Byzodium

The lands that now comprise Byzodium have passed hands several times between the empire of the west and the Liefin empire in the east, but the administrative character of the nation is Zodic.

Once a Satrapi of the Zodic Empire, governed by a Zodic nobleman and supporting the western empire's war against the East, it has been subject to repeated invasion by Eastern armies, as well as monstrous hordes from the untamed mountains.

The desolation severely impacted Byzodium, isolating it from the Zodic hearlands, and causing a mass migration of displaced monstrous tribes - giants, orcs, goblins, etc...

The governors established a short lived hereditary monarchy, which was repeatedly overthrown by coups. Most recently the elite hobgoblin guard overthrew the ruling king putting one of their commanders Mabrudek as King. He has managed a longer, if equally violent, period of stability than any of his predecessors.