On the western side of the Rathgaunt mountains, from foothills to ocean, the cling-clang pigmen had established a feudal colony. Being more of a pirate race, they had conquered the Balebian land from stray orcs and ogres through sheer numbers. Their state’s hierarchy was based on who could control the most land and was characterized by frequent infighting. The landowner lords were interwoven in a system of feudal allegiance that theoretically bound them into one state; in truth, none were actually obedient to the others, and a general sense of animosity reigned between the lords and the peasant ranks.

When the cling-clang had first landed on Balebu, it was a paradise: quickly expanding, they spread across the rich plains, building large agrarian estates and sending more colonists out. This constant expansion, along with all the arable land it brought, had united the pigmen in a single force driving north, east and west. However, fierce human armies in the north and ogre tribes in the south halted this advance quite abruptly, and they had difficulties crossing the mountain range, managing it only in small groups which struggled to survive on the other side.

After the rush of conquest abruptly stopped, a kind of counter-wave developed: masses of pigmen coming back from the north, east and south. Powerful landlords knew how to profit from this: indenturing large numbers, they formed their estates, living richly off the backs of their kin. Although this system worked in the beginning, feuds erupted between the lords, while peasants looked for ways to overthrow their lords and flee the cursed land, to return to their ships in the Colupan Archipelago. Around 600 b. OW, when the Ochebanians had started their expansion, this decline started to be felt; by 570, a large number of lords had been overthrown, with most others waging fierce civil or external wars. Although many pigmen died, many more made it to the coast and sailed off in whatever rafts they could find, heading back to their islands.