Eldor
Ruled by the same royal family for over a millennium, the Kingdom of Eldor (population 2,625,000) boasts the oldest monarchy in all of Tellene. The Kingdom thrives economically on the income from its colonies that Eldor established long ago.
Eldor is a kingdom that is fiercely proud of its ancestry and strives to keep its racial heritage pure. Few humanoids can be found living anywhere in Eldor, neither out in the open countryside nor within its cities. Interracial marriage is an offense punishable by deportation or death. Abandoned racially mixed children are left to wander the streets and starve; no one dares acknowledge them. Foreign visitors are frowned upon, but tolerated. King Brenbol I recently declared that, within all Eldoran cities, any non-Eldoran must register at the gate and regularly report his whereabouts to a guard post. Failure to do so will result in being hunted down and promptly expelled from the city. Those caught a second time find themselves imprisoned.
This attitude obviously discourages free and open trade. Most Eldorans are farmers, fishermen, shipbuilders or soldiers. Many are merchants who have business interests in one or more of Eldor’s foreign colonies.
After centuries of over harvesting, Eldor is quite devoid of natural resources. There is constant struggle with the elves over control of the Lendelwood and its resources. Food is the only True natural resource of most of Eldor, she relies heavily upon the timber of the Lendelwood for her shipbuilding. Several years ago, an Eldoran military patrol found an entire community of loggers slaughtered. The Crown blamed the elves and Eldor is now unofficially at war with the elves.
Eldor is on non-hostile terms with both Cosdol and Mendarn, yet there is ever-present friction between them. Eldoran merchants occasionally trade with their Mendarn neighbors, but they keep such activity to a minimum as Mendarn has allowed their country to become overrun with foreigners and humanoids.
The House of Shackles, House of Scorn, Parish of the Prolific Coin and the Courts of Inequity have large followings among the nobility. The gods of the Church of Life's Fire, the Conventicle of the Great Tree and Parish of the Prolific Coin are worshipped by most of the general populace.