Prustan Peninsula
From Praemal
The Prustan Peninsula is home to the Grailwarden dwarves and the Prust, a people that took over the lands around the city of Tarsis more than 1,000 years ago and eventually established the Tarsisian Empire. Rugged and mountainous, this land breeds an industrious people. Particularly under the rule of the Empire, they built fabulous roads and developed great devices using gears, steam, and gunpowder.
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Geography
Although Grail Keep dominates the nation, on the western slopes of the Hotash Mountains, located on the coast of the Southern Sea north of Peck is the dwarvish seaport of Vidor.
The Barony of Midwood is located in the southern Prustan Peninsula, west of the Duchy of Southerly and north of Kem. The duchy dominates the southern border along the Graywall and stretches from the east coast to the Anvil Plateau in the west. Northeast of Southerly is the Duchy of North Folk, the birthplace of Lothian and home to a number of sites important to Lothianism.
Grailwarden dwarves known as "earthdreamers" claim the entire peninsula has been created by two massive plates of earth beneath the sea pushing towards one another, one buckling under the other, to create the peninsula and creating the volcanic mountain range and hilly geography around it.
The Prust
The Prust are a dark-haired, pale-skinned people who have been ruled by authoritarian warlords since before recorded history began.
As a people, they love order and regimentation, and have much in common with the Grailwarden dwarves, including twin passions for working hard and playing hard.
The Nobility
Although the empire is now ruled by governors and commissars acting in the emperor's name, on the Prustan Peninsula, the old titles of the nobility are still used. (Each also has an Imperial military rank, but those are only used in official business outside the peninsula.) The High King of the Grailwardens is technically the Governor of the Prustan Peninsula, but no one refers to him that way.
Prustan Gods
Although the land is today celebrated as the place where Lothian was born (and eventually killed), it is an old land with its own old gods, who are now in decline as a result of Lothian's prominence. Old Prustan gods include Teun, The Iron God, Kharos, Kran, Tevra and Estanna. Castain, the predecessor to Lothian, was also a Prustan god. If he has any worshippers left, they are almost certainly found among the Prust.
Also see common Prustan names.
