Numeria
Numeria (pronounced new-MARE-ee-uh) is a barren, harsh land inhabited by tribes of savage barbarians and corrupted by the strange energies emitted by skymetals and other technological relics that fell throughout the land during the Age of Darkness.
Numeria is a harsh land of windswept plains and, while nearly devoid of valuable trade resources, the land possesses its own harsh, rugged beauty. Despite this beauty, the land is naturally barren and only the strong live to survive. The land has few geographical features: the biggest is the vast Lake of Mists and Veils that forms its northeastern border. The southern region also contains the northern headwaters of several of the rivers that eventually make their way into the River Kingdoms and is also crossed by the Sellen River, which eventually empties into the Inner Sea. To its west lies insular, undead-haunted Ustalav, to its northwest the demon-corrupted wasteland of the Sarkoris Scar, and to the south the eternal war and turbulence of the River Kingdoms. The only (somewhat) stable nations on Numeria's borders are the former crusader nation of Mendev to the north and the kingdom of Brevoy to the east.
Numeria is a harsh, often brutal land that raises hard, often brutal people. The land's primary inhabitants are humans of Kellid stock who, outside of the large cities like Starfall and Chesed, organise themselves into tribes. While in theory these tribes all owe fealty to the Black Sovereign, outside of Numeria's big settlements and beyond the reach of his armies, life continues much as it has for eons. Raiding is still a popular and lucrative lifestyle, especially into the poorly organized River Kingdoms, although those lands are not defenseless: river pirates often travel up the Sellen and West Sellen Rivers to attack Numerian settlements before quickly retreating back south.
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