Veliko Tarnovo Province
Veliko Tornovo is a major population center of Bulgaria. It boasts a wide variety of economic and cultural endeavors, rooted in its proud history. Its ancient hills boast a large number of medieval ruins and fortresses, as well as rumors of undiscovered remains of vastly more ancient civilizations.
The Capital, also called Veliko Tornovo was once the capital of medieval Bulgaria, as its 70,000 or so people are quick to point out. A pall of ancient grudges seems to permeate the psyche of the city. Nearby villages push the population to about 100,000.
The city is ruled from the Fortress of Tsarevets by an ancient inhuman creature known as the Counter of Bones. Its several elder and ancilla childer administer various aspects of the province. Its second eldest surviving childe, Isho the Terrible, is largely responsible for its membership in, and relations with the Southern Court. Isho seems to have remarkable control over his Zulo form, being only slightly hampered in social relations while maintaining the hideous visage.
Gorna Oryahovitsa is a center of intensive agriculture. A network of sugar plantations surround the town, and the smell of sugar refineries casts a haze over its 50,000 people. A creature known as Anastas the Krueger, rumored to be the Bone Counter's eldest childe, brutally ensures the efficiency of the factories.
Svishtov is a one-time fortress that has seen a great deal of recent redevelopment. A major earthquake in 1977 may or may not have been a result of a dispute between the town's former overseer and an itinerant Koldun, but it is known that the Counter of Bones recently sent its youngest childe, Molok Cvetkov, to oversee the town. It's 33,000 people have prospered recently, employing themselves in high finance, wheat production, and electronics and chemical manufacturing.
