Eastfold

Eastfold is the easternmost region of the Arathi Empire, and arguably its most prosperous region. Located in an ore-rich valley split by the gentle river Eastrun, the lords of Eastfold harvest wine, wool, iron, and dyes to process in the growing port-town Hasic. Though once populated entirely by Trolls and outlaws, Eastfold is now a relatively safe region in a continent that is quickly falling apart. Roads run east from the old seat of the Arathi duke through open fields and vineyards, spotted with well-kept castles and holdfasts, and end at the coast to a relatively calm, if foggy, bay. The coastline hosts a series of small ports, though Hasic is the most important and provides unprecedented wealth to the region.

Eastfold's wealth, however, comes at a price to its overlords: the nobles and guilds of Eastfold exercise nearly unchecked power over their own affairs, and Arathi authority is not only openly challenged, but mocked. To further complicate matters, the guilded and knighted masters of Hasic's Free League swore fealty to King Terenas Menethil during the Second War. Now Eastfold knelt to two masters: Strom and Lordaeron. Infighting in the wake of the disastrous River Campaign was endemic, unlikely to resolve itself until Eastfold had a clear-cut master.

Current Affairs
With Eastfold lost after the collapse of the Scarlet Crusade, the barely-contained anarchy in the countryside exploded into civil war. Knowledge of Eastfold's affairs was only secondhand before Orazio Garibald, by leave of Her Royal Majesty Madelynne I, took a task force into the abandoned duchy.

More civil war had erupted. The Syndicate, spurned Alteraci nobles, had strongarmed many of the Eastfolder nobility into fighting for their economic and political dominance. Many more nobles still clung to the illusion of practicing independence, ignoring the crumbling societies of Lordaeron around them. The Syndicate used as proxy the baroness Chartlotte Marlow, a claimant to the County of Itonum. Orazio Garibald rallied the Hasican lords. After two bloody battles the then-named Viscount came out ahead, albeit with the loss of most of Eastfold's nobility.

As the lone ruler of Eastfold, Orazio Garibald has dedicated the vast majority of his personal wealth to revitalizing his homeland's struggling economy.