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For a detailed description of Khitai`s Royal Cities, please go to The Crown

Khun-po (mountains)

These mountains are the refugee of almost all shadow clans of Khitai, please go to The Shadows for a better look over them.

Nakhat (forest)

Its the name of the forest that surrounds a city with the same name: Nakhat... Built by the ronins (fallen warriors who lost their honor) who came from the other cities, the once roguish city of Nakhat is now accepted by the king as a Royal City too, mostly because of the great work of Hia-Jutso-do, a very brave warrior who managed to transform Nakhat into a honorable city, sending all their rogues and criminals to the Nakhat forest.
The problem is that this rogues aren`t satisfied with that, and they even built small camps inside the forest, to make the life of Hia-Jutso-do as harder as they can... Some say that this rogues are even aided by the shadow clans, who want to control this city of ronins.
This forest is also famous because of its rare herbs that may enchant someone with mysterious magical powers, and there are other herbs with suberb healing effects as well... Rumors also say that some Kunku families make their lives hidden inside Nakhat.

Ryukhat (forest)

The cold forest of Ryukhat is the scary homeland of the beings known as ryunai, which is the equivalent for ogre magi in Torak. Legends say that the whole race of ogres are distant descendants of the trolls from Torann... This ogres were trolls who decided to abandon the caves of the Barren Mountains and traveled to the distant north, ending up on the upper edge of the mountains known as The Wall, very near Khitai. It was the god Odda (again) who decided to start a new kind of race, and tried to transform all these trolls into vile gigantic creatures, with enough intelligence to cast illusory and destructive spells!
But even Odda`s powers were not sufficient to generate a new magical race, and actually only one out of 333 born ogres retained this magical powers. Odda wanted to build an army of ryunai, and he had been very disappointed with the results of his plan, and then tried to destroy all his creations... But the benevolent god known as Akun interfered to protect the ogres, sending the ryunai (ogre magi) to the forest of Ryukhat, and the others back to the lands of Torann... It is what the legends of Khitai tells us.
The fact is that the vile ryunai are still alive inside the Ryukhat forest, and some other recent rumors say that they are governed by a council in the same way as the elves of Mahul Maakh, far away from there... They are also very alike the ogres of Torann and Stonebridge, except for the different skin colors. You must take one lesson from all this story, though: Don`t ever enter this cold forest, unless you are really wanting to find some serious trouble!

Yang Mountains

The mountains to the south of Khitai are an excellent reserve of precious and durable metals, like the amazing Cion, which resembles the finest dwarven steels and is also used to build the most deadly weapons and astonishing armors (katanas and samurai armors).
The city of Mir-Khai is settled beside the heights of this mountains, and there are many miners there who often risk themselves inside the many caves and underground areas of the Yang Mountains to dig the rare metals from its stone walls.
There are a few dangerous creatures living bellow these mountains, but as long as the duergar dwarves can be trustable, there will be no reason for panic, because they often act as protectors of the miners, in exchange of a good amount of treasure that they receive from the king every year...

Yin Mountains

At the cold north of Khitai, hidden in the ultimate frontier between the kingdom and the Great Glacier, the monks known as yinai (KI-NAE) make their living... Surviving inside one of the most inhospitable lands of all Near World, this monks give their lives to the command of the benevolent god Akun, in whose they strongly believe and follow with all their hearts.
Though the religious life of this monks may seen very boring for some adventurers, the few monks who travel to the south lands of Khitai seen to be very happy with their own lives. All this monks seen to attract the attention of people with relative ease, as they incite the curiosity of the common folks of Khitai with their calm personalities and warm smiles.
The monarchy of Khitai have good relations with the yinai monks, though they totally disagree with the constant battles between the monarchy and the shadow clans... Surprisingly, there are rumors which reveal us that the scary nightblades often tries to stay away from this monks, apparently because they have fear from them!
The religious chief and leader of the yinai, called as "The Lamah", is believed to be a reincarnation of the god Akun himself... No khitaian ever seen the Lamah.

Yin-Po Swamps

Beside the Ankai river, and between the Yin Mountains and the Royal City of Daí-Khai, we find the Yin-Po swamps. "Yin-Po" can be translated to "Glorious Fate" in Torak, but this swamps are only welcome for the yinai monks, and they are actually the only path to the yinai monasteries and villages inside the Yin Mountains...
This swamps were created by the god Akun to protect the yinai monks, and make sure that they would really have the opportunity to dedicate their lives to the deep knowledge of the spiritual ways, without being bothered by the other khitaians with unholy intentions.
So, for the yinai monks, this swamps seen to always show a direct and secure path to travel, but for any other, this swamps may be very, very dangerous indeed... Many khitaians disappeared forever inside this swamps during the ages, but some say that they just encountered the right path with the other yinai, and decided to became one of them.
There are also rumors which says that this swamps are watched from the heights of the Yin Mountains, by shinny golden creatures which resembles flying goats. The powerful Ki-rin are believed to be the high protectors of the entire yinai, keeping the frontier between the holy and unholy grounds always well protected! (note: Near World Ki-rins doesn`t have any psionic powers)

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