Narthon Empire

The Narthon Empire is a powerful nation located on the planet Anyar.

Geography
Narthon is a country located in the northern hemisphere of the planet Anyar. Situated on the continent of Melosia, its territory is roughly larger than North America.

History
The nation that would rise to become the Narthon Empire began about four hundred years prior to the events of Cast Under an Alien Sun. The Narthani were one of the minor semi-nomadic peoples living in the cold regions of north-central Melosia. After consolidating control over a number of peoples, they invaded and took over more fertile lands to the south in a series of bloody wars that lasted fifty years. At the end of those fifty years the Narthani had taken control of about a tenth of the continent, after another hundred and fifty years, they controlled a third of the Melosia continent.

The Narthani continued to expand their borders, enslaving and assimilating various cultures into their empire, but faced heavy opposition from their neighbors the Iraquinik Confederation and Fuomon. The wars with the two neighboring nation states resulted in nearly twenty years of stalemate with neither substantial gain nor loss of land. Narthon, finding its way blocked east and west, turned to easier targets.

A formerly landlocked power, converted to a sea-going nation. Narthon constructed a fleet of ships and used it to invade the Kingdom of Rustal on the Ganolar continent, subjugating it within two years.

Six years before the start of the Cast Under an Alien Sun, Narthon turned its attention west once again. This time its navy bypassed the Iraquinik controlled territory until reaching the isolated island of Caedellium. The Narthani established trade relations with the Preddi Clan, who controlled most of the outside trade of Caedellium. When Preddi's neighboring clans, the Selfcell and Eywell attacked, the former reached out to the Narthani for aid. The Narthani, using the inter-clan fightng to their advantage, agreed to assist after being given permission to bring more of their forces unto the island. The fighting eventually devolved into three three clans fighting each other while the foreigners gained more power. Once Preddi was at its weakest, the Narthani forces quickly wiped out the clan and enslaved the survivors. Selfcell and Eywell submitted themselves to the invaders in order to survive.

The Narthani having established a base of operations turned their attentions to claiming the rest of the island and waged a war to conquer the island and subjugate the remaining free clans.

Culture
The Narthani are an expansionist and militaristic people. They are a proud people obsessed with dominating Anyar, believing their way of life to be superior. New cultures and peoples that are conquered by the Narthani are subjected to forced integration into their society. The defeated are enslaved, men used as manual labor while the women are sold as brothel slaves. The slaves have an opportunity to rise above their status but only after a relative number of generations had passed since their ancestor’s enslavement.

In addition the Narthani replaced the conquered people language, customs and beliefs with those of Narthon to systematically wipe out any trace of their slaves birth culture. This is so that the conquered do not have a rallying point that could introduce rebellion.

Narthani men are mostly clean shaven. This is due to eliminate the risk of fungal infection, after their nomadic ancestors moved south and captured land from the weaker tribes. Since then the Narthani hold beard hair as a characteristic of lesser peoples, though a few Narthani men do sport mustaches.

Foreign Relations

 * Fuomon: Narthon shares a border with Fuomon to the east. Currently at a stalemate with the nation in its conquest of Melosia.
 * Rustal: Rustal was conquered by Narthon not long among when the Narthani developed into a sea-going empire.

Appearances

 * Destiny's Crucible: Cast Under An Alien Sky
 * Destiny's Crucible: Pen And Sword
 * Destiny's Crucible: Heavier Than A Mountain
 * Destiny's Crucible: Forged in Fire
 * Destiny's Crucible: Tales from Anyar
 * Destiny's Crucible: Passages