I'm interested in starting my 2E group out with a campaign set during the fall/transformation of Sargava, but I have some questions about what the culture was like there before it became the more egalitarian Vidrian:
- Were Halflings still enslaved in Sargava? Did they enslave local halflings, or import "slips" from the homeland?
- Did they enslave any of the local humans/elves/etc, or were the latter disenfranchised in other ways?
- How common was diabolism in Sargava among the ruling class?
- How common was diabolism in Sargava among the ruling class?
Not very, according to the PathfinderWiki page. Major relgions are Abadar, Gozreh, Iomedae, and Shelyn. Iirc, diabolism wasn't the major religion of Cheliax until House Thrune took over after the Civil War that erupted upon Aroden's death, and Sargava broke away from Cheliax because they were anti-Thrune.
For the rest, I'll have to dig out my Lost Colony book, but the Cheliax that founded Sargava worshipped Aroden, not Asmodeus.
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I'm interested in starting my 2E group out with a campaign set during the fall/transformation of Sargava, but I have some questions about what the culture was like there before it became the more egalitarian Vidrian:
- Were Halflings still enslaved in Sargava? Did they enslave local halflings, or import "slips" from the homeland?
- Did they enslave any of the local humans/elves/etc, or were the latter disenfranchised in other ways?
As far as I can tell reading over the Sargava book (and doing a word search for 'slave'), the colonists do not actually keep slaves in a formal sense. All references to slavery are either references to economic inequalities, or to people like the Bekyar doing so rather than the colonists as a whole. The town of Crown's End engages in slavery a fair amount, but that's talked about like it's illicit (if a bit of an open secret), and it's implied they are sold to people like pirates from the Shackles rather than locally.
They clearly treat the native people terribly, but references are made to them as "servants" (quotes and all), rather than slaves.
This is consistent with slavery in Cheliax being something supported by the House of Thrune and Hell rather than something common prior to that regime, which seems very plausible to me.
- How common was diabolism in Sargava among the ruling class?
As Joana notes, probably very rare. They broke from Cheliax over this as much as anything.
Thanks, this is all helpful. It sounds like the main issues should be unfair treatment for “non-citizens”, cultural chaivanism, segregation....looking at Apartheid South Africa, rather than Colonial West Africa.