The Dragonborn Empire

The dragonborn empire is ruled by two monarchs with prescribed portfolios: one rules over the domain of war, one over the maintenance of internal order. The war king, sitting on the red throne, rules the south. The Gold Queen, from the court of splendor, rules in the north.

The empire is a mix of races divided into a caste system. At the top are the dragonborn. The empire shelters a dwarven hall famous for its dragon fired weapons and armour, the dwarves occupy the next merchant caste. Humans occupy the lowest slave caste, employed as slave labour in the limited agriculture and great salt mines of the empire. A slightly better, if not safer, fate for these slaves is service in the armies of the dragonborn protecting the borders. This is a life of battle and harsh discipline.

Travelling bands of Tabaxi, natives of the salt-deserts, range across the empire outside of the caste system but treated with relative distrust and neglect by the ruling dragonborn. These desert peoples are traders, scavengers, and ascetics.

The empire is extremely isolationist and xenophobic, and entry and travel into the dragon lands requires a royal warrant that is rarely granted. They maintain diplomatic ties to Liefin and the elves, but have few links with the human kingdoms and marches.