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The Golden Coast

Region

On the far southern shores of Aranor lies the Golden Coast from which begins the ostensibly boundless deserts of sun-blasted sand, where nestled among oases and life-giving rivers, ancient cities untouched by the devastation seen across the world following the Curse of Falandine were rediscovered. Little is known of the great cities and their towering monuments, found to be brimming with treasure and gold-encrusted relics, vacant palaces and estates by the first cautious explorers - guarded by monsters, magical wards, and traps, but no sign of their previous inhabitants responsible for these wonders. 

First claimed by the nomadic tribes of An-khamon, they would not enjoy their new home for long before word spread across Aranor of these untapped treasure troves and unclaimed, with it settlers from across the known world arrived on the coast in search of their fortune, culminating in competition and conflicts throughout the region. Appalled by the infighting and intrigues of their new neighbours, the elders of  An-khamon instead urged their people to return to their nomadic lives away from the grief that their new-found wealth brought them. This was the beginnings of the first rift in their culture, divided between those who would return to their traditional, humble lives in the desert and they who desired to hold onto their new home. 

Through centuries of shrewd diplomacy, intrigue, and open warfare, the Khameni carved out an empire of interconnected cities, driving out foreign invaders or absorbing them as their subjects, rendering the modern make-up of the Golden Coast into a colourful mish-mash of races and ethnicities as the locals and foreigners have continously intermingled. In spite of this the ruling family has carefully maintained it's Khameni blood, as does it's nobility, whose status is often associated with how closely they can relate their bloodline to the original settlers.

In the year 1159 C. F. Empress Aui made the ill-fated decision to split the empire between her two twin sons Akhari and Adhio, intended to see her sons rule jointly as twin-emperors, the differences of agenda between the two boys has led to the division of the empire into two separate entities: the western An-Akhar Empire and the eastern An-Adhi Empire. Even while the present-day tensions between An-Akhar and An-Adhi brews around the coast the people of An-Khamon continue roaming their ancestral lands, staunchly maintaining their nomadic lifestyle in the face of temptation that the cities bring, especially among the many nobles who would take any chance to bring pure Khameni blood into their pedigree. 

Even in the shadow of these civilizations the Golden Coast remains a dangerous place to travel between monsters lurking in the sands, marauding tribes, and bands of unscrupulous treasure seekers, untapped tombs and even the whispers of as of yet discovered cities lying farther south draws both well-meaning adventurers and greedy villains to it's shores. Existing between the civilized cities and nomadic tribes are the Great Caravans, long trains of wagons and towns of tents in the desert, not quite tribe nor organized company, taking on all creeds of peoples travelling the coast for as long as they can pull their own weight. These caravans of merchants and entertainers, adventurers and explorers, thieves and charlatans, serve as the connective tissue in the vast distances between the cities and tribes, both literal and metaphorical.