Duchy of Listonshire
The Duchy of Listonshire has long stood at the very southern reach of the Kingdom of Foere. For generations, even before the Foerdewaith Wars of Succession, the duchy functioned, for all practical purposes, as an independent province, a kingdom in miniature. Separated from the main part of Foere by the largely impassable Harwood Forest, few of the overkings have ever felt it worth their attention. The duke paid his yearly taxes to Courghais and was otherwise left to rule as he would. For the most part, this proved a most equitable arrangement. Listonshire has always been reasonably prosperous for its size. Its crops are healthy and abundant, providing more than enough to feed the people who live here with a surplus left every year for sale to other, less-fortunate territories. The Edriss Mountains in the southwest have always provided adequate veins of ores and repositories of gems to keep mining a worthwhile (if not fabulously enriching) proposition, and the duchy’s many forests provided substantial timber for use locally and sale elsewhere.
Of late, however, a curse seems to have come over the duchy. Over the last decade, the veins in the Edriss Mountains seem to have been played out, and the Greentail has become perilous, with woodsmen and trappers vanishing without a trace. Odd illnesses plagued its villagers and farmers. Now, those who have been spared sickness are moving away to Brookmere or points farther north. Towns and villages are deserted. Even the duke’s two vassals, the barons of Durneth and Shrievmar, have not been spared.
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Duchy of Listonshire
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