Wintergleam

Wintergleam
Motto:	Frá Turninum à Ströndinni ("From the Tower to the Coast")
Feudal Status:	Circuit
Capital:	Fieldburg
Largest Cities:	Fieldburg, Averdine
Local Leadership Title:	Lénsmaður of Wintergleam
Local Government:	Feudal
Current leader:	Hallbjörn Haraldsson
Local language:	Common Tongue, Froyalanish, Hurmu Norse, Valtian, Wintergleamish
Local Religion:	Bovic Faith, Froyalanish Ancient Ways, Hurmudanish Faith, Sheepist Church

A map from the days of the Comital Reign of Leo Fenrir with some of the main natural geographical features of Wintergleam.

A Haraldian Wintergleamish Vanakvinna on the hunt in the Yttreveð Forest.

Political map of Wintergleam in the latter days of the Comital Reign of Leo Dine.

Count Harald during a meeting of the Comital Council of Wintergleam at the Avaldsborg.

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. Originally a Goldshirean county, Wintergleam has been Elwynnese since 1516. From 1536 to 1542, in the days that Elwynn was called Froyalan, Wintergleam was part of the Barony of the Fórntida Kærleikalanden as a county in its own right. Likewise was Wintergleam from 1546 to 1562 one of the counties of the Barony of Nordland within the Duchy of Elwynn.

Until 1624 the area which nowadays constitutes the Septuaportian Bailiwick of Avaldsnes was part of Wintergleam. Wintergleam's non-Elwynnese roots are reflected in the weak strength of the Elw language as well as the Church of Elwynn in the area.

History

Introduction

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 by those who would become the Haraldian Wintergleamers.

The interior of Wintergleam, 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.

Fenririan Reign

Several years later in 1551, shortly after Harald had resigned its countship in late 1550, 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, and it was the flatulence of those sheep, as well as a massive amount of cows, that caused The Great Thaw. 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.

Vandaveerian Reign

In 1560 Count Leo resigned from the Countship of Wintergleam, which subsequently remained vacant until the year 1575 when Elyssa Vandaveer was appointed Countess of Wintergleam by the Dutch of Kildare. (At the time Wintergleam was part of East Elwynn, which had been incorporated into Kildare as the Thanedom of Elwynn.)

Countess Elyssa proved to be quite the absentee countess barely attending to the government of Wintergleam, which largely fell, just like during the interregnum between her reign and that of Count Leo to the Comital Council of Wintergleam.

Counts of Wintergleam

• Harald of Froyalan (1516–1550);
• Leo Fenrir (1551–1560);
• Elyssa Vandaveer (a.k.a. Elyssa van der Veer) (1575–1600).

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.
• Wintergleam is one of the favourite holiday destinations of the Royal Family of Elwynn.

Sites of Interest

• Alejian Castle
• Blackhaven
• Durow Forest
• Forest of Froyalan
• Goldenoak Forest
• Meadows of Ketsire
• Shining Plains
• Wild Woods
• Winterglades
• Yttreveð Forest