The Freelands lay in the mountain ranges of Yilal, so most of the cities and villages were either in the valleys or the mountains themselves.
After the originally massive Serian Empire came to its downfall, they could no longer regulate this mountainous area and had to thus give it up.
The other kingdoms didn't want to bother with land this treacherous to travel in and didn't take over it either.
So, the mountainous range that was free from any monarch's or government's rule came to be known as the Freelands.
The Freelands were a bunch of cities, that were ruled over by a city-lord, but that was the extent of the rule. Even then, the people were quite free to do whatever they wanted to.
That didn't mean there was no law, however. Since there were no monarch or government, the Tower had come to become the main law-keeping force of the place.
The cart rolled through a gravel road as it made its way to the bottom of one of the mountains.
