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The younger son, Zeech, not being bound by duty to Redhand had indulged his adventurous impulses and traveled widely, eventually joining the exiled Knight Protectors of the Great Kingdom while in the Archbarony of Ratik. In 574, while patrolling the the border with Reyhu along the Tangled Thicket, Zered, Baron Trallant, eldest son of the Viscount Gozzo, was slain by bandits from Riftcrag. At the same time the then current Viscount negotiated a peace with their bitter enemies to their north, in Reyhu.

When this inevitably led to full-scale conflict in 550 CY on the Shield Lands' northwestern border, Redhand refused to commit any more troops than they already did to a conflict they saw as being far removed. In 513В former subjects of the archfiend Iuz, who had mysteriously disappeared in 505,В seized his summer capital of Molag on the western border of the Shield Lands and formed the devil-worshiping Horned Society. This did not sit well with the Viscount of Redhand and was the beginning of souring relations with the rest of the Shield Lands. In its aftermath, the Knight Commander pushed the individual lords of the Shield Lands to accept garrisons of Knights of the Holy Shielding. Redhand continued as a full-fledged member of the Shield Lands until the Rebellion of Hamaldar the Cruel, a Shield Land's lord possessed by an evil artifact, threatened the confederation's very existence. Within a handful of years, the new capital saw the formation of the Knights of Holy Shielding, a Heironean order that formed the core of the confederation's army. Since the Earl of Walworth commanded Admundfort, at the time the only notable city in the region, he was chosen as the Knight Commander of the combined forces of the nobles.

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When similar circumstances resulted, ultimately, in the formation of the lawless Combination of Free Lords to the north, which became known to their neighbors as the Bandit Kingdoms, the southern nobles banded together, forming an alliance as the Shield Lands, to be a bulwark against the depredations and chaos of the north. Loyal to the ideal of ancient Aerdy but wholly opposed to the decadent regime in the Great Kingdom's capital of Rauxes, these nobles failed to declare complete independence, instead existing somewhere in-between autonomy and their former status as vassals to the viceroy. History: When Furyondy broke from the Great Kingdom in 254 CY, the nobles of the Nyr Dyv's north shore, including the Viscount of Redhand, refused to acknowledge the new Furyondian king in the capital of Dyvers. Most of its border with Urnst is part of the Dyvynmere Marsh. Redhand'sВ western lands are dominated by a range of uplands known as the Red Hills, but the Yellowflow Valley and most of its eastern lands are remarkably fertile lowlands. To the south is the Nyr Dyv, the 'Lake of Unknown Depths'. To the north lies the Great Land of Reyhu, one of the so-called Bandit Kingdoms. In the east it's border is the Artonsamay River and the County of Urnst beyond. Geography: Redhand is bounded in the west by the Shield Lands. Varying depending on the size of the fief. Typically, a fief will be subdivided by its baron into smaller fiefsДЄdministered by knights who owe him or her loyalty, with the number He is the absolute ruler of the realm and is owed fealty by a number of barons who governД«arony's ruler is the direct vassal of the Prince. The current ruler is Prince Zeech of the house of Arabasti. While his father had been loosening ties with the Shield Lands over the last decade, seeking closer relations with the County of Urnst, with the ascension of its most recent ruler earlier this year it has formally left that association.

Government: The Principality of Redhand was until recently a member of the commonwealth of feudal states known as the Shield Lands.