BLO | Counts of the East
Culture
Clothing
The fashion of the Counts trends heavily towards dark colours: midnight blues, deep greens, and of course, black. They have a penchant for high collars, pince-nez glasses, and black ribbons. Women often wear veils.
The most important apparel, for a Count, is their cape. Counts enjoy swooping, dramatic cloaks, often lined with red silks or other brash colours that contrast with their otherwise drab ensemble.
The Counts eschew all gold in their jewellery, preferring instead to wear silver and diamonds.
Military
Each Count has command of a small unit of soldiers who operate from their keep. These soldiers seldom see battle and are not particularly well-trained.
The military strength of the Counts mostly comes from their large population. In times of emergency, each Count can raise vast levies from among their serfs. Most of these peasants are totally untrained, barely knowing which end of the spear is the pointy end, and serve as little more than cannon fodder in any war. But there’s a lot of cannon fodder in The East.
In addition, there are a number of military orders who operate in The East. These are groups of religious knights who dwell in monasteries, deep in the forest, and train obsessively. They will ride to protect the Kingdom from ‘enemies of the faith.’ Some of these Orders, such as the Order of the Gossamer Shield, have corrupted over the centuries, and are now little more than mercenaries.
They will sell their services to the highest bidder if they can find a justification for it, and as a result, have been directly involved in recent wars and are a hard-bitten military force. Others, such as the Order of the Drowned Rose, have maintained the old ways and will only go to war if the Church is threatened. This means they haven’t actually seen real combat in a long time and their military prowess is untested.
Agriculture & Industry
Agriculture
Industries
- BLO | House Alcazar
- BLO | House Aranel
- BLO | House Bonworth
- BLO | House Bulbizarre
- BLO | House Da Rosa
- BLO | House Dulandre
- BLO | House Foix
- BLO | House Fornus
- BLO | House Hentes
- BLO | House It
- BLO | House Kin
- BLO | House Recondition
- BLO | House Ruuss
- BLO | House Tokens
- BLO | House Trash
- BLO | House Varynt
- BLO | Bykozav
- BLO | Chensk
- BLO | Dobytuch
- BLO | Illarion's Haunt
- BLO | Kalstov
- BLO | Kandin
- BLO | Mezangirn
- BLO | Moulpatter Forest
- BLO | Polgrad
- BLO | Porinsk
- BLO | Rudgrad
- BLO | Rustwater River
- BLO | Stavin
- BLO | Suranar
- BLO | Svetoz
- BLO | Tazhopol
- BLO | Telkevosk
- BLO | Terinopol
- BLO | The East
- BLO | Tolimov
- BLO | Twilight Lakeland
- BLO | Valgrad
- BLO | Vultene River
- BLO | Yurovsk
