Characters from the central and southern heartlands. This bulwark of forts and towns which runs through the Tolkisson mountains and Grey Woods serves as a wall against the Orrish invaders. Many of these places are remote and life can be vicious.
Requirements: Significant time to acquire/achieve outside of Character Inception.; Taking any sort of tour of service advances the characters [starting] age by the minimum time for service the character operated in. If a character quits before their commitment ends, they will likely face sanction and/or even imprisonment if caught.
The cold, painful rain is ever present in the mountain range – march and fight, sieges every fortnight, a cold evil presence in every dark corner, traps, ambushes, fear and despair are constant. There are no ‘people’ to defend, the mountains echo with drums and screams of Orrish. Fear is nagging at the edges of the mind constantly. Assassins operate behind the walls.