Marshes

The Marshes is one of the constituent regions of the Kingdom of Aqoris. In the history of Aqoris, they have been a frequent battleground be it during the civil wars that have taken place in the Kingdom of Aqoris or between rivalling Kingdoms before Barden's Founding. Before Barden's Foundation Wars, the Marshes were contested between the Kingdom of the Hills and the Kingdom of Field and Grain with the Marshes and the Domainlands seeing great amounts of fighting.
Located roughly in the centre of the continent, and with few geographical boundaries such as mountains, for centuries it has been a borderland between surrounding strong kingdoms. At the time of Barden Boyce's war, the Marshes were ruled over by House Syder, the rulers of the Kingdom of the Hills. The Marshes had never ruled themselves, not since before the founding of the old Kingdom, and as such are not considered one of the three original Kingdoms but are still counted as an equal level. House Rush led the Marshes in a popular rebellion against the Syders at the start of the Foundation War and were granted the title of Lord Protector of the Marshes which installed them and the Marshes as the first region of the Boyce Kingdom. It was House Rush who wished to have the title of Lord Protector instead of the title of Warden that was granted to House Durham who overthrew the Highhand Kings in the Southlands as it was less militaristic in sounding and the Rushes wanted the Marshes to see peace, though this was not to happen.
==Geography==
The Marshes, as the name would suggest, are predominantly fertile marshlands created by the two great rivers that the region is dominated by; The Root to the west along the border with the Lakelands, and the Whistling Spear to the east. Though not in their borders, the Tyne's northern branch ends not too far from the border with the Domainlands. To the north, there is also the two smaller rivers that create a natural chokepoint separating the southern regions from the North; the Cobalt Run in the east and the Iron Run in the west.
On the whole, the Marshes possess few natural defences or borders. They have the Root to the west but the majority of the river is held by the Lakelanders and the Cobalt Run and the Iron Run are negated by the vast open space in-between them which is hard to defend. The Marshes border 3 out of the 6 regions of the Kingdom of Aqoris, equalling the number of borders of the Domainlands but the Domainlands are far more defensible with hills and castles defending the border with the Southlands and a large forest against the Lakelands. The Domainlands also have one of the strongest armies of Aqoris which aids in their favour.
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