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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhineglade" data-source="post: 6777422" data-attributes="member: 6801931">GOLGATHOROfficial Name: GolgathorRuler: His Supreme Benevolence, Patriach Balthezar (NE male human, Clr 16)Government: Dependent feudal territory governed by an figurehead appointed by the Aelinorian Emperor; Patriarch has a certain degree of latitude in daily affairs but most matters of significance must be approved by his liegeCoat of Arms: (Ancient). Sable, a phoenix gulesNotable Figures: Commandant-General Mezerine (LE male tiefling, Ftr 14); Prelate Tazernik (CE male human, Clr 15)Rule of Law: Neutral Evil. Written legal system but one sided in favor of the state.  The needs of the state will outweigh the needs of the general population.Population: 200,000Capital: Bloodpool (pop. 13,000)Major Cities: Darkwall, GallowtideMajor Religions: Mathraxis, Mordagh, Kharon, JocastaMajor Resources: amberMilitary: 10,000 (composed mainly of light and heavy infantry)Allies: Aelinore, Avernia, Draugmore, Rhuthune, Aldimir (sometimes)Enemies: Rendore, Defiant Lands (sometimes)Golgathor is a burned out husk of its former self.  Once a mighty theocratic state dedicated to the fire goddess Jocasta, the high priests and priestesses ruled from the citadel of Bloodmoon for generations.  Ambition ran high among the hierarchs which lead to a most unfortunate of occurrences.  On the day of the Summer Solstice in 1481, the Jocastic priesthood began a dangerous ritual in an attempt to open a permanent planar gateway into the Elemental Plane of Fire.  The ritual was a disaster causing instead a temporary rift to open into the Plane of Fire instead.  Great torrents of smoke and flame erupted from the rift.  Carried by the winds coming up from the Howling Bay, the flames travelled inland and scorched a vast majority of the hinterland leaving nothing but burnt landscape in its wake.  The region is now commonly known as the ‘Burning Lands.’  Most of the region east of the Amber Hills is soot and ash.  Pockets of green can be found like an oasis here and there as nature slowly attempts to reclaim what it lost.  Few permanent settlements are found here however.Much of the population perished by fire on what was called the Great Conflagration.  Those that survived fled to one of the towns along the coast, the Tyr River or south to the Defiant Lands.  Jocasta’s cult of Golgathor perished in the conflagration.  Those few that survived fled to neighboring lands or went into hiding.  The nation however never recovered leaving it ripe for invasion.  Seeing an opportunity to expand his holdings, the Fell-Emperor of Aelinore sent an army across the river into Golgathor to slay what little resistance was left.  What was left of the population was either too weakened or too frightened to offer up any resistance.  A few of the locals were allowed to live but most were either enslaved or killed.From its ashes, a new Golgathor was born.  This one a puppet state to Aelinore.  The emperor squeezes what little he can from the Burning Lands.  It also serves as a veritable gulag to which enemies may be exiled when death is not currently an option for whatever reason. The regime in Golgathor now is devoted to the Fell-Emperor and packed with all manner of sycophants.  Most are blindly devoted to the Lich-Lord.  Others fear and respect him.  The former capital of Bloodmoon has long since been rebuilt but is an oppressive and somber city these days.[ATTACH]72412[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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