Outlaw Kingdoms

Not all inhabitants of Verces recognize the authority of the Grand Assembly, the governing body of the Ring of Nations. Beyond the terminator zone, various factions of rebels exist, ranging from nomadic tribes and survivalist cults to criminal organizations and political exiles. Referred to collectively as the Outlaw Kingdoms, these fringe societies are typically overlooked unless they engage in raids on Ring citizens or Ring-owned outposts, such as the expansive Sun Farm solar plantations in Fullbright or Darkside's shelynium ice mines. While some groups, like the ice-focused Ascetics of Nar residing in the frozen monastery known as the Fastness of the Ordered Mind, engage in regular trade with Ring citizens, most upstanding Vercites officially avoid association with both darksiders and lightsiders.