The Four Territories were a result of the Great Encounter. Over their life, they had evolved and adapted to be very different in landscapes and climates. At this ti in the life cycle of the world, there were four kings controlling these territories.
The Eastern Territory, Yeztok, was in large flatlands, steppes, and vast rolling hills with orchards and lakes. It was ruled by Aisultan the Copper Head, who had unified the vagabond people, feuding warlords, and rural farrs to thrive together with a booming economy.
Although rich in their goods and gold, Aisultan had not successfully built an adequate army. It seed that the culture of the land created much divide between the beliefs of the common people. As a result, Aisultan ended up employing a mostly rcenary collective for his forces, leveraging his riches instead of his people to protect his lands.
The Southern Territory, Sudraj, was governed by Batyr of the Barren Lands. Now fat and closer to his death than birth, he ruled the White Cities –the seven sisters made entirely of bright listone among the harsh deserts.
The Western Territory, Nasria, stood surrounded by a mountain range. It was ruled by Typhonos, the Stewart of the Pastures.
Not much at all was known of Nasria aside from its luxurious wares and the rumors of its strong presence on the seas. The whole of it hid from the world behind a tall, impenetrable wall built into the mountains.
The Northern Territory, Roska, was shrouded in thick forests. Rivers ran through the trees and the harsh winters covered it in thick layers of snow. The very northern side of the territory was uninhabitable due to the ice desert that never saw the caress of sumr.
The main export of Roska was lumber, although superstitions ca as a close second. The King, Korschey, thrived on rumors and his vast royal court believed that he’d been cursed for a vile misdeed by an eternal life in service of his people. Of course, this could be easily disproven by the accumulation of wealth in the palace and the disproportional poverty of anyone outside its gates.
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In the recent century, there developed a sport in nobility, where anyone with a coin to spare would collect wonders and trinkets of odd characteristics scattered throughout the world. The procurent of these items would fall on the nobility’s youth, who had both the ti and resources to study in academic establishnts the nature of the places these were found.
It beca prestigious for a lord to acquire an item of great power just to flaunt it in court. the more difficult the task and dangerous the location, the more impressive the yield. Because of this, the noble’s sons would outsource the labor of the most savage undertakings to expendable peasants in their service or debt. But, without the opportunity to learn how to survive the Nothing, the peasant boys would almost always perish - the notoriety of the trinket they were to retrieve growing and its value increasing by each body left unrecovered.
For so, it beca a lifestyle, whether by choice or obligation.
This was the case for two brothers who had once been the sons of a Duke in Aisultan’s court. But by fate’s curse, their father had taken to drinking. He’d be found on side streets and gutters - with beggars and vagabonds, embarrassing the royal court just by his presence there.
At first, this had been chalked off to the passing of his wife - a Dutchess from the South. But when it continued, it beca more and more of a sore in the eyes of the nobles and, eventually, the King.
The high society had quietly liquidated his assets and took away any channels by which he could preserve his wealth. The poor sap did not even notice until it was far too late - and even then, it was his sons who found ways to keep a roof over their heads.
They had been bright boys but they were reckless and hot-headed.
At first, in their early years, they joined expeditions with other noble youth, but quickly, this had grown too dull for them. The boys had begun splitting off, and soon, they stopped venturing out with them at all. The two gained both fa and notoriety after this.
The passing of their father had reflected poorly on the brothers. The younger got deeply involved in gambling with forr friends. The older chose instead to pick fights and bed noble’s daughters.
The combination of both n's misdeeds had once and for all sunk their family na.
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