Stirland

Stirland, officially the Grand County of Stirland, is a founding Electoral Province of the Empire that extends to the eastern frontier of that nation. Stirland is a rugged highland province famous for its rural backwater society and the province's close affiliation with death. Such attitudes stem from the province's close association with its constituent County of Sylvania, a haunted land defined by misty forests, ancient castles resting on craggy peaks like circling vultures and the tendency of its dead to emerge from their graves at regular intervals.

Ever since the end of the Vampire Wars, the province of Stirland has been given the rights by the Imperial crown to all the lands of eastern Sylvania. This essentially doubled the size of the province, but did little to improve the province's fortunes. Indeed, Stirland is a relatively poor country in comparison to its close southern neighbours such as Averland or Wissenland.

The citizenry of Stirland are a conservative and superstitious lot, known for their backwards outlook and religious intolerance. The banner of Stirland shows a skeleton sounding a hunting horn, signifying a call to battle. The skeleton itself is a common symbol of the lands, an expression of both the Stirlander battle cry "Victory or Death" and a grim reminder of the lands of Sylvania that they share borders with.