The Great Plains

The great plains refers to to the large stretch of land in the center of the continent, it reaches all the way from lake Leona to the mountain ranges in the west. On horse it takes about 2 months to travel it from east to west, and almost half a year from north to south, thus people rarely travel straight through it. It is a lot faster to just circumvent it on the empires roads but well its the empires roads so travel and customs taxes have to be taken in consideration and of course thief's and criminals would rather not meet up with the legionaries.

Danger Everywhere

It is rather dangerous to travel straight through the plains and not only because lawless men take these routes. Many more difficulties can present themselves on the planes, first of all supplies, most of the time small rivers and lakes cross through the plains so water is rarely a problem but food, that's another story. Almost no villages exist in these parts and if they do they usually consist of reclusive hardened hunters or outlaws not too susceptible for travelers so its best to just pack supplies for the whole journey. On top of normal travel dangers like, thieves, environment, orientation and weather the great plains are home to a fair amount of beasts and monsters. Usually a group of adventurers can handle those but there have been legends and myths about gruesome beings traversing these plains like the Plains Walker´s.

Airships

Since the development of the airships many of the goods that were previously sent by boat are now transported directly via airship straight through the plains. This however turned out to house its very own dangers, first of all the wheather, thunderstorms are very unpredictable in the plains and second of all wind elemental's. Wind elemental's are very very unpredictable creatures ranging from approachable to hostile, and thus all airships have to be accompanied by a 3rth circle mage capable of dealing with such a threat.

"Focus... Focus and Perception is key if we want to make it out of these damed plains, observe every rock and every patch of grass no matter how ordinary it migh... Ah god dammit BRAACE its a plains Elemental" ~ Gallandro Brest, Knight of House Brass

~ Plain Elemental

~ Noble Airship

Type

Plain