Western Dakar

The lands controlled by the Kingdom of Dakar that lie west of the Orksnar River, but not generally including the Rakarian Valley. Unlike the far more fertile lands in the Dakarian Three River Valley, the lands of Western Dakar are heavily forested rich in clay and less suitable for agriculture. Large tribes of orcs, goblins, and kobolds make their home in the northern forests and foothills of the Iron Mountains to the north - leaving the lands mostly unsettled by human settlements.

The only lands that can be considered truly settled are in the south along the Bornheim Trade Route that cuts through the Elfenwald.

This general term is used for those nobles that not only hold land in the west, but actually live on the land. Many of the nobles of the realm have titles and purses derived from lands in the west - but few are those that actually live primarily in the western holdings.

In 425 AH King Reiner IV, frustrated that the nobles holding lands in the west rarely developed them, began a process of seeking out individuals from the commoners and free knights. Following what was happening with the Free Cities he created a new lands in the west and

• Ulrichstein in the Barony of Kuhn