Imperi Trave

The Imperi Trave is a diverse land best known for its vast plains, vast monuments, and its vast armies. It lies in the southwestern part of the continent, roughly divided into two kingdoms with the great capital of Nova Sindikat between them. Once, the north and the south were distinct realms, but a centuries-past union brought the two crowns together and the decade-long civil war of one-hundred and fifty years ago re-asserted the union with a northern victory. Now the empire is built upon a few pillars, including an enormous slave population.

The southern realm neighbours Capala Calor with the long river valley known as The Scratch roughly forming the border between the two countries. Both Broken Bridge and Brezluk were once Caloran cities, and Broken Bridge in particular still retains some of its old Caloran architecture over a century after it was absorbed into the empire. Brezluk is the world's largest slave port and was famously the location where the great post-war slave treaty was signed. The world's largest lighthouse is under imperial control, well out from the Brezluk estuary, safely guiding in ships from the Splintered Sound. A long and jagged strait separates the greater part of the kingdom from its main southern island, an island with greater than normal autonomy and a plantation economy to take advantage of its southern climate.

In the north, the empire has more agricultural heartland, a particularly overgrown, isolated, and dangerous forest known as the Bandit Wood, the eastern marshlands and its ports, and a long border with the unruly Mod Kulden and their putative allies, the pirate lords of the Bay of Ash.

The empire has excellent horses, in particular huge armored warhorses, and the capacity to deploy tightly ranked cavalry of a discipline absolutely unmatched by its continental rivals. The most popular of entertainment, however, remains the gladiatorial battles of the great coliseum of Nova Sindikat where slaves, often ones of no mean skill, do battle for the entertainment of the masses.

The ruler of the Imperi Trave is a whitebeard of an old man who seeks to cement his legacy with a spectacular victory over the Free Cities in the east.