D&D Svartaland Campaign

SVARTALAND REGIONAL MAP: Major Settlements and Adjacent Waters

Avion: island people known for their earthenware, food preservation techniques, and woven fishing nets.
Baum Ferand: resort area known for its tall trees and lake fishing.
Engeswass: community known for fishing and brewing at the bend in the river.
Fort Mouth: a military stronghold and major port city.
Hartewald: the capital city, royal palace; known for its hard wood industries, furniture making.
Herrules: home of the “Brotherhood of Mobile Warriors,” mercenaries skilled on land and sea.
Messer Sachs: port city along the knife coast, known for silverware, plate and jewelry production.
Randkust: “Warriors of the Coast,” known to be expert sailors, whalers, and fishermen, also wool and mutton production.
Ryemutti: High Elf community known for fresh fruits, wines, and distilled spirits: brandy, gin, whiskey and rum.
Skållande Dimma: the “Scalding Fog,” an ocean known for its heated waters and boiling vapors.
Tief Liegend: a low-lying region between rivers, known primarily as a pork producer.
Winrande: the shimmering portion of wide gentle waters contained by small islands populated by Elves, Vattenpukjes, and more.

Atua Wahrs: the “Fortress People,” Hill Dwarfs known for logging industries, as well as ship and wagon construction.
Bellovaki: Kobold highland areas known for its aggregate building materials and slate quarrying.
Ebronii: known for its yew trees, hogweed tobacco, beet sugar refining, and confectionery.
Geniegt: steep sloping hills home to Rock Gnomes and goats, and the mining of precious and semi-precious stones.
Hartefusa: shire of the “Hardfeet”/Stout Halflings, known for their endurance and iron mining.
Nervii: known for its powerful warriors and budding paper industry.
Neidriga Verter: the low valley vales of Lightfoot Halflings, known for cotton farming, copper mining, and lake fishing.
Rötslamm: the “Red Sludge,” whose surprisingly warm and churning crimson waters are muddy and thick.
Ruderer: home of quality oarsman, these people work 50 miles of rivers fishing, hunting game birds, and raising rice.
Turneir Catu: home of the “Chiefs of Jousting,” renown for its horses and silver mines.

Drifrish: a collection of three small sandy islands that specialize in glass production and raising sheep.
Eicenychen: known for its river oxen, cattle, and leather industries.
Föder Coriel: the center of a federation of smaller tribes known for paints, mineral oils, and paraffin.
Hellhock: the “bright highlands,” known for quarries of granite, freestone, gold, and quartz.
Kentacii: known primarily for coal production, the area is also populated by inventive gnomes and pukjes.
Mörkkt Sea: the “Dark Waters,” whose depths are believed to harbor intelligent aquatic races.
Paemonii: known mostly for raising flax and producing linen, jute, cotton cloth, sails, rope, and floorcloth.

Daempa: northeast of Messersachs. Villages: Sidhedome and Ravenchurch.
—Sidhedome serves as a collective where alfs pool their efforts to raise their youth through communal shift-parenting.
Kedelig: a vattenpukje isle southeast of Messer Sachs. Village: Sandborg.
—The shallow, sandy burrows around Sandborg provide a safe haven for aquatic goblins to raise their young in an ideal setting.
Lenore: strategic island east of Fort Mouth. Villages: Kuststad and Restenford.
—The Kuststad Outpost serves as the central garrison and naval base for Crown privateers and military lake patrols.
Olmayan: a recently-risen isle east of Kedelig near vattenpukje nesting caves. No permanent villages.
Its emergence created a major diplomatic land-claim between Svartaland and Ökenveld.

Drottning, Konungr—queen/king
Stórhertogi, Stórhertogynja—arch duke, possibly next in line of succession
Konungr Smá, Konungynja Smá—immediate children of the royal family
Hertogi, Hertogynja—duke, high noble
Margrave, Markgreifynja—typically a military governor of a critical region
Jarl, Jarfreyja—count, noble, or chieftain
Syslumadr, Syslukona—viscount, often a sheriff or administrator of a county
Greifi, Greifynja—baron, typically a county governor
Hersir, Hersfreyja—baronet, typically the highest rank for “commoners,” able to tax
Riddari, Skjaldmær—knight, title of Sir or Madam, able to vote, ownership/control of a bastion, fort, manor, shrine
Bóndi, Húsfreyja—freeman, farmers, karls
Þræll, Þrælkona—bondsman

1040 Hardrada: 162-Season War begins
1174 Hardrada: King Aadne slain in battle of Balanore, Kraldjur
1175 Hardrada: Queen Ingagerd ascends throne of Svarta
1201 Hardrada: Frittlandr recognized by Queendom of Svarta
1202 Hardrada: Svarta Victory at Botten Vallei in part due to allegiance switch of Baron Grellus
1205 Hardrada: The World Peace Treaty; Svarta ownership of Lenore formalized
1215 Hardrada: Red-Gold Company Formed
1216 Hardrada: Isle of Olmayan emerges in Wimranda, becomes part of Svarta
1217 Hardrada: Fort Framlin established in "Meida" / Norr Landgraft
1217 Hardrada: Partnership with Frittlandr and RimeMarch vs. Lich Lord Eero Kivi
1217 Hardrada: Red-Gold Company Knighted
1218 Hardrada: Southern Norr (Greenhook) agrees to join with Svartaland
1219 Hardrada: Svarta introduces the Dreki Air Ship