1658 New Altburg Land

The Kingdom of New Altburg was formed from the remainder of a mixture of conquered royalty and royal Skas lineage.
Geography:
The land is primarily flat towards the south with a few hill and mountains to the north. Ancient giant forest cover the landscape. The kingdom has a paved road with a fourteen day ride to the chasm city of Kebtz as well as hundred of other paved roads cutting in a web from West Fort. As in all the Old Realm all the villages, towns, and cities are walled and locked at night. Very few if any cities, villages, and towns are more than seven days away from West Fort. Any lands beyond in the wilderness that are isolated paranoid settlements with old ancient ways ruled by some eccentric noble or insane cult leader. Chances of survival without protection from Westfort are slim to none. The Bluea River cuts a zigzagged line from the northwest to the southeast providing a highway to the northern lands and the southern regions. The Skas dug thousands of forgotten stone lined way canals all across the continent many going into lost cities in the darkest wilderness while some provide a secret way of travel by smugglers, spies, and outlaws. To the west is the Torment Mountains that cut the Old Realm in half and holding the Bane at bay.
Politics: The mayor of Westfort and the king are best of friends. They enjoy playing huge cruel, fatal, and sadistic games with the nobility, churches, and the common people especially the Altburgers. The first cousin of the king is Sheriff Dum’Basse of Westfort he as well is used in the various plots and plans. The King is one of the few people who realize that the Empire is fragmented and weak and will do anything in his power to keep any other group in New Altburg Land from gaining to much power. The King knows the Empire could not spare any additional forces to defend his kingdom if a large-scale civil war occurred.
UPDATE:! The King has been lobotomized and allowed to live after it was found out that he was a traitor. He now walks along a pantless gibbering idiot free to be tormented but never to be killed.
The People: The noble people are a mixture of conquered royalty and royal Skas lineage. The common men are the left over Skas and Altburger. The Altburgers were a tan skinned people with black to blonde hair and black to red eyes. As times have passed the Altburgers have been mixed with the lighter skinned peoples from the rest of the Empire though there are still pure Old Altburgers. The Skas are a race of people with blonde to brown hair. The eye colors of the Skas are green and blue but any color may show up.
The Gypsies a nomadic people that are by all others considered thieves and vagabonds wander this area in large numbers. Most gypsies have olive to pale white skin and black to red eyes. The superstitious and mysterious Goths with their pale white skin black eyes and hair. The devoutly religious Kurkish people come from the west from beyond the Torment Mountains with their arabian features of dark tan skin black hair eyes from black to brown. Many Tinker frequently come from the mountains in secret dying kingdoms far below the ground to work in the city of Westfort. The Tinker have a monopoly on the ore smelting of the area with their giant ore smelter. They are the masters of the rediscoveries of the ancient skas elementium technology. The ancient mysterious Elves or the Children of the Annahon live far in the ancient forbidden forest wilderness.