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(Created page with "This one is probably the most need of updating. Flannary is a much diminished power in the 1500s. They clashed terribly with Fresia during the Schism War at the expense of their collapsing periphery. This distraction and generation-altering loss of life are some of the primary reasons for their failure to recapture their lost frontier. The politics of Flannary are now much altered, leading Erith to be a proper "city of intrigue." The Agri-Nobles of the Flannari north n...") |
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Once the "Breadbasket of the West," Flannary now struggles even to maintain food enough for its population. What prosperity they have seen comes from a rise in commercial activity. With the full and final collapse of Alexia, piracy grew to plague the northern sea and Flannary became the only reliable East-West trade link to Fresia and the Demihuman East. This increase in the power of mercantile interests and increasing desperation of many noble families has lead to a lot of intermarriage between those groups, creating a "new nobility" of up-and-coming nobles. The King (Queen?) is much flummoxed by this development but, thus far, all attempts to stop or slow it have failed. --dm | Once the "Breadbasket of the West," Flannary now struggles even to maintain food enough for its population. What prosperity they have seen comes from a rise in commercial activity. With the full and final collapse of Alexia, piracy grew to plague the northern sea and Flannary became the only reliable East-West trade link to Fresia and the Demihuman East. This increase in the power of mercantile interests and increasing desperation of many noble families has lead to a lot of intermarriage between those groups, creating a "new nobility" of up-and-coming nobles. The King (Queen?) is much flummoxed by this development but, thus far, all attempts to stop or slow it have failed. --dm | ||
== from a gm blurb on the old wiki == | |||
Flannary, as its description suggests, is best understood as the France of the high and late middle ages: an absolute monarchy where powerful nobles reign from the capital over endless seas of grain and serfs. Culturally, it exists of three places: The Capital City, The Port City, and Everywhere Else. Its position as exporter of food provides a great deal of international influence, and it relies on that soft power coupled with gigantic corvée military to provide security. | |||