<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 30pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: chaucer;">Andres-Upon-Vail</span></span><br/><br/>(http://images2.alphacoders.com/176/176950.jpg)<br/></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://www.cartographersguild.com/feature/FogdownMap.jpg)</div></div><br/>Andres-Upon-Vail is a complex city, with a storied past and a promising future.  It has attracted adventurers and speculators since its founding as an outpost approximately 700 years before the End of the Great Oceanic War.  It's stock in trade:  adventure.  The city does not actually produce sustainable resources on its own, but serves as the world's import-export mecca, as it lies directly between two great continents separated by an expansive ocean.<br/><br/><strong>Physical Area:</strong>The kingdom of Andres-Upon-Vail is a city state that covers an area of 51 thousand square miles. Of this, 23% is arable land, and 7% are mountains, and 70% is ocean.<br/><br/><strong>Population:</strong>The kingdom of Andres-Upon-Vail has a total population of 3.1 million citizens.<br/><br/><strong>Settlements:</strong>The largest city has a population of 800 thousand people, the second largest 22 thousand. There are three other cities of note in the kingdom, and 60 towns. The remaining population lives in numerous small villages, isolated dwellings, etc.<br/><br/><strong>The King of Andres-Upon-Vail:</strong>The King of the Watery Road is his Majesty the Duke of Roelle and Defender of the Crown, Ellison the Noble.  He is an 18-year-old bon-vivant who is somewhat obtuse about the needs of his people, and has an extensive history of cruelty and pettiness.<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><strong>Gods:</strong>The blessings of the gods do not manifest themselves in the traditional D&D sense.  Though a majority of Andresians worship some god, there is no affixed pantheon and the government does not observe any religious holidays.  The Crown is not averse to religion, but it recognizes that there are so many different faiths on the island that it simply would not get anything done if it observed<em>all</em>religious holidays.  Players are encouraged to create their own gods.