The following information would be readily known by anyone with the following skills;
Knowledge: Cryllor (DC 11) - Taking 10 with atleast one rank guarantees success
Knowledge: Keoland (DC 15) for each item.
The County of Cryllor has grown rapidly of the last few years. There has been a major influx of refugees from other areas of the Sheldomar valley; especially from Sterich and Geoff. The main immigrants have high concentrations of dwarves. These dwarven refugees are drawn to the mines and smiths that Cryllor has in abundance.
County Background:
Province Name: Cryllor
Province Type: County
Ruler: Count Ignas Manz (Lady Regent Lora Manz currently exercises most of the powers of rulership)
Government: Hereditary lord, advised but not bound by unofficial advisors, numerous subinfeudated lords and knights .
Capital: City of Cryllor
Heraldry: A red field with a black chevron, with a gold eagle above the chevron and a white tower below the chevron.
Population: Humans: 139,123: Suel: 1012, Oeridian: 8374, Flan: 254, mixed: 129,483; Elves: 0; Gnomes: 415; Halflings: 327; Dwarves: 1705
Languages: Common, Keoish, Dwarven among the dwarves
Religions: St. Cuthbert, Heironeous, Ehlonna, Fharlanghn, Zilchus, Trithereon, Xerbo, and Norebo
all have significant numbers of adherents (about 5000 active worshippers each on average); Kord, Olidammara, Lydia, Osprem, and Phaulkon all have significant but smaller numbers of human worshippers, mostly in the City.
Alignments: LN, LG, NG, N, CG, LE, in that order of frequency.
Towns: One major city, City of Cryllor. 14 smaller towns (between 1000 and 2000 people each), including Gerth along the Javan, Gammel on the trade routes to the mines, Cryford across the Javan River from Longspear, and Eldmyn and Denlock, which are mining towns.
Resources: Mined metals (gold, silver, iron, copper, very small amounts of adamantium and mithril), some gems (type III), and some coal; produces large amounts of steel (60% of Keoland's total supply), and high quality worked metal items.
The County of Cryllor is one of the two western counties of Keoland. Cryllor is ruled by Count Ignas Manz of House Bazrial, a somewhat despotic and crass ruler who is known for his aggression and malice. Due to a recent ailment, the Count’s daughter, Lora, is currently exercising rulership. Cryllor is a relatively wealthy area of Keoland. Trade is crucial to Cryllor's wealth, with the rest of the wealth coming from the mineral resources of the foothills of the easternmost Jotens and the wealthy Good Hills mines that are within the County, either directly through the mining operations or indirectly through trades that rely on the plentiful, cheap materials, thus resulting in a much higher number of jewelers, goldsmiths, blacksmiths, weapon and armor smiths, and so forth.
Cryllor has considerable problems with orcs, ogres, trolls, and giants from the Lost Lands of Sterich and the deeper Jotens. Likewise, banditry is a persistent problem in Cryllor, aggravated by the border with Yeomanry: bandits often will set up their camps in one kingdom and launch attacks in the other. Pursuing the bandits across the river could lead to a border war, thus enabling them to escape effectively. The County has aggravated relations with Yeomanry by pushing over the borders in expansionist drives and in efforts to control the threats from the Jotens. Because the County has followed up on some of these expansions by building mines, the Yeomanry is convinced that the bandit and humanoid problems were just an excuse.
The County's population is overwhelmingly human (about 99%). Most humans live on small farms and in villages scattered througout the County, although significant numbers live in the City of Cryllor and in several towns at key locations within the county. The largest concentration of dwarves anywhere in Keoland live in the County of Cryllor, nearly twice the number of dwarves anywhere else in Keoland. Almost all of the dwarves live either in the City of Cryllor or in the mining camps in the Jotens, and nearly 90% of the dwarves are refugees who did not live in Cryllor prior to the Greyhawk Wars and the fall of Sterich. There are also notable gnomish and halfling populations, although only a few hundred of each. These populations are overwhelmingly found in the portions of the Good Hills within the County. There are no appreciable numbers of elves living in Cryllor, although a few pass through from time to time. There are more half-orcs in Cryllor than in almost any other area of Keoland because of the large numbers of orcs in Cryllor, but these numbers are not significant (less than a hundred).