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A cold and frigid wasteland to the North, Yaztheria stands as a powerhouse of steel and ice. The Yaztherians, a people who made their home in a frozen land of ice and snow. The land consists mainly of tundra's, arctic wastelands, and alpines. Luckily many crops they grew have adapted to the cold and thus allow them to grow their own food (onions, sweat potato's, strands of grain, melons, cabbage, lettuce, etc). Despite the harsh nature of their homeland, they have managed to carve out a great empire in the frozen wastes, uniting the lose nit tribes and small nations into a single larger one.

The Yaztherian people are a mixture of Northern European, Nordic, and Christian culture. While they still retain their bloody and violent ways of waging war, their new Christian faith has led them to cease older, brutal practices such as torture, slavery, and human sacrifice. While there are still stragglers who occasionally rise in rebellion, the land is at peace. While many wooden buildings, forts, and towns still stand, many have been remade in stone, representing a mix of Nordic and Germanic designs, standing strong and beautiful against the snowy landscape, like a winter wonderland to distract the people from their harsh reality. They also have come to value peace over war (mostly since the very land itself seems to want to kill them), though they still prepare for war to defend their peace and to fight in the name of their god against those who would try to take what is rightfully theirs.

The Yaztherians, in their golden age, rose from the Early Middle ages to the Mid Renaissance in technology, discovering the power of not just metalworking and construction, but of alchemy, which gave them a powerful weapon: Gunpowder. With gunpowder, even an idiot could slay the most skilled warrior or highest noble with a single shot, and soon gunpowder was implemented as nearly half of the Yaztherian armies total force. But there was something else, the use of steam allowed them to create strange machines of metal, and allowed them to create machines to aid them (though not without assistance or constant implosions). In all, the Empire is by far the most advanced in the known world (which considering the world they mapped isn't saying much), and is not afraid to use this to their advantage to better their own kins lives.

Though vast in number and with the power of steam and gunpowder to aid them, still struggle a lot on their homeland. Massive wildlife slaughter lone travelers or small villages, grown in size to better handle the cold. The long cold snaps causing outbreaks of disease and wild rural tribes that go and slaughter people cause the people to essentially cling to the southern regions. To the north is the Great Peaks, a massive mountain range overlooking the endlessly foggy ocean ahead which leads into the unknown since only wrecked ships and mauled corpses have ever come back. Disease, infighting, and wildlife are Normally cause their people to go exploring outward to try and find better goods for their people. Plus the fact only the hardiest of crops like onions, sweet potatoes, melons, etc grow well in the climate means often people have to use moss mixed with grain making their flour. Cannibalism is even widespread in bad times due to how limited the food variety is, so my people really head south to explore because if they don't they know eventually they will die

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Description

A cold and frigid wasteland to the North, Yaztheria stands as a powerhouse of steel and ice. The Yaztherians, a people who made their home in a frozen land of ice and snow. The land consists mainly of tundra's, arctic wastelands, and alpines. Luckily many crops they grew have adapted to the cold and thus allow them to grow their own food (onions, sweat potato's, strands of grain, melons, cabbage, lettuce, etc). Despite the harsh nature of their homeland, they have managed to carve out a great empire in the frozen wastes, uniting the lose nit tribes and small nations into a single larger one.

The Yaztherian people are a mixture of Northern European, Nordic, and Christian culture. While they still retain their bloody and violent ways of waging war, their new Christian faith has led them to cease older, brutal practices such as torture, slavery, and human sacrifice. While there are still stragglers who occasionally rise in rebellion, the land is at peace. While many wooden buildings, forts, and towns still stand, many have been remade in stone, representing a mix of Nordic and Germanic designs, standing strong and beautiful against the snowy landscape, like a winter wonderland to distract the people from their harsh reality. They also have come to value peace over war (mostly since the very land itself seems to want to kill them), though they still prepare for war to defend their peace and to fight in the name of their god against those who would try to take what is rightfully theirs.

The Yaztherians, in their golden age, rose from the Early Middle ages to the Mid Renaissance in technology, discovering the power of not just metalworking and construction, but of alchemy, which gave them a powerful weapon: Gunpowder. With gunpowder, even an idiot could slay the most skilled warrior or highest noble with a single shot, and soon gunpowder was implemented as nearly half of the Yaztherian armies total force. But there was something else, the use of steam allowed them to create strange machines of metal, and allowed them to create machines to aid them (though not without assistance or constant implosions). In all, the Empire is by far the most advanced in the known world (which considering the world they mapped isn't saying much), and is not afraid to use this to their advantage to better their own kins lives.

Though vast in number and with the power of steam and gunpowder to aid them, still struggle a lot on their homeland. Massive wildlife slaughter lone travelers or small villages, grown in size to better handle the cold. The long cold snaps causing outbreaks of disease and wild rural tribes that go and slaughter people cause the people to essentially cling to the southern regions. To the north is the Great Peaks, a massive mountain range overlooking the endlessly foggy ocean ahead which leads into the unknown since only wrecked ships and mauled corpses have ever come back. Disease, infighting, and wildlife are Normally cause their people to go exploring outward to try and find better goods for their people. Plus the fact only the hardiest of crops like onions, sweet potatoes, melons, etc grow well in the climate means often people have to use moss mixed with grain making their flour. Cannibalism is even widespread in bad times due to how limited the food variety is, so my people really head south to explore because if they don't they know eventually they will die

Done by the incredible www.deviantart.com/thewyvernsw…

Enjoy