Le Breton
This is the heartland of Bretonnia, the
land of the kingdom's founder, Giles le Breton, and its largest
province. Breton covers a diverse area that includes some of the
kingdom's largest wilderness areas, the Arden Forest, the Pale Sisters,
the Chalons Forest, and the northernmost ends of the Grey Mountains and
Massif Orcal. It also contains some of the Kingdom's best agricultural
land, its towns have all the cultural and technological advantages of
being close to the capital, and it has a greater proportion of major
nobles than any other province (most of them connected to the Royal
Blois family). The stereotypical foreigner's picture of Bretonnia:
peasants toiling in fields, sleepy villages, nobles in palaces in
walled estates, and fashion-conscious and stylish gentry in the towns
is actually based on Breton. The inhabitants of Breton (who often style
themselves "true Bretonnians") are proud of their province, and see
themselves as being a cut above everyone else.
Stereotypes: "The Bretons? They
think they're better than anyone else, don't they? Every other farmer
you meet will tell you that he's descended from Giles le Breton. He
must have sired bastards on every wench he met!"