Marwan Sultanate

The "Garden in the Desert", a prosperous human kingdom in the Great Waste, surviving and thriving where everything else withers and dies.

History
A magical kingdom south of the Great Waste, that flourishes in the desert where no life could survive, ruled by a sultan whose wealth is beyond measure. This was the legend of the Marwan Sultanate for centuries, although well-traveled merchants knew that the secret was the magical formula for desalinating sea water that the wizards of the sultanate perfected over centuries. Members of the Water Guild guard this secret so closely that even the Imperium could not force them to reveal this knowledge. Not for lack of trying though, these attempts cost the lives of not only guild members but many ordinary citizens. To this day, the common folk of the sultanate are resentful of outsiders, but traders are still welcomed as commerce is the key pillar of the sultanate's prosperity.

Life
The rule of the sultan in Marwan is absolute, but this rarely needs enforcing as the sultan is also the Water Master, and controls all sources of water in the realm. Those who dare defy his rule are soon reminded that Marwan is in the desert.

The people of Marwan produce exotic dyes and spices that can only be found in this land, bringing in traders from all corners of Aegeron, many of which are even willing to travel through the Great Waste to get those precious goods. Despite its prosperity the sultanate has no greedy neighbors or other enemies to fear as the deserts of the Great Waste defend this realm better than a hundred thousand soldiers could (although the Imperium did conquer them in A.I. 92).