Gus Session 0

They are called the Shananate Concordat and at some point in the past they took control of the region your character grew up in. They rule locally through a lord who decides on customs and laws. Each year an annual tithe is collected by the lord to be given to the Concordat. At the same time ‘volunteers’ offer service to the Concordat but few are ever seen again. The largest settlement your character has ever seen is the town built around the Lords keep, with a population of at most 5000 individuals. The nobility, specialists and soldiery are not from the region and often bear the scars of conflict. Your character has received their initial training from one of these outsiders. The economy is generally agrarian with the main exceptions being in mining or logging communities. Local manufacturing is solely to support the local economic activity with exotic items only being produced by specialists and only for export. Travel outside the lords domain is forbidden except through service to the Concordat.