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==Carthagia==  

A grim, mountainous nation of great mineral wealth, the Carthagians migrated from the far north during the Dawn War, led by their saviour, the Younger God Toran.  Carthagia is a monarchy, but both the Church of Toran and the fleshtwisters of the Manipulators are extremely powerful and influential.  The landscape is harsh but Carthagia does much trade in ores and minerals, as well as the fleshtwisted beasts that the Manipulators produce; they engage in much trade with Huron. Carthagia has a particular long-running rivalry with Naseria that has often boiled over into open warfare; they also aggressively expand east into the northern Drakkath, and are mainly conficting with the Thorn Circle at the moment as the closest area is home to several gnoll clans.

It is said that Carthagian Manipulators will pay well for many exotic or strange beast parts; the claws of a drazhikar, a huge predatory avian beast, are in particular high demand.  It is also said that some Carthagian delves have unearthed eerie subterranean ruins that show little evidence as to what Dawn Age civilisation might have built them.