Linmere

Ruler: Queen Petronilla Martel Government: monarchy
Culture: Humans
Population: 14,540,887
History:

• year 50 - Brunihild Swart is marooned on a deserted island by a pirate, but escapes to exact revenge.
• year 65 - With Brunihild Swart's vengeance against the pirates complete, she founds Linmere in the south.
• year 102 - Linmere's commitment to shipbuilding and cartography leads to the new settlement of Sychkar on distant shores.
• year 311 - King Corwen Dusteby claims the gods have bequeathed the divine right of rulership to his family and his family alone, and establishes a monarchy.
• year 427 - Lunden becomes the most revered actor in all of Linmere.
• year 432 - Lunden becomes a spy for the Court.
• year 446 - Lunden Rowdon exposes the lies of an ambitious and reckless general.
• year 451 - Many die when a series of powerful earthquakes devastate Linmere.
• year 453 - Lunden Rowdon is betrayed by his evil twin.
• year 521 - King Manstan Winston commissions a hedge maze, over a mile in radius, to be built at the center of the capital.
• year 530 - Alfhild Ramsey is the only person to survive a poisoned feast.
• year 545 - Amidst a showing of great pageantry, King Manstan Winston declares that Matilda Liverich, his young cousin, is to be his heir and not his own scheming children.
• year 552 - Alfhild Ramsey discovers the lost-lost masterpiece of a great painter, thought to be lost forever.
• year 568 - Alfhild Ramsey prevents an attempted assassination of Queen Matilda Liverich and becomes a favorite of the Court.
• year 574 - Alfhild Ramsey is killed saving the Queen from a master assassin.
• year 598 - Osmund becomes infamous as the captain of the pirate ship Desperate Nightshade.
• year 619 - Osmund Leigh helps the King of Linmere to invade Warere, conquer them, and seize their treasury -- in exchange for a small share of the plunder.
• year 735 - King Duncan Gare of Linmere founds the colony of Cullden in an effort to curb the expansion of his rivals.
• year 743 - After a wave of killings is found to be the work of a foreigner, all non-citizens are now required to wear a bright blue sash at all times.
• year 1085 - Gemma Zoed leads a secret campaign against corrupt officials, bringing every one of them down.
• year 1086 - Gemma Zoed is immortalized in an epic poem.

Type

Geopolitical, Country

Demonym

Linmerovians