The Luthaire Barony stood as a sentinel at the northwestern edge of the Orlan Kingdom, its lands carved between the jagged peaks of the Ashenfang Mountains and the churning gray waters of the Northern Maw Sea.
A territory of harsh beauty and harsher purpose—for it shared a border with the Hollowlands, the Fractured Zone where the very flow of Aura had shattered into corruption.
Though merely a barony in title, the Luthaire family's prestige rivaled that of counts and dukes. They were one of the three Shield Families, tasked with guarding the kingdom from the Hollowlands' creeping horrors.
House Viremont(County), the strongest, commanded the Iron Throat Pass—the only land route linking the other two Houses to the kingdom's heart.
House Fenvar, Barons of the Frostbite Coast, faced the relentless tides of the Northern Maw. These waters, along with those bordering a small portion of the Hollowlands, had become thick with the Hollowlands' creeping taint.
