A sprawling patchwork of loosely affiliated small nations and city-states, the Lodogo Confederation originated as a mutual defense pact of smaller polities threatened by the rapid expansion of the Great Shimmer, and contains the original headquarters of the Honorable Order of Misthunters. The Border Defense Cooperative, still the largest constituent member of the Order, calls the Confederation its home, and still serves as the primary militant body of the ‘‘nation’’ (although several of the larger members maintain their own armies). While they exist primarily to protect Lodogo’s northern border from the ravages of Mist-spawned monsters, history has proven that their skills make them equally effective in brutal guerrilla warfare against human invaders – especially, as the expansionist armies of Nonoviga learned to their detriment, in territory near the Great Shimmer itself.