Franian kingdoms

The Franian kingdoms are a collection of human kingdoms, located where the original Saxangle kingdoms were located.

The ancestors of the Franians arrived through the Great Portal centuries ago, when it opened suddenly along the beaches of the Sunset Sea. Out of the Great Portal came a horde of horse warriors known as the Fran who had been displaced from their own homeland by Orcs. These horse-warriors used a combination of martial and magical skills in battle, overwhelmed the Saxangles and conquered all their lands in the space of only a decade.

Most Saxangles that survived the conquest by the Franians resigned themselves to living under the rule of Fran overlords, who treated them with scorn. Many, however, chose to leave their ancestral lands and head towards the Great Northern Forest. These lands were mostly populated by Wood Elves, the descendants of the army that brought down the City of Drowla, and Dwarves that worked the mines and controlled the mountains. The arrival of the Saxangles began centuries of warfare as the humans, and halflings driven from the Moot, cut down the forest and established settlements and displaced the wood elves and dwarves just as they had been displaced by the Franians.

The Franian kingdoms are somewhat, but not entirely, comparable in technology and social organization to 13th and 14th century France.

They practice traditional medieval fealty, have distinct social strata which it is hard to escape, prize horsemanship, and have an organized study of arcane magic. Their armies, particularly their heavy cavalry, are feared throughout the known world.

The kingdoms themselves are frequently fighting amongst one another. However, these kingdoms are generally far larger, far wealthier, far more populous, and far more developed than any of the petty kingdoms in Pettylin.

They are known to breed warhorses.

Magic is far more common in the Franian kingdoms than it is in Pettylin.

True Eldritch Knights originate in and are the product of unique Franian training.

Traditional chivalric orders originate in the Franian kingdoms.

The Franians worship the Dragonlance pantheon.

They have a great hatred of orcs and half-orcs.

Aerthos Brightblade, now king of Lundene, was raised in the Franian kingdoms.