Editing 7th Sea (section)

===Ussura===
Feudal Russia and Eastern Europe. Has a [[Kislev]] feel to it. The supplement also allowed for the use of their national shape shifting magic.  Not a terrible place to live, since the harshness of the land causes the people to be kind to one another. Oh, and the land is now sentient and is protecting them, so it was able to take two different invasion armies, and rape them to her heart's content. Locals call it "Matushka" (meaning <s>your momma</s> Mother) and treat her as something halfway between a goddess and an ancestor.  (They're still Vactine, though they have their own Orthodox Christianity equivalent that only recognizes the First Prophet, who supposedly met with Matushka personally and got her stamp of approval.) Kids are taught that Matushka can show up in their lives and test them, if they are good people. And guess what? It does happen, so Ussurians are generally nice people, ready to help others. Unless you're trying to mess with them, and then you learn why that was a mistake. Seriously, those guys wrestle bears for fun.

Their tsar, the Gaius, is clearly inspired by Ivan the Terrible, a ruthless man beloved by the common people for bringing them justice and stability after a long period of arbitrary rule and civil war, but cruel and harsh to the corrupt nobles he reigns over.  He is tormented not only by his own mental instabilities and the sycophantic nobles who intrigue against him, but by Matushka trolling and gaslighting him, occasionally appearing in his mirror to remind him that [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0 it's she who put him where he is now, and she can put him back down too].

Their racial magic, gained from Matushka rather than Legion, involves taking on the shapes of animals, usually by getting their permission first.  There are many extremely-powerful-but-villain-exclusive variants of this that are broke as fuck.  They have three combat schools: one used by "knights" revolving around heavy weapons, mostly axes (Bogatyr), a bow-based school that, rather than the Goodfellow school's focus on actually making the bow viable, concentrated on mounted archery and hunting (Buslayevich), and the one you've all been waiting for, the Dobrynya wrestling school, which not only gives you the power to crush men in your arms, but focuses on making you immune to harsh weather, Polar Bear Club style.