Anok-Imaskar

Anok-Imaskar was one of the three successor states of Imaskar after the Empire's fall, the others being Deep Imaskar and Solon.

Geography
At its height, Anok-Imaskar stretched from the Celestial Sea to the Segara Sea (a large portion of what was later Shou Lung and T'u Lung). It did not spread west, owing to claims by Solon on the lands south of the Raurinshield Mountains.

History
The eastern provinces of Imaskar emerged relatively unscathed from the Empire's destruction. The mountainous Khati province and the flatter Katakoro province were both protected from the Mulan rebellion by distance and the natural defenses provided by the Katakoro Shan. Unlike Imaskar's vassals, Durpar and Gundavar, these provinces maintained some of Imaskar's magical might, including one of the False Imaskarcana, Dhonas's Shroud. Within a year of Imaskar's fall, the surviving artificer Kujawa founded a new realm when he claimed the throne of the former capital of Upper Imaskar in the Khati city of Thakos.

Anok-Imaskar was prosperous and quickly spread east, north and south. They traded with their fellow successor state Solon to the west. Eventually, Kujawa decided that he would have to found a second capital city in the new lands his nation had claimed, which he did on a mountain plateau further south in the Shao Mountains, east of the Sempadan Forest. The new capital was called Tempat Larang.

Unfortunately, the nearby volcano Mount Tengkorak erupted in -2113 DR, covering Tempat Larang in lava, and the city had to be abandoned. Over the next twenty years or so, the empire's southern lands were also abandoned.

Kujawa repeated the history of his former peers in Imaskar when he died fighting the immortal Nung Chiang in -1943 DR. His death caused the Empire to divide along provincial lines, each declaring itself its own state.