Yoake Shima

the Forbidden Island

Yoake Shima, literally Dawn Island in Nanash, more commonly called Kinji te Shima, Forbidden Island, by the Boon natives of Na Boon is one of the seven large islands that make of the Na Boon archipelago in the Dark Hemisphere of Aldern. In the past it was called Nanas, with some scholars ascribing it as the fabled Nan Karas, the land of Nanaras, the mystical ancestors of the Boon. The island is the southeastern most island of the archipelago and often the first island travelers from the major continent of Ethae encounter when attempting to travel to Na Boon. This has led to many legends and tavern tales hroughout the Light Hemisphere of a land of monsters and wild men no longer human. Yoake Shima is all of these rumors, and more, and no native of the archipelago live on the island, having the same fears as the foreigners. Travel to the island is limited due to these fears.

The island is a wild land with a misty haze often covering it. Jenuwan Order priest s stationed on the archipelago estimate this island is covered in a Shadowfell. However local scholars with more knowledge of the islands, and understanding of Shadowfells, claim it much more. They will say the island is not oozing the evil that is present in Shadowfells, but rather admit there is something otherworldly about Yoake that keeps the island wild and untamable. Boon myth tell tales of each of their islands having a soul and Yoake is one that will not be subjected by man as the other islands have. Yoake, to the people, is the birthplace of the Nanas, and thus the Boon, but all life on Na Boon. The island is the womb of the world creating new life throughout the ages.

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Island