Leonia

The **United Pridedom of Leonia and Cottony (U.P.)** comprises the central nations of the **Leonian Empire**, a vast territorial state centered on the island of Leonia and administered in several overseas territories, most notably Ivoria, Hippotania, and the Grungari. Leonia is a large island situated between the Little Sea and the Majestic Ocean that is the homeland of the tabaxi people, a famously well-traveled race of catlike humanoids. The harengon of Cottony, a smaller island northwest of Leonia, are also a central race in the empire. Leonia is home to Kingdon, the largest city on Tor, and the country's cultural and political influence is arguably the largest of any nation on the planet, with its home language of Common being the lingua franca.

Leonians were among the first to pioneer the magic of artifice and the empire has led the way in new inventions in the Age of Artifice, including arcomotives.

skaven are ratfolk who were also exiled with the werepeople.

## Geography

The island of Leonia is bordered by the Little Sea to the east and the Smoggy Sea to the north, with Leonia and Cottony separated by only a few dozen miles across the Smoggy Sea's length. The Majestic Ocean borders both islands to the west and south. The two islands share a close history and together are often referred to as the **Proud Isles**.

Leonia is divided into three provinces from north to south: The Kittleclans, Prideland, and Mewmoor. The Kittleclans is home to ancient tabaxi clans and has a slightly more druidic culture than the other provinces. Prideland is the central province and the one with the ruling culture. Mewland is the southern province, home to mousefolk.

The Proud Isles consist of varied terrain, from dense fey-rich forests to high peaks to rolling hills and wide pastures. In recent times, much of Leonia's natural grandure has been replaced with artificial construction and urbanization. The capital of Kingdon has grown to gargantuan size and swallowed up most of the ancient farmland, and the Grymes River now flows with ample pollution and necrotic waste. Other large cities include Smugpuddle in the Kittleclans, Rivermeet in the Middle Meads, Ratsquall on the east coast of the Foggy Downs, and Harroway on the west coast of the Highhearth Mountains. Cottony has a smaller and less urbanized population, but features two principal cities: Dunburrow, the capital, and Harebarny on the north coast of the Marches.

## Government

The United Pridedom is a parliamentary monarchy, with the current Queen Tabitha ruling over a large bicameral parliament consisting of the House of Chamberlains for commoners and the House of Braves for nobles.

The government employs a large body of revenue agents who collect taxes and tithes from people throughout the country via the Ministry of Collection. Collectors travel door to door across the country throughout the year, collecting funds, signing citizens up for selective service, and inspecting buildings.

The government has been criticized in the international community for its treatment of laborers, discrimination of lycanthropes, resource extraction, and darwinian class system.

Give me wide green fields and long tall ales

Give me yer heart and I'll tell ye a tale

My feet aren't steady but they could be someday

So trade me a kiss 'fore I leave for Harroway

The country is divided into prides, which are like counties

Kingspride

Peakspride

Meadspride

Downspride

Squeespride

Bunspride

Jackspride

march hare, dormouse

island nation in western Elderland that is home to the tabaxi and harengon races.

Leonia is notorious for awful tasting food, as tabaxi like to eat weird things like rat pies and fish things like codgepodge, a disgusting combo of swamp fish and gravy.

They play sprocket, like cricket.

Nipium is a drug craze.

## History

The tabaxi race who now compromise the majority of Leonia's population are descended from a wild race of druidic tribespeople called the leonin. The leonin organized into prides which often warred with each other and traveled frequently in and out of the Feywild. When the Occlusion started, the leonin were mostly killed in battle or retreated to their favored Feywild plane, and the tabaxi, who were mostly their squires and servants, rose to inhabit the island.

The first true tabaxi king is considered Caster Leon.

The exile of the lycanthropes came after a bloody civil war.