Lantan
Lantan was an island-nation in the Trackless Sea north of the Chultan peninsula, known for its advanced technology and the population's devout worship of Gond.
Structure
The island nation was ruled by a council of twelve, called the Ayrorch. The Ayrorch itself was led by the Ayrar. The Lantar was the Ayrorch's representative to other lands. The remaining ten members were known as Santar, an ancient Lantanna word for "others".
Demography and Population
The inhabitants of Lantan are primarily rock gnomes and humans. The humans of the land were pale-skinned with red hair and green or black eyes. They favored yellow-colored, loose clothing and wore wide sun hats.
Military
The islands of Lantan were said to be protected by "secret weapons". Whether true or only rumor to scare off unwanted intruders, the ships of the Lantanna navy indeed had firethrowers and explosive nets for weapons.1 Similarly, outsiders believed that the military of Lantan used mechanical soldiers.
Smokepowder was especially common in Lantan, and guards were sometimes armed with arquebuses, weapons that made use of the stuff. Smokepowder was produced by the inventors of the island. The protectors of the islands also had access to stable, flying rafts armed with "firesticks" (light cannons) and defended with walls of force to shield the crew. The military also was rumored to possess an "armored worm" that could bore through solid rock.
Rich merchants of Lantan protected their goods with watchspiders.
Technological Level
Very advanced
Religion
After the Time of Troubles, Gondarism was the state religion of Lantan. Clerics of Gond were called "krii", a Lantanna word that actually meant "disadvantaged".
Though Gond was the primary faith, one could still find shrines to other deities for the sake of foreign visitors.
Trade & Transport
The people of Lantan used primarily platinum and electrum coins and trade bars for currency. The trade bars typically were valued at 25 gold pieces by other nations.
Lantan had several trading companies. Lantanese merchant vessels were easily recognizable with maroon-colored sails and triangular lateen rigging.
The island nation exported many items of wonder to mainland Faerûn, including suspension systems for wagons, self-filling oil lamps, intruder alarms, clockwork time-release devices, snap-together weapons, intricate sewing and surgery tools, and many other wondrous things. Goods that Lantan imported from mainland Faerûn were largely raw materials that the island nation was lacking in, such as copper, gemstones, tin, and wood.
The Lantanese were said to have stolen the technology of the printing press from Halruaa. This, and the supposed existence of dangerous and powerful weapons on Lantan led to tense diplomatic relations between the two nations.
Technology
Copper, gemstones, tin, wood
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