Goodness. Faith. Order.

• Life is service.

• Death is rest.

• Happiness is a reward.

• The League is the future.

• The Empire is a lost sheep.

• The Astral is a battlefield.

“Kanians” is what the inhabitants of the state of Kania call themselves. Although the peoples of Kania and Hadagan belong to the same race – the human race – their split happened so long ago, and since then their enmity has been so passionate and their contradictions so stark, that the other peoples of Sarnout have come to consider them two different races altogether.

This, in turn, reflects the deep-seated hatred both human groups bear for each other.

Kania arose as a strategic alliance of disparate tribes – and from its very beginning upheld the principle of the “state of free people.” This is evident both in its social structure (Kania is divided into equal lands, and the regents of all lands participate equally in all state decisions), in the respectful attitude Kanians have toward each other, and in their contempt for the Hadagans, who they see as suffering under the sole rule of a usurper.

Though Kania has cities, Kanians generally prefer to live outside large settlements. Kanians love nature: even before the Cataclysm, they chose to settle in vast, beautiful places – meadows, bright forests, and birch groves. A healthy lifestyle, constant fresh air, and a love of physical labor have all left their mark on the appearance of the Kanian people. Strong, stately, with light hair, Kanians stand nearly a head taller than the Hadagans, their former kin.

Kania believes that its ideals of legal democracy and personal freedom are the only true path to happiness. And Kania is ready to fight to the last and pay any price for those ideals. Hadagan is a threat to the entire free world. Therefore, the only acceptable outcome of the war for Kania is a total victory over Hadagan.