Egiten islands

Egiten Islands are a series of roughly 300 islands and islets in the Southern Ocean roughly fifty miles off the coast of Kutaba. They were inhabitated by a subgroup of the Lifili who were conquered during the last great push of Kharan II. Imperial control was always shaky over the territory and it fell apart during the Deluge when the local government was left to cope with increasing number of raids from the south. Later the islands served as a base of operation for the pillaging of the western coast. Some individual strikes did happen to the east, but seeing the formidable defences and the swift retribution from a visiting Hadašhim fleet the area was left in peace.

As the newcomers were relatively few, they just made an elite change not a wholescale revamping in social and cultural manners. Egiten eventually converted the Thousander Faith, a process that started already in the imperial times and integrated into the Western Kingdoms. With contacts both to the north and the south they remained a naval crossroads of trade and cultural exchange. Both merchants and missionaries frequent the ports. Egitenese are somewhat isolated from the politics of the mainland, but it also creates an aura of adventurism. Many of their sons volunteer as mercenaries in wars while their warriors are capable of immense destruction in naval and land encounters alike. The family Ygarat stands out from the nobles, as they control roughly a tenth of the land area in the archipelago with immense number of vassals and allies. They are the nearest thing to a common ruler Egiten has got.