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===The Grand Duchy===
Thirty years ago, the Duke Stefan Karameikos traded is ancestral lands in Thyatis for the slice of land that would become the "Grand Duchy of Karameikos" in addition to independence from Thyatia, the power to the east.  The Duchy is, to a large extent, still a frontier.  When the Thyatians arrived they found it already oocupied by a people calling themselves Traladaran as well as populations of elves, halflings and dwarves.

Threshold is a logging/fishing community of some 5000 souls located in northern Karameikos.  It is in the process of undergoing a boom in population in wealth; sitting as it does on the main trade route from Darokin (a nation to the north) and Specularum (the capital of Karameikos).