Milosia
A rising power in eastern Aurea and rival of Narbonne, Milosia was a client province of the Great Empire. The nation is still nominally under the control of a Proconsul, though the position is appointed by the powerful Legate of the Sixth Legion in the name of the Emperor, despite there having been no clear Emperor for a century. Despite the chaos and dissolution in Aescalapea, the Milosians still bear an ancient hatred towards Aescalapeans, for reasons long since lost to time.
Geography
The Prefecture of Milosia lies in central eastern Aurea, on the eastern flank of the Antasian Mountains and the northwestern shore of the Aurean Sea. The mountains and their foothills wall the realm off to the west; from their feet the land opens into broad plains that roll east and south to the coast. An old imperial road, the Via Augustus, threads the realm from north to south, binding it to the Grand Duchy of Campois to the north and, past the coastal bay, to rival Narbonne on its peninsula; southward the plains run down toward the grain fields of Treva.
Terrain
The realm falls in three steps from west to east. Highest is the Antasian frontier: bare peaks and deep, ill-famed valleys where the writ of the Sixth Legion fails and the giants and their goblin slaves keep their own counsel, with the dwarves of the Unterreich far beneath and the lands of Cordosia and Dracia beyond the divide. Below the peaks runs a band of rugged, wooded foothills, the realm's natural rampart and the seat of its frontier garrisons and hill-monasteries. East of the foothills lies the greater part of Milosia: open, rolling plains that are often rocky with sparse topsoil, carrying the high roads and the bulk of the population.
Waterways
The Aurean Sea is Milosia's eastern doorway to the world. Warm and shallow, its northern bays carry the realm's shipping and tie its ports to Narbonne, Treva and the merchants of Aescalapea; they also carry trouble, for the corsairs of the Ganesian shore sometimes range these waters and fall on the coast when the season favors them. Inland, the rivers Morela and Piavo and their lesser fellows rise in the Antasian foothills and cross the plains eastward to the sea, watering the grainlands and vineyards and carrying the barge-trade of the interior cities down to the coast. The rivers are the seams along which the cities grew, and command of a crossing or a river-mouth has decided more than one quarrel between them.
History
A former client state of the Empire. Ancient hatred for Aescalapea.
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