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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 7579833" data-attributes="member: 92305">HYRKANIA CITY STATES AND POCKET KINGDOMSThe Queen Sonja comic series, by Dynamite, fills in some of the details of the lands east of the Vilayet.  We know, from the early Marvel comics (and Red Sonja's introduction in those same comics) that one of the City States that lays on the east bank of the Vilayet Sea is Pah-Disha.  Another, also on the coast, is Makkalet.  Sonja grew up, thieving, on the streets of Pah-Disha.The Queen Sonja comics reveal a kingdom named Sogaria, where Sonja takes the throne and becomes queen.  She rules from the royal city of Issindi.Farther east, on Sogaria's border, lies the Emorian Empire, which is a collection of smaller kingdoms.  Two of these kingdoms are Tirket and Kell.  Gabon is the capital of Tirket, while Nicolla is the royal city of Kell.  Both these peoples hate each other.  Even though they are both members of the Emorian Empire, they have deep, ancestral hatred among the two races.Game-wise, all of the people in this region are Hyrkanians.  But, the Hyrkanian race in the core rulebook is geared towards the northern steppe horsemen.  An enterprising GM who has read these comics may want to create some splinter races, giving them some differences, treating them the way the Hyborians are treated in the game (an Argosian is different from an Aquilonian, and both are different than Zingarans, etc.).The races in this part of the world of of mixed blood, but there is a strong far eastern influence (from Khitai).  Yet, many Hyrkanians are white and have round eyes, like Red Sonja and Tamara from the 2011 Conan movie.  A Hyrkanian city-state is shown at the end of that film.An adviser to the Emperor of the Emorian Empire is an incredibly powerful sorcerer named Solas, who lives in the Tower of Kolistri.  Solas consorts with demons, and his art allows him to teleport fairly effortlessly. An area near Emora and Sogaria is the Druid Lands.  People never enter that dark realm.  It is said that dark magics abound!Antonious it the Emperor of Emora.</blockquote>

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