Desolace Fluff

Desolace is a strange place home to the stout be secretive dwarves,the well inquisitive and experimenting gnomes as well an attendant human population. That's not the strange part, the strange part is magic in most of it forms won't function here. Thus despite the best efforts of many a sage or magician the notoriously poor rocky soil of Desolace is still barely arable. The people have made up for this by mastering the arts or mining, metalwork, smithing and tinkering. They create both the best metal goods in the empire, and mechanical wonders that boggle the mind. No small amount of brute labor is attended to by clockwork machines in Desolace, only made possible by the superior metals and intricate tinkering it's populace has learned over the centuries.

The economy of Desolace imports much of it's food while exporting metal goods, clockwork trinkets and other forged or finished products, also wine. Grapes grow very well in Desolace for some strange reason. This has shifted in recent years as with the advent of imporved clockwork machines people move to the city to find jobs, usually making clothing or attending to the smithies or refineries. The mines and few fertile fields are worked by man, dwarf, gnome and clockwork apparati.

The military of Desolace is loosely organized, there isn't much need for it since it's near the center of the empire. That being said Desolace troops get the best gear available. It's also be rumored that some clockwork machines have been fitted with weapons and armor in case there is a major military action needed.

Domestically the people of Desolace are mostly neutral with their lot, usually. They aggregate in cities due to the farms not needing them and work on mass production jobs. This raises discontent considerably. This is countered by the large amount of easy to obtain wine of various strengths. Since there is little in the way of nobility in Desolace(no one wanted the lands cause they mostly suck, so the few nobles hold vast swaths of it) so most people marry for love. The population remain small to no one's surprise as food is hard to obtain with importing.

Elric is the human lord of Desolace. A man of average with broad shoulders dark ahair and a swarthy complexion. He looks at 50 much like he did at age 25, this combined with his stature leads some people to say he has dwarven blood in him. Elric despite looking otherwise is a thinker and a tinker. He routinely make clockwork machines and refines his designs to make them better. Indeed several of his designs are used in Desolace right now.

Molric is considered a political non-entity usually as no one wishes to bother his lands and he does not much care for anyone else's. However he is always watching, and analyzing as much in a common room among nobles as he is in his workshop making machines. He's know fool.

His military experience is lacking as there has been no need for it in long time in his lands, not since his great- grandfather. However it has been observed several of his machine could be used for war with relatively minor refits.