ConfederateBaronies

Overview

If ever there was a land that was made of entirely minor nobility, this was it. The land is held under charter, and is often divided up between families and knights. The same land is then merged through marriage and treaties. Generally there is no single leader of the Confederate Baronies, often a delegation is sent to deal with individual incidents, or internal problems are dealt with in the simple process of negotiation, war, or marriage.

The land is gifted to former Kights of Light by the City-State of Ithica. This has caused some small problems with the locals that stupidly thought that the land belonged to them.

History

The confederate baronies was formed when Ithica sought to reward some of the most notable of the royal knights. In the most traditional way of royalty, they claimed land around the most profitable trade route out along the Great River. The Great River was the primary link of Ithica, and the surrounding lands with the rest of Dellan. As many of the other routes out from Ithica were either trecherous, such as the routes through the Outlands, or through the mountains of fire, a route that led through the Eastern Dessert to the Mercian sea made for the quickest and most prosperous route.

The land around the Great River was parcelled out to the most experienced knights. This made it easier to protect, and the baronies became prosperous on the back of that trade.