The Duchy of Zeeland

Zeeland-The Northernmost Duchy of Tralhalion

Zeeland is a land dominated by water. The only truly firm ground of the province is in the north were the rocky Rimspoint peninsula extends out into the Northern Seas, other than that the land is one vast marshland. The Zeelanders have always thus made their way via the sea, as fishermen, merchants and sailors. The capital city of Port Zee Dalstamen is a town perched precariously on rocks and stilts set into the marshy reeds of the large deepwater port that gives the region its reason for existence for here and only here is the peninsula small and flat enough to provide transshipment for goods from east to west without the long and treacherous journey around the Cape of Storms at the end of the Rimspoint.
The Zeelanders themselves are a tall people, as much descended from Njorst as Tralhali stock and the Port is as cosmopolitan an cities get. Unlike the cities of the south it is a a town of only a few stories but one in which roads are much replaced by water and canals. The difference between land and sea here is often an academic one. The people are adept at water control and plumbing and they are a proud people who are much used to the variable and wet weather, better bring your rain cape here or at least were a good waterproof broad brimmed hat for the storms here are violent and can come at unpredictable times thanks to the Great Circle Current that runs off its northern shore and funnels their strange weather from Rim and Sunward both towards them. Zeelanders are the best sailors and shipbuilders of the land.
The rest of Zeeland is the Great Tidal Marsh. A land of swamp and bog, of waterclogged rivers and bays. Its brackish waters are home to many snakes and amphibians as well as more nightmarish creatures. Rare plants and animals grown in abundance and only in the North were the now sizable New Landness territories has it been drained and turned into very rich and arable land cultivated with “floating island” farms and canals. However the wealth of Zeeland is in its fleet and ships not its land.