Nemmaru

Nemmaru is a sizable kingdom with a majority human population, located in Khadoa. Much to the consternation of its neighbors, it has fallen under the rule of the dragon XXXXXXX One-Eye. The wyrm has bewitched and imprisoned (though some say devoured) the royal family along with a number of the kingdom's magnates and prominent nobles; he has set up a cruel parody of law and taxation, enacting tyrannical decrees on a whim and extorting tribute from this or that city as the mood strikes him. After the city of XXXXXX protested that his demands were unreasonable, it was razed by dragon-fire, and none others have repeated their mistake. A number of would-be dragonslayers have been captured alive in the attempt and then "sentenced" by XXXXXX for their crime of attempted regicide, after which they are typically burnt or devoured before a crowd of onlookers. XXXXXXX has also encouraged the growth of draconic cults, which worship him as a living god; a number of these have sprung up throughout the realm and in neighboring lands as well. He has even engaged in a bizarre sort of diplomacy with other Khadoan kingdoms, sending emissaries to deliver grandiose or menacing pronouncements to their courts. Thus far, he has shown a strange respect for their borders and not ventured outside the boundaries of "his" kingdom, but everyone knows that there would be little stopping him if he chose to. 
Great speculation abounds with regard to where XXXXX came from, what stirred him up, and what events led to him choosing Nemmaru as the unhappy subject of his rule. A number of theories claim that he came from far to the south, from the far side of the Kesh Karkhan, and that he was dislodged from his old lair somehow by the disturbances of the Great Orcish Wars and their aftermath.