The Compendium of the Exiled Lands
Histories, nations, races, and secrets — compiled by the scholars of Ash & Blood. 59 articles and growing.
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Shem
Shem acts as a crucial cultural and geographic bridge between the northern Hyborian kingdoms and the southern empire of Stygia. It is a vast, arid land divided by nature into two distinct zones: the fertile, pastoral West and the harsh, desolate East.
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Vendhya
Vendhya is a wealthy, caste-driven southern empire in the Hyborian Age. Ruled from Ayodhya by Devi Yasmina, its culture blends hedonistic pleasure, exquisite erotic art, and a rigid cosmic order under the god Asura. The state thrives on fine textiles, agriculture, and unbreakable light steel.
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Turan
Turan is a vast, militaristic empire surrounding the Vilayet Sea. It acts as the primary power in the East. Ruled from the capital of Aghrapur, its influence is enforced by a potent fleet and a standing army that dominates the surrounding kingdoms through sheer size, and ruthless ambition.
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Stygia
Stygia is a xenophobic, dark theocracy obsessed with death and the cult of Set. Anchored by the fertile, life-giving River Styx, this sinister land of desert ruins and megalithic cities is ruled by a ruthless elite and guarded by a disciplined army, serving as a bastion of forbidden sorcery.
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The Pictish Wilderness
The Pictish Wilderness is a vast, untamed expanse stretching along the western coastline of the continent.
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Ophir
Ophir is an ancient, wealthy, and hyper-civilized Hyborian kingdom situated directly south of Nemedia and Aquilonia. Geographically, it serves as a crucial buffer state and commercial crossroads between the northern and southern empires of the continent.
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Nemedia
Nemedia stands proud as the second great kingdom of the Hyborians, a towering empire of intellect, stone, and rigid feudal law. Technologically and economically, it is superior to almost every other nation on the continent, matched only by its fierce, eternal rival to the west, Aquilonia.
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Koth
Koth is one of the oldest Hyborian kingdoms, a vast meadowland north of Shem, founded alongside Corinthia and Ophir. It is a vast land populated by 8,850,000 people in over 11,000 small villages, 107 towns and a score of cities.
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Khitai
Isolated from the rest of the world both culturally and physically, Khitai stands as one of the most ancient, monolithic empires of the Thurian continent.
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Iranistan
Iranistan is a rich, fractured landscape of stark contrasts, where glittering, spired cities thrive alongside sun-scorched caravan tracks, volcanic wastes, and imposing mountain ranges.
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Hyrkania
Hyrkania is a large, wild patch of land. Desert, forests, green pastures, grasslands, mountains and frozen tundras – all of these can be found within the limits of this terrain.