TURAN
TURAN
(Large Kingdom) -- Gleaming mailed and silken clad riders, masters of
the
Vilayet Sea, Turan revels in sweeping the barely contested wastelands
to the west and south. Turan, however, must bear the plague of a
thousand frustrations arising from the seemingly indomitable and
ever resurgent Kossaks, Zuagirs, and Vilayet pirates. Perpetually
battling raiders and quelling revolts from a hundred pinpricking
sources, the rulers of Turan must pass their reign in unceasing
watchfulness. Turan is a natural enemy to Iranistan and Vendhya but at
the beginning of the epoch stands in loose alliance with Hyrkania.
NATIONAL HISTORY
Listen, young Shah, to the heritage and history of thy people and the
kingdom which thou wast born to rule. Thy people are of the Hyrkanian
race, children of horse and bow, the tribe of Turan. A thousand years
ago thy forefathers swept southwest along the shores of the Vilayet Sea
and then north along the Vilayet's western shore, where they came to
rest and founded the mighty kingdom of Turan. Of the time before then
there are only legends, speaking of an oceanic empire called Lemuria,
and an ancient and hated dominator cast down millenia after a Great
Cataclysm.
Swiftly have we become more civilized than our Hyrkanian kindred whom
we left behind us in the east, becoming builders, scholars, diplomats,
and makers of many things. We have tamed the Vilayet Sea with our proud
fleet, and our swift armies have on occasion probed as far west as
Zamboula, Arenjun, an d the Hyperbor Valley. We hold sway over the
trade routes of the world, in the Vilayet Sea and on the Ilbars Steppe.
How swiftly we have surpassed our ignorant Hyrkanian kin, and now our
destiny is clear before us: to rule all the land from the sea to the
Hyborian kingdoms, perhaps even to the oceans beyond! Heed well now my
words, O Shah, as I report to the of the present state of thy new
kingdom.