 Mulvan is a caste-bound empire combining features of India, China, and Persia.In Novaria, there are small bands of wandering Mulvanians, who act as entertainers and fortune-tellers and who are plainly modeled on Gypsies.East of the western continents across the Eastern Ocean are the archipelagos known as the Peppercorns, Salimor, and Gwoling.