I'd give him, like, a solid 7. Didn't go through anything particularly terrible all a once, but his life was (and is) still fucked enough to make him pretty fucked. Like, just in general.

I think I'd give Ikio a ten.

Also, this is the current political system I have for Amlriyax:

Amlriyax was once run under a military dictatorship. When the kingdom became corrupt, three individuals—known as the Founders—rebelled and transformed the realm’s political system into a separation of powers. Authority is supposedly distributed among three political branches: Laoire, Iomchadh, and Feidhelm. This was done by the Founders in an attempt to ensure that power wouldn’t be concentrated in the hands of a single group of individuals.

The House of Laoire enforces laws and has control over the military. They are stationed in Lia City.

The House of Iomchadh makes laws. They are stationed in Iyr City.

The House of Feidhelm evaluates laws, adjudicating legal disputes and disagreements between the previous two. They make decisions based on The Supreme Laws, which were established by the Founders. They are stationed in Fyl City.

They are known for many things, but mostly for their corruption. They have always been corrupt, but after Majia’s fall, the Laoire Clan, having control over the military, locked the realm in a seemingly permanent state of emergency, bringing forth a martial law that prevented the other clans from assuming any sort of control even over the cities they legally governed. The House of Laoire, thus, established a military dictatorship. The Supreme Law is against military dictatorships, but the House of Laoire found a loophole and retain their power by hiding their political system as an absolute monarchy. Their absolute monarch, Deidre Riyax, is a mere figurehead whacked into the system for the sake of maintaining their alliances with the other realms.

Yeah, I'd say that all looks good. I don't really have much to add, it's pretty great on its own.

Coolcoolcool, I've whacked it into the world lore now. I'm going to add more details later on or just throughout the RP. I need to get started on the other kingdoms or I'll be stuck working on Amlriyax for infinity—

If you have them in your head, you can probably just move on and, when you've at least written the baseline for all of them, update periodically.

I am making slloooooowww progress, but I think it'll be less of a clusterfuck when I'm finally done.

Awesome! Speaking of progress, I'm done with the basics of Kalevi's bio. I might edit it and add more in the future, I might not (it sure is finished enough, at least), but I'm definitely done for today, at least.

Aight, I shall read the shit out of it once I'm done researching the Japan Empire and... whatnot.

I'm not gonna be done with any of this shit for so. fucking. long— At least I'm learning something, I s'pose :')

Do tell me your thoughts, by the way. I'd love to hear it.

No worries! Like I said, take all the time you need to write all that. I can help if you need it, because it sounds like you're writing quite a lot?