For many centuries, The north-eastern
province of Flandres was seen as dismal by the nobility of Bretonnia.
Although it had a number of ports and some good agricultural land
notably around the Sannez valley, by and large it was a wet, cold and
miserable place, marked by marshes and moorland. Its Eastern border was
studded with the castles of the ancient families who stood watch
against the threat of invasion from the Empire, and its countryside was
full of superstitious peasants and covens of witches.
All this has gradually changed as the
area has become a centre for the cloth industry, weaving and dying the
wool imported from Albion and exporting it across the Old World. The
towns of Flandres are fairly prosperous, and its merchants increasingly
influential. As a result, the old nobility like the Artois are losing
power to the new nobility with close links to the rising merchant class
like the Dumourieux.
Major
noble Families : Dumourieux,
Artois
Towns : Couronne, Antorpe