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**Astaria - Capital**

Farahduun is a cursed land where not many live beyond those born within it. The lands within it are generally forested. Though there is a great deal of marshland and swamps as well. Among its citizens are a variety of people from humans, elves, dwarves, halfling, half orcs, half elves and considering the population size a much higher concentration of aasimar and Genasi than anywhere else though no tieflings.

 It is far from a rich country in terms of wealth, nor technologically advanced but it is rich with phenomena both good and bad. Among these phenomena are something called scars. Cursed objects that seem indestructible that have caused tears in the fabric of reality dragging those nearby into what seems like memories of the past, though other times seem like cryptic warnings. Some of them plainly make no sense at all and might represent the sanity of the world slowly slipping away. The only reason this country still stands is because of one of the beneficial phenomena that resides within this country. The well. This well gave birth to the Risen, The risen perhaps only make up for 5% of the entire countries population. However when they fall in battle... they simply rise again at the well only hours later. Because of this the country has built its only real city and capital city Astaria around this well to both protect it and in turn protect themselves from the steadily spreading scars.

The risen are seen as heroes to this country, their guardians who routinely go out to face the threats of these scars and keep them at bay from spreading and taking over the country and who knows perhaps they'd eventually overtake the world if left unchecked.

Other countries do not bother Farahduun as one... there is nothing of value for them to take except the well , and it is far too dangerous to take an army through the country as many would be drawn into the scars and killed. The risen look just the same as many of the races that encompass the realm and still seem to need to eat ,drink, breathe, and sleep. Though a much higher percentage of them seem to be aasimar and Genasi. Once outside the borders of the country the magics of the well cease to work on the risen however and they die just like anyone else.

They do not get much in the way of trade or really even interaction with other countries save for the occasional desperate call for aid or a scar reaching beyond their borders and dragging people into their country and so this has led to a very different sort of economy. The citizens of the country trade goods among themselves as opposed to some form of money and have managed to scrape together self-sufficiency barely. The Risen meanwhile have a collection of magical potions and items that they have gathered over their time battling the scars and what they've brought back from them.

( A sparsely populated land, this nation is cursed or blessed to be the source of the Scars. These pockets of unstable magic can have unpredictable effects. Rumor is that the capital Astaria has a fount within its walls that grants mortality to the city's heroes, but that it comes at a cost. Outsiders often do not know or have already dismissed the truth, so learning more is hard. Those from Farahduun carry legends of warriors on a permanent quest to keep the plague of Scars from spreading out beyond their stricken land.)