Current Monarch: King Pellinore di Seward 

Current Voice: Lady Arion Rubeus of The House of Thorns 

The Questing King, rules over the wild, rustic lands between rugged Deira in the north and turbulent Oxford in the south; Elmet, land of myth and magic.

Elmet is a large but relatively wealth-light region; mining in the Dragonguard Mountains to the west, logging in the great forests of the east, and sheep farming on the plains in between are the main industries, with what little surplus wealth the yeofolk make tending to flow upwards to fund the noble households of this increasingly empty realm. Its people tend to be herders, foresters, miners and millers, for those of a more military mind are unlikely to remain for long.

Though the King rules Elmet, like his brother before him he has proved to be an absent ruler, called away on glorious holy quests for extended periods of time. This call to arms, which at first afflicted only the ruling family, has spread over the years to Elmet’s knights, its nobility, and in recent times even starting to affect its loftier merchants and traders, leaving Elmet a land largely overseen by its own serfs and peasantry. With a few notable exceptions such as areas in the extreme east and west, Elmet’s lands are run by increasingly resentful local councils made up of prominent citizens such as town mayors, respected elders and influential merchants.

Elmet is also notable for its sizeable numbers of mixed cultures in comparison to the other realms of Albion (save for the fens of Anglia).  The Thornwood in the east of the realm is home to a large amalgamation of recently immigrated Ælvhen families. In the Barony of Deepreach, deep in the northern peaks of the Dragonguard Mountains, can be found Albion’s only Dawri settlement; Deepreach Hold, home to the Sons of Kynrik.  There are even rumours of wilder, bestial folk within the grim barony of Ravenglass in the south west near the border with Cymrja.

Where Deira is known to produce larger than life heroes, Elmet’s folk tend to be subtler in their heroics, though no less devoted. These quiet heroes are direly needed, for Elmet suffers greatly from the terrible undead forces of the Lich that pour over the southern border from blighted, divided Oxford. Refugees flee east and west to take shelter with the Ælvhen and Dawri as the horde advances, unopposed in the absence of Elmet’s knights, with the Blightlands spreading slowly, inexorably north, Elmet's dead bolstering the Lich's armies, and its resources carried south to fuel the Council of Nine's troops on the Wessex border. 

Elmet's defences are bolstered by folk of Deira, Norholt and Anglia, as Albion's might meets Ankow's horde at the Ravensbourne Bridge in a slow, unending grind of battle, while in the west the Dawri of Deepreach continue to shield both folk who flee the fighting and those who seek to enter from afar, while in the south west, a great glow has appeared in the night skies over Ravenglass.