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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 555762" data-attributes="member: 2292">Border NationsThe border nations are those countries that share borders, trade or interact with the various nations of Seldarn.  Urloc/The BeastlandsThe region known as Urloc is a blasted wasteland, the result of some catastrophe before the empire was ever formed.  Long shunned by humankind, it’s rocky hills and valleys have become the home to numerous humanoids of every type.  Tribes of gnolls, orcs, trolls, minatuars and ogres have carved a niche for themselves and named their wasted homeland Urloc.  To the folk of most other nations, it simply remains the Beastlands.It’s currently theorized that there is some dark force organizing the creatures in Urloc, making them more organized and training them in the arts of magic.  It’s though that this force, whatever it may be, was behind the recent Trollmist War’s when wave after wave of the beastmen came through the Trollmist Mountains to invade the Tsarli plains.The Sulrathi DesertThe Sulrathi Desert contains few kingdoms of any size, instead its people have formed into fractured city-states and tribes in the wake of their war that created the Seldarn Empire.  The people of the empire seldom travel into Sulrathi, although the dusk-skinned merchants are a common site in many Seldarn Trade Cities.  While the Sulrathi have failed to unite since the Jihad of –10 BF, they are still considered dangerous by the Seldarn military.GauntLittle is known about Gaunt, but hatred has existed between its people and those of Seldarn for centuries.  Gaunt is a small kingdom in the island chain known as the Spires of Blood in the Eastern Sea, although it’s thought that there may be a third continent not yet found by Seldarn explorers past the Island Chains that holds a Gauntian empire comparable to Seldarn.  What is known is that the people of Gaunt are pale-white skinned with white or black hair, and that they worship creatures such as the undead or demon lords.  Apart from the Demonstone War’s in the Halark City-states, Gaunt has never launched a full-scale attack on Seldarn soil, but there are constant rumors of Gauntian infiltrators and spies throughout the empire.  Even those who know little about the island kingdom fear it, and mothers around Seldarn use the people of gaunt as a bogeyman.The Old KingdomsThe old Kingdoms were ancient when Seldarn was founded, and their age is greater than any country in the Empire.  Most Seldarn nations were originally founded by Old Kingdom settlers, but few remember this fact.  The Old Kingdoms are barely united, but so engrossed in their own disputes that they rarely pay attention to Seldarn or its problems.  Some trade exists between the two regions, with more starting now the Empire controls the Tsarli plains and a safe land-pass to the northernmost kingdoms, but little else passes between.  At one point one of the Old Kingdoms, the Crystal Kingdom of Charos, maintained contact close bonds with Thilt, but these connections where destroyed in the Sulrathi invasion that lead to Thilt joining the empire.</blockquote>

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