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Thyl — The Cultivated Heart
If Bravia is blunt, Thyl is precise. Sitting at the geographic centre of the western continent, it is Oestia’s most cultivated nation — deep deciduous forests, river-fed farmland, a court culture that prizes refinement and ceremony and the art of statecraft as much as the art of war. Where Bravia remembers, Thyl records.
Thyl also carries a cosmological claim it defends with considerable cultural investment: that Epherion planted the World Tree at the heart of their oldest forest, and from its falling leaves the Aelvaeni were born — earth aelves from fertile ground, air aelves caught by the wind, water aelves carried to the river’s edge, fire aelves landed near ancient flame. The tree still stands, they say. Too deep in the forest to find, too sacred to look for. The Aelvaeni themselves have not settled the argument. Thyl does not particularly care.
Thyl’s western border is defined by the Earthmelt — a vast corridor of cooled black volcanic rock left behind when the ancient city of Sardis was consumed. It is not a natural feature. It is a consequence, and one that certain parties would prefer not to discuss too loudly.
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