Yudenfros

Overview
Yudenfros is a large port city-state on the West coast of the Abar-Neridic peninsula, and part of the four U’s, a confederation of four very large, very powerful port cities on the West coast. In 1495 Yudenfros annexed Yu’ulport and the plains nearby and became an empire.

Founding
Yudenfros was founded around 1380 BA by explorers coming from the North-West. It was the first large settlement to have been founded by the Ulikan travelers (Irina, Aleag and Dempur do not count as large settlements).

Dragon-worshipper infestation
In 914 AA, a dragon-worshipping cult, the Drachobild, originated in Yudenfros. It spread quickly, partly due to the similarity or dragons to the Ulikan gods. Soon, the cult was almost 2,000 people strong, and inflicting hardships against the people such as mafia-like taxation, bullying, forced conversion, and other crimes. The cult was competing with the government in terms of power! The king of that time, Crawbald Axeworthy 1, decided to do something about it. He did.

Dragon conquering
In 1485 AA, Yudenfros was shaken heavily by what seemed at first to be a mad king. The king at that time, Crawbald Axeworthy XVI, started kidnapping wise or knowledgable citizens and citizens who knew a lot of people, by stuffing them into sacks early in the morning and dragging them back to the castle to be thrown into the dungeons. Nobody knew why people were disappearing, and even the city guards who were performing the kidnappings had no idea why they were being done. A group of four adventurers, Xanaphia Aloro, Coriolis, Stumbleduck, Keeker, and Aloy (interestingly only one or these people had a last name) investigated the disappearances and eventually traced them back to

Several days after the adventuring party discovered, via a prophecy and the sewers (it’s a long story), a huge, opaque green stone buried in the hill that the city was built on, and realised that said hill was hollow and stuffed with human bones arranged in a massive pile directly under the stone, the ground of Yudenfros began to shake.

The castle, which was positioned in the centre of the city-state, collapsed as the earth split in half to reveal the aforementioned bones and out of the crevasse rose a huge, green, fire-breathing dragon, who called himself the Subvertor, the Bon’born, or Cruor. Cruor entered the minds of everyone in the city and forced them to find everything remotely valuable in the city and whereabouts and to carry and drop them into the crevasse. Another group of humans was charged with carrying tar to the wall around the city, to crate a fiery barrier that only the dragon could pass.

Re-conquering by the Band of Four
In August 1485, The Band of Four returned to Yudenfros with an army. They held a battle there against Cruor and her viny minions and eventually killed the dragon. The city was now free! The rebuilding effort then started and as of January 1491, the city is still not finished. The main damages to the city were a huge fire that ravaged the North-Western quadrant of the city, the outer wall being damages by thick vines, castle at the centre having been destroyed by the opening of a Chasm, and the filling of said chasm with anything valuable in the city.

New Regime
Under the rule of Duckhand, Yudenfros is now no longer a dictatorship but a flawed democracy. However, everyone in Yudenfros has to join the religion of Duckhandism or pay double tax on everything.

Imperialism
In 1490, rumours started to spread that Yudenfros was remilitarising and planning to invade its neighbour Yu’ulport, whose only army was privatised. In 1495 the rumours turned out to be true, and as of June 1499 Yudenfros’ territory extends from the Western Abaric Coast to the Caryed river West to East, and the fork of the Turyur road to the southernmost point of Abar North to South. The official name of this new territory is Yudenbard.

Censorship and Propaganda
In Yudenfros, censhorship is heavy. Only one newspaper is published and it is heavily regulated by the government. Propaganda such as posters, books, plays and the such are a readily available form of entertainment, and the only one readily available at that.

Food
A delicacy in Yudenfros is Gheer, a dish consisting of an oily fish resting on the rim of a terracotta bowl. The fish is slapped on the rim of the bowl until all of the oil is in the bowl, then the oil is drunk and the fish is eaten. It is usually agreed that the best Gheer in the West is served at Teegerwinkels Pub.