Military Strength

Military strength is the aggregate power of fighting forces under the command of a leader, which includes armies and fleets of ships.

Armies can be made up out of several social classes. Nobly-born lords, knights, men-at-arms, and smallfolk can be called to arms. Additionally, sellswords and sellsword companies are also, at times, hired.

## Aranor

Due to the Dragon Conquest and the subsequent great famine the armies on the continent of Aranor are much smaller than the rest of the world.

### The Reach

Due to the harsh climate in the reach, it is expected that both men and women learn to hunt and fight at a young age 25,000 strong the mainland jarls can raise about ten thousand warriors with the island Halldórr able to gather 3,900 warriors within a week. During the Dragon Conquest, Jarl Helman and combined raised an army of three thousand men to protect the southern borderlands.

The Reach has a small Navy of approximately 30 ships that patrol Winter's Bay and the Straits of Var Alda, but is expanded in times of war by fortifying and arming the fishing and merchant vessels.

### Kingdom of Frankia

Frankia does not maintain a standing army, instead an Order of knights watch the borders and roads in conjunction with Princely Guard, who mainly protect the major settlements. The overall number that Frankia is capable of fielding is about 10,000 knights and about 24,000 princely guardsmen. After the conquest of Frankia only 2,000 knights as well 6,000 guardsman were able to escape.

The frankish navy had only 9 warships each under the control of one of the princely families the flagship a man of war under the personal control of the royal family.

### Halflington

Halflington has its own voluntary police force known as Sheriffs that helped to keep the Halflington safe, usually from trespassing beasts and collecting lost farm animals, rather than from enemy forces.

### Republic of Ilia

Their main power is at sea, as the Ilian Navy is second only to dragonstone, in addition to a mercantile fleet. Ilia also has a city watch named the Greycoats as well as a small mainly ceremonial Army of around 2,500.

### Saltstead

Saltstead has a volunteer garrison made up out of thirty ironknights, a hundred expert bowmen, and three hundred Militia-men.

### Commonwealth of Palinor

under sworn protection of the all nation states that signed the Treaty of Palinor. Has no army but It boasts only a small law enforcement force of 10.000 with a small fleet that mainly acts as customs and sea rescue.

### Valand

Barons act as officers with the household guard and town guard acting as the core supported by levies, at full strength the army is about 26,000 strong. 6000 of which are the Knights of Temré

## Urenos

### Kingdom of Kategar

Their main power is at sea, as the Royal Kategan fleet is the third largest in the world. Kategar also has an Army of around 30.000 light infantry with a small force of cavalry but mainly hires sell sword companies to fight beyond their borders.

### Sultanate of Azture

Azture prefer to hire sellswords to do their fighting, rarely risking their own citizens. But has city guard numbering around 16.000 however in times of extreme crisis it can swell to 40.000.

### Yûn

40,000 immortals with a further 10.000 available at all times for sale.

### Desert tribes

prefer to hire sellswords to do their fighting, seldom risking the lives of their own tribes.