Bharati

Bharati is a country far East of Sonmar and the Southern Sea. It's culture and people are reminiscent of real world ancient India. It's primary goods are precious jewelry, ivory, pearls, spices, myrrh, textiles, and objects imbued with elemental magic. The country is known for it's chaotic link to the elemental planes of existence, with portals periodically and unpredictably opening to those realms. A famous form of divination called Foromancy was developed by the Bharatis which is used in an attempt to predict, control, and mitigate the damage caused by these chaotic portals.

History
Legends say that the Bharatis are one of the only known nations to fend of a dragon invasion during the dragon wars, making them one of the oldest living nations. Some assume that they were able to do so due to their understanding of powerful elemental magic, which they leveraged to exploit the weaknesses and nullifying the breath weapons of the various dragon flights.

Elemental Rifts
Bharati has experienced hundreds of events in which rifts connecting the material plane to various elemental planes have spontaneously opened, causing elemental forces and lifeforms to spill over into the world of Tyr, and vice versa. As a result, the magic of Bharati wizards and technology is heavily elemental based, often trapping and harnessing the power of elemental beings.

Geography and Climate
Bharati's Southern border features a vast coastline composed mostly of sandy beaches, mudflats, marshy shores, and several island chains. The South Western shore consists mostly of marshland while the South Eastern shore features a large river delta.

To the North West is a large desert, and to the North and North East are the Vishv Chaat mountains, or "Roof of the World", which is the highest mountain range in Tyr.

Major rivers flow from the mountains in the North and East all the way to the coast in the South.

Bharati experiences strong monsoon winds during the summer to early autumn that provide most of the area's rainfall.

The majority of climactic regions of Bharati are Tropical, Subtropical, or Mountainous.

Fauna
The vast wildernesses of Bharati, combined with the influence of the elemental rifts has created a diverse and interesting array of native creatures with strong expressions of elemental affinities.

Culture
The socio-economic structure of many Bharati cities is a feudal caste-system where lineage is the main deciding factor in someone's stature in society. Society is divided into 6 castes:

Brahamin
Priests, wizards, and educators.

Kshatriyas
Rulers, administrators, warriors.

Vaishyas
Craftsmen, merchants, farmers, etc.

Shudras
Manual laborers and slaves

Dalits

Castless, "untouchable" citizens. Tthose that can only perform menial tasks, or perform work which is considered "corrupted" such as handling of the dead.