Tora

Tora is an old duchy in the northern part of the Trionian Kingdom. However, this history of the area predates that of Trionia by many millennia.

Once a strong, human kingdom its fall from started during the first stages of the Great War as king Ezra the Mad where more focused on the mysteries of magic than the well-being of his people and kingdom. After the war, it became part of the kingdom of Trionia.

Most of the duchy is covered by the three large forests: Anzinger Forest to the East, Winzenburgbaum to the West and Ezra’s Wood in the northern part. The duchy is covered by many small villages and a few larger cities, the largest being Anzinger in the middle of the area followed by Husum to the south and Winzenburg to the east. Most of the duchy’s inhabitants are humans, but also a large part of dwarves, who migrated from the Khronogaak Mountains to the east, and the primary occupation are the farms spread around the countryside and a few logging camps in the two southern forests.

During the Great War, Ezra created a number of extremely powerful magical artifacts that turned the tides of the war, but what happened to him and his artifacts are long lost in the mist of history. Rumors say he disappeared into the great, dark pine forest, which now bears his name, Ezra’s Wood. Many rumors circulate concerning the forest. None who enter returns, and no animals have seen enter or leave the forest. It is clearly magical, and many believe it to be the source of the magical beings in this part of the world – allowing easier contact with the other planes of existence and the magical strands suffusing the world.

During the past decades, Tora, as well as the rest of Trionia, have been troubled by hunger and great unrest in the population. This is partly due to numerous bad harvests and a rising level of attacks by the undead and even fiends.