Kingdom of Lordaeron

''This page refers to the modern Kingdom of Lordaeron. For other uses, see Lordaeron(disambiguation). For the Ephra Glās equivalent, see Kingdom of Kashtri Linderi.''

The Kingdom of Lordaeron, officially the Kingdom of Great Lordaeron(to distinguish it from the Kingdom of Lordaeron(city-state)) is the second largest, and most populous, nation on Azeroth Beta, and is located south-southwest of the Kingdom of the Northlands, having been the only organized state(the Hill and Mountain Clans and Savolassiens not included in this count, as they are less organized tribal peoples) able to resist the might of its first king Väinämöinen, thanks to the power of the New Jury of Nine from the city of Fiumicino on the northern coasts of Lordaeron. The modern Kingdom of Lordaeron was founded when Queen JoAnna Coterel of the pre-existing City-Kingdom of Lordaeron led her own conquests contemporary with Väinämöinen, and established a contemporaneous state, changing the title to be Kings of Great Lordaeron shortly before her death, even though she had only truly conquered in her time the Orog Qhay lands of The Neck and the vassalage of the formerly independent cities of Jenwa and Carcosa on the southeastern coast.

Culturally and religiously, with a population of 12 million people(making it slightly more populous than the Northlands), Lordaeron is a patchwork of nations. While it does not have nearly as much linguistic diversity as the Northlands, in general the cultures and religions of Lordaeron are organized and highly distinct traditions, developing independent of each other during the long periods when the kingdom was divided into petty city-states and lorddoms, from the High-Tribes of the Evermerans and the Everqueendom(currently Princessipality) of Avelorn to the city-states of Middle Lordaeron(both the followers of the Church of Irene and pagan religions such as the Nehekharan-Djelybeibi Pantheon and the Faith of Arium), to the coastlines of the Jenwans and the horror-worshippers the Carcosans, to the many city-states and pantheons of Quon Tali, the great lake in the east of Lordaeron, and the Wickan tribes to the Overweald(Lordaeron) forest and the Carstein vampires, and even to The Scír(Sûza Micheldel), at the very geographical heart of Lordaeron, home to the enigmatic Hole-builders where the earth turns circles in on itself and becomes vast, bigger on the inside....

Symbols
Lordaeron is generally signified by the Blue Sun, a spiked shield with blue rays, said to have been the arms of the ancient Kingdom of Itza located in the region that is now Quon Tali. The Blue Sun is often affixed, especially by more devout Ireneists, with the Purple Lily, the symbol of Lady Irene herself. To the right is the official coat of arms of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, as devised by the ancient Lord Markus Coterel who founded the original Kingdom of Lordaeron(city-state).

History
See Timeline of Azeroth Beta for basic info

Languages
The languages of Lordaeron were originally Palenquean, but when Ysgramore changed the languages of the Palenquean nobility, he - not knowing that these people would eventually be transported to Azeroth themselves - changed the Lordaeronese nobility's languages into the language of the Azaroth, a pre-Indo-European people of Rawarab who were later abducted by the corrupt and colonialist government of The Fifteen, and transplanted into the region known as the Valley of Stormwind. The southern/transplanted Azaroth named the continent after themselves, while the northern, now Azerothi-Lordaeronite-speaking Palenqueans, gradually assimilated and made extinct the Southern Palenquean languages, except in Khaz Modan where they(the Palenquean dialects of what is now The Overweald) evolved into the Dwarven languages spoken by the mixed-race Azerothi-Northlander Dwarves.