Rivellesk

Current Territory




Current Population: 22,000 (This is map generated. If it needs to be raised or lowered, I can do it, but the exact population doesn't really give or take anything away mechanically.)

Nation: Rivellesk

Government Type: Free baronies, feudal

Capital City: Vodspitz

Resources:
Vodspitz
- metal (copper, iron)
- chemical (salt, sulphur, silica, zinc)
- chemical (salt, sulphur, silica, zinc)

Vodklivt
- wood
- wood

Population: 61000

Predominant Races: human 76%, triton 18%, avariel 6%

Geography: the Riev peninsula and surrounding archipelago

The Riev archipelago consists of over three thousand islands, the smallest of which are no more than a couple of miles wide, the five largest home to the Sea Barons of Riev, the nation collectively known as Rivellesk (Rievllesk), or the 'jewels of the Riev'. This maritime nation extends to the peninsula it encircles, where a sixth ruler, the Count of Riev, oversees the waters from his castle at Vodspitz (or Seaspire), built atop a massive cliff that overlooks the entire northern seaboard, like a majestic lighthouse thousands of feet in the air. In fact, situated as the islands are on overlapping tectonic plates, a good number of them are volcanoes, though none are currently active.

Rivellesk is a prosperous sea-faring kingdom, without the associated ill-repute that comes from maritime piracy and shady buccaneers. It is said its people are born with sea legs first, before they learn to walk. All families, rich or poor, own some form of boat or watercraft. Bigger merchant ships sail with permits of trade, corsairs with letters of marque. In many ways the largely human population owes its prosperity to the harmonious relationship with the triton kingdom of Sleshelissa, which it borders and actively trades with, deep sea resources supplying the mainland with rare minerals. Intermarriage is not uncommon, nor frowned upon. Some of the more mountainous islands are home to the avariel, or winged elves.

Riev has been largely left unmolested since the time of the empire. No other nation has had the maritime ability to fully invest in an invasion of the islands. Vodspitz castle and the surrounding lands offer a more tempting target, but as a territory it is more of a figurehead than an actual capital to rule from.