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Kuusamo was a kingdom located on a large island off the southern coast of Derlavai. It shared the island with Lagoas, with which it shared long history of emnity. The Kuusamans are proud of their heritage of having been in their land before the Kaunians and the Lagoans came; a chant to this effect is recited as a ceremony before classes and before spells. Instead of a king, Kuusamo is ruled by seven hereditary princes who share power between each other. The largest city is Yliharma.

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  • Kuusamo was a kingdom located on a large island off the southern coast of Derlavai. It shared the island with Lagoas, with which it shared long history of emnity. The Kuusamans are proud of their heritage of having been in their land before the Kaunians and the Lagoans came; a chant to this effect is recited as a ceremony before classes and before spells. Instead of a king, Kuusamo is ruled by seven hereditary princes who share power between each other. The largest city is Yliharma.
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  • Kuusamo was a kingdom located on a large island off the southern coast of Derlavai. It shared the island with Lagoas, with which it shared long history of emnity. The Kuusamans are proud of their heritage of having been in their land before the Kaunians and the Lagoans came; a chant to this effect is recited as a ceremony before classes and before spells. Instead of a king, Kuusamo is ruled by seven hereditary princes who share power between each other. The largest city is Yliharma. Before the Kaunians and Algarvic tribes came to the island from Derlavai, Kuusamans were nomadic pastoralists who herded reindeer, but adopted settled agriculture from the immigrants. Kuusamo was involved in a war with Gyongyos over the possession of islands in the Bothenian Ocean when the Derlavian War started; they stayed neutral until the second year of the war, when Kuusamo declared war against Algarve over the massacre of Kaunians for their life force. The Algarvians retaliated with a magic strike against the capital city, killing two of the Seven Princes. Kuusaman theoretical sorcerers had been pursuing a unity between the Two Laws, of Similarity and Contagion, even before the war started. After it began this investigation was patronized by the Seven Princes, and used to develop magecraft that would be used to counter the Algarvian sorcery derived from the murder of Kaunians. The Algarvians launched a sorcerous attack at the researchers, killing Siuntio, the premier theoretical sorcerer of the age. Eventually, the Kuusamans invented an extremely powerful spell based on the inverted unity of the Two Laws (their spells worked by releasing energy from twisting time itself) and used it to destroy Gyorvar, the capital of Gyongyos. Kuusamo was described as being far more open and easy-going than any other society on Derlavai. While there is no mention of any type of constitutional government, citizens have functional freedom of speech and it is mentioned that Kuusamo has a tradition of press freedom, for they allow their news sheets to be much more candid about military matters than other kingdoms. Women are also allowed to do virtually anything that men can do, in contrast to the rest of Derlavai where traditional gender roles are firmly enforced; a example of this being Pekka, a female theoretical sorcerer, who helped create the special bomb that destroyed the Gyongyosian capital.
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