Regional history for Against the Robots

History

The area has been on the periphery of several significant empires in the past but most recently that of the island based Varazzan Empire which conquered and absorbed the area south of the Gap around three hundred years ago. They did not advance through the gap into Kethian lands until significantly later as they had learned from the dwarves of the southern edge of the Barrier Peaks and by the local Ammrenmd and Solmari tribes, who dwelt in the relatively fertile lands south of the gap and which they had incorporated into the empire of the extreme inhospitability of the lands north of the gap and how beyond a scattering of extreme primitives not one lived there and there where no resources worth trading up there either.

However with the development of the new Satrapial capital at Iranariz and its growth based on trade with the nearby and allied dwarf kingdom intrepid explorers pressed the frontier further west at first in to the lands of the Barbarian Jehenghii triggering a series of border wars with them and then after the discovery of the odd ore deposits at what is now Zebregan, and which is now exhausted, followed  then the sighting of the odd purple flare further north several years latter where it was found the ore or rather metal mined could be worked rather than traded to the dwarves in its unworked form and Angard was founded. It subsequently became quite an industrial centre and remains so to this day even with the much reduced supplies of the strange grey Kethian steel as since the depletion of the Zebregan lode all that is to be had has to be scavenged form deep inside the barrens to the north where it is found on the surface in small quantities. 

Further settlers moved north and a trade route was established through Torn Hold, itself a small abandoned Dwarven hold with the dwarves through Dulkariz mostly for food for whilst the Dwarves farmed and indeed Dulkariz was their farming hub they quickly became enamoured of the quality and variety that humans could grow

For over half a century there after all was peaceful  and yet more settlers came from the south for there was a good life to be made up here in the north lands despite cruel the long dark winters, especially for the adventurous and those displaced in the bitter border wars with the Jehenghii to the south west.. Then the Giant came and there was war a war like no other.