Nasa al-Vasjr

Nasa al-Vasjr ("the Refined Ones" or "They who are Refined") is a nation-state located in Barasud's isolated forested coasts at the base of the continent's greatest mountain ranges. Technically speaking, the country is a federation governed by a unified group of noble families, but officially it is a kingdom under the rulership of the century-old Apsbeq Dynasty.
The primary race that occupies the kingdom are the Nasa, a humanoid species that had evolved from a native species of cave-dwelling felines. Their early history is mired in a series of low-level warfare between primitive tribes as the quick breeding Nasa led to fierce competition for resources. But slowly, throughout centuries of constant conflict, diplomatic ties were built between the warring tribes through a series of political marriages and treaties that bound each tribe to the other. 
Eventually, this complex web resulted in the development of the Nasa al-Vasjr as the first unified state for the Nasa and the then growing culture of the Vasjr-Naraya. Standing in as the rulers for this growing state are the Apsbeqs, a noble lineage born from the union of a hundred different marriage alliances.
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==History==
The first recorded instance of a Nasa state was the establishment of the Peshrt Chiefdom some millennia in the past, typically disputed to be somewhere between 2000 and 5000 Prior to Founding (PF). It was a warlike society dominated by a lineage of Rafa chiefs who led frequent raids against neighboring clans and tribes for either loot or slaves, the latter of which often formed the majority of the Peshrt workforce. Eventually the decades of constant warring had worn at the seems of the great chiefdom, culminating in a vicious rebellion led by their slaves. 
The ensuing Peshrt Collapse era, or simply the Collapse Era, saw the former chiefdom's former rivals absorb the rebelling slaves into their ranks where the emancipated servants taught their new kinsmen the various inner-workings that made the Peshrt a powerful force to be reckoned with. This included primitive metal-working, agriculture, forestry, and, most importantly, writing. The acquisition of such important skills allowed the hunter-gatherer societies of the scattered Nasa to evolve into chiefdoms mimicking the former Peshrt Chiefdom. Consequently, the Collapse Era found itself as a period of economic growth and armament and societal change.
It was during the Collapse Era that the Nasa had first encountered the Dwarven Empire, referred to as 'Living Stones' in historical texts for the Dwarves' tunneling nature. Contact between the Nasa and the Dwarves are limited to surface traders simply passing by as few were unwilling to enter the dangerous lands of the Nasa where war was constant and monsters were drawn to in great numbers
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