Hindia

Hindia is a subcontinent of Zebrica, characterized by hot jungles, the spice trade, and a cultural imbalance between Olenian settlers and native Hindians, who have divided the region among seperate states and continue to skirmish today in the hopes of a grand reunification of the region.

Located in the north-east, Hindia was spared from the wrath of the Storm King by the mountains of Lllambet and the strong barriers of the Kirin to the South, but were not spared their own wealth of cultural and geopolitical issues stemming from what in the world is known as the "Hindian Revolutions", but what among natives is known as the Great Struggle, a fight for independence against corrupt Olenian thanes, Yarils, and vikings, all remnants of the great conquerors of Olenia in their quest to assert independent dominance over the region. Hindians originally existed as a patchwork decentralized princedoms, small merchant republics and confederations, and large domains controlled by maharajas and other powerful princes with the power to carve out Hindia for themselves. Before any of these maharajas could truly unify Hindia and pursue unification, however, the wrath of the Olenian vikings arrived. Cnoof and Ivor, two Olenian brothers sanctioned by Olenian organized religion but not the King of Olenia himself, arrived in what is know known as Uusi Hirvimaa with a great host of raiders and petty nobility looking to find a place for themselves in Hindia.

Now, Hindia is beset by ethnic struggles following the death of Ivor's final heir, Sonderbeg, who fell in battle while attempting to control Uusi Hirvimaan control over Chital proper, and eventually defeat the Barasinghan revolutionaries who had established an independent state under the warrior queen Mikalla. Following his death, the last independent Olenian countries broke all technical obligations to the Kings of Uusi Hirvimaa, but unfortunately for the Olenians, the natives found this to be an opportune time to rise up in revolt against the remaining Olenian states. The last holdings in coastal Doehli fell to a unified alliance of princes that eventually declared themselves the Doehli Confederation, and a revolution in Sambar almost shattered the Yarildom there. Chital, guided by strong leadership, has mostly averted ethnic struggle, but it seems the continuation of the Great Struggle is still an ever-present spectre. Currently, Hindia is controlled by four independent nation states, with Stagpal and Llambet to the West and the Kirins to the North. The Doehli Federation continues to exist as a militant but chaotic alliance devoted to overthrowing the last Viking heirs, while Barasingha continues to hold on under the aging Mikalla I, who has now been held up as a prophet and enlightened warrior of her people. Meanwhile, following a failed revolution, Sambar has embraced the supremacist rule of an Iron Regent for the murdered Yaril, while Chital, under a prosperous monarchy, continues to remain the most industrialized and stable, but the House of Kudlinen still remains in a precarious situation, even as the strongest dynasty the Hindians had seen since Ivor and Cnoof.