Brythunia

• Population: 670,000
• Capital: Pirogia (pop. 90,000)
• Ruler: King Eldran, son of Khullan (?-?)
• Major cities: Sargossa, Leng
• Resources: Sheep and cattle
• Imports:
• Historical Equivalent : Anglo-Saxon Britain, Early Poland
• Religion: Mitra, Wiccana

A loosely-knit kingdom comprised of city-states, lying east of Nemedia, south of Hyperborea and the Border Kingdom, and north of Corinthia and Zamora. Its Nemedian frontier is the north-flowing Yellow River. Another river, the Frozen, flows eastward along the Brythunian side of the Graaskal Mountains and marks the northern border.

The highlands in the northeast are cleft by numerous passes. Interior Brythunia is a land of fertile, subhumid prairies interspersed with very thick, wolf-haunted coniferous forests.  The most fertile soils are to be found in the alluvial deposits of the interior river valleys and in the southern piedmont.

Brythunia is primarily agricultural, with its aristocracy based upon land-owning boyars dwelling in the fortified cities. 

The ethnogeny of the Brythunians is complex. The country was virtually uninhabited at the time of the first Hyborian drift to the South, and was largely avoided by the barbarian tribes, deflected no doubt by the rude Graaskal Mountains and to whom the ancient Acheron Empire initially offered a more tempting target, before its strength became apparent.

For the very same reasons, Brythunia then served as a refuge for Hyborians fleeing the power of Acheron.  A millenia later this still shallow-rooted Brythunian culture was then considerably influenced by that of Zamora.

The country has two different royal capital cities, Sargossa and Pirogia.  Movement between them appears to depend on current relations with the kingdom's neighbours.  The lords of Brythunia are thornily independent of their nominal king, who is considered as a primus inter pares overlord rather than a sovereign [in the vein of the Anglo-Saxon bretwalda].  Another threat to the kingdom are slave traders, for the spirited and blond-haired women of the land are much sought after by unscrupulous buyers.