Northern Kingdom

The Northern Kingdom is an oligarchy along the Cold Marshes, north of the eastern edge of the Northern Mountain Range and the Near Jungles. The Northern Kingdom started as a collection of chiefdoms originally organized under force by the Empire of the Far Jungles to serve as a vassal and tributary. After the fall of the Empire, the chiefs and clans continued to work together and formed a unified government where the clan leaders and their families dominated the political system as a class of oligarchs.

The region was also the home of the Penitent Flagellants, the state religion. Long a bastion of religious fervor, the Northern Kingdom was long a practitioner of the Pàskri-kǎt and the Ônyẹktâgî Gẹ́lǔh before that. Following the adoption of the tenants of the Penitent Flagellants by the ruling class, conversion was swift. The religious structure of the Flagellants was readily incorporated into the structure of the state.