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{{Nation
| image             = [[File:Deepti.jpg|250px|A Vudrani]]
| name              = Vudra
| titles            = Impossible Kingdoms of Vudra
| alignment         = 
| capital           = 
| ruler             = [[Maharajah]] (current incumbent unknown)
| government        = More than a hundred [[mahajanapada]]s, or semi-independent kingdoms ruled by [[rajah]]s in service of the maharajah
| natives           = Vudrani (singular and plural)
| adjective         = Vudran
| languages         = [[Vudrani (language)|Vudrani]]
| religions         = Thousands of Vudran deities, including [[Irori]]
| regionmap         = 
}}

'''Vudra''' (pronounced VOO-drah)<ref>{{Cite book/Campaign Setting|247}}</ref> (also known as Vandu)<ref>{{Cite web|author=[[James Jacobs]]|page=Paizo Messageboard|url=http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/campaignSetting/products/gorrishRiver&page=1&source=rss|title="Gorrish River"|date=June 24, 2008}}</ref> is a vast peninsula extending from southeastern [[Casmaron]] with a total area nearly equal that of [[Avistan]].<ref name="ISWG-206">{{Cite book/The Inner Sea World Guide|206}}</ref> Vudra is home to the [[Vudrani (human ethnicity)|Vudrani]], a [[human]] ethnicity known for their gregariousness. Also known as the '''Impossible Kingdoms''', Vudra consists of more than one hundred [[mahajanapada]]s: semi-independent kingdoms ruled by [[rajah]]s. These rajahs in turn serve the [[maharajah]], an emperor-like figure descended from [[Khiben-Sald]], who in his lifetime spent a decade as an honored guest of the ancient [[Garundi (human ethnicity)|Garundi]] [[wizard]]-king [[Nex (person)|Nex]].<ref name="CS-154">{{Cite book/Campaign Setting|154-155}}</ref>

Most recent contact between Vudra and the [[Inner Sea region]] comes as a direct result of Vudrani now dwelling on the [[Jalmeray|Isle of Jalmeray]], located in the [[Obari Ocean]] between the countries of [[Nex]] and [[Qadira]].<ref>{{Cite book/Campaign Setting|28-29}}</ref><ref name="CS-154" />

== History ==

According to the Vudrani people, their homeland has been in existence for 50,000 years ago, older even than the rise of [[Azlant]]. Most foreign scholars, however, dismiss such claims as exaggeration.<ref name="CS-154" /> The history of Vudra and of [[Golarion]] as a whole is told in the [[Mizravrtta Brahmodya]], dictated to the sage [[Balazastrin]] by the goddess [[Likha]].<ref name="CS-39">{{Cite book/Campaign Setting|39}}</ref>

=== Early history ===

By the middle 300s [[Absalom Reckoning|AR]], Vudra was culturally united, but politically split amongst a "hundred" kingdoms of varying degrees of interdependence. The [[spawn of Rovagug]] called [[Kothogaz|Kothgaz, the Dance of Disharmony]] came upon the chaotic region and wrought much destruction. A hero whose name is unknown outside Vudra led the defense of this land. In a battle that supposedly cost a million Vudrani lives, the hero-priests cast the spawn into the ocean and boiled it, weakening it to the point where the creature's heart could be extracted. The heart was cut into 101 pieces and not all are still to be found in Vudra.<ref name="PF24-53">{{Cite book/The Final Wish|53}}</ref>

=== Khiben-Sald ===

Two centuries later,<ref name="PF24-53" /> the "jungle princess" [[Chhaya]] began the process of unification. [[Khiben-Sald]] claimed descent from the slayer of Kothogaz and defeated her.<ref name="CS-154" /><ref name="PF24-53" /> The present ruling Maharajah claims descent from Khiben-Sald.{{fact}}

