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The English

The English have been a warlike and brutal people for at least four hundred years. Even before they left their mist-spun isles, they subjugated their neighbors, the Scottish and Irish, and had waged brutal campaigns of piracy and conquest against their foes upon the European continent. Their expansion off of the continent was similarly violent. They took territory in the Americas, slaughtering its inhabitants, participated in the horrific triangle trade with wild abandon, and with the resulting money began to expand their reach across the world.   Colonies in the Caribbean funded colonies in the Americas, funded colonies in Africa, Asia, and Australia. At its height, it was said that the sun never set on the British Empire. And every inch of that empire was, is, soaked in innocent blood. And every drop of blood enriches the English throne.   The English Culture, then, is one fueled by wealth, and the fact that this wealth comes exclusively from barbaric violence. England must remain rich, and therefore must wage war and slaughter, and the idea that this is not acceptable is monstrous to most Englishmen. English culture, after all, is one that considers a third of the population of Bangladesh less important than mildly cheaper textiles.   And so, while the world turns against them, England fights. While billions cry out for freedom, England fights. While the Scotsman and the Irishman realize what they have been subjected to, what they continue to be subjected to, and demand justice, England fights.   She does not know how not to.   In our time, this slaughter did not abate until the World Wars forced the matter. In Qaf Arisen, the coming of Mount Qaf and the reduction of the boundaries between the Seen and Unseen have resulted in that decline coming sooner, and rather more gradually. Half the empire is in revolt, new technologies and alien peoples have destroyed her historic advantages, and the English face an inevitable end to the British Empire.   It should come as no surprise that such a blood-soaked creature has begun to make deals with the darker things to lurk beyond Mount Qaf.

Naming Traditions

Feminine names

I'm just stuck writing alternate history with a lot of articles clearly designed for secondary world fantasy

Masculine names

So my options here were racism and brutal, brutal satire

Unisex names

And, as an Indian dude pretty used to having this shit pointed at me

Family names

Look you know who the English are and how they're named

Other names

I chose satire.

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