The Occident

The Occident is the area of the continent of Anásthias west of the Dun Jaen mountains. Historically this meant the old Empire of Dor-en-Sann, as well as the many other nations west of the mountains before the founding of modern Ororr. Contemporary Ensanni writers occasionally used the term to refer to the relatively wild and less inhabited west coast of Anásthias, and all lands west of the empire.

Modern Hartherans use “the Occident” as a pejorative term for Ororr, implying it to be a backward looking place. The Occident is a recurrent location in Hartheranplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHarthera

The Hartheran Union, commonly named Harthera, is an imperialist maritime nation state dominating the northeast of Anásthias. It is one of the two great powers of the modern epoch, arguably the most technologically and militarily powerful nation in the world, only matched by the vast size and wealth of its neighbour, viridviridOrorrMEOrorrOrorrOrorrOrorr tales, theatre and opera, a land long ago and far away used to satirise Ororr without mentioning it by name.

In academic writing it is used when referring to the historic cultures predating modern Ororr.