Geography
Before its dissolution in 508, the Kingdom of Aubry extended from the far northwest tip of Gervais, southeast to the Sjölander Mountains.  Generations of Aubrien kings also claimed the bleached and lifeless White Isles as their rightful property, but the Isles have been recognized as Imperial territory since they were conquered by House Dryden in 336.  The frozen wastes known as the Howling Lands were also Aubrien territory, although but a handful of humans have ever set foot there.

Aubry is known for its unpleasant climate: bitterly cold and windy in winter, wet and gray in summer.  Except for a few densely settled areas, the soil is rocky and difficult to till.  The four major rivers of Aubry (the Doléac, the St. Pierre, the Roussel, and the Belanger) are swift and unforgiving.

Demographics
At its height, the kingdom counted nearly three million inhabitants of the various civilized races.  Of these, about 80% were human, and 70% of those in turn were of pure or mixed Nordique ancestry.  The remainder were mostly gnomes and dwarves, the latter of whom were always treated as resident aliens within the kingdom.

History
In -1507, the fierce Nordique warrior Etienne le Bleu led the first human migrants to the lands in northwest Gervais which would later become the Kingdom of Aubry.  It was Etienne who, upon arriving on these shores for the first time, christened the land "Terre Vide."  Etienne and his followers quickly spread out from the harsh and rocky northwest into the more fertile plains and forests.  Those that remained between the sea and the Ste. Marie Mountains (now known as the Sjölander Mountains) became the future subjects of Aubry.

The Nordiques were a warlike race, especially in the early history of Teravide.  For centuries they fought bitter wars against the elves, dwarves, orcs, and other races who followed them to Teravide.  The First Elf War was fought in -1465 by a coalition of human tribes against the high and wood elves of Iisalmi (now Hecquefeuille).  In this conflict, the humans were soundly defeated, and ended up ceding much of their holdings in the south.  However, the Second Elf War from -1400 to -1381 ended more favorably for the Nordiques and their allies at the time, the orcs of Whaling Brook.  As a result of the war, the elves were driven en masse from the northwest; only since the end of the Drouiniste war have they begun to return.  The Nordiques' southeast migration across the Sjölanders also triggered a number of skirmishes with the dwarf clans residing there.  In -1385, the Treaty of Pelletier established both the sovereignty of the dwarves over the mountains, and the right of human merchants to pass through them.  The War of the Red Scarf (-1212 to -1208) pitted the orcs against their erstwhile Nordique allies.  After several near-defeats, Guillaume Laracques, the leader of Clan Belanger, trounced the orc hordes at what is now known as Sept Mille Pas.

The Nordiques fought amongst themselves as much or more than they did with the other races.  From -1501 through -1097, the various clans battled ceaselessly for territory, political power, and revenge.  From time to time, one clan or another would appear to emerge as a dominant force, but this was inevitably a short-lived outcome, and the struggles would begin again shortly thereafter.  This endless cycle of violence was broken with the War of Twelve Clans (-1133 to -1097).  After a bitter, decades-long struggle, Clan Belanger, led by Darcy the Younger, emerged victorious over a coalition led by Clan Aubry.  Darcy assumed the title of King of Gervais (a grand affectation, given that the reach of the Belangers extended only as far as the mountains), and unified the northwest for the first time.

Clan Belanger ruled the northwest unopposed until -671, when Clan Aubry and its allies rebelled against the Belanger King.  The Aubrien Civil War lasted two brutal years.  Finally in -669, Aubrien agents assassinated King Fréderic, and Anne d'Aubry assumed the throne at Fillion.  Aubriens ruled their now self-titled Kingdom for all but a few decades until the assassination of King Calixte in 508.

