Since the fall of the great genie empires that once ruled south of the Marching Mountains, humans descended from the slaves of the genie lords have ruled the successive empires of Calimshan. From the shores of the Shinning Sea, Calishite have migrated northwards in large numbers as far as the Fields of the Dead and the Nelanther Isles, and eastward into the Lake of Steam, the Border Kingdoms, Lapaliiya, and the Shaar. Some fled disasters in their homeland or sought new economic opportunities, but most came as conquerors under the banner of the Shoon Empire. Outside their homeland, Calishite form the primary racial stock of the Border Kingdoms, the Lake of Steam cities, and the Nelanther Isles. Calishite also comprise a large fraction of the population of Amn and Tehtyr. Calishite ancestry,