Chanwon Empire

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Basic infomation
찬원제국(Chanwon empire in Western language) is southern country that was found recently by Golden Weld Association merchant. Therefore, few things are known about this southern country because the only information about this southern country is a book that GWA merchants wrote while living at there for 5 year. The book says they are a large and powerful empire that has most of the land of the southern part. Land is warm and comfortable to live in for the whole year and doesn't have any seasonal changes.

Southern peoples(Chanwonians) have darker skin color and smaller eyes than most of western peoples, and it seems most Chanwonians are very intelligent and well-educated by the government, especially good at math. Seems like this is because the start of the Chanwon empire was an education group of old historians.

It is impossible that only specific blood can use magic but for an unknown reason, only Royal bloods and nobles can use magic in Chanwon Empire. while dealing with this part, the writer of book raised suspicions that the empire might kidnap or kill those with magical talents on the basis of a very large list of missing people, even considering the number of many population. But this is just conspiracy theory.

They have an independent language system that is very different from Western countries which is called as “한글”(hangul), so special education or a translator is needed to communicate with them. And this is unsure but due to the style of architecture, accessories, weapons, magic, animals, plants, even humans have no single similar point, it seems southern peoples built their own civilization.

No one says anything about the eastern part of the empire, which is no man's land and is full of mystery. The only information they could find out was the fact that merchants of the Chanwon Empire brought mysterious jewels and relics from there, with blood all over their bodies.

Weapons
Their weapons have a fairly unfamiliar appearance. Most weapons/armor types of the Chanwon empire have low quality but are very cheap and easy to process. But this does not mean their manufacturing and smelting techniques are low. Weapons of Knight-class of empire, 경(sir) or elite forces of empire has better equipments than Knight of Larin. It seems like because their army is very large, it is impossible to arm every force with well-made weapons so supplies cheap weapons and armors. Also, most high quality weapons have magical enchantment, usually fire-related magics like make flame at blade or shooting burning arrow. They called the enchanted weapon a “blessed” weapon, meaning blessed by royal blood/nobles. Weapons of Chanwon is most likely crossbow or bow. Their crossbow and bow is developed much more than western kingdoms, and looks like they are not thinking archery is combat skill, but just sports and play. Even their legend is related with bow too, like 용각궁(Dragon-horn bow) which is firing breath of dragon, or 천궁(thunder-bow) which is firing thunder. Because of this, they don't think sword is important at war. But, 경(sir) or elites of empire is different. They are using spear or long swords as paramily. Usually spear for elites and swords for 경(sir).