Beynsfal Plateaus
Where below there is life and freedom, above there is
naught but death and tyranny. In the high, southern
plateaus of Rifenmist , verdant jungle gives way to a
cracked, volcanic landscape, its basalt fields interrupted only by towering structures of black iron. This
hellish place is the home of the Iron Authority, and
one of the last battlegrounds of the Calamity.
It is here that the Betrayer God known as the Strife Emperor, aided by his legions of brainwashed goblinkin, clashed with the Wildmother and her Free Children. Though the Wildmother was victorious and the goblinkin were freed, the site of the Strife Emperor’s defeat was reduced to rock and ash, a place where plants would never again grow.
Most of the goblinkin who survived the battle vanished into the jungle and traveled north into the rest of Tal'Dorei , leaving the shame of their connection to the Strife Emperor behind. Centuries later, however, a number of goblinkin still remained among the towering iron of the Strife Emperor’s fallen armor. One platoon of hobgoblins, the Iron Regiment, devoted themselves wholly to the Strife Emperor, and pledged to revive his glorious legacy of conquest. They press-ganged as many of their kin as they could into armies and created the seed of an empire—one which they watered with blood.
When the Iron Regiment brought all of the Beynsfal Plateau under their rule and transformed themselves into the Iron Authority, their empire only continued to grow. The Iron Tide never broke, and within a decade, it had engulfed all the other kingdoms along Rifenmist’s southern coast. They were united under the cruel banner of Tz'Jarr, the Iron Emperor.
While the entirety of Beynsfal is firmly controlled by the Iron Authority, the empire is still reaching, now locked in a decades-long war to subjugate the native inhabitants of the jungles below: the Orroyen.
Five major city-states comprise the core of the Iron Authority, though all swear fealty to the Iron Emperor in its capital of Tz'Arrm , the southernmost city of the plateau. From south to north, the other imperial city-states are Rybad-Kol, city of the Forge Lords; Hdar-Fye, the necropolis of Prince Hdar; Ezordam-Haar, eyrie of the red pegasi; and Ortem-Vellak, the petrified elventree.
It is here that the Betrayer God known as the Strife Emperor, aided by his legions of brainwashed goblinkin, clashed with the Wildmother and her Free Children. Though the Wildmother was victorious and the goblinkin were freed, the site of the Strife Emperor’s defeat was reduced to rock and ash, a place where plants would never again grow.
Most of the goblinkin who survived the battle vanished into the jungle and traveled north into the rest of Tal'Dorei , leaving the shame of their connection to the Strife Emperor behind. Centuries later, however, a number of goblinkin still remained among the towering iron of the Strife Emperor’s fallen armor. One platoon of hobgoblins, the Iron Regiment, devoted themselves wholly to the Strife Emperor, and pledged to revive his glorious legacy of conquest. They press-ganged as many of their kin as they could into armies and created the seed of an empire—one which they watered with blood.
When the Iron Regiment brought all of the Beynsfal Plateau under their rule and transformed themselves into the Iron Authority, their empire only continued to grow. The Iron Tide never broke, and within a decade, it had engulfed all the other kingdoms along Rifenmist’s southern coast. They were united under the cruel banner of Tz'Jarr, the Iron Emperor.
While the entirety of Beynsfal is firmly controlled by the Iron Authority, the empire is still reaching, now locked in a decades-long war to subjugate the native inhabitants of the jungles below: the Orroyen.
Five major city-states comprise the core of the Iron Authority, though all swear fealty to the Iron Emperor in its capital of Tz'Arrm , the southernmost city of the plateau. From south to north, the other imperial city-states are Rybad-Kol, city of the Forge Lords; Hdar-Fye, the necropolis of Prince Hdar; Ezordam-Haar, eyrie of the red pegasi; and Ortem-Vellak, the petrified elventree.
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