Electoral Provinces or Grand Provinces
The 11 current Electoral Provinces of Rhemia, also sometimes called "Grand Provinces" or "Great Provinces" include:
- Grand Principality of Reikland
- Grand County of Stirland
- Grand Barony of Hochland - Hochland is a former Electoral Province that was attached to Talabheim and then was re-granted its electoral privileges after the Turmoil of 2512 IC.
- Grand County of Averland
- Grand Barony of Wissenland
- Grand Duchy of Talabecland
- League of Ostermark - Ostermark was a former Electoral Province attached to Talabecland that was re-granted its electoral privileges after the Turmoil of 2512 IC.
- Grand Duchy of Nordland - Nordland was a former Electoral Province attached to Middenheim that was re-granted its electoral privileges after the Turmoil of 2512 IC.
- Grand Principality of Ostland
- Grand Duchy of Middenland
- Grand County of the Mootland - The Mootland, also called simply "the Moot," is the region of the realm where the Halflings of the Empire dwell, known officially as the Grand County of the Mootland. The Moot's elector, currently the Halfling Elder Hisme Stoutheart, is the only non-Human Elector in Rhemia, and like the Grand Theogonist and Arch Lectors of Appallùm, and the Ar-Ulric of Ulric, does not wield one of the magical Runefangs as a sign of their office and authority.
Former Electoral Provinces:
The former Electoral Provinces of Rhemia and other Imperial regions of note:
- Solland - Solland was destroyed as an independent Imperial province in the wake of Gorbad Ironclaw's Orc invasion of Rhemia in 1707 IC and its territory was ultimately absorbed by the Grand Barony of Wissenland.
- Westerland (The Wasteland) - The Westerland was the Imperial province that was the seat of the great commercial city of Marienburg that seceded from Rhemia in 2429 IC and became an independent city-state. Emperor Wilhem III recognized the Westerland's independence after the forces of Marienburg forcefully defeated an Imperial army dispatched to return them to the Imperial fold. The province is now known across the Old World as the Wasteland, perhaps out of a fit of pique on the part of the people of Rhemia.
- Drakwald - Drakwald was a founding Electoral Province of Rhemia that was located near the center of the Drakwald Forest, now divided up between Middenland and Nordland.
Other provinces that were once founded, but now have been abandoned:
- Lichtenberg - founded in the present-day lands of the Dessert Prince Confederacy.
- West Mark - founded in the modern territories of Braia.
- Grauesland - founded after the first Parravon War within the Grey Mountains between modern Braia and Rhemia, on the territory of modern Parravon.
Current Provinces
Provinces attached to one of the Electoral Provinces after the political reorganisation of Rhemia following the Turmoil of 2512 include the:
- Princedom of Altdorf - attached to Reikland
- Princedom of Averheim - attached to Averland
- Princedom of Carroburg - attached to Middenland
- Princedom of Wurtbad - attached to Stirland
- Protectorate of Drakwald - attached to Middenland
- Arch-duchy of Dunkelkoste - attached to Talabecland
- Duchy of Middenheim - attached to Middenland
- Grand County of Nuln - attached to Wissenland
- Barony of Sudenland - attached to Wissenland
- Duchy of Talabheim - attached to Talabecland
- Northern March - attached to Ostland
- County of Sylvania - The County of Sylvania was formerly an independent Imperial Electoral Province, but it is now officially only a constituent fief of the Grand County of Stirland. It can be sure that no other province of Rhemia would want the accursed place that was home to the von Carstein bloodline of Vampires and their necromancer and Undead followers.
- Arch-duchy of Upper Teufel - attached to Reikland
- March of Vennland - attached to Wissenland
- Westenmark - attached to Middenland
Twelve Original Grand Provinces
The provinces that Appallùm created when he founded Rhemia are not necessarily the same ones that exist at present. Some have been lost to disaster, others to invasion or civil war. Following is a list of the twelve original Grand Provinces of Rhemia, including their associated original Human tribe and that tribe's ruler at the time they were included in the newly-founded Empire of Man by Appallùm. The first Elector Counts were drawn from this "Great Confederacy;" as such, many Imperial nobles attempt to link their family line to one of these great leaders.- Averland - Brigundians (Siggurd).
- Drakwald - Thuringians (Otwin).
- Hochland - Cherusens (Aloysis).
- Middenland - Teutogens (Artur).
- Ostermark - Ostagoths (Adelhard).
- Ostland - Udoses (Wolfila).
- Reikland - Unberogens (Sigmar).
- Solland - Menogoths (Markus).
- Stirland - Asoborns (Freya).
- Talabecland - Taleutens (Krugar).
- Westerland - Endals (Marbad).
- Wissenland - Merogens (Henroth).
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