Ymetrica

The Great Nation of Ymetrica dwells among the white peaks of Hysh, where the highest and greatest temples of the Alarith cling to the roof of the world. In a civilization intoxicated by brilliance, Ymetrica prizes something close to heresy: endurance over dazzle, patience over genius, the slow certainty of stone over the quicksilver flash of the mind. Its aelves take their philosophy from the mountains themselves: that what cannot be moved cannot be beaten, and that permanence is its own kind of perfection.

Its Alarith warriors bond their spirits to the deep and ancient stone until they fight with a mountain's immovable weight, planting themselves before an onrushing horde and simply refusing to be shifted. Ymetrica is the anvil upon which invasions of the Ten Paradises are broken; time and again its ranks have absorbed the full fury of an enemy and worn it patiently to nothing. Even its Vanari, trained elsewhere to swift and graceful manoeuvre, fight in the Ymetrican way: last to move, and impossible to move through.

Within the Lumineth Realm-lords, Ymetrica is the unshakeable foundation: the nation that answers the realm's cleverness with the one virtue cleverness cannot outlast, and holds the line while brighter nations burn.