Piggymoto- All Star Boar Band

Here’s a little something I doodled last night.  It’s a map of Mancemyth.  There are a WHOLE lot more little towns than are shown here, and I will probably update the map as time passes, but these include al the major points of interest for the story.  Including Farpoint, Candleton (the capitol), and Mina’s home town Winterwood.

History of Lancemyth

<!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –>Up until the most recent decade, this young, peninsula nation was just a confederated collection of independent city-states, with no centralized organization or government to speak of. Trade between cities was difficult and dangerous because of varying tax rated, currency values and social laws. The only thing uniting individual cities, really, was the threat of invasion by neighbors to the west and east.

(royal fairies to the east, imperial humans to the west)

It was not until goblins invaded from a small island to the north that the people of Lancemyth realized the need for unified defense. Humans and Fairies seized this opportunity to flood Lancemyth with their forces in an attempt to take the peninsula. Lancemythian militias, however, organized by a young warrior bull named Ralph Lowemann, held off and eventually expelled all three invading forces.

The city states then united, establishing a two-part government in which the king held executive power over the military, and a council of citizen-elected officials to oversee domestic issues. In the passing years, Lancemyth has grown stronger, despite taking heavy losses during the brief war, and with the dissolution of Human and Fairy cooperation pacts, foreign trade has flourished.

It is in Lancemyth that All Star Boar Band is set.

In the northern-most port city, Farpoint, resides a company called the Almoners’ Outfitters. Founded as a way to employ the local handicapped and impoverished, the company grew in popularity among explorers, adventure seekers and treasure hunters for their fair trade practices and low prices. After the recent Elf / Human / Goblin conflict, however, and with the death of the company’s founder, the Almoners’ Outfitters fell on hard times and needed a serious boost.

It was the idea of the founder’s daughter and heiress to expand the company rather than employ more conservative business practices. She decided that with world-class talent to sing the company’s praises across the nation, the Almoners’ Outfitters mission and popularity would grow. And thus was born the Almoners’ Outfitters’ international talent search.

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