News Liosliath

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=90 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04bfd5a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Liosliath</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home"><B>home</B></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>News Liosliath</I></div> <bR> <div> Liosliath is comprised of five individual kingdoms (clan       </div> <div> holdings) which share a common heritage and a common future and are currently  </div> <div> ruled by Thane Niahl Docartaig. The total population of Liosliath is estimated </div> <div> at 280,000, roughly equally distributed to the five clans, (50,000 per clan),  </div> <div> 30,000 within Carraig and less than a thousand permanently in Caer Glass. The  </div> <div> approximate 30,000 population of Carraig is roughly split 20,000 who claim     </div> <div> Liosliath heritage and 10,000 foreigners, many of the foreigners transitory.   </div> <div>                                                                                </div> <div> Each clan, with a population of approximately 50,000, is roughly comprised     </div> <div> between 500 and 1,000 nobles, 5,000 or so upper / higher middle class with the </div> <div> remainder number distributed between the middle and lower middle class,        </div> <div> commoners and bonds people.                                                    </div> <div>                                                                                </div> <div> Liosliath is a peninsula on the southwest tip of the continent. The high and   </div> <div> treacherous Naithair Mountains separate Garragg and Liosliath. The Naithair    </div> <div> Mountains with just two passes has buffered Liosliath from a majority of the   </div> <div> wars which have ranged through the lands over history. Buffered but not        </div> <div> isolated as Liosliath has experienced land based invasions and attempted       </div> <div> invasions over the years. Liosliaths coastline, though rugged, does have ports</div> <div> and other areas where ships can land. Sea based invasions or raids by other    </div> <div> countries have been attempted some with limited degrees of success, to this day</div> <div> occasional coastal raids are not unheard of.                                   </div> <div>  </div> <div> Caer Glas is the traditional keep of the Thane of Liosliath, a keep with grey  </div> <div> stone walls which looks down on the port city of Carraig on the Bay of Lathi.  </div> <div> From here the Thane with the advisory assistance of the Pennaeth Council rules </div> <div> Liosliath. Caer Glas is first and foremost a fortress, a place where all who   </div> <div> dwell close by can seek safety if and when attacks are made. Carraig as the    </div> <div> major port city, seen by foreign countries as a key to Liosliath, has been     </div> <div> attacked numerous times in history. The keep ruins in the heart of Carraig are </div> <div> mute testimony to past attacks.                                                </div> <div>                                                                                </div> <div> The ruler (Thane) of Liosliath holds his crown by personal strength, leadership</div> <div> skills, political manipulations, keeping the allegiance of the majority of the </div> <div> Pennaeth Allting (Pennaeth Council) and allegiance of Carraig leaders. The     </div> <div> Thane strengthens his position by forging relationships across the strata of   </div> <div> the individual clans. The thane has political and economic advantage in that   </div> <div> the vast majority of the external trade is via Carraig, a city the Thane for   </div> <div> all practical purposes fully controls. The majority of those of Liosliath in   </div> <div> Carraig support the Thane. In some respects those who live in Carraig and the  </div> <div> Thane share a common bond as they are no longer of Clans. While clan remains   </div> <div> heritage, they are now almost a sixth clan being Carraig                       </div> <bR> <div> Each of the five major clans (news clans) is headed by a Pennaeth, that person </div> <div> rules the clan; his/her word is the law. Traditionally a persons ambitions and</div> <div> allegiances are in order to self, family, hamlet/town (area where person       </div> <div> lives), clan and finally to Liosliath itself. Individualism, doing the best one</div> <div> can and striving for more, is valued as such tends to enhance the clan. Well   </div> <div> understood is the responsibility and position each has within the clan         </div> <div> structure with respect paid upwards by manner and speech. A farmer commoner for</div> <div> example would not presume to address one of the middle, upper or noble class in</div> <div> a familiar manner. Conversely one of the upper class would realize and         </div> <div> understand the importance of those under he/her to the importance of the clans</div> <div> well being. Still the upper class person will command and make demands on the  </div> <div> lower classes. Clan members are generally fiercely loyal to their clan.        </div> <bR> <div> Those of Liosliath, who move from their home lands to Carraig, do so for a     </div> <div> variety of reasons. Some being : They need to leave because big family reasons,</div> <div> local famine, or whatever reason makes it difficult for them to find living or </div> <div> support where they are some specific reason (crime etc), or the person is of a </div> <div> adventurous nature, willingness to seek something else or are drawn to the     </div> <div> center of power, Caer Glas.                                                    </div> <div> Liosliathians who live within Carraig, while still retaining their clan ties,  </div> <div> become more cosmopolitan, their allegiances are typically in order to self,    </div> <div> family, Carraig and Liosliath. Clan loyalty while remaining takes on less      </div> <div> importance. Carraig has its own social structure alongside what is normal in   </div> <div> Liosliath; wealth here can mean more than title / birth position. 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