Northern Provinces
| Northern Provinces | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| Plane | Dominaria |
| Status | Fallen |
| Part of | Terisiare |
| Later part of | Kjeldoran Hinterlands, Kjeldor, New Argive |
The Northern Provinces were a collection of farmsteads and small city-states during the Dark Age of Terisiare on Dominaria.[1]
History
After the Brothers' War and the Fall of Penregon, the nation of Argive survived for some time into the period of the Dark Age. As the cold temperatures slowly kept increasing, the larger cities of old were unable to sustain themselves and fell apart, leaving behind only a loose collection of farmsteads and villages. These became known as the Northern Provinces, which contained many lesser city-states and open land through the Dark Age.
While most of these small city-states are unnamed, two are known:
Giva Province was the area which would house the farmstead of Jarsyl after his stay in the Conclave of Mages. Established by Jarsyl's mother, the farmstead was originally of good land, fertile and flat, and able to sustain crops and animals. Jarsyl eventually built a mage tower on the farmstead grounds, where he conducted experiments and wrote in his journal. Eventually, though, the land started to fail due to the continuously decreasing temperatures, and the land became swampy. The crops grew sparse, and the animals could not be fed. Jodah was born and spent his first few years on the farm, fallen fallow, until his family had to abandon it completely to the cold. Giva Province as a whole lasted for some more years but was frozen over and depopulated during the Start of the Ice Age.
Thorn is the other known city-state of the Northern Provinces. Like Giva, it was established in the wake of Argive, and like Giva, it fell come the Ice Age. Nothing else is known of Thorn, save that the legendary Tivadar of Church of Tal fame was born there. Tivadar would eventually reform the Church to focus on the threat of the rampaging goblins rather than magic and spellcasters. During Tivadar's Crusade, he and his Knightly Order, aided by the wizard Rasputin Dreamweaver, temporarily restored civilization to Terisiare by throwing back the Goblin Invasions. This event brought a close to the period known as the Dark Age, as the Church fell apart when its enemy had been driven back to their mountain holes.
Long after their abandonment, the Northern Provinces would later be re-settled by the hardy Kjeldorans, and earn the name of the Kjeldoran Hinterlands. Even later, these lands would be included in the terrain of New Argive after the Thaw.
References
- ↑ Jeff Grubb - The Gathering Dark (1999), Wizards of the Coast