Erilyn: History and Rumors

The Kingdom of Erilyn was officially founded in the year 33 PC when Bran Drayton successfully negotiated the annexation of the Wolfswood into the surrounding territories and set his sisters and their knight husbands in the governing of these Baronies under his banner.

The kingdom has a tumultuous but proud history. It was instrumental in ending the elf / human wars on the continent as well as being the last to hold out to the dark elf Milara for rule of the continent.

Now that it has emerged from the Dark Ages battered and bruised it once gain is ready to play a pivotal role in the politics of Alindor and indeed the whole of Layonara.

Agriculture, aquaculture and fishing are the mainstays of the Erilyn economy. The fertile plains grow a wide variety of grain, orchard and vegetable crops. There are numerous large cattle ranches located mainly in the Baronies of Riglon, Colors and southern Imjam, while the Barons and Baronesses of Imjam have long been connoisseurs of pedigree horses and have several stables of fine mounts.

Each of the Baronies has an official breeding stable for the war mounts used by her Knights and for the production of several important racing lines. Some of the bloodlines within the noble's horses are said to be that of Dregarian stock brought to the islands just prior to the cataclysm that all but destroyed the indigenous bloodlines.

Fishing provides a way of life for those Erilyns living along the lengthy coastline and its various bays and inlets. The annual catch of a vast array of fishes, whales, seabirds, and various other sea creatures provide a steady stream of export business to the warehouses of the coastal towns.

Those along the northern coastline also harvest the bounty of the oceans with fishing boats but as well have developed an industry from the harvest of several varieties of sea lettuces, kelp and shellfish that are plentiful along the shallow coastal shelf.

The main city of the kingdom is that of Fort of Kings, which has gone by several other names in the kingdom's history. Its docks are lined with the workshops of shipbuilders, fish plants and warehouses for the storage and shipment of the kingdom's agricultural and sea harvest. There is also merchant trade in goods from other areas of the continent encompassing artwork and metal products from both elven and dwarven citizens and wool and linen from the farming districts among other things.

The darkening of the skies and recent political turmoil has made life difficult for Erilyn's citizens. Crop yields declined; some complete crop failures have occurred. The autocratic rule of the dark mage Milara left the region with few reserves to hold it during the Dark Ages.

Complete crofts, hamlets and villages have been abandoned in some areas while those settlements close to the sea have expanded with hungry refugees. As in days past the economy turned once again to the seas to sustain Erilyn in hopes that the land recovers. With the Dark Ages over though, the realm is recovering.