<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/c3/Alamie.jpg)</div>The Baronry of Alamie has been unkindly described as one big flat stretch of grass.  Though this picture isn't entirely accurate, it does leap to mind when a traveler reaches the plains.  Until he gained the southern hills-cum-mountains, he'd have to call the terrain mostly featureless.  Waves of corn surround village after village and the air smells of animal fertiliser.<br/><br/>Alameins share their Baron's dislike for the Tuors.  They resent that the land to their west could be theirs to farm and hold, and they take this anger out on the Tuors they find.  The people of Alamie's capital, Lofton, see themselves as more rational than their country counterparts, but they still harbour a lingering dislike for Tuornen.  Alameins can be friendly and affable, though, as long as no one broaches the subject of their enemies to the west.<br/><br/>Alamie holds one of the most unenviable positions among the Baronies.  To its south are the Orc tribes of the Five Peaks, lead by the mysterious wizard known only as the Eyeless One.  Abutting the hilltop forts of the Orcs are the lowland camps of the Mhor, a half-elf who has sworn a blood feud with the Baron of Alamie.  The bandits and brigands of the Mhor have shown a remarkable skill in avoiding the punative raids the Baron sends against them and rumours persist that the Mhor has some ability to access the Shadow World in which to hide his desperados.<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Regent:</strong>Carilon Alam rules here.  This greedy, avaricious man cares nothing for his realm - he hopes instead to take the rulership of Blackmoore from Darien Avan or at least make the history scrolls as a great stateman.  He has little chance of either.  Carilon has been lobby Duke Avan hard for the past year, trying to illicit his support for another attack on Tuornen.  The Duke isn't convinced that Alamie subsuming Tuornen is a good thing and he certainly doesn't trust Carilon Alam.  For the time, he entertains the Baron when necessary, but has is trying to build support in the Council of Barons to have Carilon ousted.</li><li><strong>Capital:</strong>Lofton, like its sister city Haes sports giant walls with many towers.  Its as if the city already feels itself under seige.</li><li><strong>Important Towns:</strong>Sorentier (home to the Iron Guard of Alamie - a knightly order that isn't very knightly)</li><li><strong>Trade Goods:</strong>Corn, lots and lots of corn.  Fat corn, thin corn, clean corn, dirty corn, tall corn, short corn, black corn, brown corn, yellow corn...even smelly corn.</li><li><strong>Important Persons:</strong> Besides the Baron's two cousins who fill the offices of Sheriff and Chamberlain, the only other person of note in Alamie is the guildmaster Kalien.  This half-elf owns much of the trade in Alamie.  The guilder has made it clear that the southern parts of Alamie belong to him; when the law steps in to remove any of Kalien's operations, people wind up dead.  Many suspect that Kalien is in cahoots with the Mhor.</li></ul>