Caledonia

The Kingdom of Caledonia, or simply **Caledonia**, is an island off of mainland of Ereb, which it is considered part of. It is generally a rainy and cloudy nation, with short summers and winters. There are four major terrains. It is home to a variety of races including, humans, halflings, aarakocra, dragonborn, kenku, centaurs, aasimar, tieflings, changelings, and water genasi. Humans, however, are not native to the region and migrated there in centuries past. Aasimar and tieflings are present largely due to being present in every race.

## Geography

Caledonia lies within the Eastern area of the Tenebrosum Ocean and within the North Sea. It is separated from Ereb and the nation of Gallia.

Caledonia is comprised of four major regions.

The Northern region is mostly bogs and moors. Due to local lack of knowledge about the difference between bogs, swamps, fens, marshes, and moors, the largest of these is called the Seven Sister's Swamp, after a myth about elves who are rumored to have once lived in the area. This swamp surrounds a flat area at the top of the Seven Sister's Cliffs, often called Draconia after the former dragonborn capital. It contains a village that has what remains of the dragonborns in the area.

The Southern region, often called the Emerald Ocean or, officially, the King's Forest, is a large forest. The edges are hard to traverse and it only gets harder the closer to the center you get. A major road surrounds the forest, as it is often preferred to spend weeks going around the forest than going through. Few humans who enter ever leave. It is rumored fey inhabit the woods, and changelings may live nearer to the center. Centaurs live near the edges and fiercly guard their territory.

The Western region is the Highlands. The inhabitants are mostly aarakocra and kenku. The aarakocra dislike that the kenku, who they view as inferior due to being unable to fly. The kenku do not harbor ill will toward their neighbors despite this, often at their own detriment. The aarakocra live at the top of hills, cliffs and in the side of them. They raise a species of bird called caorach. This species is incredibly fluffy with claws on the end of their wings. Their fluffy feathers can be safely harvested and are often used in padded armors, bedding, and warm clothes.

Finally, the Eastern and Central region is the most populace. This is where the city of Wen is as well as the Cotswald River, which leads to the sea. This area is largely inhabited by humans and halflings. Most of it is plains and farmlands, though most people do live within the city, which is almost over full for it's small size.

## Government

Caledonia is ruled by the Gwent family. They have ruled for near a century after taking the island from the Bear Clan and Clan Hibernia.

Prior to this is was ruled in two parts, the North ruled by the dragonborn of Bear Clan and the South ruled by the aarakocra of Clan Hibernia.

Around 1082 AW a bastard son from Eburonia came over with a number of like-minded dissenters. They forged a coerced alliance with the halflings and initially the aarakocra to fight back the dragonborns. However once they had the dragonborns' land they turned on the aarakocra as well.

The Gwent family has traditionally not had many strong alliances with other families in the area. As a result of this and their desire to retain a pure royal bloodline they ended up largely inbred.

Currently Caledonia could be regarded as a plutocratic monarchy. While the Gwent family does have official control of the state, the king is mostly just a puppet for his advisors, Lord Cornish in particular.

At the current time Queen Catarina is reaching out to both former ruling clans, trying to make contact through a group who were imprisoned together.