Terenor 

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Terenor's capitol is Nordforet. It has a population of about 23,000, and is the largest city in the kingdom. Trier City is the next largest city, with a population of just over 14,000 (chief city of the Earldom of Trier). 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 rugged hills and 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, szathair 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/Earls 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 Royal Electors (made up of a majority of the Earls, Barons and Seigneurs) 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. The dispute over the throne is now 3 years old, and has caused a number of outright battles, several sieges and numberless small battles and skirmishes all across the kingdom. At this time, the forces of Prince Leonard appear to be winning, as they have held Prince Josselin hostage for over two years.

Terenor is divided into about 20 baronies, and four larger earldoms (Duhomel, Guyonne, Trier, Nord, and Cotevert) , which can then be further subdivided into seigneuries of their own. It is quite possible for one person to hold more than one baronial fief or seigneury, and some few Barons also swear fealty to one (or more) Earls for one or more seigneuries. This can make loyalties and politics complex, indeed. Each Earl or Baron controls one or more baronies - 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 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). Seigneuries are fiefs inside an Earldom or Barony, whose masters swear allegience to the Earl or Baron, and thus to the King. Seigneurs are often knights, and are addressed as Sir or Lady in that case. If not they are addressed as Master or Mistress. 

Freyus is the seat of the Earldom of Cotevert, and Grismere is the seat of the largest Barony, Alovain. The town of Roulune is the seat of a minor seigneury in the Barony of Alovain. The seignury is named Loup-Montaigne.

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.

The Devarin river valley is the home of two Earldoms; Duhomel and Guyonne and five baronies; Helvenblade, Le Pau, Auxerre, Nevers and Cahors. To the west of the Epee mountains, Trier (and Trier City) is an Earldom that runs along the Devarin River and up the coast, and Rundreth is a barony (and town) that bridges the Southern Epee Pass, through which the river and main highroad travel. Arbor is the baronial seat of the barony of Montcliffe, to the east of Rundreth.