What is known of Kadan and Cloeasia?

[crymson]

What information do we know about this city and country?

[Aguila Saber]

You will find all the information mentioned elsewhere about Kadan in graphic novel: The Skull of Aagarash.

This tells of Captain Khadro looting the city in MS 5077 (or thereabouts).
The chief of the assassin's guild at this time is Mazrah.

For Cloeasisa, the Magnamund Compansion and the Mongoose RPG books are the main sources.

The Wildlands was once Northern Cloeasisa but this changed when the Maakengorge was formed and the Wildlands was turned into wastelands.

[crymson]

Ah great! I wasn't aware that The Skull of Agarash had information about Kadan in it. Thanks!

[Simey]

If you're talking about Cloeasia post-5100 then may I cheekily suggest that Kuchek is back within its borders? ;D

[crymson]

Is that from the West Watch? As my game is going to be in MS5150 I might just use it

[Beowuuf]

Yup, that's Simey's contribution to the west watch

[Simey]

Yup, 65 posts and that's about the only significant thing I've come up with! ;D

As of a few years before the end of the century ( the 5000-5099 century that is) I've had Cloeasia entering into a treaty with Durenor that sees the latter providing a lot of financial support in order to keep Cloeasia strong against a resurgently aggressive Vassagonia. In return, Durenor has a say in how Cloeasia is run and tries to get in to clean up its act (particularly in regard to certain guilds). Whether that treaty will have lasted until 5150, who knows?

From the Legends: the Bone Hills are home to bands of tribesmen (the Bone Men) who live a relatively primitive life and have sometimes difficult relations with the national powers; a race of reptilian people live in the Mud Graves and Eastern Maakenmire and make a highly hallucinogenic drug that is much sought after; as of pre-MS5050 the Zultan's control over the country is fairly weak, the Assassin's Guild being the real power, but they successfully remain very much in the background from where they pull the strings; Kadan is a slightly strange looking city being very grandiose in parts, but not having the scale of other capitals such as Hammerdal or Barrakeesh and therefore coming across to those who have travelled to greater cities as being something of a capital in miniature with shorter buildings and narrower streets.

The people who created the state of Cloeasia were of Vassa descent - being a breakaway group of disgruntled Vassagonian nobles (or something like that) - but it stands to reason that there will have been people in the area of Cloeasia already (such as the primitive tribesmen).

If you do go with Kuchek being within Cloeasia's borders (and as I've argued elsewhere, the only reasonable-seeming place for a border between Cloeasia and Vassagonia to settle in peacetime would be south of Kuchek) then that makes it Cloeasia's second city. As it was one of the seven founding cities of Vassagonia then some parts of Kuchek will likely be older than anything in Kadan, although Kuchek having shifted between the two countries will probably mean that much of the original city will have been destroyed in war, so it is most likely to be a patchwork of old and new. That could be a very pointed contrast between Cloeasia's two big cities, in fact: Kadan has perhaps never seen war up close, so its original buildings are probably well preserved, whilst Kuchek is a hotch-potch of buildings from different eras due to its having been disputed territory so much of the time.

That's all I can think of for now, and some of that is just my ideas, of course.

[crymson]

Actually, you have provided me with some very useful information there Simey.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Aug 24, 2008 5:12:02 GMT -5 Aguila Saber said:

For Cloesia, the Magnamund Compansion and the Mongoose RPG books are the main sources.

The Wildlands was once Northern Cloesia but this changed when the Maakengorge was formed and the Wildlands was turned into wastelands.

It's also worth noting that the one or two Cloesians officialy named have decided jewish sounding names.