Belore

Belore is a distant land on the Yan Supercontinent west of the so called "Far West" region of Shenea in the northwest of the Vaanth continent. Comprised of a huge central mountainous region and a long steppe plains region, the fertile and beautiful landscape is the home to a number of tribes who generally honor the goddess Khat.

**Belore** - NATION - Southeastern most nation of the Yan Supercontinent.  Situated along the southern edge of Din’Yan Fing with the Vhargas Mountain Range to the north and the Songjo Bang along the southern edge serving as natural borders.  Among the Vhargas is the mighty Mount Param, a legendary peak, and holy place to the people of Khat.

The political structure is complicated and mixed.  It includes the singular personage of the Khatabine, a demagogue and religious figure who hails from the Khatchan Temples and the Lorah a nation wide ruling body with counselors from most major areas.  The Khatabine is of a peculiar appointment, not being a formal role, like the High Sanctus of the Ageelians, or a high priest of the Enneans, but is instead a personage that appears irregularly in Belori History often with signs, peculiar tests by the temples, rituals and prayers.  Some sects see this individual as a reincarnational soul, some say the personage is merely a manifestation of Khat’s will made flesh, some see the Khatabine as more like a prophet who is sent when needed.

Currently the Khatabine is Tattar Sergedom, born among the Southern Plainsmen.

The area of the Songjo Bang or the Sangjo Narrows are a series of long inland seas attached by a river network, and has often served as a boggy battle ground between the proud people of the steppe country of southern Belore and the insular and expansionist Din Dynasty.   The gorgeous Vhargas and their foothills are dotted with monastic temples to Khat and bountiful farming villages built on breathtaking terraces, all with the aim of basking in the blessings of the Land Herself.

The wide plains open from the Songjo and the Vhargas eastward up to the Shen Sea, and Shenea herself across the straits.  The land is immensely fertile, owing to the confluence of the Lesser Kaelid winds blowing from the north west and the Grand Ældes blowing up out of the south west.  These form a highly temperate climate, bountiful rain and short, soft winters.  This compares sharply to Din’Yan Fang locked on the west of the mountains, being struck by the Lesser and the Greater Kaelids.  The Land Herself rises up, and protects the Beli, blessing them with every earthly gift.

In the Vhargas’ highest peaks and caves live the reclusive, Ding’ha a dwarven people that have sworn loyalty to the Din Dynasty and guard the Iron Gates of Heaven, an eons old set of gates high in the Vhargas that used to be part of a road network that allowed travel through the Vhargas from east to west.  No record exists of the making of these gates, and the roads through the mountains have long since fallen into utter disrepair.  The Ding’ha refuse any interaction with the Beli.

North of the contiguous land mass of Yan are the Shuki Disputed Territory, a swirling strip of land connected to the overall Yan land mass by merest isthmus and strips of beach that is often flooded by the tides.  While Belore claims this land as part of the Beli, the Shuki, a racially different tribe, with a more yellow to olive hue of skin similar to the Din’Yan, occupies the land.  They strongly disagree with Beli incursions and assert their independence regularly via skirmishes with the northern Plainsmen of Bal.  The Shuki avoid the north of their territory because of the Gandah, but maintain a cautious trade relationship with the Bahdnowa, a tribe of orcs that live along the north east coast of the Disputed zone.

Northward still of Shuki Territory is the Gandah Tribes region.  The Gandah Tribes maintain a massive east-west deadzone between themselves and the Shuki, descending brutally on any saplient being that dares to attempt to settle this region, including the Bahdnowa, who the Gandge view with superstition as being evil spirits given flesh.  Still again, the Gandge are racially different from the olive to yellow skinned eastern Yan, and Shuki, as well as the comparatively pale skinned Beli.  The Gandge are light brown to dark brown skinned people, with sandy brown to black hair.  They are generally viewed by the Beli and the Shuki with innuendo and legend.  The Shuki call them a raider people, and claim they move about the strange, mist strangled Tribes Region, never living in the same place long.  They are said to raid the Bahdnowa, the Shuki and the Beli with equal violence.  They are also known to build boats, with which they raid up and down the coasts, including as far as into Vaanthian nations.

**Notable Characters from Belore**

Takvor Demirdjian