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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Najo" data-source="post: 3994966" data-attributes="member: 9959">Warning: My article contains a little bit of Spoliers of the first and second Prism Pentad books. Tyr controls iron, is a major trade hub between balic and urik and the outlaying cities leading to Nibenay and Gulg. The iron is key to understanding the citystate's role in the setting.Balic is a roman republic, but the senators are blind and mute (eyes and tongues cut out) and the serve their Sorcerer King through psionic telepathy/ mind links he holds while they are in session. Draj is the Aztec city. Human sacrifice, worshiping the queen as a god etc.Nibenay is the highest evolved dragon king, he is rarely seen outside his temple. His templars are all women who he takes as wives and the higher therank the less clothing they wear. They are all highly trained warriors and are kept as a harem. The culture is obssessed with monsters and evil spirits, carving visages of creatures into their builds to ward them away. Nibenay vanity is so that his temple is designed to look like his human visage and has named his city after himself. Gulg is ruled over by the forest god-queen. She is seen as the wrath of the earth, a vengeful demon of nature. Here warriors worshiper as a warrior goddess and mother of life that keeps them safe from enemies. Raam is the Sorcerer king who has a revolution occuring, and ends up being killed by his citizens. I don't remember much of the culture here. I think they were highly supersitious and into astrology and divination here. Everything is based on portents and entrail reading. Urik is ruled over by the Warrior God King Humanu. He is the youngest of the sorcererkings and was created after the Cleansing War. His city controls the obsidian in the surrounding land, with many state slaves being used to mine the glass like rock. Humanu maintains a standing army of slaves, trained soldiers and templars. It is Kalak's death in the first novel that brings Hamunu's attention onto the iron mines of Tyr. The political heroes whjo replaced Kalak in Tyr decide to send an army to Urik to stop Humanu, Rikus is put in charge of it. The army marches to Urik, does a decent job of fighting back Urik's army, and then Humanu in all his glory shows up and singly handly wipes through Rikus army, which I remember being awesome. The Tyrian army is sent back defeated. But Urik is slowed down, as Humanu has to rebuild his forces.</blockquote>

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