Ramal Nations

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The Ramal Nations are a collection of city-states which exist along the great rivers of the Sand Seas in the south-eastern portion of Indagar. The Ramal Nations earned their name during the rise of the Ramaltas, powerful monarch figures who have brokered stability in the region. The Nations have existed as a real force for many hundreds of years, having coalesced fully while the region was under the control of The Republic. Since the rise of the Ramaltas, the entire region has seen tremendous growth in terms of culture, wealth, society, and power, as the Ramaltas were the first to be able to tame the hostile and rugged landscape of the desert and allow for real civilization to bloom.

The Ramaltas are a dynastic group of monarch leaders, but they draw their power not from the traditional sources of a monarchy but rather through control of both the political and criminal landscapes. Underneath the Ramaltas are a group of aristocrats, rich individuals within the city-states who also control considerable underpinnings around governmental, business, and criminal organizations. These aristocrats pledge fealty to the Ramaltas, respecting or fearing the Ramaltas, who was once an aristocrat that was able to seize total power through political machinations or simply through a power struggle.

Using the hooks they have in all walks of society, the Ramaltas were able to turnaround the feared bands of raiders of the region and bring them under their control. They brought the Unbodied, networks of thieves, assassins, and mercenaries under their thumbs, and the Ramaltas were also able to grasp the reigns of enough political power to bring the governmental agencies of the city-states under their control as well. With each of these groups under a central iron-fisted authority, the city-states have been able to prosper and life has improved. Thus, although living in what outsiders may consider a dictatorship, the majority of common people who live in the city-states see their Ramaltas as great leaders who have tamed the region and brought prosperity.

When the Nations march to war, either against each other or on a mission of conquest against foreign powers, they do so under the banner of one or more particularly rich Ramaltas who were able to raise an army. Those armies consist of their personal guard, or from the mercenary organizations under their control such as the desert raiders, Unbodied, or Blood Cults. As a people of the harshest landscape on all of Indagar, the armies of the Ramal Nations are crude survivalists, able to utilize all the tools available to them without any kind of pause or remorse, including guerrilla warfare, hit and run tactics, and the dark arts of Blood Magic and Blood Sands Thaumaturgy.

The Ramal Nations are a new power relative to the other powers on Indagar, and as a reliatvely young upstart, the future of these survivalists has yet to be fully realized. The world may not yet be ready for the power of Blood Magic combined with the will and grit of such a fierce people, but it will soon have no choice but to face it.

## The Ramal Nations Links

Ramal Nations Army

Ramal Nations Time Line

Ramal Nations Back Story

--Neil (talk) 04:17, 11 October 2016 (AST)