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 not always follow their own rules.
+<WRAP relinfobox>
+<WRAP relinfoboxtitle>Sword of the Black Needles</WRAP>
+Five centuries ago, as Lanjyr was reeling\\
+from the fall-out from the Great Malice,\\
+the Voice of Rot rose up against Risur and \\
+cast a smoky pall across the sun. The king \\
+at the time, Dukain, was a mighty but aged \\
+wizard who wielded magic through his sword. \\
+He traveled to a mountain ridge overlooking \\
+the High Bayou, known as the Black Needles, \\
+and there he battled the fey titan, which had\\
+taken the form of a towering anaconda of \\
+smoke and peat.
+The king battled the titan high into the \\
+Black Needles, and after three days neither\\
+side could force the other to surrender.\\
+Realizing he could not defeat the titan \\
+and thus was unworthy of his crown, Dukain\\
+cast aside his sword and abandoned the\\
+battle. The titan, in its fey logic, saw\\
+that it and the king were equally matched,\\
+so when Dukain ceased to fight, so did the\\
+titan. Dukain yielded his crown to his\\
+chosen successor, the titan returned to its\\
+slumber, and Risur was saved.
+Scholars fear that should the lost Sword\\
+of the Black Needles ever be recovered,\\
+it would signal a resumption of battle \\
+for the fey titan, and once again threaten\\
+the existence of Risur</WRAP>
 ==== Fey Titans, Archfey, and the Unseen Court ====
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 he was excited to try something new after so long.
-==== Royal Homeland Constabulary ====
+==== Royal Homeland Constabulary (Gendarmerie de Défense Royale) ====
 With the recent influx of foreign technologies and
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 share the land with, but they believe the era of
 those beings has rightfully passed.\\
-While the northern nations waged holy wars be-
+While the northern nations waged holy wars between the Clergy and the Seedism faith of Elfaivar, Risur was preoccupied defending its borders from
-tween the Clergy and the Seedism faith of Elfaivar
+the sub-men of what is modern Ber. The dragons
+who terrorized the lands south of the Anthras
+Mountains feared the progress of civilization, and
+would often gather armies of savages to raid or as-
+sault Risur. It is believed that two centuries ago
+King Boyle slew the last great dragon of Ber, after
+which attacks from the south finally faded.\\
+No sooner had Risur found safety to its south
+than did Danor arise in power to the north. Risur
+and Danor have warred for nearly two hundred
+years, mostly using the islands of the Yerasol Ar-
+chipelago as a proxy battle ground, in a series of
+four Yerasol Wars. Occasional waves of conquest
+have lapped over each nation’s shores, and today the
+two countries have more in common than either
+likes to acknowledge. The current king assumed
+the throne at the end of the Third Yerasol War,
+four decades ago, and he presided over the fourth,
+in which Risur lost much land against the threat of
+Danor’s superior technology.\\
+Leaders of Risur’s merchant guilds, its military,
+and its noble families are grateful for the stabil-
+ity, but fear a resumption of hostilities. They have
+taken advantage of the new international cordial-
+ity in order to catch up with Danor’s technological
+revolution. Whether the next threat comes from
+Danor or another foe, Risur is arming.