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Drakkar — The Desert Nation
Drakkar has made a civilization out of scarcity and turned that civilization into something formidable. Its interior is largely desert — hot, dry, and dramatic — but its capital Drakkaris sits on the western coast where sea breeze and trade make life not merely possible but rich. It is almost certainly Estia’s most important southern port, and the great libraries and academies of Drakkaris are among the finest repositories of knowledge in Vael.
Drakkar values learning, hospitality, and the keeping of one’s word with equal seriousness. Scholarship is a mark of status. To harm a guest is one of the gravest social violations the culture recognizes. Its military is fast, disciplined, and shaped by generations of desert warfare — not the largest in Vael, but among the most experienced at sustained operations across vast and unforgiving distances.
The desert interior likely contains ruins of civilizations that did not survive the long patience of the sand. What they knew, and what Drakkar’s scholars have or haven’t found, is a thread I expect to pull on eventually.
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