New Braeland

According to each local baron or duke, New Braeland is what remains of the old Braeland kingdom that used to span across most of central Elanora. Also according to each local baron or duke, they and they alone are the true heirs to that kingdom. King Trost rules in the coastal city of Starport but fails to control a single barony beyond a days ride from the city centre.

Braeland used to field ten thousand knights who held central military control, these days King Trost can barely field one hundred. The Little Warriors Adventurers Guild used to provide some limited local security where the knights did not, at least preventing the local barons from using scorched-earth tactics and declaring total war on each other. Now, with the fall of the guild, the region is rapidly falling to outright anarchy.

Farmers and serfs have a precarious existence, as they are likely to have their work and produce claimed as tax by whatever robber baron controls their village at the time. Those in the northern stretches towards Fangflower Bay have a particularly difficult life as they also have to contend with pirate gangs claiming their share. Whenever a village grows large enough to be a potential threat, a raid results in a good portion of their population ending up in a press-gang and rowing a pirate frigate. It's little wonder many locals see a life of plunder and murder on the sea - as a pirate on deck, rather than a shackled rower - as something to aspire to.