Greenering

''Fourteen provinces, fourteen capital cities, fourteen differing interests. The Greenering has worked in seeming peace for almost two hundred years, but as discoveries advance and people venture further into the great unknown, tensions are growing. Armies agitate, people eye each other with suspicion, and borders itch to expand. Welcome to the Greenering... If you want to survive, you'd best watch your words and watch your step.''

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The Greenering is a region in western Faronne, divided into fourteen provinces. The provinces are mostly cooperative, but each has a distinct culture and agenda, with a councilor who speaks for the province when the fourteen move together.

The Grove Gang has not explored The Greenering, but would know of two key provinces from general context.

Doria
Doria trades with both Dragomir and the Withering Wood. A war-like province, it has no interest picking fights with the militant Dragomir or its protectorate, but has pushed often to expand its borders. Thirty-two years ago, it absorbed a once-fifteenth province of the Greenering, Fylun. Fylun was a very small province of almost exclusively halfling villages. With no standing army, it "agreed peacefully" to be absorbed by Doria.

Rhysand
Rhysand is known for turning out highly-trained adventurers, particularly bards. It is said that something about Rhysand culture imbues those who grow up there with natural musical and artistic talent. It produced the very first bardic warrior to successful defeat a manticore by painting its portrait.

Its people tend to be powerful warriors who spread tales of Rhysand, their beautiful, blessed homeland, far and wide. Adventurers from Rhysand are often eagerly welcomed for both their ability to kick the ass of local problems and tell incredible stories of Rhysand, their adventurers throughout Faronne, and for learning and recording local folklore wherever they visit.