Rivengeld - Kingdom of Castiel

No treasure is greater than 'home'. A jewel to many, the capital city of Castiel sits far on the northwestern coast of Ballidrous. It is a city growing in stature and filled with adventure and intrigue.

The region is covered in forests and mountains and surrounded by two large bodies of water on three sides, the Dabidram Ocean and the Can Sea.

The Kingdom of Castiel is one of the newest nations to develop from the slowly failing Ardalian Empire. About 50 years ago the Ardalian Empire seized the city and its surrounding lands during the empire's expansion known as 'The War of the Ages'. During this time, Ardalian influences and social systems changed the region. Castiel developed a greater economic role in the surrounding kingdoms, swelled in population from greater agricultural production and mining, the concepts of social structure and titling were introduced, and the merchant houses and guilds from Ardal brought in more trade. Twenty years later the empire had to withdrawal from the west when their homelands began to fall into civil strife.

Before the empire left, they anointed the acting regent Raverson Blackstar. This move established the Blackstar family as the current lineage holder to the kingship. Today, King Arrackson "The Halberd" Blackstar dons the crown and rules the land with a soft but firm hand.

The indigenous population is known to the surrounding nations as Cassians. Their bloodline is a mix of the past Tressek kingdoms and the Avarians, humans who once occupied this region before written records. Many of the kingdom's titles are still held by the descendants of the old Ardalian nobles but they are not by far the controlling faction in Castiel.