Landscape
Lamordia is known for its brutal, long winters and short-lived thaws in the spring and summer. Thaws bring about muddy roads and the corpses of travelers desperate or foolish enough to transverse the deadly, winter landscape. A jagged coastline encompasses the Domain’s northern border made of treacherous cliffs, small coves, and numerous sea caves. To the south lies the Sleeping Beast, a nearly insurpassible mountain range covered in evergreens. Only the most skilled trappers and hunters brave their rocky, jagged cliffs in search of meat and fur.
Populace
Lamoridians are mostly human with a few dwarves and gnomes scattered throughout the small settlements. Typical Lamordian fashion is somber and refined; always tailored to perfection without a blemish or wrinkle in sight. Their clothing rarely contains any bright colors. Standard fashions include long coats, collared shirts, vests, trousers, and high collared and long-sleeved woolen dresses. Capes and boots lined with fur are necessities of survival in the winter months.
Lifestyle and Education
Most Lamoridian families teach their own children and raise them for a particular trade or craft as these skills are how many make a living. Though the most prized skill is in the field of science and many younthes dream of attending the University of Ludendorf. The Lamordians trade with their neighboring Domains, Darkon and Falkovnia, for necessary vegetables and fruits that cannot grow in their own land.
Food and drink in Lamordia is made more for the purposes of substances than pleasure. Most meals consist of meat, potatoes, and hearty vegetables. Beer and wine is common throughout the realm as well, but no vintages are praised above another.
Magic
Lamoridians despite spell casters, whether they be divine or arcane. The majority of the populace believe that those that dabble in the supernatural and not the scientific playing with fire and disaster is the inevitable result. As such, magic users and divine casters are extremely rare in Lamorida.
Those willing to be outcasts of society and practice their arts in private have discovered an interesting phenomena in Lamorida. Sometimes, denying all reason and skill, spells simply fail as if the land itself rebels against their use.
Religion
There are no known religions in Lamoridia. The people do not believe in the divine, holding the ideal that science and logical reasoning can explain anything.
However, rumors of the Monastery of Quickening Thunderbolt harboring a secret religion is discussed in hushed voices by curious and disdainful Lamoridians alike.
Government
Lamorinda is ruled over by Baron and Baroness von Aubrecker, though their daughter Gerta is seen more in public than either of her parents. In fact, the Baron is rumored to be on his death bed as no one has seen him in a few years. The von Aubrecker’s rule is peaceful and egalitarian. They have no official laws that govern the entire realm and instead allow Majors to govern each of the settlements within. This results in a bit of confusion as one law in one settlement may not apply in another.
The Major's main duties include overseeing festivals and events, facilitating trade among the settlements to ensure Lamoridia’s economy continues to thrive, and attending to important visitors.
Economy
Main trades include crafting, farming, livestock, trapping, fur trade, and mining. Science and invention reign supreme with the development and trade of ideas and inventions just as important as common goods. Additionally, Lamoridia supports some of the finest made goods in the Core, including clockwork, tools, weapons, and scientific devices.
The Lamoridian coins depict the profile of Baron von Aubrecker on one side and the depiction of an animal on the other.
Copper - Marten
Silver - Sable
Gold - Glutton
Settlements
There are two main settlements in Lamordia, Ludendorf and Neufurchtenburg and two main estates, Schloss Mordenheim and Schloss Aubrecker.
Ludendorf
The seaside city of Ludendorf is the most populated settlement in Lamordia with the University of Ludendorf at its very center. Students of all types seek higher learning at Ludendorf, but the University is most well known for its coursework in experimental sciences. Students that excel at these courses of study graduate to become some of the most renown scientists in the Core. At the center of the university stands a large clock tower that not only displays the hour of the day but the tide and the movement of celestial bodies as well.
Ludendorf industries include whaling, ship building, fishing as well as engineering workshops, scientific instruments, and a vast library trade.
Rumors: The society known as the Syndicate of Enlightened Citizens started in Ludendorf. Since members are made up of the high elite, its membership is small, but their actual purpose is unknown. A serial killer may be loose in Ludendorf; numerous citizens have been found dead with some of their vital organs missing.
Population: ~900; Inns: Breaking Wave
Neufurchtenburg
Neufurchtenburg is a small mining town tucked into the northwestern edge of the Sleeping Beast. Miners dig for iron, coal, and rare gemstones from deep under the mountains while nearby factories produce some of the best steelwork the Core has to offer. Some say the miners are uncovering more than just ore beneath the mountains, but those are just tales told in dark places. Nothing to be concerned about.
Population: ~600; Inns: Broken Horseshoe
Schloss Mordenheim
The estate of the infamous Dr. Viktra Mordenheim lies on a small isle to the southeast of Ludendorf sitting upon a rocky cliff face overlooking the Sea of Sorrows. Viktra is known as a genius and a bit of a recluse as she not only carries on her father’s work, but has surpassed him.
Dr. Mordenheim rarely accepts visitors and those that do receive an invitation to her home are remarkable students from Ludendorf whom Mordenheim wishes to utilize as laboratory assistants.
Schloss Aubrecker
The estate of the Baron lies on a small isle northwest of Ludendorf. The mansion is said to be warm and inviting, but Baron von Aubrecker has not made a public appearance in years and those that visit his estate find his daughter, Gerta, playing the host.
