Krondak, Gwenddon, Llwynedd, Fnorson, Peroka, and Ogakwa all figure prominently in the story of Loksenta in the early 9th century C.R. Those are not the only nations or pseudo-nations in Glorien. To their residents, these nations have predominant importance. They deserve at least a mention here.
Ilgren - Ilgren is an island off the west coast of Gwenddon. It is split almost in half by the Bay of Rymoc. Each half is ruled by a separate cadet branch of the ruling family of Gwenddon. These two families periodically engage in minor warfare, although neither has ever been able to gain significant advantage over the other. It is rumored that this feud is a proxy for a feud between two fae clans and that these families are infused with more fae blood than even the ruling family of Gwenddon.
Freiholm - Freiholm is a cold land across the Dark Sea from Krondak and Fnorson. The north of Freiholm is tundra. The Sigrum Mountains make up the west coast, swinging east to cut the north off from the inhabited south. Outside the capital of Gudtun and a few smaller towns, that habitation is sparse. Little of Freiholm is arable. The forage in available pastureland is meager. Much the sustenance for the Freiholmers comes from the sea.
Narhus - The Narhusites scoff at the Freiholmers, calling them soft and coddled. The rest of Glorien wonders why anyone would want to live on an island that is almost all mountains and tundra and who could be wiped out by a volcanic eruption at any moment. Those mountains do provide an abundance of gems and high-quality metal ore. The Narhusites who can tolerate the harsh environment can become very wealthy.
Viborg Isles - The Viborg Isles is a wishbone-shaped archipelago that spans the Dark Sea from Fnorson to Freiholm. They sit across the trade routes from Capivan, Freiholm, and Narhus to Krondak, Gwenddon, Fnorson, and Loksenta. As such, they are perfect staging ground for pirates. The isles are many - small, craggy tops of a chain of volcanoes. A small pirate fleet has plenty of options for hiding from a pursuing Capivana or Krondakite naval squadron.
Capivan - If land area translated to national power, Capivan would dominate Glorien. The steppes spreading east from its capital of Navisur are easily as big as all of the rest of Glorien. But the dariacs rule the steps by declaration only. A few cities sit on major rivers, exporting the crops grown in their immediate environs. The preponderance of the Capivana hinterland is populated only by nomads who recognize no monarch. Some travelers report non-humans in these groups - bears and wolves that walk upright and hybrids of humans and horses, goats, and cows. The Capivana elite dismiss these reports as fantasies. Still, few were surprised that the first dragon flights came over the steppes.
Capivan was the first nation attacked by the dragons. It was also the nation that suffered the most. Dariac Mulforn and his family were all killed in the initial attack on Navisur. After the casting of the Dragon’s Bane spell, there was no clearly legitimate heir to take the crown and put the country back together. Etura Mulforsa sits in Navisur, claiming to be an illegitimate daughter of the late dariac. Carilnion parSuma holds the city of Teprison on the South Road to Auriland. Neither can project power much beyond these cities. Seamount, Capivan’s major port and the home of its Dark Sea fleet, has declared itself a “Trade Republic”.
Frandylshyn - Frandylshyn is an enclave of Auriland located near the southeast corner of Llwynedd. It is a city unlike any other in Glorien. Rather than a collection of separate buildings, Frandylshyn can only be considered a huge, monolithic structure. Whatever it started out as, the dalibor have been adding on a laboratory here, a bedroom there, a kitchen where needed, since before the start of their recorded history. When it was attacked by Manderia, the Hive City was miles wide and at least a third of a mile high at its uppermost point. Only a dalibor could hope to make sense of the warren of rooms, halls, and stairs that one would have to pass through to get from one place to another within Frandylshyn. Since they would all have been built to dalibor scale, few could have fit in them anyway.
Little is known about Frandylshyn after it was attacked by the dragons. The last dalibor refugees to make it out of the city reported some fires and destruction of some of the outer layer. At that point, there did not seem to be widespread destruction. That was the last time anyone has seen Frandylshyn. A dense fog settled over the city, blocking it from view. No one who has ventured into that mist has ever returned.
Auriland - Auriland spreads across the south of Glorien, from the Five Nations and Peroka to Capivan and South Turigil, from the Sea of Cormyria to Llwynedd Frandylshyn. Its capital of Ashingtown sits in the middle, at the crossroads of a large river network and several major trade roads. Auriland consists mostly of fecund, arable farmland.
Auriland suffered little under the rule of the Azure Wyrn. Errence felt no need to govern, as long as his needs were met. He left the native Aurilanders to carry on much as before. After the casting of the Dragon’s Bane spell, Auriland recovered its previous prosperity quickly. The thought that Auriland should take advantage of the anarchy in Capivan to invade the region they call North Auriland. This area stretches east from Frandylsyn to the Norvellt Mountains, the same range that separates Auriland proper from Capivan. Capivan had taken North Auriland from Auriland in a war a century before the Harrying. Of course, Auriland had taken it from Capivan fifty years before that.
South Turigil - South Turigil is a triangle of land eact of the Norvellt Mountains, east of the Sea of Guppon, and south of Capivan. Capivan annexed the rest of Turigil in ages past. South Turigil has maintained its independence thus far due to its control of the Strait of Tyra between the Sea of Cormyria and the Sea of Guppon.
Taprus and the Broken Isles - Taprus is the largest of the Broken Isles, a large volcanic archipelago between Ogakwa and Auriland. Some scholars at the Imperial College speculate that the Broken Isles were once a country-sized island sundered by a massive eruption. Others think that it is an extension of the volcanic range that makes up Peroka. It is mostly uninhabited except for a few fisherfolk and pirates.
Ztessiphon - Ztessiphon is an isolated kingdom surrounded by mountains. It lies south of the Strait of Tyre. As such it is on the continent of Troia, rather than Glorien. Few from Glorien visit Ztessiphon. Its geographical isolation has made it equally as politically and socially isolated.
Den of the Red Wolf 