Rivermarch is a part of Caorran.
This is the rulership position for the realm.
The Viscounty of the Farudi River’s March, commonly shortened to Rivermarch, is a ceremonial and contested title held exclusively by the Margrave of Araluen. Though it commands no land, vassals, or autonomous authority, the title bears significant symbolic weight, serving as the spiritual successor to the, now vanished, March of the Farudi River’s Dale, once a legitimate marchesate whose seat lay within these lands and belonged to the Duchy of Falconreach.
The March of the Farudi River’s Dale, often referred to as Riverdale, was a Falconreach-held frontier territory that encompassed much of the Farudi riverlands now absorbed into Araluen. It stood as a bastion of blended peoples, layered customs, and fiercely autonomous marcher-lords. Following the expansionist campaigns of Caorrani and Araluani nobility, and the collapse of the Farudi people, the march was gradually dismantled. Yet the title, though rendered inactive, was never formally dissolved by its original stewards, and remains claimed in abstentia by the nobility of Falconreach.
In response to this legacy, the Crown of Caorran and the Lords of Araluen established a new honorific: a viscounty, granted to the Margrave as a gesture of continuity and legitimacy, an attempt to reconcile conquest with a façade of lawful succession. However, the claim is not recognized by Falconreach, nor by any known Riverdale loyalists, who regard it as an empty appropriation of a sovereign inheritance.
Today, the Viscounty of the Farudi River’s March appears in state ceremonies, diplomatic credentials, and legal references concerning riverland matters. It endures as a quiet emblem of conquest, compromise, and contested memory, clothed in the dignified trappings of feudal formality.