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Wellshire, Named after the first ruler of the land Welshea Hyborian, to the south of Amberhill and roughly midway down the Tam River, is the largest town of the Highlands of Londar and is home to a small royal family, the Hyborians. The Hyborians, distant cousins of the Boreas were granted fiefdom of the land by the king of Londar hundreds of years ago in order to govern the northern territories that were too far away to rule properly and have over time, become their own small principality. In present times, the High Council of Twelve in Hyvern City is too busy to deal with the goings on of the far northern towns and so the Hyborians have been left largely to themselves.

The name Wellshire was briefly changed to Northshire some years ago in order to twin the large town with its distant southern counterpart, Southshire, as part of an agreement regarding trade routes. This decision was later revoked when the populace refused to call their town anything other than Wellshire. Rather unfortunately for the townspeople, maps of the region had already been drawn up with the now incorrect name and it was too late to rectify without starting over. As the years passed, each new cartographer drew maps using the previous work as a base and the error was never fixed.

Almost all of the surrounding land is prime for farming and raising animals and is largely sheltered from the rougher weather of the ocean winds by the Crown Mountains to the west. Much like the folk of Amberhill, the people who reside in and around Northshire are hardy and gruff, living and working on the farms each and every day of the year, often wearing thick furs as part of their standard attire to stave off the cold.