Kingdom of Adestia

Once a human kingdom blessed with fertile farmlands, now a realm ravaged by war.

History
This land is blessed with fertile farmlands, it was once the bread-basket of the Imperium. Due to a series of misfortunes and bad decisions Adestia became one of the great losers of the Succession Wars, it lost almost half of its territory to the Dwarven Dominion and to the Kingdom of Hastogar. Despite the bad blood with its neighbors the Kingdom of Adestia joined the Silkstone Pact to counter the threat posed by the Dwarven Dominion.

Due to the economic mismanagement of King Jacob, the drought of 487 destroyed most of the harvest with little-to-no reserves left over from the previous year. This led to a country-wide famine, which made the kingdom fertile ground for Reaton propaganda. When King Jacob tried to squash dissent by force the underclasses of Adestia rose up and after a month of fighting the king and the nobility were defeated, the Kingdom of Adestia was no more, from its ashes rose the Republic of Adestia, guided by Reaton ideals.

But the newly elected leadership of Adestia made a grave mistake: to hold the tyrants of old responsible for generations of oppression they organized a grand trial at the end of which they executed King Jacob and most of the Adestian nobility. This gave Thorin Ironfist all the justifications he needed to invade Adestia, to which the neighboring relams responded by sending their own armies to counter the dwarves, leading to the Silkstone War.

In A.I. 488 Adestia is occupied by the Dwarven Dominion, but none of the other realms of Aegeron recognize it as part of the Dominion.

Life
Life in Adestia used to be calm and eventless, but since the war it has become extremely harsh. The occupying dwarf forces requisition most of the food, leaving only scraps for the people, the mercenary armies of the Silkstone Pact pillage towns and villages and take what they find as "payment", while the remaining Reaton forces are waging a bloody guerilla warfare against both of them, caring nothing about who gets hurt in the process. As usual, the ones who suffer the most are the common folk.