The Twilight Steppe

Located on the westernmost edge of the known world, the Twilight Steppe is a dark land of dark peoples. This is the only place in the known world where the mainland extends out westward towards the Umbral Shroud. This anomaly, coats the land in a dark blanket that covers the world's western edge in shadow and twilight. Crawling under the mantle of darkness, the Twilight Steppe derives its name from this haunting environment, where life struggles to persist. Further west, deeper into the darkness only the Shadowed Wastes are known to exist, there not even night grass is able to grow, and life as man knows it, simply does not exist.
Lacking much beyond rolling hills of night grass, the few trees that grow in the darkness are located in the north where black, needled pines sprout at the edge of the Mountains of the Night. Of the wildlife native to the Twilight Steppe, very little is known, as this region is geographically cut of from the civilized word by the vast and almost endless desert, the Sunarian Sea.
Because of this isolation, and lack of resources, traders rarely ever make the arduous trek westwards to visit the horse lords, and of all accounts, when they do they are thoroughly disappointed. The only things possessed by the people of this wild land, that are desired by outsiders are the steppe people's horses, which are a powerful and dark breed that are regarded as some of the best war horses in the world. The locals are rare to give up their animals to foreigners, however, and the horses have largely remained isolated to the western steppe.
There are some reports of merchants purchasing strange gemstones from men dwelling close to the Mountains of Night, however, these are largely rumors, and no verifiable account exists to prove the existence of these exotic stones.

Inhabitants and Settlement

Historically the Twilight Steppe as been the home of the Zanarids and other lesser known nomadic peoples. No true cities exist on the Steppe, and urban life is nowhere to be found. Instead, most of the steppe peoples live in movable yurts. The closest the men of this region have ever come to urban life is the gigantic mobile city of Merchalk, though whether it even still exist after the fall of the Zanarids is a mystery.

Type

Plain

Located Within: Magna Sunaria