Far to the north, beyond the monster-infested Northern Seas, lies Manheim, home of the Nords. These people have led a savage and relentless war against their southern cousins; it is a war of raids and plunder, of countless battles and bloodshed, but, above all, it is a war of vengeance.

It would be easy to denigrate the Nords as bloodthirsty beast-spawn, no better than the monsters they lead to battle. To do so would belittle the achievement that crossing the White Wastes represents; it would demean the seamanship, courage, and fortitude required to circumnavigate the continent and wage war on the far-southern shores.

But, above all, it would demean the achievement that survival, let alone dominance, in Mannheim represents. Had the gods themselves created a crucible to test mankind, they could not have crafted a worse hell than the icy lands of the northern continent. This adversity has honed the Nords into one of the toughest and most dangerous foes one can encounter on the field of battle.

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