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Shem
Technology: Copper/Bronze Age
Dominant Deities: Ishtar, Pteor, Bel, Nergal, Set, Tammuz, Ashtoreth
The city states of Shem lie between the mad ambitions of Koth and the malignant arcane power of
Stygia. The western Shemish states form a loose knit nation with Asgalun dominating its politics. The
eastern Shemish states stand in alliance with each other and also with western Shem, creating a friendly
eastern border. The Shemish Asshuri and the famous Shemish archers make Shem’s armies very strong.
Through mercenary service in over a dozen kingdoms of the western world, the Shemish generals have
learned well the art of war. Based on ancient Mesopotamia.
Stygia
Technology: Copper/Bronze Age
Dominant Deities: Set, Derketo, Hawk-God of Harakht
Slumbering in her desert retreats, protected behind the mighty and brooding Styx river, lies Stygia. The
ancient culture of Stygia is in decline, revolving in malignance about itself, but it is also the source of a
great and evil sorcerous knowledge which may yet gain mastery over the Western world. The Cult of
Set is strongest here. This nation is based on ancient Egypt.
Turan
Technology: Iron Age/Medieval
Dominant Deities: Erlik
Gleaming mailed and silken-clad riders, masters of the Vilayet Sea, Turan revels in sweeping the barely
contested wastelands to the west and south. Turan, however, must bear the plague of a thousand
frustrations arising from the seemingly indomitable and ever resurgent Kossaks, Zuagirs, and Vilayet
pirates. Perpetually battling raiders and quelling revolts from a hundred pinpricking sources, the rulers of
Turan pass their reign in unceasing watchfulness. Turan is a natural enemy to Iranistan and Vendhya, but
stands in loose alliance with Hyrkania. Based on Turkestan.
Uttara Kuru
Technology: Iron Age/Medieval
Dominant Deities: Asura
Dismissed as a myth in most regions of the world, Uttara Kuru is a land of ancient magics, misty
mountains, dense coastal forest, and the strange, haunting architecture of the city of Uttara Kuru. The
people of this kingdom are fanatically loyal in defense of their homeland. Ancient enemy of great
Vendhya. Based on the medieval kingdom Uttara Kuru in north and central Pakistan.
Vanaheim
Technology: Primitive with metal working
Dominant Deities: Ymir the Frost Giant
The red-haired Vanir are isolated in the northwest and their mailed swordsmen therefore vent their
warlike natures on their Asgardian kin to the east, the native Picts to the south, or less often upon grim
Cimmeria to the southeast. Many a hero of the Hyborian Age was of the Vanir. Warriors of Vanaheim
are known to be utterly fearless in combat. Modeled after Scandinavia in the early middle ages.
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