from ‘western’ or ‘african’ areas

fantasy korea

sassy snake deity

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dragons

  • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    the pathfinder version of fantasy China includes a parody of Maoist China lol

    complete with Mao and Jiang Qing:

    Following Lung Wa’s collapse in 7106 IC, the rich bureaucrats, with the aid of a corrupt clergy, struggled to control the restless populace. In this era of political turmoil, Grandfather Pei, a scholar from a peasant background, began spreading the Pei philosophy of communism. Pei preached for equal treatment of all humanoids and demanded that prosperity be shared equally among all citizens. Gathering an army of peasants, workers, and other downtrodden folk, Grandfather overthrew the corrupt government and its puppets in the clergy in the Bachuan Revolution in 7126 IC. Thus independent, Grandfather restored to Pen Wa its original name, Bachuan, as a newly reformed republic. Though Grandfather Pei intended to bring a new era of peace and prosperity to Bachuan, the Pei philosophy proved much harder to implement than planned. The strict philosophy opposed religion and the private ownership of property, and enforced state control over the production and distribution of wealth. Beneath the Sun Chamber, the infamous Ministry of Peace and Harmony operated re-education camps to force its ideology on dissenters, and in later years instituted ideological purges to root out any who were not sufficiently zealous. Pei’s failures of leadership resulted in an authoritarian government, suppression of religion, ideological purges, and the establishment of re-education camps. When Grandfather Pei died in 7168 IC, his young widow Pu Yae Men—better known as Grandmother Pei, and herself indoctrinated in Bachuan’s re-education camps—implemented an even harsher vision with a revolutionary zeal untethered to Bachuan’s troubled reality.

    it even has a Deng Analog lol:

    The Shui Jing reforms

    Shui Jing was an oracular Tian-Shu woman who claimed to be a mathematician, and she possessed considerable social charms that quickly gained her favor among the Pei family. She united the factions long enough to propose a series of policy reforms that would change the shape of Bachuan:

    The end of enforcement and official proselytizing of the Pei philosophy,

    The division of Bachuan into six municipalities, one for each of the Sun Council’s factions,

    Reformed property ownership laws that could encourage private ownership and foreign investment, with a decade of minimal taxation on profits.

    https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Bachuan

    https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Communism