Forgotten Land
Also known as Dununda.
The Forgotten Land is a small, demi-planar land, accessible from at least one portal in the Underdark beneath The Spice Islands.
Composed of enormous flat plains, punctuated by large, flat top mesas and occasional scraggy tree. The ground is reddish and cracked mud with scrubby brush plans and yellowish grasses creeping through. The sky seems bright and yellowish, the light diffuse with no obvious sun to be seen.
Notably, extinct and forgotten on the surface, dinosaurs roam in the Forgotten Land.
Following the extraction of the Ring of the Quake, the Forgetten Land rose to the surface to the west of The Spice Islands.
Geography
Dununda is a dry, flat plain, punctuated by mesas and rocky outcrops. As the Forgotten Land, it was surrounded entirely by seemingly infinite cliffs disappearing into the diffuse, yellowish sky.
There was no sun in the Forgotten Land, but there was a daily cycle in the firmament. The sky would move from a bright yellow to a dark green hue in the 'night'.
Originally largely a sea-bed, the earth is mostly flat, dry and cracked with an oxidised reddish soil. Occassional muddy pools, billabongs and small streams provide enough water to maintain the scrub grass and trees. This flat land is broken up by high flat rocky outcrops or mesas.
With its strong connection to the elemental plane of earth, there are very large deposits of otherwise rare mineral wealth such as gold, silver, opals and other gems, often lying native of the surface or in rich seams.
Localized Phenomena
The Forgotten Land existed in a demi-plane which bore some similarities with the Feywild. Teleportation in or out was impossible and messaging and connections with deities difficult. On passing through the boundary between it and the Material Plane, many found themselves forgetting the other plane existed, their memories reshaping to believe they had never been anywhere else. The local population called this 'Trotto Fever', as, to their eyes, sufferers behaved very oddly. They would find themselves confused when they couldn't find familar places, or be amazed by the high mineral wealth of the area - which was unremarkable to those who had truly not known anywhere else.
Fauna & Flora
The sentient population of the Forgotten Land are humanoid frog-like amphibians. They live in a heirarchical tribal society which is highly theocratic around the worship of the Creator, Kui. They homes are small, artificial mud caves with a pool for bathing and raising tadpoles (or Tads, as they call them).
The other notable fauna of the area are the dinosaurs. Long extinct on the surface, they have survived in this unique environment.
The flora is mostly scrubland and coarse grasses. Dry-tolent trees can also be found, many of aromatic varieties like sandalwood, acacia and mesquite.
Natural Resources
The Forgotten Land was very rich is mineral resources, with gold, silver and opals so plentiful the local populations viewed them as low value.
History
Legend has it that the Forgotten Land was crafted by the demi-god Kui. Having raised The Spice Islands to safety during the Mitzu catastrophe with his fishing hook, he tore a hole in the crust which swallowed him, and some of the surface, beneath the earth. Using what he had to work with, Kui used the Ring of the Quake, which had been trapped with him, to take a bubble from the Plane of Earth and crafted somewhere he and the life taken with him could live.
At first, it was a very wet world, where the amphibians that had been drawn down with him thrived, and dinosaurs survived atop the lush green mesas. Though Kui could still have some influence on his followers on the surface (and helped them build the Rempeh-Rempeh path to him), he began to miss having direct followers. Using his power, he ascended the simple amphibians with him to a sentient race who revered him as the Creator.
However, as this land was formed from the Plane of Earth, it did not hold on well to the water, which drained away leaving the existing planes as well as some salt pans. This proved a challenge for the native amphibians, who learned to coat themselves in mud to keep moist.
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