In [[563 AR]], Khiben-Sald sailed west to Jalmeray, then a part of the magical realm of Nex.<ref name="CS-201">{{Cite book/Campaign Setting|201}}</ref> Though it had lapsed into the control of the [[Arclords of Nex]], in [[2822 AR]] the Vudrani returned and wrested control of Jalmeray, making a permanent colony in the Inner Sea region.<ref name="CS-202">{{Cite book/Campaign Setting|202}}</ref>

Following a tremendous earthquake in [[4275 AR]], the Vudran coast was flooded, with thousands dying.<ref name="CS-202" />

=== Inner Sea region explorers ===

The great explorer [[Selmius Foster]] of the [[Pathfinder Society]] blazed a trade route from [[Absalom]] to Vudra in [[4320 AR]]. He perished ten years later, in [[4330 AR]], on the island of [[Bhopan]] while continuing his voyages into the east.<ref>{{Cite book/Seekers of Secrets|26-27}}</ref>

[[House Arkona]] of [[Korvosa]] became a major trading concern between Avistan and Vudra after their final gamble of sending a trading vessel in [[4458 AR]]&mdash;dubbed the ''[[Reprieve]]''&mdash;proved more profitable than their wildest dreams. The Arkonans continued to send ships up to [[4708 AR]].<ref name="GtK40">{{Cite book/Guide to Korvosa|40}}</ref>

[[Rajput Shivji Shashibhushan]], a [[necromancer]], constructed the [[Palace of Ivory and Bone]] in [[4465 AR]], but the rajahs finally defeated him and razed his jungle stronghold in [[4505 AR]].<ref>{{Cite book/Escape from Old Korvosa|85}}</ref>

== Inhabitants ==

[[File:Ratfolk ranatagi.jpg|250px|right|thumb|A Vudran [[ratfolk]] practitioner of [[ranatagi]].]]
The Vudran people have a reputation for being consummate exaggerators and embellishers, a trait that would make them unbearable were it not for their constant good cheer and charisma.<ref name="ISWG-206" /> Beside the native Vudrani [[human]]s, Vudra is also home to [[half-elves]],<ref>{{Cite book/Campaign Setting|13}}</ref> [[tiefling]]s (particularly [[faultspawn]], [[spitespawn]], and [[beastbrood]]),<ref>{{cite book/Blood of Fiends|inside front cover, 19, 21, 23}}</ref> [[garuda]]s,<ref>{{Cite book/Cult of the Ebon Destroyers|29}}</ref> [[ratfolk]],<ref name="BotB-23">{{Cite book/Blood of the Beast|23}}</ref> and [[rakshasa]]s.<ref>{{Cite book/Escape from Old Korvosa|33}}</ref> [[Janni]] are often bound into service for Vudran nobles.<ref>{{Cite book/Escape from Old Korvosa|44}}</ref>

== Religion ==

Vudra is the home of [[Irori]], who is one of the core gods of the incredibly diverse and complicated [[Vudran pantheon]].<ref name="CS-39" /><ref name="ISWG-206" /> The thousand gods of Vudra also include such deities as [[Chamidu]],<ref>{{Cite book/Escape from Old Korvosa|37}}</ref> [[Dhalavei]],<ref>{{Cite book/Cult of the Ebon Destroyers|3,6}}</ref> [[Diomazul]],<ref>{{Cite book/Escape from Old Korvosa|54}}</ref> [[Gruhastha]],<ref name="CS-39" /> [[Lahkgya]]<ref name="PF9-89">{{Cite book/Escape from Old Korvosa|89}}</ref> [[Likha]], [[Raumya]], [[Suyuddha]],<ref name="CS-39" /> [[Vineshvakhi]],<ref name="PF29-80-81">{{Cite book/Mother of Flies|80-81}}</ref> and [[Vritra]].<ref name="PF9-83">{{Cite book/Escape from Old Korvosa|83}}</ref> It is believed that the [[Child-Goddess]] may be also of Vudran origin.<ref>{{Cite book/City of Strangers|9-10}}</ref>

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