Kernsee

Size
The city of Kernsee covers an area of approximately 402 acres, with a total population of 24 thousand people. King Halebran Coatsee has assigned actual administration of the city to the Council of Nobles, with almost 2 dozen members. They serve terms of 4 years, and one quarter are elected every year by their fellow nobles.

Places of Note
The Rookery

History
The City of Kernsee was founded as a fortified outpost of the Empire of Ternbreth in 3603, on the northern shore of the seemingly uninhabited Harad Talath. As they explored, they learned that it was not uninhabited at all - Elves to the West, Dwarves to the East, and all sorts of Monstrous Beings dotted the landscape. There were, to be sure, small settlements of men sprinkled about - but these were the declining towns and enclaves of the collapsed Empire Of Aristum. The men of Ternbreth had no warning or inclination that their own empire was living on borrowed time as well, and soon they would be facing the prospect of building a new world from the ashes of the old.

In the Year 3653, calamity struck Ternbreth. A plague burned through the primary population centers, and the ministrations of Clerics and Doctors were unable to do more than slow its progress. Within 10 years, two thirds of the population of Tern Beroo, and half of all of the Ternbreth Empire, had died. Luckily for Kernsee, the plague never reached the shores of Harad Talath, and the city somehow survived.

Left in such a weakened state, the Empire of Ternbreth became easy pickings for bands of Orcs, Goblins, Hobgoblins, and all manner of Ogre and Giantkind to fall upon them. To make matters worse, the most capable and wealthiest fled to Kernsee, having learned of it's relative safety, leaving behind the sick and weak. Waves of refugees from the old empire swelled the population of Kernsee and the surrounding territories.

Not everyone who boarded a ship for Kernsee was so lucky as to reach the city. The 3 weeks of passage were more than enough for anyone carrying the plague to sicken, and spread the disease to his fellow passengers. There were stories of these "plague ships" floundering at sea, devoid of living souls, until they finally sank or ran aground on the shoals of the southern continent.