These next coming five models/lore/thing will be about the Autumn Reich, the hermit kingdom which divides the Kerkian Empire from the Beastfolk States. There is a lot I kinda want to talk about with them, and heroforge has some limitations. Lore such as the Higvar, hedgehog folk who make up a major part of the nation for instance I can sadly not recreate with hero forge.
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The Fearum
"The rot took them long ago, they are barely even worth calling kin. We have been fighting them for so long, no one can even remember at what time we called each other brothers. Yet here we stand, keeping the dark realm of that monster at bay." -Fearum Forestwatch Warchief on the Autumn Reich
"The circle breaks, and shall flow no more!" -Fearum war cry

The Fearum are a mustelid people from the far north, like all Beastfolk. They are weasel folk, originally a small minority compared to otterfolk and ferretfolk. The Fearum long ago had been approached by the Great Warlord with a simple demand; serve or perish. They, alongside foxfolk and ferretfolk chose the former and were somewhat spared the wrath of the Ratik who enslaved and conquered much of the north before fleeing the wrath of the Shadow's chosen people. The Fearum participated in many conflicts, being prized soldiers who fought alongside Ratik warriors as they made northern Kevica their home. They were at first rewarded gracefully for their servitude, being given a vast swath of empty forest beneath a great mountain tree and were given wardship of an entire Beastfolk race, the Higvar, to use as they so pleased.

That changed when the Great Horde began to splinter, and the Fearum were more and more thought of not as loyal soldiers but as fodder. Their loyalty soon turned to legitimate oppression, and there was little hope for rebellion. Until the Fall Father revealed himself. A strange beast in stranger robes, the Fall Father's heretical sermons brought the Fearum to the edge of rebellion, which exploded into civil war when the traitor chiefs launched a surprise attack on all the loyalist tribes. The Fearum, through sheer grit and desperation not only fended off the Ratik, but two southern invasions by the Gnolls and later the Kerks. They had even expanded, with a Fearum tribe coming to conquer parts of the Couslandic marshes, subjugating several otterfolk kingdoms. On the day of their final victory, the Fearum's lands were transformed into a land of eternal fall, which would rot any creature who dared walk into the land which did not have approval. Better still, the Fearum's great chiefs and heroes who fought and died in the war arose from the dead, becoming champions of their cause once more.

Fearum ultimately came to reject all things forced upon them by the Ratik, a transformation of culture and religion which was quite dramatic. As envisioned by their eternal father, the Fearum took up the dress and customs of the human Curdans, they rejected the druidic religion of the Ratik and fully embraced a single church of decay, and most of all they remained steadfast in their isolation as they lived in their eternally defended woods to develop their own language and culture. There are Fearum who did not join their brothers in the rotting paradise of the Fall Father, living now in the marches of Forestwatch, keeping up their eternal war with their fallen kin. The Autumn Reich however tends to rarely step outside their borders, and are seldom seen as they feel the comfort and safety of their haunted forest protecting them from all danger.