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====== Holy Fist of Hlark ====== ===== The Land ===== ==== Cli­mate & Ter­rain ==== The ter­ri­to­ries of the Fist are arid. Large sec­tions are sand dune desert­s. The ter­rain is most­ly flat sur­round­ed by moun­tain­s. Oa­siss are scat­tered about. There is a large in­land sea to the North East.

==== City States ==== === Bam === Fist’s on­ly ma­jor port on the Bright Sea. It is al­so an end­point of ma­jor Babrem car­a­van route.

=== Sari === End­point of ma­jor Babrem car­a­van route. Source of most re­sources ex­tract­ed from Salt Sea, esp salt.

=== Do­ha === Lo­ca­tion of Stat­ue of Light, nom­i­nal cap­i­tal of Fist.

=== Ya­suj === Bor­der­ing the ma’Rib. It is famed for it’s iron ores and the crafts­men that that shape it.

=== Kazerun === Ru­ins of an­cient city. Where the Stat­ue of Light was found. This is the holi­est spot for all Mukhtar. A small mod­ern city has de­vel­oped in and around the ru­ins to sup­port the many schol­ars, pil­gram­s, and cler­ics that live and vis­it here.

==== Flo­ra & Fau­na ==== Many valu­able and strange plants grow in this cli­mate.

Preda­tors are sparse but dead­ly.

Mon­sters are com­mon away from pop­u­la­tion con­cen­tra­tions.

Gi­ant rocs fly hun­dreds of miles out from their moun­tains roosts in search of prey.

Grif­fons are na­tive to some rock­y/hilly ar­eas.

===== The Gov­ern­ment ===== The­o­log­i­cal mon­ethe­is­tic state.

All as­pects of gov­ern­ment and life are dic­tat­ed by re­li­gion see mythol­o­gy.

{D­M} Very dis­tant sec­tion of orig­i­nal Hu­man Em­pire. Suf­fered de­sert­fi­ca­tion dur­ing/after catalysm. The cur­rent re­li­gion/­gov­ern­ment was orig­i­nal­ly a church in old em­pire that sur­vived the catalysm bet­ter than oth­er­s. They grew in pow­er, con­vic­tion, and piety and even­tu­al­ly uni­fied no­mads and oth­er peo­ples in the area. The god they wor­ship is same en­ti­ty as Bea­ho of Pe­los. They don’t know it. {DM END}

==== Law & Or­der ==== The law of the land is that giv­en by Hlark some 900 years ago. In the cities there is ze­ro tol­er­ance for in­ter­nal po­lit­i­cal or re­li­gious strife. The arm of jus­tice does­n’t reach to far in­to the desert wastes though. Where Babrem ban­dits and worse prey on car­a­vans and oth­er trav­el­er­s.

==== Trade & Com­merce ==== Fist im­ports many re­sources in or­der to ex­pand and stock­pile for the Great Bat­tle. In turn many ex­ot­ic prod­ucts are ex­port­ed. Babrem no­mads de­liv­er most of this trade along an­cient car­a­van routes through the desert­s.

=== Coinage === Fist does­n’t use coin­s. Gold, Sil­ver, and kept by the gov­ern­ment in vault­s. In­stead thin strips of tin stamped with var­i­ous de­nom­i­na­tions and “marked” by the church are used. The mark­ing makes forgery hard and the painfull pun­ish­ment caus­es few to try. The strips are fair­ly worth­less out­side of Fist. De­nom­i­na­tions are in sil­ver and in­clde 1/10, 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000.

==== Mil­i­tary ==== Heavy cal­vary most­ly pal­adin­s. Mass­es of poor qual­i­ty of foot troop­s. Both ex­ten­siv­ly sup­port­ed and aug­ment­ed by nu­mer­ous cler­ics and oth­er di­vine cast­er­s.

It is un­com­mon for Fist to mo­bi­lize for war, it lacks neig­bors and in­cli­na­tion. In­stead small to large par­ties of pal­adins and oth­er war­riors go on “holy mis­sion­s”. Such as quell Babrem War­lord or oblit­er­ate some abom­i­na­tion dis­cov­ered in the desert.

See al­so mythol­o­gy#Holy Or­ders mythol­o­gy#Cru­sade against Kjore

{D­M} ===== Ori­gins ===== For 100 years The Stat­ue of Light, an avatar of God,{D­M}(holo­gram of prime god left over from pre breach times){DM END} taught the laws of God. It warned of the need to pre­pare against en­e­my, to shun non-­be­liev­er­s, etc.

(but cur­rent fist don’t think its kjore af­ter cru­sade failed

Es­tab­lished a mil­i­taris­tic, in­su­lar, strict theoc­ra­cy. Train hard, oblit­er­ate ag­gres­sors but not over­ly ex­pan­sive or con­quest ori­ent­ed.

Statue of light taught maths,

geometry,

archi­e­tec­ture, plan­ning, some mar­tial skill­s, met­al­s, min­ing, re­fin­ing, lots an lots of knowl­edge Some of which trans­fered back to Pe­los and oth­er­s. But Pe­los in par­tic­u­lar had sig­nif­i­cant pre-breach trea­sures. which taught much + more el­dar race = more mag ic = more rapid ad­vance.

Statue did not talk about breach or pre-breach. pre-breach assumed not to

ex­ist and lit­tle talk about it.

As­sume breach equals beg­n­ing of time. God cre­at­ed ev­ery­thing at 0. Their ca­lande r starts a 0(breach).

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