Payon

The Mountain Village
A curiosity in Midgard, Payon possesses a culture all its own that bears almost no similarity to any other within the kingdom. Legend tells that settlers somehow managed to cross the ocean and land in the area from the Eastern Empire, and judging from the slight similarities to the Eastern nations this theory is still the most likely.

Like many nations in the East, Payon prides itself on its rich heritage, and still has a unique culture despite the velare invasion.

Payon also has strong ties to hunting, and archers from Payon are some of the most accurate in the world. Martial arts and glaive combat are also common in the city, lending more weight to the theory the people originally came from the Eastern Empire. Many velare have become practiced in these forms over the past five hundred years as well, and meshing the eastern martial arts into styles of their own.

Other than this, Payon remains mostly unchanged. It is still a quiet, mostly peaceful city, and while the palace is now inhabited by a velare leader and the race populates the city throughout, many mortals that have not attempted an uprising have been allowed to continue on their normal lives.