Shen-qi is a small city state in the mountains between the Border Kingdoms and Kridea. Since its founding about 100 years after the fall of the Goblin Empire Shen-qi has remained quite isolationist but was one of the first cities to rise out of the chaos and one of the last human states to fall to The Haram Empire. Prior to the invasion Shen-qi had a loose sort of control over the neighboring kingdoms much in the way a king controls his vassal lords. When the attack occured Shen-qi surrendered under the threat of overwhelming force and was thus given the position of capital over the newly formed Northern and Southern Border Kingdoms. Although this is more a formality than anything else and the majority of the Border Kingdoms remain autonomous it has given the state significance, attracting