The population of the Tevurah valley and surrounding mountains is about 60 000, the great port city of Amur Hev holds 28 000, and there are 36 000 dwelling in the drier parts of the barony (10 000 farmers on the eastern slopes of the mountain, the rest miners, slaves, and nomadic herdsfolk). The rural population is mostly human, rather swarthy and Kitaban speaking; the only non-human groups of importance are about a thousand Northern Kalamen in the lower valley and the dwarvish settlements in the Rotai mountains.
Amur Hev is a cosmopolitan city; the language of choice is Tixryni, and about 40% of the inhabitants are of Lhomish or Great Tixrynic descent, tall and thin with olive skin. Another 50% are of the rural Hasaban type, with the balance being made up of equal parts northern and southern Kalamen. Prior to its conquest by the Empire, Hasaba was briefly a sovereign barony, and before that a province of the Kingdom of Kitaba.
Major exports of Hasaba are attar of talbani, starmetal and silver, fine black building stone from the southern mountains, vanilla pods, amandelwood, and snakeskin and hides from the savanna. The waters around Hasaba are filled with jagged reefs and dangerous beasts, so there is little fishing. The only exception is around the barren islands of Ahgnash and Sanaf
off the south coast, where brave divers hunt for mother of pearl and crimson gugfish.
The amandelwood trade has suffered in recent years due to indiscriminate harvesting; merchants based in Amur Hev still control the trade, however, and great boatloads of amandelwood from Flilpansnik arrive almost daily. The starmetal/silver mines are in the eastern Rotai mountains, where the road from Kitaba veers to the west, and are managed by Thudun. The sale of the metal is a baronial prerogative, and the caravans that take it to Amur Hev are armed to the teeth.
The political situation is difficult in Hasaba; the rural districts are great breeding grounds of heresy, adhering to various splinter groups of the Kitaban rite, so religious bloodshed is not uncommon, and in Amur Hev there is conflict not only between the Hasabana and Southerners (who are seen as having ridden in on the coattails of conquest to make a fast buck), but between northern and southern Kalamen. Amur Hev is a beautiful and well-kept city, with many fine public buildings and mansions built of glossy black stone. The old part of the city is very old indeed, and is said to have been built before the great cataclysm.
The black talbani is the floral emblem of Hasaba, and its herald is a black wyvern on a gold ground. The baron of Hasaba is ruthless and brutal, but outwardly quite civil and with affectations of culture. His father was brought from Zathim in New Tixryn after a rebellious mob murdered the previous line of barons, and he has little love for his subjects. Opponents are apt to end up in a crocodile pit or shackled to a leper in the starmetal mines. Religious matters in Hasaba are in the hands of the Archimandrite of Amur Hev, a pliant servant of the baron.
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