Editing Greyhawk (section)

==The Flanaess==

Notable nations in Flanaess include the isolationist elven Kingdom of Celene, the temperate trading nexus Dyvers, the ancient and fertile Kingdom of Keoland (inhabited by a mixture of Suel and Oeridians), the evil enigmatic Scarlet Brotherhood, the decadent Great Kingdom of Northern Aerdy which currently has an uprising problem, the Baklunish Caliphate of Ekbir, the Free City of Greyhawk (another trade nexus), the walled harbor city of Irongate and the greater Iron League, its neighbor the rich but war-torn Onnwal, the slaving Orcish Empire of the Pomarj to the south of Greyhawk, and the Empire of [[Iuz]] the Old One, who likes to stir shit up.

Try not to get the frost barbarians (the Fruztii, who are slowly becoming more 'civilized' to the older jarls' displeasure), ice barbarians (the Cruski, who hate the Scarlet Brotherhood with a passion after they poisoned Old King Cralstag), and snow barbarians (the Schnai, who share a forest border with the frost barbarians) mixed up.  They're all Suel vikings, and worship a sleeping god called Vatun, which let Iuz trick them into starting a war for him some years ago. 

The City of Greyhawk, however, is where the game often ends up centering at least some, if not most, of the action.  But that's not shocking.  Nobody gives a flying fuck about what happens in Buffalo unless they live there, but what happens in New York could have an impact on the world, if not the nation.  Greyhawk is the same way: it's the largest city in the region, and its status as a free city means that it is a gigantic melting pot of merchants, refugees, political officials, adventurers, and pretty much anyone else who isn't some piss-poor farmer digging through mud every day to make enough to eat.  (Lampshaded a little by the fact that, if you break it down in 3.5, a farmer can make a rather impressive amount of money through the careful application of Craft/Profession skills.) The city has everything for sale (though some things are naturally easier or cheaper to get than other things), and so much weird shit passes through there that only Sigil is more cosmopolitan, because actual fiends and angels walking the streets is still a little "gaudy" on the Material Plane.