Salkrathi

Salkrath was a powerful mathakate based on the Krathi river basin. During its heyday, it controlled almost all of the delta and was the bread basket of the Pohmyran Bay. However, its last mathaks died without heirs and the empire was torn apart by civil wars and famine. It was the most prosperous nation to ever exist with the largest population of the whole Bay as well as a melting pot of differing cultures scattered throughout the nation. Its architecture was renowned for implementing delicate golden ornaments, especially in courthouse spires, its date-and-honey-flavored food culture heavily influenced the food culture of the whole Bay's upper class, it invented several mathematical ideas, and its lenient treatment of multiple cultures and religions within its borders allowed for a humanism which has never been seen elsewhere in the Bay.

Its mathakate was based around a royal couple governing and their firstborn inheriting the throne upon either's death and the child reaching age fifteen, the so-called imperial model. But shortly before the harvest failures of Salkrath's decline, the queen mathak Bekra gave birth to the twins Cralo and Slethan, both of which were assassinated by a coup arranged by a number of courtiers. With the ensuing civil war and famine, several regional nobles rose to power and carved out a piece of the mathakate for themselves. The center was divided between Skoracladth, Ekreth and Sethcron, all of which claiming to be the successor of the empire, while the western provinces became Knyslor, Cron, and the east becoming the Makkarani, the only state abandoning the mathakate dual regent system.