The Grand Duchies of Middenland ("Center"-land) is a major and founding Imperial Province that lies at the heart of the Empire. Towering above the gloomy canopies of the Drakwald Forest is a sheer-sided pinnacle of white rock atop which sits the fortress-city of Middenheim, capital of Middenland and the holy city of the White Wolf. The White Wolf is the holy symbol of Ulric, the Imperial God of War, Winter and Wolves. Middenland comprises a vast swath of territory stretching from the Riek River and the Great Northern Road of the Wasteland in the west and southwest, and Hochland and the Middle Mountains to the east. South beyond the Talabec River is Talabecland, Middenland’s sometime rival for leadership of the Cult of Ulric. To the north are her ally Nordland and the Laurelorn Forest, home of the mysterious and occasionally hostile Wood Elves. That the Elves are hostile because of Middenland’s longstanding claims to the Laurelorn is immaterial, since these claims were inherited from the Drakwald Emperors of long ago. The Drakwald itself is a vast, ancient forest running from the edge of the Wasteland to the far end of Hochland.