victory and renown. Her proud boasts are not hollow. Alone amongst the nations of the Empire, the Dawn has never given up land to the barbarians. But the

are the beating heart of the Empire, and they know that if only the other nations followed their example, the Empire would rule the world. Scions sired by

“Bar your door, and do not open it before sunrise.” Varushka is a land of dark magics and dark tales. Monsters lurk in the sunless spaces of the forests

are its beating heart, sending tides of wealth back and forth across the nations. In the South are Sarvos - elegant and sophisticated, cultured and refined

mountains into cities, to educate the ignorant, and to shape the fate of nations. In Urizen the most important lesson is this – that a single individual

Empire. The First Empress was Highborn. She pulled the scattered human nations together and enlightened them to the true faith. Only actions are virtuous

three tribes, each inspired by the example of one of the Founders of their nation. They prize individual freedom and responsibility and although they are

with it. Their somewhat brutal practicality may shock members of other nations, but it's born out of necessity, not ignorance. They are not animists, nature

autumn – and to war. Hearth and home, loyalty and land. Rivalry, pride and a nation of traditions. Sentinel hills, silent marshes, and standing stones that

the Empire, but they remain the smallest nation. They will need more before they can stand among the other nations of the Empire as equals. All Imperial Orcs

commanders of the other nations broadly agreed with him, and his vision of armies raised within nations and led by generals of those nations appointed by their

figure - but not that popular. But every nation had their own dogmatic views on how the new Empire should be run. Nations with strong military traditions, like

rulers of a number of smaller nations near the Asavean Archipelago are 'advised' by satraps appointed by the Plenum. These nations maintain a polite fiction

lesser nations driven westward from what is now the Marches; according to historians, they engaged in a brutal war of dominance with the lesser nations, conquering

predisposition of inhabitants of the nations of the Empire to favour trade and interaction with citizens of their nation. It affects all types of resource

forced to retreat, but the campaign achieved its purpose by convincing the nations of the south that the threat from the Grendel was real, events that would

both nations have benefited from that trade. It is important to remember that the Principalities are much more loosely connected than the nations of the

ancestors of the Grendel controlled much of the land that is now part of these nations, but were driven out by human settlers. At the top of Grendel society are

is pure conjecture tends to limit the interest of magicians from other nations are who more concerned with the practical consequences of magic. But the

territory of Miekarova and was a local centre of trade between the two nations, hosting a market at each turning of the seasons. With the liberation of