Dominions: Tranquil Coast

The coast running north from the Bay of Oceansend; the sea is friendly, but the baronies feud constantly [Alm-Tranquil]. In AC 1019 the whole shore is embroiled in the Dikhoff-Serenity war and the Thyatian meddling behind it, which makes it the clearest on-the-map proof of the campaign’s Thyatian destabilization theme (see Campaign). Stat blocks are from the AC 1019 Almanac.

Barony of Canium

Almanac AC 1019 · canium1.html

• Location: Brun, the Isle of the Dogs, about 120 miles southeast of Oceansend.
• Area: about 5,000 sq. mi. (12,950 sq. km.); the islands are not yet mapped.
• Population: 1,500.
• Languages: Thyatian.
• Coinage: Thyatian Standard (emperor = 5 gp, lucin, justiciar = ep, asterius = sp, denarius = cp).
• Taxes: heavy and Thyatian-style: 20% income on the wealthy (15% on others), 25% on costly or magic items, a 10% commercia sales tax (rebated on exports), 50% of a slave’s value yearly, and about 6% property tax.
• Government: barony; member of the Thyatian Empire (a Thyatian beachhead in Norwold).
• Ruler: Baron Honorine Canolokarius.
• Recent history: the Thyatians founded the barony to extend their influence, repelled an attack by Ersenbal, and won recognition from the Heldannic Knights, Alpha, and the nearby dominions.
• Further reading: CM1 Test of the Warlords.

Barony of Dag

Almanac AC 1019 · dag4.html

• Location: Brun, northeast of Oceansend, on the New Alphatian Sea.
• Area: 499 sq. mi. (1,290 sq. km.).
• Population: about 1,400 (1,100 human, 300 elf).
• Languages: Heldannic, Alphatian, Elvish (Shiye).
• Coinage: Oceansend Standard (heart gp, blade sp, wall cp).
• Taxes: 25% income, yearly.
• Government: independent barony.
• Ruler: Baron Rutger Dag, Fighter 15 [Neri-RBP].
• Flora & fauna: mostly woods, coastal pasture; abundant game; great cats, monsters, and werebeasts threaten the woodsmen.
• Recent history: stayed out of the Dikhoff-Serenity war but hired out troops as mercenaries, paid by the Thyatians.
• Further reading: CM1 Test of the Warlords.

Barony of Dikhoff

Almanac AC 1019 · dikhoff4.html

• Location: Brun, northeast of Oceansend, on the New Alphatian Sea.
• Area: 499 sq. mi. (1,290 sq. km.).
• Population: 1,500.
• Languages: Heldannic, Traladaran.
• Coinage: Oceansend Standard (heart, blade, wall).
• Taxes: 25% income, yearly.
• Government: independent barony.
• Ruler: Baron Dimitri Dikhoff, Fighter 18, Chaotic Evil, captain of the Hissing Snakes, who means to murder his way to a crown [Neri-RBP].
• Flora & fauna: flat farmland and orchards, salt pans by the swamp; hyenas, wolves, foxes, hawks, vultures; swamp monsters; displacer beasts and basilisks in the northern woods; manticores, wyverns, and the “legendary Chimera of Doom.”
• Recent history: allied with the Heldannic Knights and nearly conquered Serenity, then Thyatian interference and a Thyatian-Heldannic treaty broke his advantage; Dikhoff was routed into the swamps, saved from ruin only by infighting among the Thyatian allies.
• Further reading: CM1 Test of the Warlords; previous almanacs.

