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Nations of Lavacia: Sartan

9/23/2013

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There are several small kingdoms in the world of Lavacia.  It is the larger
ones where the bulk of the series takes place.  I will be detailing them in
these next few blogs.  It seems only fitting that I begin with the land of
Linvin’s birth; Sartan.  The nation has a wonderful sub-tropical
environment.  It is the most divided nation in the world.  Sartan is
separated along ethnic boundaries into three distinct counties.  Running
from east to west there is the Human County which holds the capital of Fraylic
in its southern section.  Moving west we find the Elven County with the
growing towns of Missandor located along a major crossroad and Varns in the far
north just south of Thornhaven Forest.  Lastly, farther west is the Dwarven
County.  The towns there are less distinguished as the dwarves are spread
evenly throughout the province.  All three counties are roughly the same
size on the map though the population is concentrated in the Human County. 
The entire country is bordered to the north by Thornhaven while the southern
edge stops at impassible jungles and desolate wasteland.  Sartan is a
nation of people obsessed with money and its trappings.  With the country
centered on the map, lavish trade routes bring taxes and goods to their
people.  As a result of the prosperity, Sartan has become the foremost
center of banking in the world, holding notes from nearly every nation at one
bank or another.  It was not always so.  When Linvin was a child, some
trade went through Sartan but much more went through the land to the north of
Thornhaven called the Unclaimed Territory.  That will be a topic for
another blog.  After Linvin was sent away a war erupted over lordship of
those lands between Sartan and the Mandrean Empire far to the north.  After
a bloody struggle they ended it in a draw.  Those of the men of military
age in Sartan had been decimated by the war.  That left the old and the
young.  Neither group had any more stomach for war and decided to
concentrate on monetary pursuits and pacifism.  As a result, Sartan with
its constitutional monarchy, elected politicians to the Assembly who would keep
Sartan out of future wars at any cost.  One must be careful as that cost
can climb very high.
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