Pellucidar Profile

*I own nothing, the Pellucidar series was originally written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and is now in the public domain. Yeah, yeah, I know, the Burroughs Estate owns it and whatnot, but all the novels are in public domain, so shut up.
**And for those few who care, I'm basing this profile roughly around the events of Tanar of Pellucidar.

Name: Pellucidar
Status: Savage, Coming out of the Stone Age, Struggling to become unified

The source

===Geography/Description===

So, what is Pellucidar? Well, I could try and explain it, but I doubt my words could truly convey it: so let me have the authors own words explain it, with this excerpt from Tarzan at the Earth's Core.

Pellucidar, as every schoolboy knows, is a world within a world, lying, as it does, upon the inner surface of the hollow sphere which is the Earth.
It was discovered by David Innes and Abner Perry upon the occasion when they made the trial trip upon the mechanical prospector invented by Perry, wherewith they hoped to locate new beds of anthracite coal. Owing, however, to their inability to deflect the nose of the prospector, after it had started downward into the Earth's crust, they bored through for five hundred miles, and upon the third day [...] the nose of the prospector broke through the crust of the inner world.
In the years that have intervened, weird adventures have befallen these two explorers. Perry has never returned to the outer crust, and Innes but once-upon that occasion when he made the difficult and dangerous return trip in the prospector for the purpose of bringing back to the empire he had founded in the inner world the means to bestow upon his primitive people of the stone age the civilization of the twentieth century.
But what with battles with primitive men and still more primitive beasts and reptiles, the advance of the empire [...] had been small.
[...]
... within Pellucidar three-quarters of the surface is land, so that jungle, mountain, forest and plain stretch interminably over 124,100,000 square miles: nor are the oceans with their area of 41,370,000 square miles of any mean or niggardly extent.
[...]
In the exact center of the earth hangs Pellucidar's sun, a tiny orb compared with ours, but sufficient to illuminate Pellucidar and flood her teeming jungles with warmth and life-giving rays. Her sun hanging thus perpetually at zenith, there is no night upon Pellucidar, but always an endless eternity of noon.
There being no stars and no apparent movement of the sun, Pellucidar has no points of compass; nor has she any horizon since her surface curves always upwards in all directions from the observer, so that far above one's line of vision plain or sea or distant mountain rage go onward and upward until lost in the haze of the distance. And again, in a world where there is no sun, no stars and no moon,

If I might interrupt, there is a moon, thus the Land of Always Shadow (which is inhabited by a race of warrior people that are now members of the Empire of Pellucidar)- dammit Burroughs, keep your story straight- you made this setting, don't forget prominent details of it!

such as we know, there can be no such thing as time, as we know it.
[...]
We know that Perry's first great gift of civilization to the stone age was gunpowder. We know that he followed this with repeating rifles, small ships of war upon which were mounted guns of no great caliber, and finally we know he perfected a radio.

And there you have it- Pellucidar is a world within our world, dominated by dinosaurs, ice age mega fauna, cavemen, pirates, and a thousand oddities throughout. A world only possible through pulp fiction novelettes.

A perfect setting for Kingdom Conquest- doesn't even need to be whisked away with a portal, as it's so remote that no one can ever reach it. Yay, laziness!

===Third-Party Factions===

The Empire of The Korsar

To quote the good people of r/civbattleroyale when the topic of the Pirates is ever brought up,
arrrrgh lmao

The Korsars (a bastardization of the word 'Corsair') are without a doubt the most significant threat to the people of Pellucidar. Descendants of Moorish pirates that (somehow) made it into the hollow earth, the Korsars are a brutal and dangerous people. To them, their culture is one thing and one thing only: Pillaging.

They are especially good at this, having conquered many a civilization in the center world, blindsiding all of them through superior technology (muskets and Napoleonic ships>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>spears and canoes) and a sheer level of brutality unmatched by any other notable race in Pellucidar.

At current, they are more-less at war with the Empire of Pellucidar, although it's hardly a true war and more of the varying pirate fleets of their empire just butting heads with these new people while also competing with other pirate fleets. The Korsar are almost like the Greeks in a sense, in that they have no true centralized government, just a series of cities and fleets that more-less get along with each other.

When they're not slaughtering and torturing each other, that is.

Mahar Remnants

Would you believe me if I said the Mahar and the Sagoths were the inspiration for H.P Lovecraft's Elder Ones and Shoggoths? Because apparently they were.

The Mahar. A race of highly evolved Rhampsorynchus, these flying reptiles are leagues ahead of their Jurassic ancestors, having evolved to 7-feet tall sapient reptiles that, until very recently, controlled a good deal of known Pellucidar. Living in grand cities crafted by slave races and having considerable "fourth-dimensional" psychic powers, they ruled with an iron... uh, wing?

Using the ape-like Sagoths as their personal servants (which they commanded through sign-language), the Mahar used humans as simultaneous labor-force and a food source. Due to the insidious nature of the Sagoths, the Mahar were never aware that humans were sapient, instead assuming them to be dumb animals like Sheep- had they known humans were sapient, they would have been appalled and subsequently kill the shit out of their lying right-hand men.

