Klescha was once one of Anarkand’s most ambitious and forward-thinking nations. It was a world leader in spacefaring technology, marble architecture, and scientific progress. The Kleschans built glittering white cities of stone and glass, surrounded by jungles so vast and ancient that they were said to hum with the heartbeat of the world. Loki, their largest city, was once home to the orbital launch towers that sent countless Kleschan vessels into the upper atmosphere and beyond.


The country’s prosperity was bound tightly to the Red Hex that shimmered above its lands, a radiant dome of energy that balanced weather systems, purified air and water, and maintained ecological stability. However, in the later years of the 9th Era, an unexplained failure in the Red Hex struck the eastern skies of Klescha.


The cause remains one of Anarkand’s greatest mysteries, some blame a cosmic anomaly, others a deliberate act of sabotage from a rival nation or corporate power. There are even those who blme the Kleschans themselves for the technology used at the time of their spacefaring was quite primitive and possibly damaging to the Hex.


When the Red Hex faltered, the eastern half of the nation began to unravel. Crops failed. Oceans thickened and frothed. New species began to appear - or perhaps manifest - from the depths of the surrounding seas. Mutated fish with crystalline scales, semi-translucent beasts that glowed under the moonlight, and vines that seemed to pulse with life energy soon spread inland.


The people of eastern Klescha began to change too. Lifespans shortened, skin pigments shifted to pallid tones, and entire families vanished into the mists of what became known as The Creeping Sea Fog.


The government declared an Emergency Directive, initiating what would become one of the largest engineering projects in Anarkian history — the building of the Wall of Kharan, a 2,000-kilometre-long barrier separating the surviving western provinces from the dying east. The eastern region became known as The Klescha Marshlands, an ungoverned, hostile landscape filled with strange flora, ghost towns, and creatures unrecorded by science.


Western Klescha rebuilt itself as a nation of pragmatism and containment. Its jungles and highlands became the new heartlands of the country, and the people channelled their immense industrial and scientific power toward rebuilding their society. Though once spacefaring, Klescha turned its gaze inward — abandoning interstellar projects and redirecting its resources toward terraforming and ecological restoration.


The Temple of Anark, recognising the severity of the crisis, declared the restoration of the eastern Red Hex to be a global priority in the 10th Era. Over 127 Sol years, more than fifty nations contributed energy cores, weather stabilisers, and scientific personnel to reawaken the fallen Hex. The project succeeded - partially. The Red Hex now burns faintly once again over the Marshlands, but the land remains mutated, half-wild, and considered a separate entity under limited Temple oversight.


Today, Klescha proper is a federal republic divided into six provinces, each governed by a council and overseen by a Prime Regent from the capital, Loki. The economy has rebounded, largely through trade in high-quality marble, advanced bio-architecture, and terraforming technology derived from their restoration efforts.


The Kleschan people are deeply proud, pragmatic, and suspicious of outside interference, particularly from empires such as Radamis or Samokov. They are also haunted by their history. For entire generations grew up in the shadow of the Wall, knowing that beyond it lay their lost kin and something they couldn't even begin to fathom.


The Klescha Marshlands, meanwhile, have taken on a near-mythical quality. Rumours persist that the mutated creatures of the Marshlands have formed new hierarchies, some even say cultures, and that remnants of the old eastern populace have adapted to the toxic lands, evolving into something wholly new.


Klescha is famous for its marble cities carved into cliff faces and jungles, blending human design with nature. Many buildings use bioluminescent mosses and vines as natural lighting.