Castamere

The Kingdom of Castamere is an absolute monarchy located on several islands in the Diana Sea. It is the successor state to the Kingdom and County of Reyoume, after it regained control of Couronne and took over the islands of Daekrahm. It is ruled by King Veylin Royce II.

The Black Isles
Blackstone was a volcanic island with a minute population, so small and unnoted that it was never discovered, until King Mathis I Royce discovered the island in the Fall of 187 T.E. Before this, a small population of natives lived on the island in relative blissful ignorance of the outside world.

Couronne
Couronne, like Blackstone, avoided detection like Blackstone. It, however had a much larger population, and engaged in some trade with the outside world.

Daekrahm
Unlike its more fortunate, Eastern neighbors, the Western island of what would become Castamere was large, close to the mainland, and consisted only of a flat plain. With little natural defense, when the Rathniri colonizers arrived, a group seized the opportunity of a weak, easily conquerable region. They established a small kingdom on the Western reaches of the Island, and there built the city of Black Creek.

Blackstone and Couronne
Cactus, a federal official of Merkonis, sought to flee from the terrors that shook the world around him, amidst the Chaos of the Fourth Sand War and the Collapse of The Eldham Union. So, taking a small ship with his closest friends, he sailed across the sea with the intent to make his way to safety, somewhere far from war. Instead, he landed on a tiny Isle off the coast of Samora. Naming it Blackstone in recognition of the black stone mountain the Island sat on, he and his allies subdued the few natives and set about carving the mountain into a great fortress. When they set sail West, winds carried them to the Island of Couronne, where they once more found a lightly armed native population easy to subdue. Taking the Island and establishing a port city, Cactus returned to Blackstone and declared himself King of Reyoume, a word for Kingdom in the local tongue.

The Red Plague
In the year 193, a great plague struck the small Kingdom, and killed most of the inhabitants, including the Kings issue, and the entire population of Couronne. After this, the Kingdom was abolished, and instead it was managed as a county. The king shut himself in the walls of the keep, not leaving for many years.