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Empire of Revakgol
ÂKNI ARK ZUGÄ
Born in flame and bound by conquest, the Empire of Revakgol is the mightiest dominion in the known world — a vast, stratified realm where Saarotsos warlords, Zegtuzsos high-speake…
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Izheim Union
A decentralized federal republic of autonomous provinces on Silgolt, formed as a deliberate counterweight to hierarchical empires such as Revakgol. The Izheim Union prizes provinc…
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Kingdom of Kormistahl
The island kingdom founded by the Kaemisaedhel who fled Siniath during the Fourth Age persecutions, and the only Aedhel polity on or near the continent that the Triumvirate of Tha…
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Namuzdus Dominion
Namuzdus — "Echoed Crown"
The mountain nation of the Kaetijul — the deep-adapted human lineage outsiders call "Dwarves" — carved into the western Silgolt range they named Namuzdus in the Fifth Age. Founded…
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The Duchy of Aalhotikyn
The most-bordered country in the western cluster, and the one that has given up on the idea that this can be survived by strength. Nine neighbours touch Aalhotikyn, and a fixed mi…
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The Duchy of Kokit
A poor upland duchy on the upper water of the rivers that carry its name, and the one country in the western cluster that is still genuinely ruled by a dynasty. Kokit's spring-hea…
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The Duchy of Ohynso
The western cluster's frontier with the Empire of Revakgol, and the only country in it that has formally accepted it cannot hold its own ground. Ohynso maintains a continuously up…
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The Duchy of Tovo
The second of the western cluster's two frontier duchies with the Empire of Revakgol, and the one that chose to pay. Tovo has rendered tribute for generations and is unoccupied, i…
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The Duchy of Tuzraag
The upland corridor between the Namuzdus holdfasts and the river countries below, and the only road by which Deepmetal reaches the west in quantity. Tuzraag licenses passage and i…
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The Duchy of Ygtaani
A transhumant duchy of the western cluster whose territory is less a shape than a schedule. Ygtaani's herds move between wet-season uplands and dry-season pasture along corridors …
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The Hihn Confluence
A riverland country of Silgolt named for the braided Hihn river family that defines it. The Confluence is governed by the flood calendar rather than a throne: channel-wardens hold…
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The Kingdom of Shathel
The second dwarven state, and the older one by its own reckoning: the southern landfall of the Long Crossing, cut off from the main migration by the bulk of what became Revakgol a…
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The Nasun Ground
The smallest country on Silgolt, and the one none of its neighbors can afford to own. Nasun is the neutral ground of the western duchies: the place where their treaties are sworn,…
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The Siltuz Federation
A federation of fen and backwater communities in the western cluster that exists for only part of each year. Siltuz constitutes itself at the Falling, when the waters drop and the…
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The Súzyngol Federation
The smelting and finishing country of the western cluster, where raw Deepmetal out of Namuzdus is drawn, worked, and made ready for the gnomish workshops of Izheim. Its constituti…
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Triumvirate of Thalon
The Second Triumvirate of Thalon is a centralized Kaelotaedhel magocracy that dominates most of Siniath's surface territories in the Sixth Age, presenting itself as the guardian o…
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Triumvirate of Thalon
The Second Triumvirate of Thalon is a centralized Kaelotaedhel magocracy that dominates most of Siniath's surface territories in the Sixth Age, presenting itself as the guardian o…