It’s where the story happens. Located between the warring Caligalan Empire (north) and Lotus Oligarchy (south). Ocean to the east.

City map

City Locations

• Old City
  • Dungeon Entrance: access to the dungeon here.
• Poor City (Lower City)
  • Market: the player can buy everything in this single location.
  • Tavern: for NPC interactions.
• Rich City (Higher City)
  • Magician’s Attelier: Misobel’s house and workplace.

History

Since the discovery of The Penitence dungeon ****in the City of Tall Hill, this country has used powerful adventurers as mercenaries and the abundant riches obtained from the dungeon to stay independent from outside nations. Though the land has been conquered a handful of times by neighbors before, no empire has successfully established a long-lived local government, as the dungeon grants wishes, and the wish of many is to rule. The current rulers of the (monarchical) confederation are the Ahtee, a royal family with little power outside the limits of their own capital city. They first ascended to power, like many before them, through extremely successful adventurers who led a revolt against the previous ruling royals. They’ve been in power for 135 years. Though the royals fear becoming the next target of a revolution, they are powerless to prevent it: restricting dungeon access means greatly reducing income for the nation, weakening their main defense force (adventurers), and creating a reason for revolt. Moving to another state also means giving up on royalty, as the ones who rule over the dungeon rule over this nation. Note: “Oscku” comes from the word for “moat” and was synonymous with “country” in the old language of the region.

Culture

• Use coins with holes in them as money, the holes being there for easy transportation, when a line is passed through them. The more holes a coin has, the less precious metal it has; therefore, it’s worth less.
• It is the most multicultural country this side of the world, due to adventurers coming from all around; some of these strangers even ascending to positions of power.
• Natives of the capital believe they are way better than the rest.
• Native religion worship a single deity half-good, half-evil known as “Aranj”.
• Native religious tradition requires people to hide their whole bodies with multicolored burqa-like clothing, with some exceptions, like rulers or priests.