So come the rebellion that lead to the Empire of Pellucidar, and the Mahar were horribly caught off-guard, their empire devastated and nearly destroyed, especially when the Sagoth turn-coated on their former masters and helped the Empire of Pellucidar bring upon their downfall.

The Mahar are now a weakened race, hiding out in a handful of cities across the continent, being hopelessly confused and practically throwing themselves at their knees to apologize to the new empire and have them not kill them. So far, the Empire is in an uneasy peace with the Mahar, while aforementioned reptiles idly wonder how Sagoth will taste like.

Empire of Pellucidar

You see that ship in the background?
There's.

The newest and most significant power in Pellucidar, the titual Empire is a group of varying tribes and peoples across the world of Pellucidar lead by the Emperor David Innes (a man so generic that I cannot bring myself to make an Important Individuals list for this profile, as it would just be him). They are a strange people, bouncing between civilization and brutality- they have a government that's (more-less) similar to that of Britains', medicinal knowledge, ships not too dissimilar to those of the Napoleonic era (albeit not that impressive in construction nor armament), and juggle between using rifles or spears in combat.

To give a mental picture of the Empire of Pellucidar, imagine Cavemen in crude outfits resembling a british redcoat, holding a rifle and riding on either a Wooly Mammoth, a Troodon, or a Smilodon, and fighting with tactics that wouldn't be too dissimilar out of Rome. Couple them with the allied Kingdoms (miscellaneous groups that ave little to no backgrounds, so use your imagination even more wider to imagine them) battling around cities that look like they came from Mesoamerica.

That is the Empire of Pellucidar, the central power of this titular world.

I cannot describe much more, because, I'll be honest here, the Pellucidar books don't care enough to describe these people besides cavemen except not cavemen.

So I apologize for this sounding vague, bring up your issues with the Burroughs estate.

Anyways, for an invading army, they will be the only faction you can reasonably expect to negotiate with- although crude and primitive, the higher-ups of the Empire desperately wish for advancement, and any invading faction (that isn't wanting to be obviously evil) will bring something of worth to these people.

Miscellaneous

This happened.
It was amazing.

So, aside from the obvious inclusion of dinosaurs (one of which, the Dryodor/Stegasaurus, is carnivorous and flies with the plates on it's back), a few other civilizations do exist in Pellucidar, but I failed to mention them proper due to a lack of notable information or proof of them being a true threat. These miscellaneous groups are

• Ape-Men: Tribes of pseudo-humans that live in dense forest. They're black in color (as in Black), with pronounced canines, a rather primitive language and are essentially just rather large monkeys. They more-less serve the Mahar, and are a rather weak race all together.
• Ant-People: A race of near-sapient ant people, they have stone age technology, covered in dark carapace and have prominent fangs. They're not a smart people, and are very weak in physical terms.
• Azarians: A race of pseudo-humans that stand over 7 feet tall, with ugly features and pronounced tusks. They prefer to live in caves, and usually predate humans.
• Beast Men: Yeah, yeah, I know, Warhammer Fantasy and all that. But no, Beast Men are essentially sapient gorillas with sheep-like faces, and a generally peaceful race of farmers.
• Coripies: A race of humans that live underground in an expansive cave network. They've been underground for so long that they no longer even have eyes, and are opportunistic scavengers. They'll burrow up to the surface after an especially brutal battle or kill and scurry away with whatever wounded or dead they can grab.
• Ganaks: Horned, carnivorous bison people that live in the mountains and have a very Aztec-styled culture. So yeah, here are your Warhammer Fantasy Beastmen.
• Gorbuses: Yet another race of people that live underground, they are a race of albino and are, in a strange removal from logic, the reincarnations of prolific murders or sadistic soldiers from the surface world. So yeah, Pellucidar (or parts of it) are apparently Hell?
• Horibs: A race of literally heartless reptile-men that ride triceratops' into battle and like to eat human flesh.
• Sabre-tooth Men: Supposedly an offshoot of the Ape-Men, Sabre-tooth Men are much larger (6 feet at least), are cannibalistic and generally brutal, and are disturbingly good at leaping through the dense jungle.

So yeah, Pellucidar sucks no matter where ya go.

Danger Rating: 3/5: Pellucidar is a bit interesting to determine in terms of how threatening they are. The varying factions of Pellucidar, in a one-on-one fight with any of the factions in our tournament, would lose very quickly in any major battle, averting plot contrived bullshit. The biggest problem however is it's sheer scope- this is a dense jungle covered "country" that's 124,100,000 square miles in size. For comparison, Russia is 6,592,735 square miles.

Pellucidar is a jungle that is the size of nearly 19 Russia's- and that's not even mentioning the fucking massive ocean that nearly reaches the scope of the Pacific. Whomever conquers will from than on win just through sheer number of collected infantry from this land.

HAVE FUN!