Kingdom of Castelon

Castelon was once powerful nation in the South, ruled by a dynastic monarchy. It was the first nation to sail west and discover the new world, establishing New Castelon, the Silver Colony. A seemingly endless supply of gold and silver from New Castelon funded imperial expansion, and Castelon, with it's powerful navy, rose to temporary prominence on the world stage.

While some feared that Castelon could come to challenge Cassia in the west, the kingdom of Castelon horribly mismanaged it's colonial wealth and was bankrupted within a generation. Castelon chose to depopulate the native populations of the Silver Colony and replace them with aristocratic landholders, which led to an expensive series of border wars, all while flooding the world markets with new mined gold and silver, paying no mind to concepts of hyper-inflation. At the same time, the King of Castelon pursued rigid social policies based on flawed concepts of racial purity at home, which included banishing all dwarves from the kingdom, irreparably gutting Castelon industry and destroying it's middle class. A generation after nearly challenging Cassia hegemony in the west, Castelon was swiftly defeated by the Cassian legions, but not annexed into the Western Empire.

Today, Castelon is a tribute paying puppet state of Cassia, remaining a valuable border nation between the West and goblins active around the Barbary ruins. Castelon retains its air of superiority, and remains a source for high-end luxury goods, if nothing else.