Current Monarch: King Pellinore di Seward 

Current Voice:  Tamar of Bridgetown

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 while its nobles and knights are gone, only recently having repelled the Blighted undead of the now defeated lich lord, Ankow, with help from the armies of several other Realms. The refugees that took shelter with the Dawri of Deepreach are slowly returning to their lands, while a great host from Deira under the command of Duke Arwyn of Preston oversees the construction of defensive strongholds along Elmet's borders. In the south-west, a great conflagration blazes across the Barony of Ravenglass, as the vast peat bogs along the coast burn in a never-ending pyre.