Editing Setting:Unified Setting/Londerfell (section)

=Zirnitraog=
Homeland of the [[Unified_Setting/Drow|Wila]], the Wila Republic, the Great Houses, the Lesser Houses, the city-states controlled by those houses, barbaric northern tribes given House status lest they launch raids, wandering herds of feral remorhaz... let's face it. There's a lot going on in Zirnitraog.

Every child on the planet knows about Zirnitraog. It is where the Wila will take you if you don't eat your vegetables and do your chores. Centuries later, after those stories began, the Wila are CIVILIZED. They have cities (quite impressive ones) and laws and contracts and an expanding mercantile empire. But rule number one of drow culture hasn't changed. If you aren't hustling, you are being hustled and Wila hate to be on the bad end of a deal.

Zirnitraog has changed dramatically over the centuries. Formerly a collection of tribes raiding each other for slaves when they weren't on an overseas warpath, they have evolved into a collection of city-states, ruled by battling Houses in parliament. The sight of a drow ship now brings people to the docks, eager to trade, though wary of being cheated. Furs, axes and blood-oaths have been replaced with farms, factories and law-firms.

Except for the north. There Wila still cling to the old ways. Not so much with the raiding (though piracy remains a problem) but with the refusal to settle down. In the north drow axe-men still stalk the plains, riding their remorhaz while they hunt elk, reindeer and other game. Considered an embarrassment by the more prosperous and numerous southern Wila, they are given a seat in parliament to keep them placated.

The remorhaz are a bit of an enigma. Dual-exoskeletoned, exothermic riding beasts sporting enormous claws and leaving a trail of steam wherever they go, their origins are uncertain. Some say they are tamed escapees from the Water Forest and others that they are payment from Vanawil for some long forgotten debt. Most people don't think about it. Remorhaz are an excellent and stylish way to ride, as long as you have an asbestos saddle. Those shells get hot.