NORTH AMERICA
IN THE LATTER HALF OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Southern Command:
This aggressive and hard hitting freehold is also known as the
Ozark Free Territory. Their hard-marching hunters strike up and
down the Midwest, while a well organized regular force known as
the Guards watches the border.
The Pacific Groglands:
The most unusual feature of the this part of Oregon and
California is that they formed an alliance with a freehold,
after Reapers from the Northwest Paramountcy began taking Grogs
as well as humans.
Great Houses of Mexico:
Mexico has reverted to colonial times. Powerful small families
of Kurians each control estates covering hundreds of square
miles.
Northeastern Ruins:
The great cities of the Northeast Coast are mostly in ruins
because of tidal wave and war. What is left is under the tooth
of the Kurians.
The Plains Frontier:
This bushwhack country is the site of constant small scale
actions between Southern Command and the surrounding Kurians
Withered Bluegrass:
A mixture of human factions, mostly Quisling, constantly feud
over the good bottomland and horseherds of this area.
Carolina Frontier:
This Nomansland has a Kurian or two, some independenty minded
Grogs, and a large Quisling militia constantly fighting with the
Freeholders from the Smoky Mountains.
The Great Lakes:
The White Banner Fleet and numerous small traders ply these
waters for food and trade.
Chicago:
What Vegas was to the Twentieth Century, Chicago is to Vampire
Earth. A wheeling and dealing town where anything, including
your freedom, can be had with a price.
Smokies Strongholds:
The least populous and least organized of the Freeholds, the
forces in the Southern Appalachias are simply small groups of
men following a few strong willed individuals determined never
to give in to the Kur.
The Rustbelt:
The Kurians have very little interest in industry, but what
heavy equipment is still produced comes from the deteriorating
factories and workshops here.
The West Texas Blight:
This dangerous ground belongs to whoever is tough enough to hold
it.
New Wild West:
A large, mostly empty area is tricky to travel. What towns there
are change hands frequently, so what was a sanctuary a year ago
could be a young Kurian's province today.
The Bitter Earth:
The cities and water are controlled by the Kurians here. And you
must pity the few souls who live under them, for some reason the
most bizarre and erratic of the New Order seek out the arid
lands to indulge their delusions of godhood.
Florida Freakshow:
The East Coast of Florida was deeded to several battalions of
Grogs. They are said to be so variegated and ugly that even the
alligators have left in disgust.
South Texas Coast:
The fiercely independent people of this region take no sides and
no prisoners. But they can be bought.
East Side of the Big Muddy:
This is a large, rich strip of Kurian farmland, and the
breadbasket for the eastern Kurian realms.
West Side of the Big Muddy:
Much of Iowa has been deeded to the most loyal of the Quislings
in reward for services, and betrayals, rendered.
Beachfront:
Six small enclaves of a Kurian or two each rule this
once-beautiful coast.
The Dallas Barons:
Dallas is home to several very anti-social Kurians,
uncooperative even by the low standards of the Kur. It is the
headquarters for young Kurians seeking their own realms in the
Southwest.
Green Hell:
The cruelly run farms and factories of this province are
considered to be among the most miserable in the Kurian Zone.
The Richmond Five:
Five principal Kurians, whose presence on earth is thought to go
back hundreds (or even thousands) of years live here, surrounded
by art and books pillaged from the great collections on the East
Coast.
The Georgia Control:
Atlanta and its surrounding regions are run by a large corporate
bureaucracy. Perhaps the Dark Lords here read some management
textbooks.
Crescent City and Surrounding:
Louisiana is still a crazy place filled with crazy people.
Living under the Reapers will either sober you up or make you
insane.
Wind River Valley:
This is the
smallest Freehold of the Northwestern Confederacy, unless you
count the Free City of Denver.
The Twin Rubbles:
Minneapolis and St.
Paul are both in ruins, guarding the northern border of the
Quisling deeded areas.
The Plains Gulag:
This region is not
the ideal farmland it once was. But its scattered fortress-farms
still produce enough to feed the population of the West.
St. Louis:
Ever since the
city's Kurian Lords were killed, this area has belonged to the
Grogs. The bitterest and longest standing Grog-Human war is
fought in the foothills of the Ozarks outside St. Louis.
East Texas:
A single Kurian wanderer controls this huge area with his
thirteen Reapers. He is one of the very few Kurian Lords who
enjoys battle.
Upper Rio
Valley:
The Kurians control
the water, so they control the humans and the cattle.
California
Valley Vampires:
Powerful Kurians who desire the good life for themselves have
carved out many beautiful estates in this valley. But they still
prefer the blood-vintage to the fine wines that are still
produced here.
The LA Eight:
The only true
matriarchy of the Kurians, eight powerful female Kur rule most
of Southern California.
Columbia River Kur:
One of the Kurian
vassal states to the Seattle Paramountcy holds much of the area
around this great river.
The Seattle Demigod:
The most skilled and
feared Kurian leader of the West has carved out a species of
empire here. The Kurian provinces around him actually
acknowledge his leadership and do what he says.
The Colonel's Realm:
The most
military-minded and fascistic of the Freeholds, some say it is
just as bad here under the Colonel, who shoots people at the
drop of a hat, as it is under the Reapers.
The Reconstituted Government of the United
States:
The only claim to
fame this Freehold has is that it is run by the descendents of
the original United States government.
Western Confederacy:
This is the largest of the Freeholds, but because of the terrain
not well populated. Some say it is the only thing standing
between the Kurian in Seattle and his desire to dominate the
entire late United States.
The Madison Triumvirate:
Three Kurians
supervise this rich dairy land from the old University between
the lakes.
Denver:
Denver is the only
major city not seriously damaged by the Overthrow that is still
in the hands of Freeholders. Perhaps the Kurians dislike the
altitude and climate.
The Desert Rangers:
The fewest and the
toughest of the Freeholders, these guerilla warriors fight with
the savagery of Apaches. Which is understandable since many of
them are Apaches.
Green Mountain Boys:
An ever moving
Freeholder army constantly moves up and down the mountains of
the Northeast, a plague to the Kurians and innocent hardscrabble
farmers alike.
The Boundary Waters:
This
semi-independent area is nominally under the Quislings and
therefore the Kurians, but Reapers can only hunt here during the
warmest summer months.
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