New Agria

New Agria is a former colony of Agria nestled in the southeastern corner of the Patriomian Continent. Surrounded by all side by mountains on land, and ocean everywhere else, it is truly isolated. The one mountain pass leading through the mountains collapsed in a rock slide, and there aren't enough raw materials in the area to build ships big enough to sail the ocean.

Known as "Lorvala" in the native tongue there, this colony was found in the 7th century, over 600 years ago. It was very quickly isolated after the mountain pass was covered in a rock slide, leaving them to fend for themselves and await rescue from the powerful military might of the Empire of Agria. By the 8th century, the colony gave up hope of rescue.

As the colony was mostly consisting of military men and some of the natives, the military men ran the city. They integrated the natives into the city, but the Colonel of the city was the de facto mayor. As years passed, isolated from their mainland, the new promoted Colonel took over after the previous one died.

Various citizens of the colony married the natives, intermixing their two cultures not only in bloodlines but also with their two different pantheons and their different cultures and beliefs. However, the military continued running the colony and they continued thinking they had the same manifest destiny that their motherland, Agria, does.

Centuries after their isolation, a New Agria emerged. There was very little like their original version, with a church to Helifix as well as a church to Atroa. The colony was run by military men, but they were all married into and descendants of the natives.

Maxentius Pertinax was one of the soldiers of New Agria. He received orders from the present leader, Vorin Wyrmshield, to go investigate the status of the rock slide and the mountain pass leading them out of their isolation. It was then when Maxentius ended up falling in with the party.