Kingdom of Aarbyvale

"''If you travel to the edge of civilization. Then go a bit further, you'll run into the Kingdom of Aarbyvale. A land overrun by smugglers, pirates, and bandits. Aarbyvale is best not traveled alone....Or not at all." - ''Queen Catherine to her daughter Adrianna

The Kingdom of Aarbyvale is notorious for its scum and villainy, whose closest thing to a ruler is a proclaimed Pirate King or Queen who even then has hardley any control over the thousands of pirate clans spread about its realm.

It is one of Eleven Constituent Kingdoms on the mainland of the Continent of Calgary. Ironically due to it population being souly concentrated along the coast it is the third largest kingdom of the Eleven Kingdoms by total land area. However the majority of the realm (Especially further inland) is nothing but a barren desolate desert wastland with little to no peoples for hundreds of miles. Although there are settlements in the inland desert they act as nothing but mobile camps for the hundreds of "Land Pirate" Clans that wreak havoc on all unsuspecting travellers.

Its Capital is Troubadour which sits in Troubadour Bay at the mouth of the Skull River. Being within a rocky cove that surrounds the city, it is virtually inpregnable for attack making it a strong well supplied fortress that could last a blockade for decades if need be. The city itself is not however on the shores but is nothing but a collection of old pirate and merchant ships formed together into a single massive structure, connected via rope bridges, planks, and the famous "Rope swinging." Overlooking the city is the colossal royal pirate ship the Sea Maiden that houses the royal family that has been dragged on land and was perched on top of a sloping hill. Underneath the Sea Maiden are a series of oiled logs in which the King or Queen can sever the colossal vessel from its mount, slide down the slope and into the sea to sail to safety in times of critical emergancy.