Ayrtican Kingdom Summary this far:
-Ayrtican Kingdom: The last true nation in the world, its two bordering neighbors having fallen to storms and plague in recent years. It is stretched thin as well, deploying mages and knights in numbers and manner that would be considered reckless were there other threats to worry about. Recruits are being fast-tracked into full robes or armor and cities are left few warriors to enforce order, all out of desperation to possibly appease the higher powers that forsake them. Much of their hope has been placed in the Purgist Knights, and elite anti-magic order capable of neutralizing many magical beings and cutting them down. But with the order already small in number and requiring highly specialized training to enter, even they will be disproportionally damaged by any loss.
Size: A little smaller than modern day France
Est. 580,000 sq km (223,939.252 sq miles)
Population:
Pre-Plague 12 years ago - est. 15,300,000
Current population - est. 195k-200k
Industries
Southern - Sculpture making, stonework, toy making, flowers, gardening
Coastal - Mercenary’s, Tanning, Alchemy, Potion-Making, Banking, Education, Medicine, Shipping (land only now), fishing (defunct), Farming, orators, lawyers, shipwrights (defunct), honey, mead
North: Farming, Ivory, Plaster, grapes, wine, Blood magic, Marble mining
Somewhere: Hat making, forestry, Carpentry, traveling minstrels, festivals, fur trapping, furrier, hunting, magic, black smithing, weaving, medicine making, Horse breeding, stabling, farriers.
Climate
“The climate is rough. Black snow events make it cold and the storms dump mass amounts of rain/hail to make it worse. Would probably leave a lot of abandoned and non-forested areas somewhat marshy or harshly frozen.” Canis
Mean temperature examples in degrees Celsius
Capital: -2 in January, 8 in May, 14 in July, and 2 in November.
Reme: 1 in January, 10 in May, 14 in July, and 4 in November.
NE R: -2 in January, 4 in May, 9 in July, and 0 in November.
B: 0 in January, 6 in May, 10 in July, and 3 in November.
Politics
Feudal. Has a Queen and possibly a King, Dukes/Duchesses, knights, clergy, merchants, trades people, and peasants.
Municipality
- At least one on the coast with a little over 11,000 people in it
- At least one in the south
- At least one village in the North
Top 9 cities pop. Before plague and present.
1. 180,000 and 60,000 (North east)
2. 94,208 and 31,403 (South West)
3. 91,584 and 30,528 (South East)
4. 75,890 and 25,297 (North)
5. 46,350 and 15,450 (Center)
6. Reme 34,500 and 11,500 (West)
7. 29,100, and 9,700 (North East)
8. 18,900 and 6,300 (Center)
9. 18,684 and 6,228 (East)
Charities
Orphanages, maybe some infirmaries?
Races
Human
Orders
Purgist knights
Stellarum Tripudium (Based in the North)
Temples
- Presumably many for each deity
- At least one monastery on the coast
Infrastructure
Coastal
- Roads
- At least 3 aqueducts to coastal city
Environments
- At least one coast
- At least two Forests
- At least some grassland suitable for farming
- At least one mountain far from civilization (Possibly the same mountains the aqueducts go to. If not then there may be one mountain closer to civilization as well).
Threats and weaknesses
- Black snow
- Slow trade
- Food shortage
- Population decline
- Brain drain from the population decline
- Fear and anxiety from the poor situation
- Crime and banditry
- Cultists
- Marauders invading from former Cwarensgard in the NE
- Mages and Knights spread thin
- Has refugees from Cwarensgard coming across the border
- Monsters, such as Chimera, Dragons, Fae, Giant Ants, Giant Spiders, Hags, Minotaurs, Sirens, Trolls, Werewolves, and WereRavens.
Edit: I tried to take from everyone’s back stories. Hopefully this is representative. Please let me know if I missed something. I didn’t see where the Queen was so I didn’t mention it. I didn’t know if there was a capital, or if the capital moved around.
Edit 2: It seems interesting that there are traveling minstrels and banditry. I wonder if they are Warrior bards? Or have escorts - possibly from mercenary’s or soldiers or the Stellarum Tripudium?
Edit 3: Map