Personalities of Norwold

The dominion-holders are, almost to a one, the player-character claimants of the Great Land Rush, which makes them ready-made patrons and rivals for a new party [Neri-RBP] [Gander-Dom]. Classes and levels are as the sources give them; alignments too, where stated.

The crown and court of Alpha

• King Ericall, King of Alpha (formerly Norwold), Fighter 20, a son of the drowned Empress Eriadna, bronze-skinned and dark-haired. He has no magic, which is why non-mages may rule here. He needs capable warlords and distrusts no one who can hold land [Alm-Alpha] [Neri-TG] [LoZ-R2R].
• Queen Christina Marie Alanira, Mage 13, married Ericall AC 1014; sister of Count Beriak of Draken. The renamed Queen’s Guard is rumored to answer to her first [Alm-Alpha].
• Lernal “the Swill”, Ericall’s dissolute half-brother, Duke of Landfall and nominal governor of Heldland; drunken and weak, and the Heldannic Knights are expected to depose him [Neri-TG] [LoZ-R2R].
• Tredorian and Farian, Ericall’s brothers, kidnapped by Thyatian agents in AC 999, a wound still open [Neri-TG] [LoZ-WarCrown].

The great lords (and what they really are)

• King Olaf Yarrvikson of Oceansend, Fighter 10; led the AC 1015 coup against the Knights, trusts mercenaries, guards against spies [Alm-Oceansend].
• Sheriff Shaedrik Divotfoot of Leeha, Fighter 9, elected halfling sheriff [Alm-Leeha].
• Baron Arcadius of Arcadia, Magic-User 20; absent-minded scholar of lost peoples, allied to dragons [Alm-Arcadia] [Neri-RBP].
• Baron Elarianthas Blackblade of Ironwood, Fighter 10/Magic-User 15; pursues the prophecy of a united elven realm [Alm-Ironwood] [Neri-RBP].
• Sieger von Duwn, King of Siegeria, Magic-User 20; once broke from Alpha, now at an uneasy peace [Neri-RBP] [Alm-Alpha].
• Count Beriak Alanira of Draken, the queen’s brother and Ericall’s Lord General [Alm-Alpha] [Neri-RBP].
• Zoltan Hytaxius of White Oak, Cleric 19; Ironwood’s religious rival [Alm-Ironwood].

Wolves in the fold

• Longtooth (Longinus Dolichodon), Baron of Latela, Thief 20, Chaotic Evil; a Thyatian master spy posing as an Ierendian corsair, quietly undermining Ericall [Neri-RBP].
• Alak Dool (Alestair), Magic-User 19, Chaotic Evil; a Thyatian agent posing as a Glantrian, building a humanoid army, banned from Alpha [Neri-RBP] [Alm-Alpha].
• Dimitri Dikhoff, Baron of Dikhoff, Fighter 18, Chaotic Evil; mercenary captain of the Hissing Snakes, means to murder his lord and take a crown [Neri-RBP].
• Coiger de Mory, the renegade cleric whose giants sack Dawn Rising; the M2 villain, holding the Tyrannie de Mory [Neri-RBP] [M2].
• Celia, Marquise of Panteria, Thief 19; building a trade-and-thieves empire on the northern frontier [Neri-RBP].

The dragons

• Red Death, dragon-king of the Wyrmsteeth, who presides over the Parliament of Dragons at Windreach [Neri-TG] [MMB-Region].
• Sandryth, young-adult gold dragon, Arcadia’s envoy to the Wyrmsteeth [Alm-Arcadia].
• Quentin Jax (Jaq’antixuen), a Lawful gold dragon in the shape of a 45-year-old Alphatian wizard, holding a county near the Ransarn as a loyalist of the Dragon Nation [Neri-RBP].
• S’hastarl, a dormant black dragon beneath the Dragon’s Spur, perhaps waking [Neri-TG] [Alm-Ironwood].
• Shardarath, a crystal dragon of Crystylyne Island [Neri-RBP].

The monster-queens and oracles of the ice

• Akra, the Witch-Queen, the ancient Alphatian witch whose cold magic chilled Norwold; her spirit has possessed others down the centuries [Neri-TG] [LoZ-R2R].
• Frota, the Ice Witch, queen of the Ice Tomb, who planned to conquer Norwold with monster armies; long dead, but her works remain [LoZ-R2R] [MMB-Region].
• Quesa, a white dragon bound in the Ice Cave of Quesa’s Massif [Neri-TG].
• The Crones of Crystykk, the oracles of Mount Crystykk, who see what is coming [CM1] [Neri-TG].

Neighboring rulers (for the wider map)

From the Traveller’s Guide and the claimant roster, the kings on Norwold’s borders and in the Northern Reaches: Hord Dark-Eye and Cnute (Ostland), Harald/Gudmund (Vestland), Ragnar the Stout (Soderfjord), Uldis (Littonia), Kaarlo Taavinen (Kaarjala), the Wizard-King Gylharen (Wendar), Eruul Zaar (self-styled king of Helskir), and Grand Master Wulf von Klagendorf of the Heldannic Knights [Neri-TG] [Neri-RBP].

The full claimant list. Simone Neri’s “Rogues, Barons and Pretenders” details roughly forty Land-Rush claimants with class, origin, retainers, and agenda, and Geoff Gander’s roster assigns them dominions as of AC 1016. Together they are a pre-built NPC generator for the entire region [Neri-RBP] [Gander-Dom]. The dominion-by-dominion roster is on the Realms page.