The fortunes of the kingdom waxed and waned over the next several centuries.  In the mid -500s, Fillion embarked upon a major campaign of expansion to the south and east, and enjoyed some initial successes.  By -555, Aubry had captured Cossète from Emond, and was making inroads against the elves of the Järven Kingdom as well.  However, the presence of the dwarves in the Sjölanders hemmed in the Aubriens and defeated their continental ambitions.  Clan Samuelsson grew intolerant of the constant movement of Aubrien troops through their sovereign territory, and put an end to it with the Battle of Breidsete Pass (-548).

Soon afterwards, the kingdom (and indeed all of Teravide) faced the enormous challenge of the arrival of the Whistlers from the east.  Aubry was affected by this invasion less than most other areas of Teravide, due to its relative isolation.  Nonetheless, refugees from foreign wars poured into the kingdom and caused considerable social disruption, including the Fillion Riots of -441 and -430.

Eventually of course, Teravide absorbed the Whistlers (although it might be more accurate to say that the Whistlers absorbed Teravide).  As humans came to dominate all of the known world, the nonhumans of Aubry and elsewhere lost many of their legal and political rights.  In the modern year 11, King Etienne V issued the Inheritance Act, which stripped gnomes and the few remaining elves of their land and property.  The act was generally quite popular (among humans, at least), but the Fisetans of Fillion and Doléac excommunicated the royal family in protest.  They were not reinstated into the church until 224, when the act was finally repealed.

The Kingdom was placed on the defensive at the dawn of the fourth century by House Dryden.  Having defeated most of its rivals in central and southern Gervais, Charron turned its attention to Aubry beginning in 301.  Dryden's armies crossed the Virouin Desert and poured into the kingdom, destroying nearly everything in their path.  Fillion fell to the invaders in March 302.  However, the Aubrien armies regrouped and counterattacked that autumn, and drove the imperial forces from the northwest by late November.  King Charles IV gained some measure of revenge against House Dryden a few years later, as Whistler nobles under his protection deposed Emperor Réjean II and left the Empire rudderless for more than a year.  Charron would make several more attempts to subjugate Aubry, but their efforts came to naught.

The period from 307-493 was one of relative peace and prosperity for the Kingdom.  The human state-building wars were drawing to a close, commerce flourished, even among rival states, and the wilds of Teravide had mostly been tamed (although predations by frost giants in the southeast caused enormous damage and loss of life from 344-349).  The population of Fillion expanded greatly during this period, from 7,500 to 24,000.  The prosperity of the period was abetted by a general warming trend in Teravide that benefited Aubry (and Morency) most of all.

Civil disturbances in the 490s were a prelude of the disaster to come.  On 1 May 494, Bruneteauan cultists appeared throughout the kingdom as if from nowhere, and slaughtered hundreds in the name of equality.  Many of them subsequently committed suicide, while others were tracked down and killed by the militia.  Despite this, several more Bruneteauan uprisings occurred over the next several years.  The chaos reached an apex in May 502, when "Leveller" clerics set fires, poisoned wells, and massacred innocents gathered for Fisetan services.  Under enormous pressure to do something, King Charles IX declared martial law and placed the Duke of Clairveaux in charge of establishing order.  The Bruneteauans were stamped out quickly thereafter, but the military did not cede power once order was restored, citing the Drouiniste wars in the south as a pretext.  Over the next year, Charles was increasingly marginalized as a political force, and was eventually prohibited from even leaving the palace grounds.  He died under mysterious circumstances in December 503, and was succeeded by the young and ineffectual Calixte.

With Calixte on the throne, the dukes, buttressed by large numbers of mercenaries, clamped down on all remaining opposition within the kingdom.  This was tolerated, even welcomed, for the first year or two after Charles's death, but then the Aubrien people began to grow weary of the repression.  When the Drouinistes attacked in 507, Aubry was still outwardly strong, but it had lost its popular base of support.  The army collapsed quickly.  Calixte was murdered by Drouinistes in 508, ending 1500 years of monarchy.  The kingdom itself was extinguished by LeClair's revolutionary forces.