Hygard

"The straightest stalk grows highest."

Hygard is a sprawling human-led nation in the southern part of the Western Continent. It emerged in the early part of the Sunless Age as a number of human and gnomish agrarian tribes that were able to withstand and recover from dragon attacks through their geographic dispersion and keeping constant watch of the skies. As a result, Hygard was a major playor in the Dragon Wars of the Third Regal Age and for a long time subsisted on a feudal adventuring economy.

The Hygardian government consists of a parliamentary monarchy, which was established in the latter part of the Golden Age to support less volatile relations with other major nations, and took loose influence from the democratic models of ancient Telos. Queen Agnes of the Vistal line is the current head of the Empire, and Harold Sower is the Prime Minister of the Hygardian Nation.