

Their hilltop fortresses have born witness to countless wars fought to resist outside invaders: first the Empire's legions, and more recently the rising Sturgian and Vlandian kingdoms. Ask any Battanian chieftain, however, whose "kingdom" he lives in, and he will look around at his hall and in his fields and his pastures, his flock and his retainers, and answer "Mine, of course.

By the time of Mount and Blade: Warband years later, Battania ceases to exist as a united civilization, with all their territory conquered and the people reduced to living as Forest Bandits. Specialties of the Battanian warrior culture include forest warfare, longbowmen, and two-handed swordsmen.

Battanian civilization consists of loosely organized clans who originally populated most of the Calradian continent, but has been reduced to a small pocket of free territory after much of their land was conquered by the expansion of the Calradic Empire. It is ruled by King Caladogand occupies heavily forested lands in the northwest of the continent of Calradia.
