Greyhawk's Duchy of Tehn

[Havard]

From the Living Campaign:

The Tenhas
The survivors of the Tenha people now huddle in the havens of Redspan and Atherstone or in unnumbered camps scattered throughout the Phostwood. Fewer than 33,000 Tenhas survive in the land of Tenh itself. Others have fled east or south to the Pale, Nyrond, the Urnsts and beyond. The Tenha people, decimated by a decade of death and disaster and strewn far and wide by the winds of fate, stand now on the verge of extinction.

Tragically, though their survival depends on unity, the loyalties of the Tenha people are now bitterly divided. Many of those who fled to the Pale converted to the One True Path of Pholtus. Calling themselves the Faithful Flan, they now strive to bring the Blinding Light to Tenh and create a theocracy allied (and subservient) to the Pale. Ranging forth from their base at Atherstone, the Refulgent Companies of the Faithful Flan are superbly equipped and trained by their Palish masters, fighting mainly as infantry, relying on Palish heavy cavalry for support. Their morale and discipline is superb, though even some conservative clerics in Wintershiven have expressed disquiet at the extreme fanaticism of some Tenha converts.

Many Tenhas have remained loyal to Duke Ehyeh and the warriors of the duke's Tenha Host are drawn from their ranks. Led by Marshal Laba, the Loyalists fight to reclaim their birthright in the name of their liege lords and the old customs of the realm. Laba has managed to reassemble several squadrons of the medium cavalry for which the Tenha Host was once famed and feared. Clad in mail and wielding bow, lance, longsword or kathach, they wear the red cloaks and kukris of the Host with pride. The kukri and the kathach, (a long-bladed kukri), are traditional Tenha weapons, often worn as symbols of authority by nobles and officers.

There is bitter hatred between the factions. While the Faithful Flan consider the Loyalists as heretics blindly following false gods and a fallen apostate (Ehyeh), the Loyalists see the Faithful as traitors to their traditions, their people and their realm, aiding foreign invaders in the conquest of Tenh. Clashes are frequent and bloody, with quarter rarely being asked or given.

Source: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/lgmp/20040629a

-Havard