Current Monarch : Lady Kathryn Charles, Regent

Current Voice : Sir Renham of Gosford

Of all the Ten Realms, Oxford is the most divided; quite literally in recent years. Whilst rulership ostensibly belongs the Regent, advised by the nobles of the Council of Nine (the nine Earls, Countesses and Counts who rule the Nine Counties of Oxford; Ashton, Barton, Elvesham, Fencott, Gosford, Medway, Newbury, Oxenford and Winterbrook), a vast swathe of land swarming with undead bisects the realm; the Blightlands. Newbury in the east, and Elvesham in the west, are the only Counties largely free of the Blighted; Barton, Gosford and Medway are currently overrun, while in Ashton, Fencott, Oxenford and Winterbrook the balance swings back and forth as forces slowly assemble to drive back the undead.

There has been a history of antagonism between Oxford and its neighbour to the east, Wessex, with the former refusing to open its borders to Wessex troops marching to Cornwall during the war with the First King. While this ill-feeling had died down in the years since, it has flared dramatically with the appearance of the lich Ankow and his Blighted, and though the lich has since been defeated, tensions remain high, not helped by recent incursions by Wessex troops over the Oxford border.

Oxford remains a realm of grasslands and forests, a place of academic achievement, of progressive thinking and learned research, and were it not for the undead plague, Oxford would retain such a reputation in the other Ten Realms, that of a bastion of civilisation and culture, a realm where education and refinement balance well the courtly intrigue, social one-upmanship and intricate political manoeuvrings known, unofficially, as ‘The Dance’, that are ever the hallmark of that land.

As it is, war now touches all of Oxford and scholarly learning, court politics and social intrigue take second place to matters of battle, though they remain as an undercurrent in the minds of all who fight for the Realm. Regent Kathryn has done much to restore the reputation of the Realm but its fate remains in question while war rages across the Nine Counties, and many of the Realm's nobles are unaccounted for. In order to help cleanse and stabilise her Realm, as well as to help repair the damage done by the lich Ankow and his undead, Regent Kathryn has retired from the warhost to take up her position as Regent more fully.