The primary setting of Earthdawn is Barsaive, a former province of the Theran Empire.

They are the predominant race in Barsaive, and the dwarf language is considered the common language.

Like many role-playing games from the nineties, Earthdawn focuses much of its detail on its setting, a province called Barsaive.

Their culture, especially of the dominant Throal Kingdom, can be considered more of a Renaissance-level culture than in most other fantasy settings, and forms the main source of resistance to a return of Thera's rule in Barsaive.

The Earthdawn Companion 2nd Edition cover shows Throal, the capital of Barsaive

Other trolls, known as lowland trolls, have merged with mixed communities around Barsaive, although most retain the fierce cultural and personal pride of their less-civilized cousins.

The 2nd Edition did not alter the setting, though it did update the timeline to include events that took place in Barsaive.

Likewise, Barsaive gets a complete treatment, and the chapters contain a lot of log entries and stories in addition to the setting descriptions ; the same applies also to Horrors and Dragons.

In Barsaive, magic, like many things in nature, goes through cycles.

The Theran presence in Barsaive has been limited to a small part of south-western Barsaive, located around the magical fortress of Sky Point and the city of Vivane.

Indeed, the map of Barsaive and its neighboring regions established that most of the game takes place where the Ukraine and adjacent Russia are in our world.

Two Earthdawn supplements cover territories outside Barsaive.

Troll clans often raid one another, and a significant subset of the troll race are crystal raiders, which command many of the airships of Barsaive.

T ' skrang are often sailors, and many t ' skrang families run ships up and down the rivers of Barsaive.

It is a lonely, rather desolate region, but full of legendary and historic associations.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

Respecting their need, one of the major focal points of our concern is the South-Asian region.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

It is kept in each Regional office for the small firms within the region.

A significant effect discovered during the study is the existence of Prandtl numbers reaching values of more than unity in the nitrogen dissociation region.

Another effect discovered is the large coefficient of thermal diffusion tending to separate nitrogen from the oxygen when temperature differences straddling the nitrogen dissociation region are present.

With the growing complexity of markets and intensity of competition, sales management, whether at the district, region or headquarters level, is a tough job today -- and it will be tougher in the future.

Physicochemical investigations of anionic surfactants, including the soaps, have shown that there is little polymerization or agglomeration of the chain anions below a certain region of concentration called the critical micelle concentration.

( 2 ) In the critical micelle region, there is a rapid agglomeration or polymerization to give the micelles, which have a degree of polymerization averaging around 60 - 80.

Beyond a few million kilometers from the Earth, but still in the region of the Earth's orbit, a prediction of the flux of dust is even more unreliable.

The observational data determining the concentration distribution have a range of error which is magnified in the extension into the micrometeorite region.

We assume that average total unit cost in the relevant region of operation is constant with respect to quantity produced ( the average cost curve is horizontal, and therefore is identical with the marginal cost curve ), and is the same for every firm ( and therefore for the industry ).

The pictures of Figs. 3 and 4 show the cracking and peeling types of removal where the coating is detached by failure in a region at, or close to, the interface between coating and substrate.

An electrostatic system suffers generally from image plane curvature leading to defocusing in the peripheral image region if a flat viewing screen ( or interstage coupler ) is utilized, while a magnetic system requires accurate adjustment of the solenoid, which is heavy and bulky.

This is specified by a distribution function Af such that the probability that Af lies in some region D of the stage space is Af.

And when psychology explains glibly, `` but the subconscious mind is able to produce it '' it refers to a mental region so vaguely identified that it may embrace the entire universal mind as conceivably as part of the individual mind.

Thirdly, the South is not merely an embarrassingly backward region, but a part of this country, and what happens there concerns every one of us.

Of the nation's eight million pleasure-boat owners a sizable number have learned that late autumn is one of the loveliest seasons to be afloat -- at least in that broad balmy region that lies below America's belt line.

* 1454 – The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power among northern Italian city-states for almost 50 years.

This period is characterized by heavy city-building, the development of independent city-states, and contact with other Mesoamerican cultures.

Its native civilization is decadent and the various city-states and desert tribes squabble as the canal system slowly falls apart and Earthmen arrive to carve out colonial holdings.

In terms of both area and population size it is – apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg – Germany's smallest federal state.

* The Mixtec lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw is defeated in battle and sacrificed by a coalition of city-states led by his brother-in-law 4 Wind.

The rest of the Persian fleet is scattered, and as a result Xerxes has to postpone his planned land offensives for a year, a delay that gives the Greek city-states time to unite against him.

The majority of the area of the " northern civilized cities ", as the Vosk river region in the temperate north of the continent is referred to, is reminiscent of ancient Greco-Roman city-states in many respects ( aside from the delta city of Port Kar, which is a more anarchic and piratical version of Venice ).

Sometimes the term also includes the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan's two principal allied city-states, the Acolhuas of Texcoco and the Tepanecs of Tlacopan, who together with the Mexica formed the Aztec Triple Alliance which controlled what is often known as " the Aztec Empire ".

Although the form of government is often referred to as an empire, in fact most areas within the empire were organized as city-states, known as altepetl in Nahuatl.

That the city-states of northern Italy, or Genoa on its own, could have put several thousand mercenary crossbowmen at the disposal of the French king is described by Schnerb as " doubtful ".

* The Athenians reduce the tribute due from their subject city-states ( ie members of the Delian League ), and each city is allowed to issue its own coinage.

* A peace conference between the Greek city-states is held in Sparta.

* The Greek city-states make peace with the Persian Empire through the Peace of Callias, named after the chief Greek ambassador to the Persian Court, an Athenian who is a brother-in-law of Cimon.

The commercial influence of these city-states is evident in the fact that the Euboic scale of weights and measures was used among the Ionic cities generally, and in Athens until the end of the 7th century BC, during the time of Solon.

The sudden destruction of Teotihuacan is turning out to be more typical of Mesoamerican city-states than once thought.

In modern historiography " polis " is normally used to indicate the ancient Greek city-states, like Classical Athens and its contemporaries, so polis is often translated as " city-state.

The term " Seren ", frequently appearing in the Bible as the title of the rulers of the five Philistine city-states, is considered by some historians to be derived from or related to the Greek " tyrannos ".

In 480 BC, Xerxes I of Persia moved his armies against the loose confederation of city-states in what is modern-day Greece.

There is little continuity between the current states and their predecessors of the Weimar Republic with the exception of the three free states, and the two city-states of Hamburg and Bremen.

The twelve animals represent the twelve Naksat cities or city-states which were tributary to the Nakhon Si Thammarat kingdom: the mouse of Saiburi ; the ox of Pattani ; the tiger of Kelantan ; the rabbit of Pahang ( actually a city in Pahang which is said to be submerged by a lake now ); the nāga of Kedah ; the snake of Phatthalung ; the horse of Trang ; the goat of Chumphon ; the monkey of Bantaysamer ( might be Chaiya, or a town in Krabi Province ); the rooster of Sa-ulau ( unidentified city, might be Songkhla, Kanchanadit or Pla Tha ); the dog of Takua Pa and a pig of Kraburi.

A flower war or flowery war (, ) is the name given to the battles fought between the Aztec Triple Alliance and some of their enemies: most notably the city-states of Tlaxcala, Huejotzingo, Atlixco and Cholula.