Cities
South Point
- Major Trade Routes
- Minor Trade Routes
- Mountain Pass
- Snakesturn
- Cliffport
- Sh'lara Ta
- Lexton
- Eastend
- Middelton
- Westend
- South Point
- The Great Fresh Water Sea
- The Ocean of Ice
- The Bone
South Point is a trading town that sits on the river known as Devil's Pass. It was built on the ruins of the southern military outpost of the late Unstoma empire. That fort was destroyed during the sacking and destruction of The Empire as one of the first casualties of its fall over three hundred years ago. The river was given the name Devil's Pass because it is the place where the Leather Wing devils first set foot in the civilized world. Used briefly as one of their caravan points in their war against civilisation itself, once their war of aggression was over, they fled back to the frozen south leaving every bit of goods and valuables behind.
This wealth which the barbarian's were obviously to uncultured too understand the value of, was used to rebuild the fort and turn it into a proper town and settlement. The remnants of it's former walls were rebiult, and it provided much-needed shelter from the chaos of those times.
Two major religions saw South Point grow into a major trade hub; The Church of Ca'talls, and the Church of Pentagla. It connected the valuable resources of the nearby fishing villages on the sea, not to mention an easy inlet for mercantile from more civilized lands, but also a served as a depot trade for the Elves and Dwarves from further up in the Smoking Mountains. (So named due to their ever present mists due to the sometimes swampy terrain even up at elevation.)
It also made for the last leg of The Journey from the Great Bay of Stars, a trade route that started in New Rouge and took things from the warmer tropics in the north, to the fringed southern regions and passed through Five Rivers, as well as Cliffport.
South Point and it's farms are the last bastion of civilization before you get into the frozen waste that lay beyond the Freshwater Sea and the uncivilized barbarians with their backward blood gods that live there.
The Bone
- Major Trade Routes
- Minor Trade Routes
- Mountain Pass
- Snakesturn
- Cliffport
- Sh'lara Ta
- Lexton
- Eastend
- Middelton
- Westend
- South Point
- The Great Fresh Water Sea
- The Ocean of Ice
- The Bone
The Bone is a land-bridge that separates the Freshwater sea from the Ocean proper. This strip of land is considered to be the frist part of the southern frontier. While there are only ten miles of land at it's narrowest point, The Bones is well over three weeks travel long ways.
Here even in the heat of summer temperatures rarely get above warm let alone truly hot, and first frost sets in quickly. For four of the thirteen month year, you can expect not only snow on the ground but for six months you can expect frost every night. Winter this far south not to give up easily. The cold of the place doesn't stop trappers from going up into its wilds.
The Ocean is on its western shore and sunrise over it's salty waves brings a wonderful set of colors to the world while sunset on the eastern side of the bone is truly spectacular as the light hits the emerald colored fresh water.
The single greatest danger in the bone are not the Barbarian Leather Wing that call it home, but the cunningly intelligent and crafty Devil Deer that roam the wilds of the forests up and down the land. These beast are found in almost every location, but in the Bone they are particularly aggressive. They have been known not only to hunt anyone foolish enough to try to hunt them but to lead hunters into traps off the side of cliffs or other evil intent. Though some hunters sware by the sweetness of these vile creatures meat most people realize it simply isn't worth the risk.
Little is known of the Leather Wing in The Bone, though this seems to be the furthest north anyone has seen them since their depraved blood lust drove them to slaughter an empire, they seem to take great pains to stay out of site in small camps nestled into the sides of cliffs.
Five Rivers
- Major Trade Routes
- The Mistress of the Land
- Joyful Greetings River
- Illwynd River
- The Little Miss
- Dark Waters River
- The Judgement Stones
- The Old Cemetery
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