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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 6458918" data-attributes="member: 509">Zooming in on the history of the Flan:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The Flan is littered with ruins of past civilizations. Of which there are *a lot*. Practically every town and city is built on the ruin of something or another, and you'd be hard pressed to find a mountain that hasn't been hollowed out for a dungeon.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> You won't find any large sprawling forests on the Flan south of the Highlands, as they've all long ago been cut down. Instead, there are a fair amount of smaller woodlands peppering the lands, each one protected by a some local supernatural power or another. The Highlands supply most of the Flan's wood, as the Highland lords long ago brokered a pact with the Parliament of Trees, the group of local guardian powers--they can cut freely as long as they follow certain protocols and the land taken to farming is kept within strict limits. This has kept the Highlands more sparsely populated than the lands in the south and you won't find many farms close to the forests.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The last big civilization to rise on the Flan were the Netheril, a human magocracy. They dominated the entire Flan as well as Thabos, the lands West of the Flan, for over a thousand years.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The Netheril Empire collapsed from a mixture of internal strife and war. A lot of factions at the time were expecting the Netheril to self-destruct in apocalypse-level shenanigans, but it just kinda crumbled in on itself with a whimper.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> It was the turmoil following the fall of the Netheril that opened the door for the Giant takeover.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The Flan hasn't really seen the rise of a big powerful state since, although there have been a few attempts down in the Lowlands. </li> </ul></blockquote>

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