Vlard Highlands*

Home of the Falkovians

Day 27
Now passed through what we are calling the Srijhl Expanse. No one has been here before. It reminds me of the time in the northern expanse of the Varzik Mountains. The air feels colder here, even though I have climb through the Khazin Mountains, which connects into these mountains, they didn't feel as cold. I do wonder what this place holds. My companions question about what could have been trapped here. I can't say I think something was trapped here but I suppose it could be a possibility.

— Excerpt from Alfonzo Cortez's lost expedition journal

---

Mostly mountain range and rocky faces with a dusting of snow. Veggitation is far and few between and the fauna is hard to pick out of their environment causing it to be seen as a world with nothing, a frozen wasteland. The cities and settlements nestled into crook and crannies of the mountains and just as the denizens the fauna hide and tuck themselves away.

Geography

A large expanse of tall mountains, deep valleys, chasms, and some flatlands. Due to the constant magical storm that has surrounded Vlard Highlands, has kept the area colder than the mountains to the south of it. Hidden pockets of water either above ground or underground, a few hot springs, and some geysers.

Fauna

Home to a few types of fox, hares, wolves, deer, sheep, and bears, it also remains home to a few types of eagles and hawks, mostly surviving closer to the Falkovians. Each of the fauna mentioned having to live their lives out in the frozen mountains of the Vlard Highlands. It is a delicate ecosystem but for the 6000 years they have been cut off from the rest of Eiria have yet to have a mass die-off or mini extinctions.

• Calliope

• Vlard Fox
• Frost Wolf
• Lynx
• Weasel
• Vlard Bear

• Yak
• Sheep
• Reindeer
• Elk

Flora

While the eternally frozen landscape of the Vlard Highlands is not filled to the brim with diverse plant life it holds enough to keep the herbivore populations fed. It is comprised mostly of dwarf shrubs that produce a few varieties of berries, various colored flowers with fine silky hairs on their stems to help protect them from the cold, and a few hundred variations of lichens.

Kennedy Stone Texture by Pixabay

• Rich Lichens
• Moss
• Hardy shrubbry
• Book Work Flowers

Natural Resources

While fridged and cold, the Highlands still hold valuable resources. Between the the percious ore to the hot springs that pop up all over the region, there are many resources the Falkovian's rely on.

• Frost Steel Ore
• Silver Ore
• Sulfur
• Salt
• Hot Springs
• Marble
• Granite

Mammoth Hot Springs by Pixabay

Alternative Name(s)

Frost Tips, Frozen Highlands, Icy Tomb

Type

Mountain Range

Included Locations

• Iseshys
• Thao Dorthore
• Yafa Thalor

Included Organizations

• Ivadour Dynasty

Owning Organization

Ivadour Dynasty

Races

• Falkovian

Rumors/Tall Tales

• Flesh eating Calliopes are rumored to live i nthe wild away from the normal ones. Said to be like rabid animals, twisted and dark and often larger than most Calliopes can get.