Ranedal

Overview
The oldest cities within the kingdom of Ranedal hail back to 1,670 Anteo Deorum. These cities started off as minor coastal villages, the villagers known for hunting local leviathans of the deep for their survival. Now, the lands of Ranedal have turned this into a rather lucrative business. Bringing in thousands of pounds of leviathan meat and blubber every fishing season. Salting and selling it off to their neighbors or southern trade partners.

It is said the people of Ranedal are naturally born sailors and whalers. Most children within the nation will have learnt useful sailor’s knots by the time they are eight and by fourteen will have journeyed out to sea with their fathers. Due to this the people have a great respect for the ocean and its bounty. Honoring the tusked leviathans as children of Arzyn and revering the serpents beneath the waves as Nottial’s ilk.

Perhaps it is due to their seafaring nature or just their culture but the people of Ranedal are rather superstitious. For as most Amrothians will use the old men to read their blood and whisper prayers to Arzyn, the Raners will seek signs within any form of nature. From a bird flying with a snake in its beak to cows lying down, all things within nature have a meaning to the men of Ranedal.