Dolovai

Dolovai is the northern country on the continent of Menechit.

Dolovai is a fairly mountainous country that is bisected by the imposing Amaran mountains, home to dragons and all other manner of monsters. Politically, it’s an amalgam of what used to be three different countries, until the other two were conquered by Dolovai about a thousand years ago. It’s ruled by the ven Sancte family, with Gerard and Georgina ven Sancte being the current king and queen.

The capital of Dolovai is called Three Hills, a large, old city built upon the fossil of a smaller, older and much more haunted city. The ven Sancte family rules from here, and here you will also find the mages’ academy, the First Church of the Blessed and the headquarters of the country’s order of knights.

Pelican Bay is Dolovai’s largest city and its most important port, a coastal city with a huge impact on trade and a long mythic history of housing saints. The other major northern port is White Cape, which serves as the usual landing point for ships sailing over from the empire in the west and also an access point to the far north. Merket is a small city that serves as a home to adventurers and quests, and is known to house two assassins’ guilds and numerous mercenary companies. In Merket, as in much of the north with the exception of White Cape, human slavery remains legal, a holdover from an older northern kingdom that was conquered ages ago. Merket is the former capital of the old northern kingdom of Porean (or Tenchere, depending on which history you read).

Dolovai is also home to a large forest on its western edge, home to witches and centaurs, and the longest stretches of the Saint’s River, the longest marine thoroughfare on the continent.