Kingdom of Tirrenor

The Kingdom of Tirrenor is the name of a large nation-state on The Continent, bordered to the southwest by the Empire of Bruxia. The Kingdom is a major political and economic power in the region, as well as being the home of the Creed of the Five Gods.

Organization
The Kingdom is organized into five major counties called Holds. Each hold is ruled by a Thane, members of noble houses who pass on rule of the hold through primogeniture. Therefore there are five major noble houses in the kingdom. The King of Tirrenor resides in the city of Tirren, and presides over the land of Tirrenhold, and the Thanes of the other four holds (Sea March, Timbervale, Blackwall, and The Verge) answer to him. Within each hold, the land is divided variously, often possessed by vassals with fealty to the Thane, and sometimes by individual land-owning peasants called Freeholders.

The Five Holds

 * Tirrenhold
 * City of Tirren (Capital of Tirrenor)
 * Blackwall
 * City of Stoneshade
 * The Iron Keep
 * The High Temple of Tagrimus
 * Barony of Solon
 * Solon Redoubt
 * Barony of Hastreau
 * Barony of Nubardum
 * Fort Nubardum
 * Sea March
 * City of Discord
 * College of Discord
 * Timbervale
 * The Verge
 * City of Targe

History
The Kingdom of Tirrenhold came to be a mere 300 years ago, in year 229 ACR. The Kingdom officially began when King Darion Basilius I successfully united the old kingdoms of Tirren, Timbervale and Sea March to defend from the invading northerners. The confederation strengthened all three kingdoms and soon they were under one regent, answering to King Basilius of Tirren. The kings of Sea March and Timbervale, called Thanes, swore fealty to Basilius and thus the kingdom was founded.

Later, Tirren explorers entered the Blackwall mountains, where King Darion Basilius III sent his armies to war with the Mountain barbarian tribes. In 303 ACR, the region which has since become the city of Stoneshade was conquered and founded by Tirrenian pioneers. Most of the barbarians were drove back and forced to flee their ancestral home to the vast uncharted eastern lands, but small clans remain in the mountains to this day, occasionally doing battle with the Thanes, raiding caravans, and the like. On the East of the Blackwalls, the colony of Targe was founded in 382 ACR, and quickly became a city of commerce from the pleasant climate and ripe farmland. Currently, Targe acts as the capital of The Verge, the largest and wildest of the five holds, much of it unpopulated frontier territory, not policed by the King or the Gods. Most recently, the Kingdom expanded yet again as the small nation of Yuricaz, now the southern Blackwall hold, was conquered in 513 ACR by the combined armies of Blackwall and Sea March.