Westland

Geography
Westland has, historically, been a nation of raiders. So much so that, colloquially, they are known as the Westland Raiders. They control the Western coast of the Manurian Continent. They have been pressed to the coast of the continent by their wars with Manuria and are prevented from moving south y the Snow's Land.

History
After losing the Westland War to Manuria, the nation of Westland had nothing. Many of their men bled on the snow and could not work. Thus, the few men who could set out to build a ship - one to take them to new soil.Travel over the seas they did, and wandered the seas until they found themselves starving on the lonely sea, being pulled by the currents below, for lack of any breeze above. They arrive on the Lorian, or Guardian continent. There they found the city-state of Neversted.

Here, they were welcomed, and a given sailing knowledge, a new ship, and bellies of food. The Westlanders got along well the citizens of Neversted. It became apparent that the two peoples had much in common. Squished out of the way by much larger, powerful nations - Bridgeway for Neversted and Manuria for Westland - they vented and then bondd over their shared lack of trust in other nations.

Westguard, Westland's capital, began a trading enterprise with Neversted, who could provide food to the starving nation of Westland, who in return would supply Neversted with blackrock with which to build walls round their cities. Thus, Neversted and Westland are similar - they eat the same food, love the same gods, and are built of the same rock.

Government
Westland is ruled by a King - who is chosen by the previous king.

Culture
The Westlander's long held belief was that monsters lived in the sea to the west and that, one day, those monsters would grow legs and crawl upon the ice to destroy the land-dwelling folk. The city of Westguard was designed to defend agaisnt these crreatueres.

There are tunnels beneath the sea in Westland's Bay which contain huge pieces of blackrock. Blackrock can be heated twice as hot as any other metal before it softens. These huge pieces of blackrock would be heated by a system of huge bellows and already-smoldering embers, then the rock with be raised into the frozen sea - which is frozen almost year-round. In case the monsters come bounding upon the ice, the ice can be melted to protect the city.