Scholar Notes

The Confederated Empire of Kingdoms, usually shortened to just the Empire, is regnant over the eastern portion of Arebnak. Dozens of kingdoms and petty nations all owe their allegiance to the Empress and her throne in the city of High Imperia. The Empress has reigned for nearly a thousand years, and it is by her decree that her armies go forth to maintain order and peace in her realm and deliver new territory into her benevolent iron fist.

The League of Free Peoples and Nations makes up most of the western portion of Arebnak, a loose alliance of countries, city-states, kingdoms and countries that are bound together by a convoluted tangle of ancient pacts, alliances, marriages, and blood oaths that overlap and contradict, written down and codified as formally as possible by the Tenets of the Pact. Often at war with each other, the Free Peoples can nevertheless find common cause easily and offer, albeit begrudgingly, respect to each other’s cultures and borders. 

The Dreadhorde are the cast-offs, exiles, marauder bands and scum that cling to the margins. Found throughout the continent, the only thing these dregs share is that they are all equally unwelcome in the Empire and the League. They form bandit crews, blasphemous cabals, and cannibal throngs. Though some claim to have a moral code, they inevitably find themselves sharing common company with other hated outcasts and form misfit alliances.