Pwymm

Duke Uthrick Stormhand left his retarded, pox-ridden, and deformed son Thurk one of the five Dukes in the Dominion. His Duchy lies within the region known as Pwymm and is the jewl of western commerce. Pwymm is a land of egalitarian principle, and the conditions of northern serfs appall Pwymmians. The land is the most settled in all the Dominion with the exception of Three Bridges. Long canals run from Rerick’s River through fields of wheat, corn, and barley. Pwymmians love music and encourage their children to try and rise above their station. Most others in the kingdom perceive Pwymmians as defiant and uppidy. Before he died mysteriously, Duke Uthrick Stormhand was said to have eaten with his soldiers and had told more than one bawdy joke before the queen. His son Thurk inherited the realm in a terrible misfortune. The day the Duke died of a horrible case of Shadowfits the Duke’s first son slipped and fell from his chamber window at the same time as the Duke’s second son was lost in battle a bolt in his neck. Immediately young prince Thurk was sent for from the temple of Sehanine, strangely though the young priest was already en route to the Duchy’s seat when the message arrived…