In the long war, Karinshan exhausted its national strength, and in the end split into pieces, shrinking into its current form, its territory roughly equal to that of the Thacel Kingdom.
Gaven's homeland, Thacel, rebelled and declared independence more than two thousand years ago, but the ties between the two have never truly been severed.
Behind every upheaval in the Thacel Kingdom, the shadow of those Karinshan Nobles can always be found.
Likewise, in the rise and fall of the Karinshan Kingdom, the Nobles of the Thacel Kingdom have never stopped meddling.
Overall, the Karinshan Kingdom has held the upper hand more often, and this is not a matter of institutions, but of bloodline inheritance.
