During the 1st Miraborian Empire, the entire Miraborian continent was civilized, settled and explored. However, with the Rock Plague and other tumultuous events, contact between the east and west coasts was lost, and has never been truly re-established. With the failure of the Canal across Mistland, all contact was lost. At this time, the three kingdoms of Narbada are fairly isolated. A few ships make it through the dangerous waters of the Sahuagin Sea to Mistland, but the trip is fraught with dangers and not easily accomplished. Overland travel across the Thaaluni Mountains and the plains beyond is equally dangerous. Perhaps once or twice a decade an adventuring party manages the journey, but rarely enough that it is the stuff of stories, not known fact. In the Thaaluni mountains orcs and goblins swarm, and in the desert regions of the south-east fouler monsters fill the lands. 

Narbada was thrown onto its own resources, and many centuries have passed with kingdoms rising and falling. 

At this time (in what is known as the year 2630 in Miraboria), three human-dominated kingdoms exist in Narbada. Terenor lies in the north, Middlemarch is in the center, and Vorna is the southernmost land.  In Narbada, it is know as the year 461 by Terenoran reckoning. Middlemarch uses Terenoran year counts as well, but Vorna considers it to be year 774, based on their own "historical" accounts. 

There are also dwarven and elven kingdoms in Narbada. Elves and dwarves are always considered to be citizens of their originating racial kingdom, no matter how long they live in a human realm.

Dremovik in the Epee Mountains, below the human kingdom of Terenor, and Khem in the Thaluuni mountains to the north of Terenor are dwarvish kingdoms. Dremovik is located between Wyvern Tor and Silver Peak, in the narrow mountain valleys. The dwarves there keep herds of mountain sheep and also raise some goats and grow a few hardy crops such as rye and barley, cabbage and turnips.

There are elvish lands north of Terenor; the most significant is in the northern half of Numencalen Island. Legend claims that if these elves ever leave the island, the mild climate will end and bitter cold winter will descend on the region.

Religion in Narbada

History of Narbada

The Narbada Campaign Notes

Terenor

Terenor's capitol is Nordforet. It has a population of about 23,000, and is the largest city in the kingdom. Trier is the next largest city, with a population of just over 14,000. There are two other cities of note, and about 24 towns. About 70% of the kingdom's population (2.7 million) is located on the coast, to the west of the Thaaluni mountains. Most of the rest live in the Devarin River valley, a large area dry, rugged hills, lightly scattered with scrub and intermittent forest, surrounded by the mountain range on all sides. The only easy entry point is via the Devarin river Pass from Trier to Arbor at the mouth of the Valley. Terenor's population is about 70% human; the rest is either hobbyt, elf, half-elf or dwarf. There are no catfolk nor grippli in Narbada. 

Rulership: Terenor was ruled by a human king, Josselin Choffard III, until two years ago. When he died, of what may or may not have been a natural disease, his infant son Josselin Choffard IV should have inherited the throne, with his maternal uncle as regent (the baby Prince's mother died in childbirth). However, there was a swift revolt of several of the barons and the infant prince was seized by the other major claimant to the throne, the King's nephew Leonard Le Formidable. Prince Leonard is the eldest son of Josselin's older sister, who always claimed that she should have ruled as Queen in her own right, and that her brother's kingship broke the ancient laws of Terrenor. However, she had lost her bid for the throne 8 years earlier when the baronial moot declared her claim invalid. Now her son is using force to win his "birthright". Note that Prince Leonard's mother is also deceased; she perished during a violent storm and flooding that occurred in Trier about four years ago. 

Terenor is divided into about 20 baronies, and four larger earldoms. Each Earl or Baron controls one or more barony - at this time there are 17 Barons and 3 Earls, one of whom is Prince Leonard. The fourth Earldom is also now claimed by two contestants - Lady Gabrielle Duhomel, the daughter of the previous Earl, who is a supporter of Prince Leonard, and her cousin Baron Alphonse Duhomel of Nevers Barony, who claims that since she is a woman she cannot inherit (the laws in Terrenor about female inheritance are complex, but in only about 1/3 of cases is a daughter able to inherit from her father when there is also a son who could inherit). It is presumed, though not confirmed, that the Baron would support the infant Prince in his position as king.

Note: the infant Prince Josselin IV is now on the throne of Terenor and seems to be fixed there fairly stably. Baron Alphonse has claimed Nevers Barony as well. Prince Leonard is dead, killed in battle against a band of giants in the Devarin River Valley. 

DMNotes on Terenor

The Devarin river Valley: Climate varies greatly from place to place within the watershed. Elevation ranges from sea level at the river mouth to more than 14,000 feet (4,300 m) in the mountains, and temperatures vary with elevation. The highest peak is Wyvern Tor, at 14,411 feet (4,392 m). High elevations have cold winters and short cool summers; interior regions are subject to great temperature variability and severe droughts. Over some of the watershed, especially west of the Epee Mountains, precipitation maximums occur in winter, when Pacific storms come ashore. Atmospheric conditions block the flow of moisture in summer, which is generally dry except for occasional thunderstorms in the interior. In some of the eastern parts of the watershed, especially shrub-steppe regions with Continental climate patterns, precipitation maximums occur in early summer. Annual precipitation varies from more than 100 inches (250 cm) a year in the Epees to less than 8 inches (20 cm) in the interior. Much of the watershed gets less than 12 inches (30 cm) a year.

Terenor:

Middlemarch

Middlemarch's capitol is Coigne. Middlemarch is smaller than Terenor, though not by much. It is ruled by the Althing of Thanes; these 30 peole are the rulers of the Hides of Middlemarch. Each Hide may be subdivided into Carlings, which are held by Carls (similar to the Seigneurs of Terenor). The Althing meets yearly in Coigne, for about four months. There's a sophisticated and stable beaurocracy that remains active in the city even when the Thanes are absent, and about 1/3 of the thanes remain in Coigne year-round. The people of Middlemarch are quite martial, knowing, as they do, that they stand between the tumultuous city-states of Vorno, and the power-hungry nobles of Terenor. They are ready to repel physical or political attacks and maintain their neutrality at almost any cost. 

Vorno

Vorna's "capitol" is Dragoporto. Vorno is not a single, cohesive nation. Rather, it is a cluster of city-states, all struggling for economic and political leadership of the region. There are at least twelve polities, each independent of the others, and at least nominally under self-rule. They are bound by several treaties, of self-defense and mutual trade. However, these treaties are often honored in word, not deed. Every summer, mercenaries march across the city-states, contesting borders, claiming and reclaiming small tracts of land and resources, besieging towns or castles, and otherwise exercising themselves against other city-states.