County of Proman

**Ruler**
 **Allegiance**
 **Ruling House**
 **Seat**
 **Settlements**
Darkwood
Angel Port
Stonewick
Light's Grace
 **Beliefs**
 **Founded**

The **County of Proman** is an independent county aligned with the Northwoods Accord. Once the seat of the Duchy of Arcadia, Proman has a long and storied history stretching back nearly as far as the Kingdom of Lordaeron itself. Located in the southern Westweald, the county is divided into six baronies. The seat of the county was the Barony and City of Emberhold, a fortress city built into the side of the mountain ranges of North Proman. House Relvin has ruled over this county for thousands of years in an uninterrupted chain.

## Culture

The people of the Barony of Argyle are thrilled to have a land to call their own, even a harsh one. They followed the lead of their Lord, Gideon Relvin to this new Barony after decades of scrapping by through communal living and service work in the streets of Stormwind City. House Relvin and their loyal subjects have gotten quickly to work and have proven quite dilligent, if not experience, in the cultivation and development of an inhospitable land. Here, in the newly-named "Little Lordaeron" , people participate in a small-town life, where everyone knows everyone and crime is at an all-time low. They are quick to welcome in newcomers as they have a strong desire to grow their population and bring in new talent and resources. They maintain their old Lordaeronian cultural practices and value their heritage deeply, a value they expect new settlers to embrace.

### Religious Beliefs

Most believe in the Church of the Holy Light with few exceptions.

### Local Holidays

Reclamation Day - TBD

Savvy Day - January 20. The people of Proman hold a festival to celebrate their late Count, Cyrus Relvin. This is far less rowdy than the Reclamation Day celebration, but plenty cheerful. The day is marked by its tests of arts and the mind, full with a baking competition, stew competition, chess tournament, and a variety of games of wits as well as musical and theatrical performances.

## Economy & Resources

The County of Proman, is a large untamed forest that extends from its river border up to its northern mountains. One of the County's greatest resources are trees and game animals so over half of the baronies base their economies around the lumber industry. The other baronies are based around mining the metals and coal from the long mountain range. Crops and cattle have slowly been reintroduced and through trial and error have been made plentiful enough to support their population through the challenges of the blight, but there is little in the way of surplus. The one resource that seems to be in infinite abundance are mountain goats which seem to have had a population explosion in the recent decades without people to interfere in their habitat. The herding of these goats has become the bread and butter of the Proman and its sale to the various settlements held by the North Lords and beyond have allowed for the redevelopment of the area into a thriving community able to build itself up, sustain a growing population, and afford the new taxes that Count Relvin has enacted for the rebuilding effort. There is a long road ahead, but the people of Proman are pleased with their progress and the economy is looking hopeful.

## History

### Founding

The County of Proman was founded in -2315 K.Y. by House Relvin.

### Present Day

Proman has been recently reclaimed by Count Relvin and now serves as the seat of power for this independent North Lord. He has set up his initial rebuilding efforts in Angel Port due to its closer proximity to allies, but settlers have been pouring into the region at a steady rate now that the land is safe again. There have already been waves of people journying to restore the other old baronies, and everyone is hopeful that the county will be thriving again a few short years.

## Settlements

### Emberhold

Emberhold is the capital, and largest city by far, within Proman. It boasted a population of 20,000 people at its height of power, but now these massive streets lie empty with only a couple hundred people taking up residence in one of the largest cities in the Westweald. Its walls stand strong and for those who have began venturing out into the old mines there is much wealth to be claimed, though there is just as much danger as the old tunnels occasionally still play host to stray scourge that linger in the area. This is also one of the two wealthiest of the reclaimed settlements due to the ease of access to the mountains and by extension the mountain goats. There has also become a very profitable industry of scavenging through the acres and acres of abandoned buildings for lost treasures and valuables. The greatest challange to the settlers who have taken up their homes in the capital is that the blight is still thickest here so the people struggle to produce food that is safe. Fortunately, the goats seem to have remained pure of the blight so there is no lack for meat. There are commodities for everything one might need; a smithy, a town hall, farms, a lumber mill, several different stores, an inn, and a fresh water supply from a subterranean well network still in place from before the Fall.

### Angel Port

Angel Port is Proman's city on the river. As the third largest settlement in the county and with the most direct access to the County's allies this has become the temporary seat until the rebuilding effort has gotten far enough along that Emberhold becomes practical to occupy again as the central command. The people here have been able to find more than enough to live on with ample access to mostly uncorrupted farmland, wild game, and fish from the river. Aside from food and timber, Angel Port serves today as the commercial and logistic lifeline to the rest of the world. Travel by river is the safest and fastest method of personal travel and goods transport. House Relvin has set itself up in the old manor where the barons of a line now dead made their home.

### Darkwood

Darkwood is the second largest city in Proman. Once it served as the first line of defense for the great Kingdom of Lordaeron with a line of watchtowers and a fort overlooking the main road into the country both garrisoned by the proud soldiers from this Barony. Aside from maintaining the largest standing army in the county, this barony also was the primary commercial hub for all trade by land. Darkwood still maintains very fine farmlands, but they have lain fallow for decades and will take some dedicated work to restore them to workable condition. Like the other southern baronies they participated in the timber industry, but the real focus in this area was on finished artisan goods. Today, resource farming for food and timber are all the population can really support, but if the rebuilding effort keeps up this could become a real prosperous community of artists and warriors again.

### Nighthall

Nighthall is a small rustic community of lumberjacks. They never had much communication with the rest of the county other than trade with merchants that would roll into town a couple times a month. No survivors were accounted for after the Fall, but once the new settlers had moved into the area there were suddenly twice as many people almost overnight. Everyone claims that they only just arrived and are surprised that this small town was so attractive to so many settlers.

### Stonewick

Stonewick was a barony with a small population, but a booming mining industry. Today with the new settlers returning to the lands there are countless undocumented mines and tunnels that could contain all sorts of valuable resources. This barony also benefits from the nearly limitless access to mountain goats from the mountain range that surrounds them on nearly all sides.

### Light's Grace

Light's Grace was a small barony in the center of the county that was a central trade hub. This settlement was founded to facilitate trade and travel throughout Proman. Its population was among the least devestated by the Fall, able to escape to the boats of Angel Port while the soldiers of Darkwood covered their escape by fighting off the Scourge.

## Houses

House Relvin is the ruling faction of the County of Proman, and has been for thousands of years. Currently, House Relvin is headed by Count Gideon R. Relvin.