Nome of the Eternal Riding

Wherever the Legion went, the Horde would follow, its slave-soldiers scraping up whatever the Orcs left behind. If the Legion raised a temple to their gods on a mountain, the Goblinoids would build a shanty town around the foothills.
So it was in Caino. When the Legion clashed with the Regime in the stoney ground north of the Skystone Peaks, they called up the endless multitudes of Goblins who were landed by the hulks of the Horde on the coastal plains behind them. When the war ended, the hulks stopped coming and their numbers dwindled, but with the orcs liberated by their own hands, the Hobgoblins who ever emulated them did the same, and the other goblinoids followed.
By the time of the Blessed Concordance, the coastal plains were home to a thriving population, ruled by the marshals of numerous hobgoblin tribes. Over the next two centuries, these tribes slowly unified, becoming a chiefdom under the control of the Tage of the Eternal Riding. It was the hobgoblins, disciplined and orderly, who brought the bugbear bands and goblin villages into The Elysian Federation as a more-or-less cohesive body politic in CY19.3, with the hobgoblins providing leadership and drive, the goblins pastoral resources, and the Bugbears heavy labour.
Much of the Riding remains open plain, ranged by nomadic bands, but there are two cities. Red Tents is essentially a brick-built model of a war camp, and serves as the administrative centre of the nome. Red Tents is located close to the borders with the Nome of the Broken Ground and the Nome of the Rolling Thunder, in part to facilitate diplomatic contact with the Elves and Minotaur without allowing them too far into the Riding itself. Shipsend, meanwhile, is the principal port and financial hub, the buildings of its centre constructed from the timbers of beached Horde hulks.
The Tage Metropolitan is the civil leader and Nomarch of the nome, elected at council in Red Tents by a gathering of the koma-sai. In theory, at least, a koma-sa represents one hundred fighters and their dependents, although in modern practice they speak for 300-500 adult members of a nomadic band, village population or military camp. The electors are the Reeves:

• Reeve Marshall - civil administrator of Red Tents and head of the diplomatic service
• Reeve Militant - military high commander
• Reeve Maritime - civic administrator of Shipsend and head of the exchequer
• Reeve Mechanical - representing the nome's industrial settlements
• Reeve Equestrian - representing the nomadic population
• Reeve Ardent - representing the forest populations, especially the bugbears
• Reeve Spiritual - representing the faiths of the nome.

Each Reeve is elected by the koma-sai of the groups they represent, although by tradition the seat of Reeve Ardent (formerly known as the Brute Marshall) is filled by the first bugbear to respond to the summons when an election is called.

Type

Geopolitical, Province