Grand Duchy Ptolemy

Currently House Ptolemy is still the seat of military might in the Dominion, as it has the greatest supply of iron and produces the finest steel. However the reign of the Far Queen decimated the land and crippled the infrastructure of the Duchy. The arrival of Joska Arnost couldn't have come at a better time, as the House was about to buckle beneath it's own weight. The other nobles of the land, heaved a sigh of relief when Joska took up the reigns of the House as husband to its sole heir. House Ptolemy-Arnost was first called that when Count Ripon spoke to his men of the hope such men brought to the realm.
Since the last major engagements in the Residuum Wars, the vast majority of Arnost’s forces are to the South in Ulaid. The lands there have become peaceful and thrive. The seat of the Grand Duchy, however is fraught with struggle. Facing itinerant forces of the Far Queen, cults turned to banditry, the people of Ptolemy have grown weary and mistrustful of strangers. 
Whispers among the commonfolk question the Grand Duke's construction of the Eastern Wind Cathedral, some daring to call it, "Joska's Folley". As stone is dragged from across the realms and brought to build the titanic structure. The coin being poured into the project and the urgency his Grace places upon the site have lead many to criticize the endeavour. But most are grateful for the work and thriving commerce in the Cathedral's environs, even if the rest of the Grand Duchy seems to be falling to barbarism.