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and the masked Tibu tribes foremost amongst them. Darfar gains its name from the scattered cannibalistic
grassland tribes which most often provide the drive and leadership for Empire. Modeled after Sudan.
Hyperborea
Technology: Iron Age/Medieval
Dominant Deities: Louhi, Bori
Cold and heartless, Hyperborea is ruled by grim, gaunt, albino nobles and by sorcerously powerful witchwomen.
Safe within their high stone keeps on the snowy Hyperborean plain, the Hyboreans wield power
far beyond their meager resources and small army. This fortress of arcane power in the north is a spiteful
foe to Aquilonia and quite possibly the most dangerous kingdom of the Hyborian Age. Modeled after
Finland, Russia, and the Baltic countries of the middle ages.
Hyrkania
Technology: Primitive with metal working (copper, some bronze, some iron)
Dominant Deities: Erlik, Tarim, ancestor worship
Nomadic horse tribes of the interior steppes, uncivilized in all but the arts of war at which they excel.
The Hyrkanians move upon a shifting sea of unrest as turbulent as the fiery ponies upon which they
ride. The Hyrkanian tribes war constantly amongst themselves, but when united under a great chief, they
destroy armies as swiftly as their horse-archers can race across their endless flatlands. Trained from
childhood in horse and bow, the Hyrkanian cavalry has been called with good reason the finest horsearchers
in the world. Modeled after medieval Mongolia.
Iranistan
Technology: Iron Age/Medieval
Dominant Deities: Various gods
The golden land south of the Ilbars mountains is widely, albeit sparsely inhabited. Ancient and rich,
Iranistan uses the Afghuli and the Ilbars hillmen as border defenses to turn back the swift horse-archers
of their long standing foes in Turan and Hyrkania. Iranistan is modeled after medieval Iran.
Kambuja
Technology: Iron Age/Medieval
Dominant Deities: Ganesha
Ruled by the god-king of the Scarlet Circle, deep in the jungle-girdled city of Angkhor crouches the
hungry kingdom of Kambuja. The Kambujans are forever locked in war with neighbouring Khitai, whose
great wizards, the dragon-sons, also contest on an arcane level. The Kambujan host fields huge war
elephants, relied upon to smash the formations of Khitai in battle. In reverence to these magnificent
animals, the Kambujans pay tribute and worship to Ganesha, the great elephant-headed demon god.
Modeled after Cambodia/Kampuchea.
Keshan
Technology: Primitive with strict hierarchy
Dominant Deities: Gwahlur, Dagon, Derketa
A kingdom of barbaric splendor, the Keshans are led by nobles and religious leaders who claim descent
from the great people of Alkmeenon. Keshan also has a well-drilled army patterned after the Stygian
military organization. Stygian troops often raid into northern Keshan for slaves and sacrificial victims. Punt
is Keshan’s long standing and hereditary enemy. Modeled after Kesh, the area of Egypt around the Nile.
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