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- History
- War and Aftermath
- Nations
- Irgar
- Jurica
- Lasinia
- Vegdarbarra - Grey Order
- Engineering
- Exploration
- Fashion
Vegdarbarra
Vegdarbarra (pronounced Vegg dar ba ra) is a geographically rather than politically marked region, mostly because no one in their right mind would want to live there. It is about 80 miles wide and many thousands of miles long. The land is at the foot of the Wall and so is in its shadow for most of the time. And the lands are dark, cold and icy.
During the Empire
The land was claimed by the Emperor at the end of the First age, having taken all else that was present in the True Lands. The land at point was home only to the occasional shamanic tribe who offered little resistance to the Emperor's well-trained forces.However, about 3000 years ago the outer provinces started to send reports to the city of waves of monsters and daimons coming from Vegdarbarra. The Emperor sent his forces back into Vegdarbarra to purge this threat, wave after wave entered the cold lands and few returned. After almost a hundred years of this the daimons were beaten back into the Treacherous Lands.
The Emperor thus decreed the construction of fortresses to span the length of the Wall so as to halt future waves of daimons. And so a great stone fortress was constructed every 10 miles, each manned by some of the Emperor's finest men. With constant supplies of food and men from the city the forts held the threat and even in some parts managed to repair the Wall where breaches had occurred.
However, this was not to last. In the Third Age the Emperor needed his forces to hold the True Lands from the other nations and so the supply of men dwindled, as did eventually the supplies of food as the Emperor became forgetful in his madness.
In this time many of the forts disintegrated and are now merely ruins. Some continued their noble effort to protect the Empire. Other joined forces and fought against the Empire.
After the Empire
Not much is known about Vegdarbarra at this date. The country is controlled by powerful warlords, some of which lead remnants of Imperialist forces and desire the reformation of the empire. Others are power-mad dictators and are in a state of constant warfare with their neighbours. Many of the forts are abandoned ruins, home only to outlaws and daimons.Rumours
Reports indicate that Baron Yuri von Litkinstien, who commands a great many forts in the south of Vegdarrbarra, is getting a little too powerful.There are rumours of a great army moving up from the south and destroying all that they encounter.
It is believed that gangs lay wait along the road to Horizon waiting to ambush traders. Captain Leonard Qveton, whose fort overshadows the road, is believed to be demanding more money from the city to deal with this problem but is getting little.
There are believed to be wild tribes of ghouls and kraelings hidden in the deep forests, as well as some undiscovered tribes of man.