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North Keidar

North Keidar

Head of State: The Nightmare Queen
System of Government: Undead Monarchy
Major Religions: None
Minor Religions: Vivamort; Balance (Luca); Dominion of Vortex
Languages: Keidar
Major Species: Undead
Minor Species: Humans (vanishingly few)
National Descriptor: Keidran

Since its conquest by the Lord Undying in 1307, followed by a mysterious blast from the heavens that ripped the land apart, North Keidar has been a land inhabited almost exclusively by the undead, and a few collaborators who seem to take great care to avoid breathing the open air as much as possible.

Five Rumours about North Keidar

Rumours may be known by characters who are not from and have not visited North Keidar. This is just a small sample of rumours you might have heard about this ravaged and shattered country.

  1. South Keidar sold North Keidar to the Lord Undying for a phenomenal amount of money. However, that money had been created by strange magics, and so dissolved later on. It was a ruinously foolish sale.
  2. The Nightmare Queen isn’t an undead at all, but a real normal Human woman! She disguises herself as an undead so that no-one will dare challenge her rule.
  3. North Keidar was smitten by the gods and abandoned by the elements. Only undead will ever be able to live there again.
  4. Those who wander into North Keidar immediately fall sick, and if they do not leave within three days and seven hours are themselves turned into shambling undead!
  5. The Nightmare Queen holds a secret army in reserve: the bones of ancient dead dragons, which she can raise to fight for her if she is ever attacked!

Five Facts about North Keidar

For your OC reference, or IC if your character has entered North Keidar and survived. For characters from North Keidar before it was invaded by undead, refer to South Keidar. Characters should not hail from North Keidar after the undead invasion without explicit ref consent and input.

  1. An Undead Monarch: The Nightmare Queen was once a very successful but heretical Queen of Keidar in years gone by. Buried in an unmarked grave, the Lord Undying nonetheless found her body and resummoned her unquiet shade.
  2. Vengeful Heavens: After the undead invasion in 1307, a great lance of power shot from the sky, blasting a great crater into the ground and wracking the earth. Great chasms twist through the formerly peaceful landscape, and the earthquake thus caused shook all of Alvaron. None know if it will happen again…
  3. Magic’s Death: Although North Keidar seemed entirely normal before the undead invasion, its landscape is now imbued with a strange metallic dust, and all surviving iron and steel seems to hold a strange sheen. Magic is useless, and those who do not take precautions to avoid breathing the dust may sicken.
  4. Liege Lord: The Nightmare Queen owes her kingdom and her allegiance to the Lord Undying, and is pledged to fight for her should she ever be called.
  5. Legacy of Mists: The Nightmare Queen’s history does not match with historical records of the world beyond Keidar’s borders…