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Wonder Alert: D3 - Garlino: The Great Bridge of Gartino, which spans a mile across the whitewater Gartino river, connects the city of Garlino to its second half, Garlinones. This has spurred further interaction between the distant halves. They will indeed rise and fall together.
Wonder Alert: - D5-E7 - Obayonid City States: The Obay Wall stretches thousands of miles across the Iril Mountains, from the Peaks of the Sun near Dasteah, all the way to the great Spine Mountains west of the Arhkass. It was built by the great Obayonid Emperor Seid III from his seat in Mayal to keep the Eddarians from the Teined river valley and the cradle of civilization. It would take a massive invasion force indeed to penetrate the wall, and an even more huge one to fully conquer it.
E5-F6 - Eddarian Coast - The Lavrans, finding nice trading partners in the somewhat tricksy (and usually violent) Eddarians, have settled several small trading way-points along the Eddarian coast. Contact has been made with the distant hegemonic Umiritsine League, bringing Umiritsine and Aodaran trade goods as far as the Horkin tribes, the Kaul and the southern Issith, and vice versa.
F7 -
The Issith Valley? - Fed up with Gurkish raids and the Veskans' presumptuous capture of Fort Forista, the Issith of Nolkis-na-Taren have sent raids across the
Toravopes river, hitting the town of Veskopes and the farming villages surrounding. The result has been less than fruitful, but Veskopes no longer control the aforementioned fort; a Gurkish party, eager for plunder, had also been planning something, and took their chance when they could, capturing the Fort back.
E8 - Just north, beyond the
Gurkish Plateau, more plans are made. Tired of being destroyed every time they attempt a raid past the accursed Fort Forista (now in their control, however), the Gurks have tried a different heading: North, towards the Irilenes. Cutting through farmlands and fording across a great river, they come upon the town of Cairnis, ripe for the plucking, falling upon it like flies to a fish. [2 points General Olaf>Terrance888]
E7 - Perhaps spurred from the mountains by the Obay Wall, or perhaps by the Gurks' advances on the Irilenes, the Kenefah have descended upon the Teiden Valley, burning as they go. They follow the religion of Firism, the tenets of which state that the Mistress of Fire will consume all, and that all must bow to her as she rides across the sky each day. Many have called this an off-shoot of Teinism, though just as many say not. It has spread as far as Tolindanas in the south, but it has also brought Teinism with it.
F9 - The city of Zanomar has developped one of the perhaps most delicate, but also most interesting political structures; it was once an Issith town, carved deep in the rocks of an island at the mouth of the [BToravopes[/B] river, until Swiech settlers discovered the site and deemed it verily worthy of settlement. They tunneled their cramped warrens above, below and all around the Issith village until it was lost in the sprawl. Two rickety stone bridges constructed by human entrepreneurs cross the River above, while countless tunnels far below the water line serve as exits for the great city. Far below, where the waterfall thunders down into the Zanomar Bay, rudimentary Docks have been carved into the stone for ships to dock at the huge subterranean city, with stairs carved into the walls leading to the surface if you prefer that to the dark, dank, dangerous tunnels of the city of Zanomar.
North, along the cliffs, the town of Ganamir trades for wheat from Ranir. far along the coast in the north, with mainly the sole purpose of selling it to the burgeoning city of Zanomar. Ancient, rickety wooden stairs anchored to the cliff-face lead down to the water line, where a small dock acts as the port for the town. Any seaward assaults on the town would definitely prove disastrous.
South across the bay, the human town of Danaropes, occupied for the last few centuries by Issith warlords, likewise imports fish from the far-off Samaki to feed the bustling metropolis that Zanomar has quickly become. Caverns carved by Issith miners at the water level act as a fairly well-fortified dockspace, where traders and merchants bring their fishy goods.
Krutargga - Hearing of the benefits had by the Krutarg of Shu-Taarg, easier time raiding, a good, central place to store humans for future consumption, both Ogres in the west and the Krutarg in the east have taken to settling into small villages from which they would raid the countryside. Depending on your point of view, the Krutarg of Swi-Woh either have it very good, or very hard. Food is plentiful but so are the soldiers of the Quatriut, more specifically the city of Usial. The Sephirean city of Ranir has also become a problem to the local Krutarg population.
E6-F9 - between the
Issith or
Toravopes Valley, and the
Teiden Valley. A new colony-type creature, apparently sentient and aware of its surroundings, has appeared. The
Kintara, a plant-like creature which eats anything that moves.
E9-E11 - The
Tempest Coast - Much like the Lavrans in the far corners of the world, the Quatriut people are merchants, explorers, traders by nature. Their ships have reached as far as the Horkin tribes in the far south, and by proxy goods from as far away as the distant Sunset League on the opposite end of the world. Massive amounts of food are required to be imported from the Swiech
Warren-Isles of the
Tempest Sea, and the Sephirean towns of Ranir and Parin in the west, which is quickly becoming a megalopolis, built off of trade. [+size to Ranir+Dhahabu Samaki due to massive agricultural export to multiple cradles.]
Much tension exists between the cities of Usial, Dona, Trensor on the Widewater, and Quarsi. Competition for the import of food has lead to much of this, but regular stresses that comes from competing merchantry has done nothing good for this situation. The cities have warred on countless occasions, and they have all been besieged at various points, but never have any gone so far as to sack the other cities. Wengi, or the Swiech worship of metals of divine origin, has major sway over the Quatriut cities.
H5 - The Lavran city of Kalafereki hosted a small force of various Lavran armies dedicate (to wage?) to securing their interests on the south coast. Countless raids had gone from Djui-Na-Hamdan against the Lavran towns of Tonadaki in the east, and Lekika in the west. Fed up with this, the host marched, and kidnapped the Queen of Djui-Na-Hamdan. Her palace is currently held hostage, and distorted normalcy has continued in the city, however the Issith have begun raiding those that would oppose the Lavran expansion now.
H8 - A combination of Horkin and Lavran settlers have taken advantage of the as-yet unnamed river, and coalesced into the city of Hiruma.
K6 - Not long before the Lavran party attacked the city, an Issith Queen was sent south from Djui-na-Hamdan. The news reached the Queen in waves, and she fled even farther south than even she expected to. Thus, Neh'shu was founded.
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