Campanian Empire

Many islands of the Archipelago have been conquered by the ever-expanding Campanian Empire. The empire’s capital is the city of Campania, on the island of Pyrenia, where the Emperor and the elite dwell. The Empire’s conquest for the world started about half a century ago, with the construction of the massive galleys that could carry entire armies from island to island. The people who row the galleys are mostly slaves captured from small tribes on Pyrenia and the neighboring islands. Currently, all of Pyrenia and Provancia, most of Armorica, the east coast of Iberia and the western part of Rhenia are all under Campanian rule. There’s also an outpost on the continent of Baltica, named Fort Scanium - a wooden fortress garrisoning a thousand soldiers.

Campanians put a great emphasis on fertility. A man is not considered a real man until he sired a child - and a woman is not considered a real woman until she has given birth. If one becomes infertile before producing a child, they become essentially slaves.

Arena executions are very common among Campanians. They chain the convicts to a pole or a rock and unleash a beast (typically a hungry prowler, a pack of starved raptors, or a very angered clubtail shieldbeast) on them. Other times they let the convicts fight each other to the death.

The elite of the Campanian army are the Ragers of Tarask. These fierce soldiers are entirely devoted to Tarask the Armored. They covered their entire body with metal armor and wielded massive clubs, imitating the fighting style of the mighty Clubtail Sieldbeasts. These soldiers are often infertile slaves who have no other purpose in life but to kill as many people as they can before they die.