Baronies of Soradis

the baronies of soradis, commonly referred to as soradis, are a decentralized feudal polity in north merkopa composed of hereditary baronies rather than a unified crown its administrative capital is gokord, a coastal fortress that hosts the council of barons soradis is a member of the guild of royal allies for commercial exchange and the alliance of nations the population is predominantly valg descended, tracing its origins to the expansion of the valgos empire across the northern belt from the sixteenth century over time this population developed a distinct regional identity shaped by coastal trade, feudal landholding, and proximity to rumburgian influence dastnurism is the dominant faith, though older sky gods traditions persist in rural areas under valgos rule the barons exercised considerable autonomy while maintaining imperial ties revolutionary unrest beginning in 1916 fractured imperial authority across the north as syndicalist councils consolidated in what became markanissa, soradis barons resisted their expansion frontier clashes between 1916 and 1920 fixed the political divide between the baronial south and the revolutionary north governance operates through the council of barons, where hereditary rulers coordinate defense, trade, and foreign relations by consensus the economy relies on fishing, timber, coastal trade, and interior mining linked to rumburgian supply networks during the 1930s and 1940s, rumburg gradually integrated soradis through financial backing, officer training, and administrative alignment soradis formally joined grace in 1943 political freedoms remain limited under hereditary rule