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Noral entrance page

Bill George — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:02:49 +0000

Trillolara Links

Noral Links

A country believed to be allied with Gashtra. Its on the other side of the Mountains of Death from the Great Open. (Aligment: probably CE) ( Information from Sages in Trillolara.)

But if you look at this map section, obviously Noral is not only north of the Mountains of Death. Some parts of it are northeast of those Mountains.

The area marked ‘LoS’ is the Land of Strife. The area marked ‘T’ is Trillolara.

Tolosh-Tarn is the capital city.

Dwarf Home and Dwarfbas are just off to the right between the Land of Strife and Trillolara.

The ruins along the southern edge of Noral are villages of those who the people of Noral have claimed they didn’t harm.

Noral area

Bill George — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:52:30 +0000

Trillolara Links

Noral Links

Noral is at the north end of the Mountains of Death.

They are not a particularly nice people. They claim they are kind to anyone not a citizen of Noral. Except for traveling merchants, there doesn’t seem to be anyone in Noral that aren’t citizens.

Those are 200 × 200 mile squares on the map.

history, Noral

Bill George — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 17:05:47 +0000

History Links

Noral ! Not a name to start a conquering plan with ? Correct. Noral never set out to conquer anyone.

Someone evidently started claiming, many long years ago, that the people of Noral were very war-like, and loved to conquer people.

They had no need to conquer anyone.

Even the beings living out in the Wildlands quickly learned to leave Noral be.

Humans live here. There are a few high elves and even a few halflings. Not so few as to be a curiosity nor so few as to be strangers to the rest of Noral. Both stay away from the Mountains of Death, the humans who live here don’t ask why.

A committee of advisers assist a King. Town officials are voted on by the locals. Military commanders are appointed by the King with advice from the committee. Both town officials and military commanders can be and have been retired adventurers. Everyone pays the same tax rate… 30 percent. But its not a flat tax. There are a number of things here that require permits. Not a large number of permits, but there is a small bureaucracy that keeps track of such things. While they are not hated, they are not well liked either.

Okay. Has Noral conquered anyone ? They don’t say. But there was a settlement in the nearby reaches of the Mountains of Death where no Noralian lived, but its all Noralians now. Were they conquered, killed off, or asked to move ? Nobody outside Noral knows. Their history books make no mention of it ever being outside Noral, nor being inhabited by anyone not of Noral.

Want to adventure in Noral ? Thats okay, but be certain the paperwork is done before hand.

Want to know more ? Well, if you are traveling through Noral, you might find out more by chatting in the local taverns and bars. But don’t ask too many questions, you may be asked for your scholar’s permit. Which also requires a hefty sum of monies for the permit.

Alignments: LE, a few CG, CE, N, NE, LN. The dominate force here is Law. The chaotics are tolerated as the rest don’t like certain tasks… like killing off non-Noralian villages near the borders.

Parenthetical note: yes, they love their permits. Yes, they have conquered others. But they wont expand into the ‘empty lands’ nearby. And for some reason, they wont talk about, they wont move further into the Mountains of Death.