Free Kingdoms

The Free Kingdoms are a loose assortment of feudal domains and castles, loosely ruled from Realmhold. They are a hardy people, often crude, but tall and friendly, favored to tall castles and stone things, but inside, decorated with their trademark tangletree weavings.

Dragon-riding
While the most common dragonriders are the Free Knights, others are allowed to tame dragons as well. They rarely do so with single-combat, preferring nets or other traps purchased from the Dabun.

Holidays and Feasts
The Free Kingdoms practice a number of culturally significant festivals and fetes. These include the
 * See Also: Free Kingdoms Holidays

Free Knights

 * See Also: Free Knights

The name of the knights, who are bound to their immediate feudal lord, as well as The King in Realmhold. They serve as judges, law enforcement, defenses, and ostensibly any other service of the public good. In practice, they can be bullies or protectors, good men, or bad.

Everyday Life
Dragons make many aspects of life in the Free Kingdoms possible, such as their buildings. They use many dragon-based techniques, such as blastmouth hardening or dragon's breath roasts.

Buildings
Castles are the most notable form of architecture in the Free Kingdoms, as they stand high above the landscape, forming the center of most towns. Many towns have walls or palisades around them, to keep out draca. Castles are usually crenelated, upright, and contain large interior areas, in order to protect essential persons during a draca's rampage. They are built out of stone, and often hardened by a blastmouths' flames.

Most homes are built out of stone, which is cut out of the mountains and hard slopes of their northern home, and then dragged or flown by trained dragons. This means that most are short and squat, though angled roofs are still a thing.

Decor
Tangletree Tapestries are a big thing; tree-grown cloth that can be woven and dyed into many colors. These are cheap and sturdy, often lasting for many years through a family's history, and thus, old homes have many of them. For some, this causes tapestries to be seen as a form of status; the richest houses are decorated outside and inside, and change seasonally, whereas poor folk may have but one or two, used double as bedspreads perhaps.