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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samloyal23" data-source="post: 5881463" data-attributes="member: 21432">The Fallen Kingdoms: Thosia A land in the arid south-eastern corner of the continent, Thosia was one of the oldest nations of the known world, an empire founded long before the city of Kironos was even dreamt of by its founders. Ruled by a secession of divine kings, this desert nation was a centre of learning and commerce from the earliest of times until it was finally overcome by the Kironan Empire and its rulers forced to become mere imperial governors under foreign rule. Steeped in magic and alchemy, the Thosians had become corrupt and decadent, addicted to the pleasures of magical drugs and the easy comfort of summoned servants of other planes. Too confident in their power to bother with modernising their army or building magical defences for their cities, they succumbed to the swift attacks of the centaur legions as one city after another fell to the lances of these galloping warriors.A client state of the empire, Thosia became more indolent and less creative, the temples adhering to progressively stricter forms of orthodoxy as the influence of Kironan culture increased. The gods of Thosia took on the Kironan forms of their names and the Thosian language splintered into dialects as racial groups became more segregated. The culture regressed as nostalgia became patriotic, the people dreaming of their glorious past to stay in denial about their growing poverty and lack of control.Many Thosians thought their world was ready to end when the first great cataclysm struck the continent. Refugees fled the region in droves, abandoning their great cities by the thousand. Earthquakes seemed to follow in their wake, and many thought the gods had sent the disasters as punishment for their sins. Finally, a few thousand Thosians made it the Last Lands, barely reaching the islands in leaking ships pirated from the Kironans. Struggling to establish a new capital, it was the cult of Set that was able to first build a temple and push its leader into a position of power, the Thosian princess Aneh-tet then a young priestess just coming into her own.Today the Thosian city of Shosnar is a place of fear and suspicion, Aneh-tet's secret agents listening for rumours of dissent, spying on any foreigners who dare enter the city, and periodically going abroad to assassinate leaders of other cities who displease the paranoid queen.</blockquote>

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