make alliances, and broadly agree the defence of the Marches against the southern orcs of Mournwold. The Marchers had no armies as the Empire would recognise

can learn more about the history of the Dawnish monarchy here. Core Brief Introduction The people Culture and customs Look and feel Additional Information

stones, the well water tainted and brackish, or the scythes in the barn warp and rust overnight as the angry herald turns on their host with the support

known as the Mourn even before its final fall to the Jotun hordes. Originally the name referred to the sound of the wind in the trees and across the craggy

spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the Marcher brief. In the Marches, misdeeds are

love like the rain and sun and with discipline like the frost and wind. It is universally recognised in the Marches that children are not yet “finished”

equals. Agriculture is the basis of political leadership in the Marches, and power is vested in those who work the land. The Marcher households are groups

stones that dot the landscape are part of the fabric of the Marches, marking the boundaries and imposing the dominion of mortal hands over the land. Those who

unprepared for the aura to be lulled to gentle, peaceful sleep by the lapping of the river, and the soughing of the wind through the branches of the apple trees

argue about. Not just the nature of magic and reality, but the application of the arcane arts to the wider world. Individual spires and even magicians also

watchtowers decaying on the heights above, remnants from the days before the Empire when the Freeborn warred with the Marches. To the south of the mountains of Kahraman

Urizen joined the Empire, the nation has benefitted from the the import of food from the Marches and other necessities and luxuries that the Urizen no longer

crafted goods and imports food. Good relations exist between the Winterfolk and their southern neighbours in the Marches. The grain, barley and salted meat

tragic in nature, and the most popular entertainments - and rituals - involve the rise and heroic death of the protagonist. Many rituals and performances involve

are heard in chapters, the necropolis, and the fields. It is when the army marches to war with its battle choir, however, that the full majesty of Highguard

should not expect the earl to be leading charges and fighting in tourneys - that is the responsibility of the other nobles of the house, not the earl. Some houses

that founded the Imperial Orcs. The Ethengraw and the Sannites are fiercely competitive and with proud martial traditions of their own. But the three other

the Marches, and the southern and eastern cities of The League. Their uprising had taken part in the rich heartlands of the Empire, and they did not need

themselves for judgement by the Synod, and we ask the Conclave to condemn the alliance between the eternal Arhallogen and the orcs of the Mallum. They have made

forebears of the Kallavesi and the Suaq are the same people who would found the lands of the Ushka in the east, and eventually build the cities of Terunael