Quai Empire

The Quai Empire, also known as the Greater Quai or the Heavenly Expanse, was a Sethurian empire bordering both the Irerian and Canmeric Seas. One of the largest and longest-enduring empires in the history of mankind, the Quai was nonetheless relatively secluded from the affairs of Adovias and Jotura. The Quai's isolationist tendencies were largely due to its geographic seclusion and the numerous surrounding peoples that constantly harried the Empire's fluctuating borders. The Greater Quai shared borders to the west with the hostile Alderan successor state of Cyridos, to the north with the kingdoms of Eazolon and Irerium, and to the east with the sprawling Quarut steppes and deserts yet unknown to even the greatest scholars of Leogoth. During the time of Edos' Thousand-Year Empire in the Second Age, the Quatari expanse was a far-flung colony of mankind, rarely considered in the affairs of the God-Emperor's court. Following the outbreak of the War of Holy Succession after Edos' disappearance, much of the Sethurian lands of men fell under the sphere of the Elven Centharii Dominions, acting as little more than a buffer against the carnage of the Three Great Empires' eternal war. The birth of the Quai from this state of Elven dominance is known only in legend. At some time during the chaos of the Third Age, the men of eastern Sethuria broke free of their Centharii oppressors, forging a vast new empire to rival the Three Successors themselves.