Taltacia

Taltacia is a northern territory that is mostly mountainous, with sprawling plains toward the southern border. Its countries include Diremund, Finnbar, Uud, Chismdor, and Gorth. Unlike the other continents which have separate kings for each country, Taltacia has one king with the leaders of each country named governors.

Taltacia is ruled by the interim leader Atila, who took over after Empiria and Aldis led an armed uprising against the King Taltex Toutorix and deposed him.

Taltacia was once prosperous and had many resources in its mountains with the blessings of its patron deity Forgeron. When he disappeared, so did his blessings, although Boadicea and Igriva were seemingly unaffected. There became chaos and discord within the Taltacian governors and the King. He planned an attack on Empiria and began the Great Taltacian War. The Taltacians sent wave after wave of soldiers, including their special unit of berserkers. King Toutorix was defeated and his daughter Atila took over. She has recruited the late King Torrentius brother, Cyclonus, for help establishing a new Taltacian empire.

Giger, reading from the Warthworks Journal, explains:

“In recent years– meaning the last century– the blessings of Forgeron disappeared. While the bounty and wealth of the Empirians flourished, the Taltacians suffered and their land became barren and weak. Scholars from all over the world gathered, with the ambition of discovering what caused Forgeron to vanish, and why only the northern continent fell into such disrepair, which has led to an upset among the Taltacian people and caused the Great Taltacian War.”

The Taltacians are one of the most ancient peoples on the planet Sidra. They are the ones who sailed to the Shadowlands and established cultures that eventually became the Shadow's Ridge and Kapruss.

“Taltacian culture is unique. I believe their strategy is simply to overwhelm the enemy with the quantity of their berserkers... Each Taltacian is a wildcard, and the Taltacian states– Diremund, Chismdor, Gorth, Finnbarr and Uud– none of them share a similar goal to unite Taltacia, and all have internal strife. The people are like bees in a hive. Since Taltex Toutourix was deposed, they buzz aimlessly and sting each other." - King Aurelian

"Toutorix was an evil man, but intelligent– a strong leader. Perhaps the strongest this world has ever seen– that’s why it was so difficult to defeat him. Without his iron fist, the Taltacians have become decentralized and ungovernable." - Aurelian explaining to Nadja after the Taltacian ambush on the automatons of the Shadow's Ridge