Ellond

## Physical Area

The Monarchy of Ellond covers an area of 151 thousand square miles. Of this, 15% (23 thousand sq. miles) is arable land, and 84% (127 thousand sq. miles) is wilderness.

## **Population**

The Monarchy of Ellond has a total population of 3 million people.

## **Settlements**

The largest city has a population of 24 thousand people, the second largest 14 thousand. There are 2 other cities of note in the kingdom, and 48 towns remaining population lives in numerous small villages, isolated dwellings, etc. Castles of Ellond has 5 active castles and 21 ruined. Of these, 3 castles and 16 ruined are in civilized lands, and 1 castle and 5 ruined are in the wilderness, along borders, etc.

## **Beydale**

Size The city of Beydale covers an area of approximately 401 acres, with a total population of 24 thousand people.

## Military

The bands proved very successful in raiding coastal towns and monasteries due to their efficient warships, and intimidating war tactics, skillful hand-to-hand combat, and fearlessness.[3] What started as Vin would raid on small towns transformed into the establishment of important agricultural spaces and commercial trading-hubs across Europe through rudimentary colonization. Vins' tactics in warfare gave them an enormous advantage in successfully raiding (and later colonizing), despite their small population in comparison to that of their enemies. Which had grown overtime during the mouldering dynasty. Parts of the tactics and warfare of the Vin were driven by themselves.  In the early Age, during the late century, Vin consisted of smaller tribal bands with a lack of any clear central authority, governance being rooted in tribal assemblies. This emphasis on violence as a decisive tool regarding disputes was not limited to a man, but extended to his kin. Violence was seen as a measure to defend honor. The honor was extremely important to the family, and the sense of shaming one's honor extended beyond physical and material injuries. Honor could be shamed from mere insults, where the Vin were expected to react with violence often resulting in death. With this prevalence of violence came the expectation of fearlessness.

## Architectural

    The vins house reflects the society that lived in it very well. It is shaped like the Viking ship with oval sides, and somewhere between 30 and 50 people living together in a house, the entire family and their slaves, and often domestic animals in a stable room at one side. Sometimes the houses were adapted to the surrounding area. A much-used house type was the pit house, which was dug about a meter or 3.5 feet into the ground, using the surrounding dirt as the lower part of the wall. By digging the house into the ground you take advantage of its insulating properties and to some degree the heat coming from the ground.

    longhouse were general living buildings in medieval Scandinavian architecture. Countryside buildings were built of wood, and they were similar to log cabins. These buildings were used for farming, the roofs were covered with earth, and grass was planted in the soil. The cabins were divided into two parts, the Innhus, and the Uthus. The first part, the Innhus, was used for living and for food storage, and the Uthus was used for tools and animal fodder.

     The turf was fitted around the frame in blocks, and the doorway, which was wooden and often decorative, led into the hall, where there would be a great fire. The fireplace was usually placed in the center and would provide the lighting and heating for the whole house. An interesting fact about the Icelandic turf houses was the introduction of attached toilets. The floor of the rooms was covered with wood, earth, and stone.

## Food

They might also eat some more dried fruit with honey as a sweet treat. Honey was the only sweetener the Vins knew. Vins drank ale, mead or buttermilk daily. Feasts would include the same foods—meat, fish, fowl, vegetables, wild greens, bread, and fruit, but in a greater variety than the usual meal and more of it. Meat and fish can be smoked or rubbed with salt. Fruit can be dried; grains are made into bread or ale. Dairy produce such as milk is made into cheese. Cooking the meat will make it last a little longer, making sausages will make it last longer still.

Horsemeat was spitted and roasted rather like a kebab. They would only eat twice a day even skip a meal or two sometimes.

The meat was widely available at all levels of society. Farmed animals would have included cows, horses, oxen, goats, pigs, sheep, chickens, and ducks, of which pigs were likely the most common. Animals were slaughtered in XXXX, so it wasn’t necessary to feed them over winter, then preserved.

Game animals included hares, boars, wild birds, squirrels, and deer. They enjoyed a wide variety of fish – both freshwater, such as salmon, trout, and eels, and saltwater, like herring, shellfish, and cod. They also preserved fish using a number of techniques, including smoking, salting, drying, and pickling, and were even known to ferment fish in whey. The northern climate was best suited to growing barley, rye, and oats, which would be used to make numerous staples, including beer, bread, stews, and porridge. Also kept dairy cows and enjoyed drinking milk, buttermilk, and whey as well as making cheese, curds, and butter. The fruit was widely enjoyed thanks to apple orchards and numerous fruit trees, including cherry and pear. Wild berries, including sloe berries, lingonberries, strawberries, bilberries, and cloudberries, also played an important part in Vin's diet. Hazelnuts grew wild and were often eaten.

## Holiday

There a holiday called "Farming Feast" which this holiday celebrates the arrival of winter. It is marked with a candle ceremony, dancing, and a blessing ceremony. This holiday is to celebrate a good harvest, they would show off their head collection of the heads of their enemies they killed. Either in battle or out in revenge.

## Entertainment

Karball is a game where they used decapitating heads and start kicking around, sometimes they even get on horses and fight over the head. And try to make it into the opponent's net. And score. Sometimes the head would explode or be no good. So they have to get another head from their stash.

## Faith (Lack of)

**Atheism** is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is the rejection of belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism,  which, in its most general form, is the belief that at least one deity exists. But they respect others' religion, don't want it forced down their face or else.

## Tax System

The Danegeld was a tax raised to pay tribute to the raiders to save their land/state/country from being ravaged (by their own people).