The Easterlands

Description:
This is one of the nine Kingdoms in The Realm of the Nine Kingdoms.
Ruler 	Lord Protector Quenten of House Cavendish. Warden of The Easterlands.
Population 	6.400.000
Demographics 	Human(81%), Elf(10%), Dwarf(5%), Halfling(3%), Other(1%)
Native Languages 	Ahrum, Olthon, Elvish(common)
Capital 	Keldworth
National Colors 	
Natural Resources and Manufactured Goods	Alcohol, Apples, Bananas, Barley, Chicken, Clams, Coffee, Copper, Corn, Cotton, Cow, Crab, Deer, Diamond, Dye, Fish, Flax, Flint, Fur, Glass, Goat, Gold, Hemp, Honey, Hops, Horses, Incense, Iron, Ivory, Lead, Lemons, Marble, Oats, Olives, Oranges, Parchment, Pearls, Pig, Pottery, Ruby, Salt, Sheep, Shrimp, Silk, Silver, Spices, Stone, Sugar, Tea, Timber, Tobacco, Topaz, Vegetables, Whale, Wheat, Wine
Wealth 	Common
Government Type 	Hereditary Monarchy
Allies 	
Enemies 	
Primary Religion 	The Lord of the Cleansing Fire
Other Religions 	The God of Spheres, Ele'ana the Eternal Mother Nature, Amareth the Eternal, Rozor the Great Sky Father, Marosh the Spider God, Qorin the Deathbringer and Siren of the Apocalypse, Earusha the Forgotten
Terrain 	Coast, Farmlands, Forests, Hills, Island, Lakeside, Mountains, Mountainside, Plains, Riverside
Cities(Population 10.000+)
Name 	Population	Description
Keldworth 	50.000 	This is the capital city of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Protector Quenten of House Cavendish. Warden of The Easterlands
Millchester	39.000 	This is a major city of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Erric of House Allard
Newbrook 	37.000 	This is a major city of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Lormond of House Mobray
Dunbrough 	35.000 	This is a major city of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Gilad of House Fullthorne
Willowfleet	27.000 	This is a major city of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Domeric of House Renshaw
Noticeable towns
Name 	
Population	
Description
Abingdon 	3.500	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Arstan of House Blackram
Baerney 	5.500	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Robin of House Hillard
Barthmont Castle	9.000	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Ossifer of House Crackenshield
Bexley 	7.800	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Terrence of House Cain
Dunwich 	4.300	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Berion of House Towen
Eastcliff 	4.700	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Lewys of House Hale
Garmsby 	7.800	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Warran of House Rees
Macclesfield 	9.100	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Crespin of House Otterly
Namal 	1.700	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Sarvin of House Tychon
Silverkeep 	5.900	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Ryles of House Rowe
Strathmore 	8.100	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Androw of House Gaele
Troutberk 	4.900	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Kervis of House Beagan
Warrington 	2.900	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Marcus of House Stanton
Wishborne Stronghold	1.900	This is a noticeable town of The Easterlands, ruled by Lord Runceford of House Dorr
Important NPC's
Lord Protector Quenten Cavandish
Ruler of the region and House Cavendish
Lord Gilad Fullthorne
Ruler of Dunbrough and House Fullthorne
History of The Easterlands
With its stunning coastline and extremely fertile soil, The Easterlands have always been famous for it's tasteful crops and seafood. It's primarily an agricultural region due to the extremely fertile soil.
Raegaar of House Fullthorne came to the region in the year 268 and decided to settle down with his family. At this point, no other humans lived in the region. He started to grow crops and was amazed at the quality yields he could produce here.
As the years passed, more people arrived to this beautiful place and settled down. There was more than enough room for everyone.
Hundreds of years later, several great houses all resided in The Easterlands in peace and quiet.
House Fullthorne, House Mobray, House Renshaw, House Cavendish and House Allard. These were the biggest and most influential families, but many smaller families were also settled down and slowly started to build up their societies.
House Fullthorne were the first to arrive and the most powerful, so they appointed themselves as Kings of The Easterlands.
Lex Mobray, the head of House Mobray, had a hard time accepting that House Fullthorne was in charge. He ordered his people to start sabotaging the Fullthornes.
In the beginning, they burned their crops, flooded their fields, stole their fish etc.
The Fullthornes tried to negotiate a friendly solution to the problem, but House Mobray were not interested, so they kept up sabotaging.
Inevitable, these small disputed ended up in open war. At this point, no one had soldiers due to the peaceful lifestyle, so all battles was between farmers and peasants.
Both families started to train soldiers.
Three years later, the final battle took place. House Fullthorne was the winner. They gathered people from their network, and could establish an army 3 times the size of that of the Mobrays.
Thousands were killed in this war, but eventually House Mobray retreated and acknowledged House Fullthorne as the main house. Lex was captured, imprisoned and later executed.
After the war, the relationship between House Fullthorne and House Mobray was never the same.
In the year 914, a new heir of House Fullthorne came to power. His name was, Beckim Fullthorne.
As head of his family, he would turn out to be a precursor to a dark era in the history of House Fullthorne.
He was a warmongering dictator and was searching for ways to increase his power and a reasons to cause conflict. First thing up was of course their rival, House Mobray.
Beckim ordered his people to spy on them. He made several strategic attacks on House Mobray to weaken them. Furthermore, he took control over minor cities around Dunbrough, and forced them to give House Fullthorne, half of all their goods as a tax.
The Fullthornes were the biggest family and the only house with a standing army, so even though everyone in The Easterlands were opposed the dirty methods the Fullthornes practiced, nobody had the power to do anything about it.
When Beckim died, people hoped for better times, but unfortunately Beckim's heir was from the same mould. He continued where Beckim left off.
This went on for hundreds of years, and the Fullthornes were really unpopular in The Easterlands. House Cavendish, a big family in the southern Easterlands, tried to convince the Fullthornes to stop harassing the other families, but the Fullthornes ignored their request and kept on harassing everyone.
In the year 1366, House Cavendish gathered troops from all over the south and marched to the north with a great army.
House Cavendish had also brokered a deal with the church of The Lord of the Cleansing Fire. House Cavendish and his bannermen were to convert to the faith of the fire lord and help build up the church in The Easterlands and in return the church would send the entire army of their military branch known as The Flaming hand, an army of some 20.000 well trained soldiers.
Cavendish brought an army of 55.000 troops, and Fullthorne had approximately 60.000. An epic battle took place, and it lasted for days. In the end, the Fullthornes were defeated.
House Cavendish became the new main house of The Easterlands and gained respect all over the land. They told the remaining Fullthornes to go home and do what they did best - Farming.
When House Salazar took rule of The Realm of the Nine Kingdoms, House Cavendish ended up bending the knee and accepting a role as Lord Protector and Warden of The Easterlands.