Onosh League (CCW)

The states of the Onosh League are certainly within the cultural sphere of Celtheste, though they may not identify as such. They exist in liminal zone between Rutalia and Central Arcuria, where Onoisi and other Celthestans have ruled together and over each other; mixed, mingled, and kicked a border up and down the Luca River for a thousand years. All three of these states were a part of the Caltanian Empire until Capaliso invaded and they were left to fend for themselves. Heavily battered in that war and under Caltanian rule, the region is especially unstable at the moment, its future more than uncertain, teetering on total chaos.

Barudasmas
Bridge to the South

In many ways, Barudasmas is an extension of Silvy-Byruedon. The same vibrant, mixed culture and fiery people, but transplanted into valleys, hills, and woods, as well as river plains. The Baruds do not consider themselves Celthestan, unlike their neighbors, considering themselves a bridge between North and South, Celthestan and Oinosi. Balance, they believe, is the paramount virtue, especially in a region so plagued by instability. When two speak out, they say, both must be heard. So for many outsiders, life here can be frustratingly slow, even stagnant. And for an increasing number of young Baruds, it seems this attitude cost them dearly in the Capalesian war. With a new war on the horizon, and a king agitating for more power, maybe it’s time for an abrupt change in pace.

Amunondros
Birthplace of the Onosh Revolution, Bronze Ox of the South

Formerly a great, democratic regional power, reduced to a perpetual war zone ruled by a military junta, Amunondros was the great impetus for Onosh independence and promoter of Onosh culture. Whether the reality of Onosh culture bears any resemblance to the bombastic fever dream of nationalistic sentiment they’ve concocted is another matter entirely. Their mythic history and iconography are a compilation of various Onosh images and thoughts, from a hundred different clans, kingdoms, and eras. All this conglomeration has inflated the size of everything: statues and buildings, all slightly too large, all slightly unrecognizable, as is their hyperbolic diction. Civic/public engagement was at an all-time high before the coup...but how quickly enthusiasm and joy turned to fear and sensationalism.

Kataborros
The New Kingdom

Kataborros has not had a real government for quite some times—ruled instead by several large trade companies that swept in after the Capalesian invasion. As a formerly Bathican territory, colonized by Celthestan Oinosi, Kataborros has an unusually pronounced collective guilt about its past, a discomfort in its own skin. It has swung from wildly populist and democratic to a mess of warlords to a technocratic bureaucracy, at one point doing away with all traditions and culture entirely in favor of a modern, even futurist society. Kataborrans today are a hardworking, well off, whiplashed lot, not fully in control of their now clean, but empty nation.