Alufortunia

One of the more politically powerful nations found on the over ground of the Durmgrist ranges. Alufortunia is the largest of the elven nations on Mount Durmgrist and the one most similar to Durmgrist's human nations culturally. It is located to the north, east and south of Mount Durmgrist

## Geography

Alufortunia is much flatter than most of the other nations on the Durmgrist ranges, with no mountains or even particularly prominent hills. It is located in an area of flat ground in between Mount Durmgrist and various other mountains. Nearly the entirety of Alufortunia, barring settlments, is covered in a thick woodland.

## Climate

While Alufortunia is much less cold than other parts of Durmgrist which are higher up, the country is still very cold and often is blanketed in a thick layer of snow.

## History

For the vast majority of Alufortunia's existence the land was unclaimed by any major nations, instead inhabited by various tribes and villages predominantly filled by races which don't dominate any other nations in Durmgrist. During this time several portals opened allowing various tribes to travel to the Plane of Gears as a side effect of the demiplanes activation. These portals remained open for less than 10 years before closing, leaving those tribes trapped within the demiplane but allowing them to form societies of their own.

Very recently a group of elves split away from traditional Elven society within the spires to create a new kingdom inspired by the heroics and ability to change present in humans. This kingdom officially claimed and named Alufortunia and began to build various grand cities and attempting to stretch its territory as far through the forest as possible. This lead to mass forced removal of various tribes and villages that originally occupied Alufortunia and the deforestation needed to create industry and space for cities has lead to the loss of traditional hunting grounds and holy spaces.

Fortunately, during the events of the first generation of campaigns Delta Squad member Rikiki Riteck persuaded the king to stop his aggressive expansion in return for creating magic items for his kingdom

## Politics

Alufortunia tries as hard as possible to get closer to the two primary human nations on Durmgrist, Siltas and Valceado. This is difficult as the two nations greatly dislike each other and growing closer to one generally makes the other nation like you less. Alufortunia refuses to trade with the other Elven Spires and generally dislikes them, but the spires are generally indifferent to Alufortunia.

Alufortunia is run by a king, currently the same king that founded Alufortunia. Most of his nobles aren't native to his kingdom and instead hail from either Valceado or Siltas

## Culture

The culture within the tribes and villages of Alufortunia's original inhabitants are incredibly varied. For example, Rikiki's hometown is greatly different from most Durmgrist cultures, with strange outfits and manga, a concept unheard of to other nations and even many other Alufortinian tribes. There is a strong reverence to Rikiki among tribes, because she is a hero that came from an Alufortunian village, lead the effort to free many Alufortunian's from slavery and/or stopped the expansion of Alufortunian elves. This reverence is so strong that in parts of Alufortunia, cults have been established in worship of her.

The culture of the elves of Alufortunia mimics as strongly as possible the culture of Valceado and Siltas. Many elves dislike the tribes native to Alufortunia, believing them less civilised, although many of the younger generation who are growing up with tales of The Delta Squad reject this way of thinking. Many of these same Elves also dislike Rikiki for stopping Alufortunia's expansion, alongside disliking her due to their prejudices. However, Poshment and Paramah are near universally loved in part due to their connections to Siltas and Valceado.

## Notable Locations

### Greyskull

Rikiki founded the The Town of Greyskull after her original village was destroyed by the Kingdom of Steel. The town was named by poll, Greyskull winning because it is the name of a Tengu guardian spirit. The second place on the poll was Towney McTownface.