Large tracts of the Widburn Continent are little more than Savanna, but nowhere else are oliphants to be found, and it is on the backs of these enormous beasts that the Dwarvish Empire has been built, literally. Nobody knows if the living lumbering fortresses of the Dwarves could have outmatched the nimble swarms of the Horde, and fewer want to find out. But none can deny that the tactic has allowed the Empress undisputed command over her own territories.

Sletia, the ancestral home of the Gnomes, has always refused confederation with Widburnese. It profits greatly through trade with the Dwarves, for there is always a market for new volatile compounds that are able to be used in even newer ways to keep peace and retain order.

To add: Impora