Floren¶
Floren, also written Florne, is "a small kingdom that was once a prosperous trading hub settled by Kalari refugees after the Fae Wars. It has been ravaged over the years by raiders and is now little more than a fortified city-state surrounded by sparsely occupied, dilapidated estates" (S319). Its shipyards face the Gulf of Dalmar beside the Sancturi frontier, and the Nightshade Legions' Dalmar Campaign of 700 SM "has left Floren crippled" (S326). Its towns taken by the Imperium are described on the Dalmar Province page; its surviving city of Miralt has its own.
The kingdom¶
Floren's "capitol" is named only by comparison: Kurano, "or Langstran as it was known", "was a significant trading port in the kingdom of Floren, second only to their capitol", with "thick, old, Floren city walls and stone architecture" (S315). Floren kept the Floren Rangers, "a large garrison of rangers" at the Vale Watchtower "to patrol the borders of the fertile vale region, keeping a close eye on the orc clans to the south" (S315); Valdemark Castle, "the largest and most defensible fortress in Floren", straddled Amberdale; and Jarshir "was the shipbuilding center of Floren", building more ships "than anywhere else in the Gulf of Dalmar" from the timber of the Florentine Woodlands (S315). All these are now Sancturi: Kurano, Hirai, Matedo, Odawara, Sumeji and the rest.
"King of Floren fled with most of the treasury" (S170). Duchess Lavinia Zul-aw-ta holds Miralt; the Duchy of Miralt is the Factions page for what remains of Floren's government and army.
Gap
No source names Floren's capital, its king, its patron god or its laws, nor says whether Miralt is the capital the king fled.
War¶
"Sancturi Dalmar <-> Floren & Brusau: The Sancturi have captured significant territory from both Floren and Brusau" (S319). "Neither side has bothered to secure Floren as it would open up a larger front. However, both sides raid Floren mercilessly" (S326). The country shows it: on the road north toward Brusau the party "passed the site of a battle, about 20 dead peasants and a Floren warrior", met bandits "demanding a road tax (2 bp per person, 10 bp for a cart)", and then "a dozen Brusau Rangers (cavalry) on patrol" (S162). A Floren farmer, Rillo Lasgo, had land "beset by beasts (dire boars)" and a family of "starving beggars" (S162). See Sancturi Campaigns.
The Florentine Woodlands¶
The forest of Floren, from which Jarshir cut its timber and in which the Sancturi now base "a large ranger expeditionary force" at Hirai to patrol the border (S315). Prince Immeron of Alghert lived there in exile with his black-garbed guards (S138, S161); the party's first journey after Harwith crossed it (S161).
- Guillon (also Guillion) is a village "under protection from the witch" Zaela, whose spokesman is Igli and whose herbalist is Mildritch (S161). Zaela "long ago cursed an entire Floren family", the Asgors, a curse that "continues to weigh upon her" (S162). Three Sancturi Dae'Venari and a brigade of Arbitori Bannerguard came hunting her (S162).
- Orson is a "town in Florentine, 40-45 buildings. Fur/Trapping + Lumbers. Alchemist" (S162).
- Amer's cabin stands two days north of Miralt (S169, S170).
Later ages¶
Floren is one of the "old north broken sea civilizations" whose ruins scatter the Sunaram Cluster of the Rift: the rift-town of Lyrspire "was destroyed during the second Araxian War along with a Terrun-side outpost in the ruins of Floren" (S066), and a Rift session had the party fleeing "to the ruins of Floren or FIGHT Araxians" (S046). See the Second Araxian War.