Valleys of Kael
The Valleys of Kael are the fertile southern valleys of Raetun lying beyond the Falkorring, settled by Kael the Rich, second-born son of Þordil the Great, who established them as the heartlands of his branch of the dynasty.
Kael’s lineage divided the valleys among his sons. Þadgar the Shrewd took the southernmost territory and held its border against the foreign partisans of Olden and Prignam. Ketil Gold-tooth inherited the central lands. Podo the Wise, who could not father children, took no land at all and turned his life instead to religious reform, to the renewal of Þonart’s worship, and to the founding of the brewmaster’s craft.
Modern economics and trading practice were both adopted and authored in the Valleys under Kael, whose mercantile theory has remained the bedrock of southern commerce ever since.
The dominion that has grown across the valleys is now known politically as Verronis, “the gleaming jewel of Raetun”, though the geographic name endures in tradition.