Wintergleam
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| Feudal Status: | Circuit |
| Capital: | Fieldburg |
| Largest Cities: | Fieldburg, Averdine |
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| Local Leadership Title: | N/A |
| Local Government: | Feudal |
| Current leader: | None |
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| Local language: | Common Tongue, Froyalanish, Hurmu Norse, Valtian, Wintergleamish |
| Local Religion: | Bovic Faith, Froyalanish Ancient Ways, Hurmudanish Faith, Sheepist Church |
Wintergleam is a Circuit of the Royal Precinct of the Elwynnese Union which is known as the County of Agnesia and Wintergleam. In days past Wintergleam was a County in its own right.
History
The County of Wintergleam, which had been created during the New Feudalism Era, entered Elwynnese history when it was granted to Harald of Ettlingar Freyu in the year 1516 by Kaiser Alejian II as compensation for the loss of the County of Araxion. In exchange for the county grant Harald built Alejian a castle-like house on the coast of Wintergleam, which is to this very day known as Alejian Castle.
Wintergleam's coastal areas and its hinterland, especially the Avaldsnes area, had since time immemorial been inhabited by a community of Storish merchants, some of them descendants of Valtian traders and others being associates or staff of the Sameinaða Erlendur Kaupsýsla Einokun Félagið, as well as a handful of non-Vikings who would become a part of the population group that would become known as the Fenririan Wintergleamers. Those people were after the year 1516 joined those who would become the Haraldian Wintergleamers.
Wintergleam's interior, however, had for most of its existence remained a silent place home only to polar bears and people who liked the frigid temperatures of -40 to -55 encountered in the area. This changed with The Great Thaw.
Several years later in 1550, shortly after Harald had resigned its countship, Wintergleam was granted to Leo Dine, a new citizen of Shireroth who immigrated to the Duchy of Elwynn. Under the new rule of Count Leo a new law was imposed that had a large mass of sheep imported to the county to wrap the houses in the inland in to keep them warm. It was also during his comital reign that the rest of the people who were to become known as the Fenririan Wintergleamers moved into the county.
For many years Wintergleam was one of the counties of the Barony of Nordland within the Duchy of Elwynn.
Counts of Wintergleam
Bailiwicks of Wintergleam
The Circuit of Wintergleam consists of the following Bailiwicks:
- Ådrabekk
- Alnavi
- Aralduruun
- Elgjaby
- Fieldburg
- Jonsvik
- Kaljandare
- Ketsire
- Maskere
- Mikkelsvik
- Morsnes
- Råvirke
- Vintrastaðr
- Yttreveð
Trivia
- In honour of the ancient ties of the House of Ettlingar Freyu with Wintergleam, the Titulary of the King of Elwynn includes the title of Count of Ancient Wintergleam.
