Well, here comes the survey
The kingdoms of the dylan land, where your characters are, and most are native to, is a strange confederation of everal kingdoms, in the lush land of dylan, which cover ab area of 1,150,000 square kilometers. The kingdoms are each independent, but share their culture and nature, and are bound together by a set of ancient traditions and loose, unwritten agreements, which date back thousands of years. Wars and rivalries exist between the kingdoms, and in some cases, are rather frequent, but they have free trade, and usually passage, and act as one in face of external enemy. They are also bound together by 3 organizations that are shared between all kingdoms. Fitst is the assembly of the lords, to which each kingdom can send several emissaries, depending on size, and at whole there,are 250 men in it. The emmisaries are chosen by the kings, and are tradionally noblemen. The assembly chooses from it twelve menbers to sit in the council of heroes. Those two bodies manage things related to dylan as a whole, and the relations betwmween kingdoms. For their operation, they receive a small part of each kingdom taxes. In addition, there are the golden mages, and the order of the divine. The golden mages are an organization that operates as a joint mage guild of all dylan, and most mages in tmdylan are part of the golden mages. They also take many childs with magical affinity, training them as mages, to become golden mages. Some, however, train at a later age, or become golden mages by joining them with pre achieved training. They consider themselves above the "petty struggles between the kingdoms" and mostly work toward things common for all kingdoms, or that are not involved in rivalries. They are, however, supplying battlemages for the kingdoms' armies, which also serve in war between kingdoms. They are managed by the council of archmages. The golden mages is also known as the most powerful mages guild of the known world, better than even the high elves' Queynar. The third organization, the order of the divine, are a religious organization, which is responsible for the worship of the gods Arathis, Kord, and Peylor. While it is not uncommon to hear dwarven priests preaching for Moradin, or people revering Avandra or Bahamut, these gods are univesally revered in dylan, as "patron gods" of it. The order of the divine serves them, and manages their worship and temples, and to a lesser degree, it is responsible for all religious matters of dylan.
As a whole, all kingdoms of dylan are rather homogenous in racial divesity too, all consusting of about 55% humans, 25% dwarves, 15% elves, and 5% percent hobbits, with some rarer races in there too. In addition to this, there are several settlements of other races, including most of dylan's halflings, which exist in the kingdoms and pay tithes to the kingdom they are in, but are otherwise independent.the kingdoms consist of 8 great kingdoms, and a few dozens of smaller kingdoms and city states
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I decided to do the survey in several pieces. This is tge first, involving the lands where you are now, and where the adventure will center for now at least. If you have any question about dylsn, feel free to ask
