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>SELECTED: You knew a little of the Tempest Isles and their famed archers. But Azir? Mansipoor? You have never even heard of these far off places to the South and East that your hosts speak of matter-of-factly in casual conversation. You must know more. [Hearty]
While you are interested in the shared history of your house and the Stratiokas during the War of Borders, a violent and bloody one no doubt if the stories you heard from Father are anything to go by, it is the mention of far off realms that grabs your attention. These nations of man, apparently every bit as large and populous as your own homeland, don’t appear on any map you’ve seen during your travels in Canton.
Mansipoor, as it turns out, is not actually the name of any nation or peoples but rather it is the term that the Cathagi have coined for a wide confederation of petty kingdoms situated in the islets and tributaries on the far side of the inland sea known as the Everwarm Waters. The Empire of the Dragon at its height dominated the entire region, and you suspect several of these Mansipoor city states were actually originally Cathagi colonies like Langland. Even after the decline of the Empire, the western shores of that sea have always been claimed by Cathagi. The expeditions sent to enforce that claim and extract tribute from those lands have proven profitable indeed, but Kyrios Leon’s cohort is the only one of the Stratiokas’ columns to have directly faced the Mansipoor in open battle as the sphere of influence between the two powers rubs against one another. He speaks of large swarms of light infantry that sweep in through openings gouged out by bizarre and horrifying semi-tamed monsters. Unfortunately, his acumen of this far off land is limited to their battlefield tactics. If you want to know more of their trade goods or culture you are told that you should ask one of the Merchanta Caste, and you think the slave translator was being polite in how they phrased that response.
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