To the west of the southern and heartlant provinces of Shenguang lies the Shogunate of Shabuluk, a tropical domain sunken between the islands and inside a jungle as thick as the Malshan Mountains. The secrets that the jungle have swallowed are many, such as the history of the peoples  that have renounced the Divine Empire, what was before they submitted to the heavenly emperor, in those days of legend where dragons fought each other and the ruins at the bottom of the sea were vibrant cities. 

The Shabuluk Shogunate is populated  predominantly by kobolds and Yuan Ti in the dense jungles, hobgoblins and humans by the coast and tritons in the island chains. the unforgiving terrain, wet heat and diesease acting as effective as any wall to keep them independent. The average shabuluk lives by fishing and trading by ship, or hunting game and slowly chopping away at the jungle, that has allowed for little in the way of field agriculture. 

The Shogunate is ruled by the shogun, the current one being Warut the Wise, a hogbolin of the Shabuluk dynasty of measly 60 years. Under him exist the Daimyo and their samurai retinues, with priests , craftsmen, peasant farmers and merchants below in the social hierarchy. Trade is crucial for the currenct existence of the shogunate, as it is a waypoint between the Divine Empire and all the nations down south .Yet merchants , no matter how rich, are in theory inferior to the most simple of farmers, an order that the hobgolin Shabuluk dynasty has maintained in a moral sense without killing the trade. Slavers sell their captured goods in the cities of shabuluk, often taken from the isles down south, or product of tribal wars in shabuluk itself, despite the practice of enslaving a shabuluk being penalized by becoming a slave oneself.

For war, the shabuluk prefer skirmishes in their home terrain. Tamed crocodiles and sharks are employed as well as flails and spells of rain. The shabuluk soldiers are often trained to climb and swim as fast as they run, and either wear little armor, or as much as they can afford together with a heavy shield.