Xa

Xa is a small country that occupies a peninsula at the southern end of the continent of Ursur, where the weather is often cold and hard labor is required to scratch out a living. Xa’s most notable feature is that necromancy is a commonplace part of the culture, and the undead are an important part of the labor force. Perhaps because of a simple shortage of labor, or perhaps because too many laborers had at some point been killed (it’s a dangerous region), the local people began to reanimate the dead as zombies and employ them to work fields, bear burdens, and guard the massive wall that separates Xa from Ursur. Appalled travelers from other parts of the world tend to catch sight of this, when they arrive at Xa’s single main city, and presume that they’re seeing an entire nation sunk into evil and enslaved to vile necromancers. However, the true situation may be rather different, as the living citizens claim to be content with their lives and entirely willing to have their bodies revivified to keep working after their deaths. Certainly, Xa’s zombies are usually passive unless commanded to fight, while ordinary zombies encountered elsewhere are far more aggressive.