Viscounty of Salinmoor

The Viscounty of Salinmoor, located between the southeastern Dreadwood and the Azure Coast, is one of Keoland’s most forlorn provinces. Located in southern Keoland on the banks of the Azure Sea, it is south of the Dreadwood forest, and east of the Hool Marsh Protectorate.
Salinmoor is a predominantly coastal region, with much of the province is cloaked in a near-permanent fog caused by the intermingling of warm mists from the southern marshes and the cooler sea air. Settlements here frequently see damage from storms which form over the Azure Sea and strike the southern coast of Keoland, disproportionately affecting Salinmoor rather than other regions.

History

The Viscounty of Salinmoor, located between the southeastern Dreadwood and the Azure Coast, is one of Keoland’s most forlorn provinces. It was virtually abandoned following the Siege of Westkeep, which saw the Keoish Throne lose its former southern possessions to the piratical Sea Princes in the last century. This left Salinmoor and its nominal capital, the coastal town of Seaton, as the kingdom’s southernmost possession. However, lacking much in the way of natural resources or strategic importance to the Throne of the Lion due to its distance from Gradsul and close proximity to insurgent Monmurg, it was virtually forgotten over the years by the bureaucracy in Niole Dra, whose introversion is legendary.
Salinmoor was founded more than three centuries ago, prior to the start of the kingdom’s imperialist phase, as an adjunct possession of the Rhola of Gradsul. The land and its environs are often described as gloomy, helped in large part by the warm mists which waft off the nearby marshes south of Bale Keep and combine with the briny air of the sea to produce a persistent miasma. The viscounty has seen more than its share of misfortune over the years, including a plague in the late 490s that wiped out nearly a quarter of the population. The frequent storms which cross the Azure Sea north of Fairwind Isle to strike the western coast of the Sheldomar Valley often seem to hit this region the hardest.

Maps

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  Saltmarsh

Founding Date

More than 3 centuries ago

Alternative Names

Salinmoor, The Moor

Demonym

Moorfolk

Leader

Cronin Secunforth III - Viscount

Parent Organization

The Kingdom of Keoland

Controlled Territories

• Golfimb
• Saltmarsh