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Septentria

The Europe analog: the mainland north of the Mediterranean, from Iberia to the Urals. For the world map and scale, see Geography.

Name. Septentria (sep-ten-TREE-uh), Latin for "the northern land," from septentriones, the seven stars that mark the north (septem, "seven").

Most of the map's powers meet here. The Caldrian Empire holds the heart of it (France, Italy, the Balkans, and Turkey), Ssyrathis holds Iberia, the Dwarven Kingdoms hold the mountain ranges, the Rephaim hold Belgium and Hungary, and The Myrean Confederacy holds Archaia (Greece) and every island in the Mediterranean. Across the Channel to the northwest is Tir Ynysael. To the northeast is Tsagoi.

Borders Worth Noting

  • Monster Kingdom ↔ Dwarves: the Pyrenees, held by Dwarves, sit directly between the Imperium (France) and the Monster Kingdom (Iberia) — a chokepoint under dwarven control.
  • Monster Kingdom ↔ Giants: Gibraltar, known in Tir Hathar as the Pillars of Heracles. The single most tense border location on the map — two non-human powers in direct contact, neither of which most human nations fully trust.
  • Monster Kingdom ↔ Confederacy: unofficial — the Iberian Mediterranean shore facing Confederacy island holdings. The Confederacy's outer islands are its most exposed, least-defensible territory.
  • The dragon's corner: the Luxembourg analog, where the Dwarves (Germany), the Empire (France), and the Rephaim (Zephakim, Belgium) meet, is the dragon Tirhildis's court. Her reach stretches north toward the Elves' toe of the Netherlands, and few care to argue the point.
  • Dwarves are not one kingdom but a loose collection of mountain kingdoms sharing culture and trade, spread across every major range on the continent (Alps, Carpathians, Pyrenees, Urals, Himalayas) — plus a lost foothold on Azlotl.

Hungary

Hungary is settled Giant territory (Zumakim) — not contested. The Giants took it very early in the Long War, around the same time as the sea-draining and the Catfolk Diaspora (see Azlotl and Giant Kingdoms documents). The Imperium still nurses an old, mostly symbolic claim to it — the kind of grievance a nation keeps alive in schoolbooks rather than at the negotiating table — but there's no live dispute, no secret treaty, and nothing to hide.