User blog:Tikkit/The Land of Cerzin: The Amber Horde.

The Amber Horde is the northernmost nation of Cerzin. Nation in this case meaning the lands the nomadic tribes typically travel through. With very few long lasting settlements, the Amber Horde rarely is in the same place. Typically the tribes that make up the Horde will spend a majority of a year travelling throughout Amber Horde territory, trying to find places where they can settle down in the frozen tundra. That time not spent travelling and setting up temporary cities of camps and tents is spent and one of their permanent settlements, or in some cases, our raiding the lands to the south.

There are five permanent cities belonging to the Amber Horde. Including the seat of power for the reigning Khan, Frostbit Keep. The main center of shipbuilding, Winterfang Strait. The home of the Horde's avian members, the Eyrie. The Horde's only long term mining center of Stormsong Peak. And finally the Horde's southernmost city of Bator, where raiders will offer return to when they are done pillaging southern villages.

The Horde is mainly made up of humans, centaurs, and the monsters one can find in the north of Cerzin. However, they also include the strange Black Harpies of the Coven. Who act as spiritual advisors and as connections between the Horde and the frost spirits of the frozen north. Unsurprisingly, decades of practice have led to them becoming very good at this.

The Horde, due to the difficulty of sustaining itself in the harsh environment of the tundra, have always gone out raiding villages belonging to other people. Of course, mamono members of the Horde do it to find a husband. The other members do it in search of southern riches, and when that proves impossible, southern food, drink, and resources.

The current Khan, a Unmonsterized Werewolf, is rumored to be seeking to expand the realm that the Amber Horde claims south. Into the great farmland and hunting grounds of the west, and into the vast jungles of the east, as the amount of wood there would be a great boon...