Ravlen

Ravlen is a tiny country on the west bank of the Flentia River delta. Governed from the city of Vost Ravlen, it maintains a cultural identity different to that of its immediate neighbours, the Cudumbian states of Pharom and Tra Stor. It, as well as most of the countries on the east bank of the Flentia, is descended from Celtic colonists.
Before the Great Gap Ravlen was part of a much larger country, Havaria, which was a Reman client state occupying the coast of the Flentia River delta and much of the land Reme had annexed from the Fen Boroughs in the 2nd Century BCE. Havaria had established Ravlen as one of a pair of trading posts: Vost Ravlen on the western shore of the Flentia was built to receive trade from its sister city Ast Ravlen on the eastern shore, and pass it along to the Nagar countries further west. This trade route was vital for Havaria's survival - the Nagars mostly traded Havarian dyes and cloth for iron, bronze and tin mined in the foothills of the Mountainfolk realm, which was needed to fuel the Havarian war machine in times of war with the Fen Boroughs.
Following the Great Gap Havaria was no more, its cities razed to the ground and its people either dead or fled to Vost Ravlen, boosting the city's population.
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