so i wrote this a while back when i realized that the fjordlanders didn't have a faction spotlight, so i scraped together as much lore as i could find and wrote one that i thought woudl be at least pretty close to the canon, and sent it in to muse, but nothing happened with it, so here it is for the consideration of the larger public:
Fjord Baronies
Symbol: Raven
Colors: purple and white
Ship Prefix: RBA (Regimental Barony Airship)
Territories: Chattering Fjords
Capital: Lord’s Leap
None is Higher than King Gregor. While his barons vie for favor and power, they do so only because they are equals: none would dare disobedience or cowardice in their duties to the king. Every baron has him or herself a powerful family: every house and noble descended from the generals and captains of an army from ages long past, but maintained by the unflinching loyalty to their king, and to their duties to their people.
Every person has their duty: the farmer to the land, the sailor to the sea, the Regiment to the wind. This loyalty to their work and to their captains and to their lords has helped the baronies survive through the collapse of the old world in a part of the world that is running out of space for everyone.
The unblanching loyalty in every breast of the baronies has led to a military designed with that fearlessness and discipline put first. the massive broadsides of the barony ships deafen almost as much as they destroy. With their massive broadsides, they can engage and destroy even the largest ships. never slowing or flinching, the ships’ crews work on and never fear as the enemy fire fills the air. Then their own broadsides answer, and the world goes quiet again. without this unflappable courage and discipline, the baronies would fall.
Gregor works as hard. his work is to keep each of the powerful barons from being overlooked. with so many enemies without, and internal resource pressure within, he must be helping each to expand into more fertile lands, more fecund seas, keep the predation from the west and north to a minimum. in short: to maintain. Each baron has his own flotilla, a part of the larger regimental fleet, who patrol and protect the people under his feudal protection. Maintaining and crewing these ships are their responsibilities, and the larger baronies might have so many to be able to protect huge areas.
With people arriving and swearing fealty to the barons every day, the population boom has forced the baronies to swell, and the king to look outward at the rich lands around the chattering fjords eagerly.
