Porthmos Prefecture
Named for the legendary general who led the First Army of Exploration up the Sellen River, Porthmos is one of the largest prefectures in the nation. Porthmos straddles the Porthmos Gap, which serves as a gateway to the Whistling Plains, a vast prairie that separates the Empire of Taldor from the many nations of Casmaron. With few natural resources and little water, this sea of grass serves as a natural barrier dissuading eastward expansion.
Territories
The River Porthmaos and its north and south forks (called the North River and the South River by locals) neatly divides the prefecture into three distinct districts. West of the river, the prefecture seems typical of Taldor.
Agriculture & Industry
In the south, farms grow barley, wheat, and various hardy fruits. Those in the foothills of the north survive by quarrying tough granite used downriver to construct durable cities and fortifications, as well as mining gold, iron, and silver. But even millennia after the empire's founding, much of Porthmos east of the river forks remains untamed, its few settlements small and isolated from one another from the rest ot Taldor by steep hills, wide plateaus, and harsh winters. Locals survive primarily by sustenance farming and by mining the lead used throughout the empire. This harsh lifestyle and the toxic metal means short lives of backbreaking labor and illness.
Type
Geopolitical, State
Capital
Leader
Head of State
Government System
Dictatorship
Power Structure
Feudal state
Economic System
Traditional
Major Exports
Barley, wheat, gold, iron, and silver, granite, lead
Parent Organization
Subsidiary Organizations
Controlled Territories
