This is the image Bretonnians want to project, and it is not entirely false. It is seen as a land of honour and virtue, where noble knights keep the domain safe as peasants till the fields, where chivalrous heroes slay monsters and rescue fair damsels. Bretonnian chefs are famous for their culinary skills, and the wine produced in the vineyards of the country is renowned throughout the world. It is a green land of fertile farms, rolling hills, starkly beautiful mountains, and airy forests. īretonnia is widely considered to be the fairest and most beautiful land in all the Old World. The Bretonnian calendar is offset from the Sigmarian Empire's by about 977 years, as the people of the Bretonni weren't fully united until King Gilles' reign as the first Bretonnian monarch. This mysterious goddess of purity, light and order is believed to have aided Gilles le Breton in unifying Bretonnia into a single kingdom, during a Greenskin invasion from the Southern Mountains in 978 IC. The religion that currently dominates this great feudal kingdom is the worship of a local elemental deity known to the Bretonnian people only as the Lady of the Lake. Due to this regime, the combined military might of Bretonnia has surpassed that of even the greatest armies in history. With their great sails billowing in the wind, Bretonnia's mighty fleets are a majestic sight on the high seas. It is not only Bretonnia's knights who are famed, however, for the kingdom also boasts the finest Human sailors in the mortal world. The knights of Bretonnia are trained to fight from childhood, and even the lowliest Knights Errant are considered superior to ordinary warriors. Their skills are further enhanced through constant training, battles and tournaments. A proud and honourable kingdom, the armies of Bretonnia are comprised mostly of knights and nobles, who ride into battle with lance, horse, and sword, seeking glory and rooting out injustice wherever they go. Ruled by a monarch officially called the " royarch," the realm of Bretonnia has been known throughout the kingdoms of Men for having the greatest knights in the entire Old World, even surpassing those of the Knightly Orders of the Empire. Bretonnia is second only in size to that of the Empire among the realms of Men in the Old World, and is both the Empire's chief rival and closest ally, having a culture and society that revolves around the ideals of nobility, a strict social hierarchy based on aristocratic birthright, and the upholding of a strictly enforced code of chivalry. Beastmen Bretonnia, formally the Kingdom of Bretonnia, also known more prosaically as the " Land of Chivalry," is a highly martial Human feudal kingdom of the Old World that lies between the lands of the Grey Mountains and the Great Ocean.
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