Arefore

Arefore
Arefore is the second largest county by population, yet the fourth largest country by landmass. Arefore has a mostly warm climate with very little deviation in overall temperature by region. Unlike most of the rest of the world, many of the mountains in Arefore lack the traditional snow cover due to the climate. Arefore is mostly desert with a few warm plains and a dense rain-forest and marsh.

Arefore has been the home to a great deal of conflict over the years and it has taken it's toll on the overall growth of the country. Once it was a strict monarchy that attempted to grow it's empire beyond it's land borders. However a group of wealthy heroes overthrew the monarchy and split the country into five with a military designed to help protect these countries in times of war from the outside. Many years later a group know as the Unification Front would work to make deals to bring the countries together under one central leadership. Everything east of the mountains would joined with the Unification Front, with only the military and a few others countries being unwilling to full accept the claims of their leadership.

History
Stories speak of the first dwarves that found shore on the continent that would then become named Stivine seeking to escape the chaos that was spreading through the country of what is now known as Kashren. After some scouting of the land they found a large formation in the mountains that they felt would be the right place to start a new home. In time they would found the city of Akunsaunt. Satisfied with the comfort of the mountains the dwarves remained silent as over the decades to follow more and more groups would discover the country in search of their own freedom.