Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Peasant

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The Peasant is the basic harvester/builder unit of the Community of Cantha. Planned to be voiced by.

Overview
Clan peasants of Cantha are hardy and cheerful, if simple, lot; in floppy hats and rough spun tunics, they work ceaselessly to harvest the necessities of life, viewing their work in the fields as less a chore than a lifestyle they quite enjoy, knowing that their toil keeps the Clans alive as surely as the bright blades of the Samurai. They spend all day working the land they love, building their strength, and keeping their families fed; what's to complain about?

History
"The rice is my brother, the wind is my sister, and the sun is my friend. I never lack for companions."

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A long time back, when the Gods had walked Gaiaterra. The land of Cantha, even before Encantadia split off, was a relatively small and primitive nation. Compared to their neighbors, precursors to the superpowers of today, they had little natural resources and were mainly a hunter-gatherer society, the terrain of their land and their allies the Varls and Horseborn being the reasons why none of the nations bothered to conquer it.

It's due to their land's harshness that their Peasants, from teens entering adulthood to the elderly, are all able combatants. As a combination of needing to hunt for survival and the fear of being conquered each Cantha citizen had to spend two years serving in a militia and learn basic combat once they reach the age of eighteen, after which they can learn to specialize in any other roles. Thus, on paper, their army is but an ant compared to their neighbor's military but in practice, their citizens can quickly become soldiers by going into a nearby armory and arm themselves into what they had trained for, whether a Swordsmen at the front or a Hurler at the back.

Even today Cantha doesn't have a proper army and these men and women who are conscripted, now called national service (or NS), still proudly call themselves Peasants, with the only change being that they replaced the daggers they wielded from the old times with an SMG, many theories abound but the likely reason was to avoid associating themselves with the Conscripts of the Voshkod. And when Cantha goes to the Peasants are levied and march to war. And it's this citizen-militia way of forming an army being why most Cantha forces need to equip themselves on the battlefield rather than behind the lines like most forces.

To those who know little of Cantha will be shocked that, despite their equipment, their army only consists of what are basically conscripts, and often underestimates them. Such demeanors changed once these Peasants enters the armories built on the field and exit as soldiers. As each Peasant was trained to master the basics of everything, from shooting to piloting.