For reasons not known to most people, Rhyrgia has always been the country where the birth rate of Gifted children was much lower than anywhere else in the known World, which made the country not only very different in its social structure from the “true” magocracies farther in the south and also made the country a playground for smaller intrigues. For centuries, Rhyrghia was a backwater country, its people the butt of jokes for the more powerful city states in the south and east.