Rulers of Blackmoor

[aldarron]

In the case of the Dog Duke and the Bloody Duke, I wonder if they were actually Dukes, or that they were instead Barons. If not, we could take it to mean that Blackmoor was reduced to a Barony after the fiasco with the Bloody Duke, with Vestfold (Earldom) becoming the dominant center of the region.
-Havard

Looking at it more closely, I think this really does make a lot of sense. TWC has the newly established Cabal reestablishing ties with Thonia. We can pretty much assume the mage wars destroyed whatever political boundaries and powers existed previously and that the empire/Cabal redrew the lines and established the Baronies we know. Perhaps a handful of the older houses survived.