Varna is a late Bronze Age society, just discovering the use of iron. Magic is commonplace, but there are many similarities between historical European nations and those of Varna.

There are more types of society than there ever were at the same time in Europe, to give wider scope for different types of campaign. Some countries are have identifiable historical prototypes, others are pure imagination.

It was designed as a role-playing world, and the countries have been developed to make interesting role-playing backgrounds.

A campaign can be set at any time: perhaps to have the player characters make the changes recorded here. If they stray, start an alternative time-line.

Pronunciation is indicated for nations and nationalities. Where possible syllables have been spelled out as and English word of the same sound. Otherwise they are phonetic. The phoneme "ow" rhymes with how, and "er" or "u" often indicates the soft "a" (as in cat or man).

You do not need to know anything about the nations of the world to play the wargame. Information is included here for people who enjoy it. You can browse through all of it, or some of it, look only at the nation you have been assigned. or ignore it all.

To explore the backgrounds to the nations of Varna, start from any of the following areas:

Holy Sea, Inner Sea, Pirate Sea, Sea of Death, Sea of Kamos, Shallow Sea, Silken Sea, Landlocked, Map.

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