Landren

Landren is a federalized republic of city-states to the north of Prekha, the mountains of the Enclave of the Free Peoples, and the stormy seas of the Reach.

People and Culture

Landren is a wealthy polity with colonial holdings to its south. It exports many of its ever-changing fashion trends to the rest of Vildrel.

Government and Politics

As of the end of the War of Restitution, Landren is a land in revolt, a place of historical wealth, power and influence crumbling under its own weight. It exists in a fluctuating state of different factions taking power over its major cities, a short period of stability, and then an inevitable turnover of power as another faction revolts.

Major Political Factions

Monarchists

Also called Loyalists, Monarchists are, as the name implies, those that believe the old Landren monarchy should be re-established. They do not participate in the current republican government, instead attempting to establish themselves through insurgency, and espionage.

Geography

Landren is largely flat with most of its population living north of the Silver River at its southern border or in the woodlands in the northern and southern peninsulas surrounding Hooke Cove. Those two peninsulas are called "Maganwu" (the southern peninsula) and "Tsalagwu" (North), names which have carried over from the societies that lived in the northern continent before the Landi.

Major Settlements

Maywall

Maywall is the current capital city of Landren on the southern tip of Maganwu, bordering the Crescent Sea.

Lyndale

Lyndale is an abandoned city at the north-east cove of the Crescent Sea, which is now overrun with corewhisps and undead.

History

Waring-states Period

For the first millennia following the Age of Form, the land that is now Landren was a collection of fractured societies, small kingdoms and tribes.

Unification

In 1309 SE, Wolf-King Gregor unified the tribes north of the Serpant's Trail River to fight off invaders from Prekha.

Height of Empire

From the fourteenth to mid-seventeenth century, Landren's empire enjoyed a three centuries-long period of wealth, growth, and influence. During this time, they colonized Sadrove, pushed Sura Pel out of Heaven's Cove, and became the forefront of technological development with the invention of the compass and the rediscovery of black powder.

War with Sura Pel

Starting in 1634, four decades after the Sadrove War of Independence, warlords from Sura Pel invaded the southern coast of Landren and sacked the city of Westcoast in Maganwu, part of the Heaven's Cove region that Sura Pel occupied two centuries prior. Under King Jaque Leon, Landren fought a campaign against the invading Auklans known as the Managwu Campaigns, now seen as a precursor to the Sunrise War.

Fracturing and Revolution

Following centuries of feudalism, leaving Landren's lowest serfs in abject poverty. Landren reached a point of internal fracturing.

Territory Name:

The Republic of Landren

Population:

19 Million

Distribution:

64% Humans
3% Droven
32% Chimera
>1% Giants

Dominant Religion:

Orthodox Atovism

Current Head of State:

Lucious Bek

Type

Geopolitical, Republic