Arias

Arias is the southernmost region in the Lands of Man. It is a humid, warm, peninsular place, with lush forests, dark swamplands, and an astonishing array of flora and fauna. It was the last place to be settled by humans before the Arrival, a wilderness carved into settled country by adventuresome folk, a young optimistic kingdom which reached its peak just before the establishment of the empire, but where the bloodiest orcish massacres took place to make way for human growth.

Geography

Where the Ptolnomic plains meet the first mountain river, Arias begins. It is a lowland, full of forests and swamps, bordered almost completely by the Whalesong Waters, and to the south by the Tepida Sea. The western fringe is the southernmost tip of the Longspine Mountains. The Arian Delta is where the only arable land in Ptolnom is, and it was violently contested before the Arrival, and now its use is contested legally in Silvertree.

People

Arias was initially settled by seafaring Northlanders following whale migrations in the century before the Arrival, and as such, is predominately fair-skinned halfling. When they arrived, they found the last vestiges of the easter orcish cultures, and over a period of decades, wiped them out. With help from Ptolnomic warriors and builders, who would go on to make up the darker-skinned, taller component of Arian society, a series of fortified castles were built, surrounded by still-water moats, and soon a kingdom was formed.

With the martial discipline of Ptolnomic traditions and the adventuring zeal of the Northlanders, Arians carved their kingdom out of hard country, and continue to turn out some of the most adventuresome folk in the lands of man. With that, however, came a sense of violent entitlement, and Arian people coldly take care to not let anything, or anyone, in their way.

Culture

Arians are hot-blooded and mercurial. They are fierce, competitvee, and adventurous. An Arian is just as likely to throw a punch as they are to buy you a drink. Being as young a land as it is, the Arian people do not have much in the way of traditions. The traditions they do have are violent and bloody, though, and are lamented by the more learned and contemplative among them.