County of Ersenbal

Almanac AC 1019 · ersenba4.html

• Location: Brun, Walrus Island, about 200 miles east-northeast of Oceansend.
• Area: about 7,000 sq. mi. (18,130 sq. km.).
• Population: 5,200.
• Languages: Alphatian, Heldannic, Thyatian.
• Coinage: Alphatian Standard; other currencies circulate.
• Taxes: 15% income.
• Government: county.
• Ruler: Count Martigan Ersenbal (currently missing); Countess Bethany Ersenbal in his place [Gander-Dom].
• Important figures: Lord Gerwen, Mayor and Seneschal; Laurida Tremlaine, Captain.
• Recent history: after finding the Thyatians on the Isle of the Dogs, Ersenbal veterans attacked the new colony; the county’s navy was beaten at sea and blockaded until Alpha recognized the Thyatian dominion, which destabilized the county.
• Further reading: CM1 Test of the Warlords; previous almanacs.

Barony of Serenity

Almanac AC 1019 · serenit4.html

• Location: Brun, northeast of Oceansend.
• Area: 480 sq. mi. (1,245 sq. km.).
• Population: 1,600.
• Languages: Thyatian, Heldannic, Alphatian (declining since Serenity broke with Alpha).
• Coinage: Oceansend Standard (heart, blade, wall).
• Taxes: 25% income.
• Government: independent barony.
• Ruler: Baron Siegfried Sixx, Fighter 16 [Neri-RBP].
• Economy: horses, agriculture, some fishing; a native short corn feeds people and horses.
• Flora & fauna: light oak and birch forest; game, wolves, great cats; manticores raid the horse corrals; rarer dragons and wyverns.
• Recent history: Siegfried’s warning of a Dikhoff-Heldannic alliance proved true; a Thyatian-Heldannic agreement, then a Thyatis-backed alliance, expelled the Dikhoffians, until Maximus proclaimed himself governor and broke the coalition into infighting.
• Further reading: CM1 Test of the Warlords; previous almanacs.

Barony of Sonnenfeld

Almanac AC 1019 · sonnen4.html

• Location: Brun, northeast of Oceansend, on the New Alphatian Sea.
• Area: 499 sq. mi. (1,290 sq. km.).
• Population: 1,300.
• Languages: Heldannic.
• Coinage: Oceansend Standard (heart, blade, wall).
• Taxes: 25% income, yearly.
• Government: independent barony.
• Ruler: Baron Fergus the Justifier, Fighter 15, Lawful Good, easily swayed by rumor and foreign agents [Neri-RBP].
• Flora & fauna: southern bogs on the Tranquil Swamp border, rolling horse pasture elsewhere; game, horses, trained raptors; swamp predators (crocodiles, serpents, giant fish, carnivorous plants).
• Recent history: Fergus withdrew support from Dikhoff over its Heldannic alliance, then restored it when the Thyatian hand was revealed, likely too late to stop the Thyatian takeover that the allies’ infighting then split.
• Further reading: CM1 Test of the Warlords; previous almanacs.

Barony of Swordcoast

Almanac AC 1019 · swcoast4.html

• Location: Brun, northeast of Oceansend, on the New Alphatian Sea.
• Area: about 998 sq. mi. (2,585 sq. km.).
• Population: 3,000.
• Languages: Heldannic, Thyatian.
• Coinage: Oceansend Standard (heart, blade, wall).
• Taxes: 25% income, yearly.
• Government: independent barony.
• Ruler: Baron Maximus I (Max the First, a Thyatian ex-soldier posing as a Darokinian) [Neri-RBP].
• Flora & fauna: cultivated wheat, hops, and barley, pasture in the western hills, all trees cleared; livestock, stone martens, weasels, otters; few wild monsters left.
• Recent history: Maximus organized the Thyatian-funded coalition against Dikhoff’s conquest of Serenity, then, defeated, revealed his Thyatian deal and took the post of regional governor, which turned the other barons against him and ended the coalition.
• Further reading: CM1 Test of the Warlords.

The war in one line. Dikhoff (backed by the Heldannic Knights) tried to swallow Serenity; the other barons, secretly bankrolled by Thyatis, formed a coalition under Maximus that beat Dikhoff back, then fell apart when Maximus revealed his Thyatian masters. Everyone on this coast is now someone’s client. It is the campaign spine made local.