Kingdom of Helfor

Healforians are culturally practical, blunt, and incredibly community-minded. They value work ethic, family bonds, and land stewardship. Storytelling is passed down not through books, but song and riding tales, typically performed during seasonal festivals or after harvest rituals.

Key cultural elements:

• Horse Festivals and Riding Games are both political and cultural affairs, often attended by dignitaries.
• Blade Shearing Ceremonies mark coming-of-age for young warriors, blending tradition and personal achievement.
• The Code of the Windplain dictates proper conduct, emphasizing duty, loyalty, and honorable labor.

• Rathford Hall: A large fortress-citadel, surrounded by shifting fields and windfarms, serves as the monarchy’s base.
• Hall of Seasons: A monumental structure that monitors agricultural cycles across the realm, essential to food security for the Empire.
• Crosswinds Archives: A vault containing records of weather, harvest, and conflict dating back millennia.
• Horn Gate Station: The central MAV launch zone and lev-rail station that connects all cardinal roads of Healfor.

The Kingdom of Healfor was founded in the wake of the Dragon Concord, when the tribal warfare that once consumed the realm of Alagor was brought to heel by the intercession of the Four Dragons. Among the Seven chosen to lead the new era of stability was Halric Healfor, a farmer-turned-pathfinder, renowned not for battle prowess, but for his ability to unite scattered communities through food, roads, and shared effort.

While others built fortresses or delved into magic, Halric built granaries and trade routes, ensuring that no realm in Alagor would starve in the aftermath of war. His coronation was met with respect from commoners and suspicion from warriors—but over time, his reign proved vital to the survival of the new order. The other six monarchs would come to rely on Healfor's supply lines during the first winters of peace.

Throughout its early centuries, Healfor was often overlooked in times of diplomacy, but never in times of need. It became the breadbasket of Alagor, and its cavalry would ride not to conquer, but to guard harvests, quell border skirmishes, and rescue stranded caravans.

During the Second Suian War, it was Healforian transport legions that maintained the Kingdom's internal supply network, ensuring food reached the front while the monarch remained neutral in political disputes. This neutrality has earned Healfor a unique reputation: always reliable, rarely outspoken, and never idle.

In modern times, under King Rowlan Healfor, the kingdom has embraced technological progress without losing its agrarian roots. The introduction of MAV convoy logistics and sky-silo vertical farming has allowed Healfor to remain indispensable within the realms infrastructure.

The people of Healfor do not boast of their history—but in every field turned, every child taught the Code of the Windplain, and every ride across the grasslands, that legacy endures.

The Healfor Cavalry Brigades are legendary across the realms. Mounted units combine traditional horsemanship with integrated MAV-lancers—hover-striders used for rapid movement and high-speed flanking. Their doctrine is based on speed, terrain familiarity, and overwhelming charge impact.

• Windguard Patrols: Mounted rangers that patrol the wildlands and outer trade paths.
• Stormhoof Lancers: Elite unit trained to break siege lines and maintain open supply corridors during conflict.
• Banner of the Horned Gale: A ritual squadron descended from the founding warriors, ceremonial but deployable in times of true war.

Healfor is the agricultural and resource logistics heart of Alagor. Its plains feed not just the realm but many sectors of the Sapphire Empire. Large-scale agricultural zones produce high-yield crops, medicinal flora, and sustainable foodstuffs for military and civic distribution.

Transport across Healfor relies on:

• M.A.V. Convoys (Manned Aerial Vehicle): Used to cross the flatlands and deliver fresh goods rapidly across realms.
• Lev Rails: Inter-kingdom transport linking Healfor to Athomathia, Su, and Valtoria.
• Sky Silos: High-capacity vertical farms and processing towers with lev-sled transport stations.
• Windward Canals: Old but still operational canal routes used primarily for heavy grain and ore transport.