Indhopal

United kingdoms in the West. They are ruled from the kingdom of Kartish, by Rah Ahten. The climate tends to be hot and dry. It is bounded by the Ghorat Ocean to the West, the Hest Mountains and Rofehaven to the North East, and Inkarra to the South East

The people of Indhopal are dark of skin and hair. The lords of Indhopal traditionally would go to battle wearing thick, silk armor in shades of white and yellow, with large white turbans adorned with jewels in the center, often rubies. Other warriors of Indhopal tend to wear silk armor in yellowish colors.

Indhopal has many exports to the northern kingdoms of Rofehaven including: pepper, mace, salt, curry, saffron, cinnamon, medicinal herbs, alum, dyes, ivory, silk, sugar, platinum and blood metal.

There are twenty-two nations in total in Indhopal. The known nations are:

Aven
Bina
Deyazz
Dharmad
Hawat
Jiz
Kartish
Kuhran
Linah
Muttaya
Muyyatin
Old Indhopal
Taif
Tuulistan
Umarish

"Some critics have suggested that perhaps the Runelords was meant to deal metaphorically with the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the novels pre-date the war. Nor were the books meant to point out any particular threat from terrorists.

Instead, on several levels Runelords deals with modern issues on a metaphorical level. It is a novel about two cultures locked in a death grip over dwindling resources even as a greater threat hovers in the background, ready to tear their world apart.

It is also about the moral danger of giving in to corporate greed and unhealthy rationalizations. "
-David Farland, The Runelords Project

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