Elnard

King Eisos Peltast rules the small section of the north not controlled by the Ice-Heart Empress of the Oreiad from the wrought granite and iron fortress Chillrend. Peltast was a ferocious and shrewd battle commander for the Dragonlord and perhaps the only man among the Five Nations who remembers their deposed despot fondly. The northern High City of Ilemmel surrounds Chillrend a few miles in any direction before breaking up into villages and outskirts, but other major cities and centers of commerce exist in the north.
On the coast of the westernmost region of the North called The Fist, House Merestel governs the fishing hamlet Beacon Hill from their castle Highlantern, which functions as both holdfast and lighthouse to the dozens of fishermen and sailors that live in the town. House Merestel is an old, proud family that long feuded with the Peltasts and did not support the Dragonlord's reign, but after decades of bloody skirmishes, only after the Dragonlord's defeat, a treaty was signed between Merestel and Peltast that swore House Merestel into the service of King of the North. Beacon Hill has become the epicenter of the theory that the rest of the world Ticonderos was once a part of has disappeared and stuffy Wizards have begun to roost there for research... A strange, luminous sand washes up on the rocks and while the seas continue to grow calmer and calmer, the corpses of dreadful creatures the fishermen have never seen before join the sand, dashed against the rocks, more and more frequently.
The northernmost community within the Dragonscarred's northern kingdom, Coldharbour, a small village of fishers, hunters, and traders is watched over by House Bight, loyal to King Peltast, from their more modest castle Fossegrim's Tear, named after the shape of the Dragonscarred territories on a map and how it looks like a dull trollish face. The village and castle lie just under where the Fossegrim's eye seems to be.
The native elders of the Wolfgoar Tribe are ruled by a sect of pious hunters, the Sacred Spears, the best of which (regardless of gender) is given the mantle of rule (should they desire it), and govern the ferociously independent settlement of hunters and trappers known as Wolfhaven. The people who live here, among which can be counted Dragonscarred but also a not-too-rare population of Dhogem and Oreiad, view the Dragonscarred as, at best pompous melodramatics, at worst as a group of psychopathic, genocidal colonizers. The Sacred Spears maintain a sturdy keep/temple they call House Bloodmaw and do not serve Peltast. The vast majority of Dragonscarred, especially those south of The Arm, fear the Wolfgoar and regard them with a mixture of awe and bigotry. The Wolfgoar are a powerful tribe, but are just one of many tribes that were native to Ticonderos before the conquerors that now call themselves Dragonscarred came into their lands and drove them out, killing and enslaving native Ticondereans by the thousands. Long ago the native people of Ticonderos lived almost exclusively in what is now being called Elnard, but scarcity of resources drove them toward the south where far greater numbers of native Ticondereans can be found thriving today.
House Noblennar of Greengate rules over the fishing and ranging town of Noblessavognn. They more closely serve House Merestel than King Peltast, having been a vassal house to the Merestels long before the treaty was signed pledging House Merestel to the King's service. In those old times, Greengate was built to keep native Ticondereans or the Peltasts' forces from attacking and taking Beacon Hill. House Noblennar was granted sovereignty by King Peltast with the writ of the peace treaty between his house and the Merestels, but the Noblennars have not forgotten their generations of loyalty to House Merestel and remain their stoic allies.
As of late however, the situation in the North has turned grim. In the beginning, hunters and gatherers from Wolfhaven began disappearing. Oreiad rush to the settlement by the dozens seeking shelter from unnaturally strong storms, whispering of horror, of the dead and the damned. Then the Sacred Spears reported slaying the first of the undead.
Now, an army of the dead has taken House Bloodmaw as well as Coldharbour and lays siege to Chillrend. They reach as far west as Greengate where a pitched battle is currently underway, and their scouts have been sent south.

Demographics

90% Dragonscarred, 9% Native Ticondereans, 1% combined Dhogem and Oreiades.

Government

Monarchy

Industry & Trade

Mostly fishing, as well as some fur trading, ship building and naval contracting

Type

National Territory

Population

900,000

Inhabitant Demonym

Dragonscarred of Elnard

Location under

The Dragonlands