Gelsord is located in north western [[Kavergraith]]. The city runsexists alongnear athe riverbeginning andof the central [[Kavergraith]] river at the base of the central mountain range that runs along the entire Kodiak Republic. Due to its strategic location on athe river and being between the capital [[Rykkburgh]] and the large port cities of [[Robingrad]] and [[Crystal City]] to the east, Gelsord naturally became an important pitstop within Kodiak's interregional trade.

There is notno specificexisting record of when Gelsord was founded but the city dateshas backexisted all the way toback in the [[Bromannikha]] Dynasty. Gelsord initially started off as a small trading outpost established by sheep and goat farmers. A decent amount of trading activity was conducted between Rykkburgh and the eastern coast of Kodiak but Gelsord largely stayed as a mediumsmall sizedtrading town for several decade until Kodiak's golden era. The humble town quickly grew in prominence during the peak of Kodiak's history, eventually growing into a medium sized city . The large traffic of people and goods coming from foreign trade greatly boosted Gelsord's economy and cemented its role as an important interregional commercial hub. However, in the year 533 a massive earthquake occurred in [[Rykkburgh]] and an epidemic disease wasfollowed releasedup fromcatastrophe medical labs that werewith destroyedcatastrophe. A nationwide quarantine was enforced by the global community, destroying Gelsord's previous prosperity. A hundred years after the initial outbreak, the quarantine was released by the international community, but Kodiak was in ruins with Gelsord hit especially hard. Gelsord has been slowly recovering within the past few decades but the war with the [[The Great North]] severely hampered any meaningful recovery.