The kingdom of Haesol, vying with the Cheon-geom Empire for supremacy over the continent, was divided into three great territories.
In the north, a land of brutal cold and so-called barbarism, lay a frontier connected to the unexplored northern wastes.
In the center, the Nok-won Plains, celebrated as the continent’s breadbasket.
And in the south, a region that extended its influence across both inland and foreign seas.
The north, however,
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