Crownlands

The crownlands are a middle northern region in Celadir, most notable for being one of the last remaining holdouts of hereditary ruler-ship.

Geography
The crownlands are composed of a large flatlands, encircled on the south and east by the Kejmal mountains, and the ocean to the north. The climate are cool moderate summers and falls, with chilly and cold winter and springs. The lands of the Crownlands are fertile, producing and exporting a massive amounts of produce, tended to by the large populations of serfs and peasants underneath the nobility. Beneath the Crownlands lies one of the last few Matriarchy Drow cities, in a tentative alliance with the Coalition.

Government
The Crownlands are unique in the sense that all the nations residing within the Crownlands are nominally under one unified government, the Coalition of Crowns. The leader of the Coalition is known as the First Prince Among Equals, or simply the First. While their power is absolute on paper, a First must husband favor and alliances from the majority of the members of the Coalition, or face irrelevance. If a First is seen to abuse their powers, or be inadequate in defending the nations of the Crownlands, civil war is a common occurrence among the nations, with each alliance backing it's own new claimant to the title of First. On the death of a First or an upset of the current reigning First, the members of the Coalition will meet in assembly to elect one of their number to serve as the next First.

History
The Crownlands were originally not a unified state, formerly a squabbling collection of kingdoms and fiefdoms like those that formed the history of Celadir. With the rise of unitism and the slow shift from absolutist monarchies to populist movements has seen to the demise of the reign of kings and queens. Seeing their way of life dying, the nations of the Crownlands banded together to form the Coalition of Crowns. From the far flung regions of Celadir the remaining monarchies have exiled themeselves to the crownlands to rebuild, from human margraves, to the orcish tribes and Magocracies, to one of the last Drow Matriachies. Now the region is in an ever constant conflict, as nations and rulers vie against each other for influence and power, though woe betide any power that threaten the existence of the Coalition itself and find the full might of the crowns united against it.

Celdenburg
Celdenburg is a medium oligarchic pseudo-nation originally comprised of two separate city states located in Pulosha. Primarily settled by humans, Celdenburg is also the homeland of the Gith, relying on secret rituals to create the humanoid guardians of this nation.