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A little bit of Western Lands background I don't have a place to record as yet:

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To understand the current political situation in the Western Lands, one must begin with the founding of the Church of Tah. In the days before the founding of the Church, all nations of men in the lands of the west followed their own pantheons of gods, those who are now called the Hundred. But though they were many, all of the gods of all of the peoples taught a very similar philosophy, namely that the gods help those who help themselves. When the prophet Martan began preaching what he called the "true way of Tah," it included a very different philosophy; followers of Martan's way were taught to believe that Tah helps those who are faithful, and the greater the faith, the greater the aid.

Martan's teaching spread swiftly, with many of his disciples traveling throughout the lands to preach the new religion. As one might predict, the various leaders of the old religions fought against this new teaching, eventually banding together against it. But the death of Martan at the hands of the elders, and the subsequent disappearance of his body, only served to increase the mystique of his faith.

Still, the believers in Tah might have faded into obscurity were it not for the work of the disciple Sozan, who traveled to the distant land of Urd in the east. He spread the belief in Tah to the Urds, and the faith served not only to help unite that people but to guide them in the founding of a great empire. Though the Empire of Urd permitted all its subjects to believe as they wished, the Church of Tah was the official religion of the land, and those conquered by the Urds who chose to forsake their own faiths and join in the great Church found their fortunes improved greatly.

It was over two centuries ago that the Urds finally conquered the peoples of the island of Corvis. They made the village of Beth, where Martan began his ministry, their official territorial capitol, and the village swiftly grew into a mighty city and seaport.

Sadly, the Empire was even then beginning to rot from within. Just a hundred and twenty years ago, the Empire in the east fell before the combined forces of two barbarian kings, Ethelright of the Enbolgen in the north and Sang Kor of the Norishi of the south. Feltoric, the second son of the Emperor, fled by ship to Beth as the great city of Urd burned to the ground; when news arrived after him that he was the only member of the Imperial family to escape the fall of Urd, he declared himself the Emperor in his father's place and made the city of Beth his new capitol.
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