Armes de FlandresLes Flandres

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.


Stereotypes: "The Flemings? They're more than half Marienburger, even their nobles are surrounded by bankers and lawyers."

Major noble Families :  Dumourieux, Artois
Towns : Couronne, Antorpe