Barony of Dionis

Dionis is located in the western hills of the human realms of Stormwind, northward of the Redridge Mountains. Ruled by the Baroness Lady Savy'na and her Majordomo Lady Mandenhall. Built up and around the Dionis Castle, the land has developed over time. The main keep has truthfully endured for far longer than the fairly meager realm around it, but with good managing, prospered into a small trade hub under the protection of the Dionisian Family, guarding a few key trade routes into the dwarven lands.
Dionis is, due to its position between Ironforge and Stormwind, able to maintain a constant income of revenue with a minor focus on wheat production. As such it is a center of local trade. Such favorable conditions caused the domain to be named an Barony in spite of its small size. The citizens of Dionis are primarily fishermen or merchants engaged in shipping dwarven goods from Ironforge, and more recently, from the Dark Iron. In recent days, strange sights have been seen; strange proportioned women, dark men, and rumors of dark magic.

## History

Castle Dionis has stood for far longer than the village it protects. Since the days of the Dwarven Civil Wars, the castle has guarded the main pass through the Frostback Mountains into the Dwarven Lands.
Truthfully though, as the amount of money has flowed in, so has the minor nobility degraded. In time the nobility became consumed with its own matters and that of the local realms, the intrigues of the ruling class were usually harmless enough, occasionally devolving into minor scandals, but rarely all-out troubles that reached Stormwind proper. Into this world was born Lady Melissra, last born child of the minor noble family which presides over the land.
By her third decade, the woman who would join a cult of elves and demons had spent her entire life among the courts and war-rooms of her powerful kin. Oft-ignored in favour of her more aggressive siblings, Melissra was left to turn inward and ponder the darkest regions of her own soul. Seeing her position, forgotten among her rivals, as little more than a matter for self-improvement, Melissra quickly rose to power by mercilessly removing her competition. In only a few years she had decimated her dynasty and seized control, while keeping its holdings intact. It was not enough for the newly-minted Baroness Melissra, though; she still had too little control over her world.

Through dark powers, Baroness Melissra plunged her lands into utter chaos and conflict, and peace would only come when she suddenly and mysteriously vanished. In truth, she was yanked through the Nether to the Cathedral of Eternal Darkness where she found herself before Greatmother Lucaerna, who was both incredibly amused at the woman for her ambitions, and furious for the devouring of her Daughters. She overtook the woman, and forced upon her the Marks of the Faith, such that now as she took demons into her for power, now she would grow her own.

In the absence of the nobility, a council was formed by the greatest Merchants of the realm who ruled for eight years, until one day, all of them were returned to their estates suddenly and with clarification. The only news being that the Baroness had returned, and the castle has since become a forbidden place, guarded by men and women who speak vaguely and rumors of monsters abound. But despite that, high trade volume has resumed, chaos has reduced, and a new faith is being spoken of in the church that is appealing to the frightened masses.

## Since Lady Savy'na's Return...

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Trades with House Duskwright, an elven house eliminated by Thaelian Silversong and his ranger, repopulated by the Shal'dari. it's in the north eastern Ghostlands mountains, kept secluded.

## Martial Forces

The Realm is protected by the Dionisian Regiment of Foot, a sparse regiment only recently rebuilding with the return of Baroness Melissra.

Secretly, the 34th Warhost of the Varak Jal "Chapter of the Converts" dwells in the dark places of the realm beneath the Castle Dionis, with the newly returned Baroness as Broodmother.