Duchy of Heller
the autonomous New World polity founded by survivors of the Compañero expeditions, founded about twenty years ago, whose formal autonomy within Valdegracian dominion is far more recent, and obliged to answer its call in time of war.
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- Welcome to AeonCodex chapter
…iracles may have a physics, and its physics may have a theology. You may play a Duchy of Heller engineer who trusts brass and figures more than priests. You may play a Valdegracian cleric who still believes the old…
- The World of AeonCodex chapter
…departures from it. Their loyalty is structural, not chosen. Then there is the Duchy of Heller. It occupies a different category entirely. The colony is approximately twenty years old, its founders not crown appoin…
- A History of the Sundering WorldCodex chapter
…d reformist counterweight to Valdegracian orthodoxy. Smaller states such as the Duchy of Heller learned to survive by agility, seriousness, and the dangerous conviction that they deserved independence enough to figh…
- The Continental PowersCodex chapter
…ons gallery for the full lore of Valdegracia, Albion, Stroomdijk, Luminore, the Duchy of Heller, Éirighdún, Eisenmark, and Volkharov. The Setting Guide devotes a full dossier to each continental power. On this site…
- Archipelagos of the Mar de OroCodex chapter
…company charter. It exists to generate returns and is governed accordingly. The Duchy of Heller is the autonomous Valdegracian colonial territory, governed by Dux Hernanus Costesius de Heller and Dux Franciscus Pere…
- Creating a CharacterCodex chapter
…d. If what you are actually looking for is a new start, then Mar de Oro and the Duchy of Heller in particular are worth understanding as destinations rather than merely as theaters of action. The Golden Sea lies far…
- Homelands and PeoplesCodex chapter
…egracia, Albion, Stroomdijk, Luminore, Eisenmark, Volkharov, Éirighdún, and the Duchy of Heller. Golden Sea origins and formations include Tarlaxian households, Oruvai settlements, and colonial-born communities. The…
- Belonging in the Golden SeaCodex chapter
…ld is composed of Albionite merchants, Stroomdijk factors, Valdegracian clergy, Duchy of Heller craftsmen, and island-born harbor families with their own trade, their own politics, and their own long memory of the w…