Free Cities

Overview

The free cities are a curious bunch. The Middlelands are large and not at all unified. Instead of one rising up, finally conquering all the others and at least somewhat uniting them, they all claim a small amount of land around their direct areas, frequently trading the patronage of smaller cities and villages among each other.
Wars are very rarely fought between the free cities, they seem to have little ambition, instead focusing their efforts on the collection and training of artisans.
Vying among each other for the attention of the great masters, they spend a large amount of their time and income on them. Even the larger rivalries between the cities rarely escalate into war.
This is related back to the unique nature of the Middlelands, which makes the leaders afraid of creating entire armies of vengeful ghosts. Instead they prefer to send a knife in the dark, a poison slipped into someones drink or a carefully arranged "accident".

Location

Middlelands

Related Traditions

• Trek of the Apprentice

Controlled Territories

• Edovare
• Salasteri

Neighboring Nations

• Order of the Rose
• Seven Families