



This guy hails from a land which is just outside the cooler southern boundaries of the old Theocratic Kingdoms two thousand years after the first. It traded with them and learned from them as it came into it's own over the course of several millenia. It came into it's own during a period political instability in that ancient land three hundred years after the smiths of the theocratic worked out basic bloomeries and how to effectively smelt iron. Iron working had been done on a small scale for thousand years beforehand, but it was expensive and the resulting products were usually brittle and impractical. At least until they fixed their furnace design to make bloomeries and could begin smelting ore into lumps of workable iron. Iron tools were a great boon in cutting back the forests to get more cropland and made tilling said land easier. Their population spiked over a couple generations, which led to conflicts in which a warrior king with a War God as his patron came to power and turned his ambitions towards the theocratic kingdoms in their time of vulnerability, as did his son and grandsons in their ambitions, while also conquering other under-developed regions.





