The Phozmari are a mysterious people of aquatic races who live in the depths of the ocean between southern Eredwyn and the Gorpuren Archipelago.
The Phozmari are composed mainly of merfolk and morski. Merfolk are simply humans with aquatic characteristics and various colors, usually blue and greenish. Morski are humanoids with characteristics and appearances of various marine animals. Within Phozmari society, merfolk occupy the majority of the elite and leadership, while morski of various types occupy all the lower positions such as workers, rangers, warriors, craftsmen and builders.
Because of their place of residence, the Phozmari have spent countless millennia isolated at the bottom of the ocean, their existence unknown to anyone on the surface. Only recently have they begun to send several raids and attacks to the surface world. This is due to the Dranate‘s heavy dumping of toxins and pollution into the oceans over the past few centuries. Seeing their homeland severely brutalized and damaged has caused the Phozmari to rise up and reveal themselves in numerous attacks targeting the Dranate of Maliris.
One thing that intrigues the Phozmari’s enemies is that, not uncommonly, some of their attacks come far from the beaches, far from the ocean’s borders with land. Since they all come from the ocean, their troop movements across the continent should be visible. What no one knows is that the Phozmari infiltrate the continent through underwater tunnels that begin in the submerged wall of the continent, giving them access to the inner parts of the continent through the subsurface.
Although isolationists at first, the Phozmari, after gaining more knowledge of the surface world and how its societies work, began to seek out more of a taste for plunder. According to the surface inhabitants, the people who live on land are less evolved physically and mentally, and are not worthy of possessing as many domains as they do. Thus, what was a form of retaliation against those who stained their sea, became a crusade of the ocean world against the land world. Despite the arrogant and elitist mentality of the Phozmari, they were able to form good relations, an example being the Gilasi people of the Gorpuren archipelago. Even though they are a surface people, the Phozmari admire the respect that the Gilasi have for their home and the sea as a whole, and there has been no major friction between these two peoples. Because of this, the main target of the Phozmari, out of revenge and territorial proximity, ended up being the Dranate of King Maliris. However, there is another faction that has aroused great hostility from the Phozmari, this being the dwarves of Goriath. For the Phozmari have dozens of gigantic metal plates with an ancient language written on them. And after interacting for a few years on the surface, they discovered that the dwarves have hundreds of these same tablets in Goriath, even though these two peoples have never interacted or met in the known past.
This caused the Phozmari, in all their arrogance, to accuse the dwarves of thieves for possessing relics that certainly belonged to them. The dwarves retorted by saying that those tablets were sacred to them, as they had been in Goriath since the reign of the first dwarven king, Guralim, for this reason the dwarves called these mysterious tablets “Plates of Guralim”. And, on top of everything, the dwarves accused the inhabitants of the depths of possessing sacred relics that rightfully belonged to the dwarves. With both sides not yielding a single tablet to the other, both factions fought and their enmity persists to this day. As much as the Phozmari desire the Dwarven Plates of Goriath, they leave the Dwarves as an enemy to be defeated in the future, focusing their efforts on sabotaging and harming the great Dranate of Maliris, while plundering and pillaging the southern coasts of the continent and anyone who sails its seas whose presence they do not want.