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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 300139" data-attributes="member: 571">If you have a copy of the Necropolis adventure from Necromancer Games, take a look on page 247. There you'll find a map of the land of Khemit. Around the land of Pharaoh you'll note the names of a number of other lands. In this thread I will be providing information about those lands for your amusement and edification. The first is the kingdom of Shamash.Shamash lies to the northeast of Khemit, bordering the land of Philistia (a Khemit domain and border march). With Phoenecia and Hasur to the north, Babylonia to the east, and Yarbay to the south. Shamash is a rough, near mountainous land with a coastal plain in the west, falling off to an semi-arid plain in the east. It has been inhabited for millennia, and some of her towns and cities date back 8,000 years or more.Once a client state of Babylonia, in recent years she has asserted some degree of independence, and has come to take a leading role in the ongoing struggle between the Sumerian (Babylonian) and Khemitic pantheons. Shamash hopes to take advantage of the coming chaos caused by Rahotep's attempt to take the Khemit throne to conquer the Triple Kingdom and so expand the power of the Babylonian pantheon.At present Shamash sponsors raids into Philistia and stands guard against punitive expeditions from that quarter. At present it appears that war with Hasur is possible, a war some suspect is being funded by Khemit. Babylon is urging restraint on the part of Shamash where Hasur is concerned, but there are those of Shamash who consider this an attempt by Babylon at regaining control over the kingdom. It could be that the Khemites are seeking to cause a rift between Shamash and Babylon, thus effectively ending the threat posed by the two in alliance.Shamash is a fruitful land, with bountiful crops of grain, vegetable, and fruit. The official language is Sumerian, which was revived but a few hundred years ago, after having died out over a thousand years before. The common folk more often speak one of a number of West Semitic languages, with Trade Phoenecian and a "Creole" known as Aramaic acting as Lingua Franca of sorts. The kingdom's goal is to have everyone using Sumerian in a few generations, but not everyone wishes to give up the language their ancestors spoke.Should Shamash actually conquer Khemit they will likely seek a new arrangement with Babylon. One that would place Shamash in the dominant position. Thus, Babylon is seeking a way to maintain the status quo after the conquest is done. As noted before, relations with the kingdom of Hasur are tense, and war is near. Phoenecia remains on (relatively) good terms with her southern neighbor. Yarbay by contrast is wary, but seeks to maintain good relations in case they can gain some advantage from future events.Overall, Shamash is on a cusp, and could either rise to great power, or collapse into barbarity and possibly even subjugation.-----Tomorrow we'll take a look at the land of Yarbay.</blockquote>

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