Blue Escarpment

The Sea of Grass is not the featureless waste outsiders assume it is. There are a few places where the rolling plains give rise to other landscapes. The Blue Escarpment is one such place. In eons past, the Vindelsalven River cut a different course and sliced through the topsoil to expose the blue stone bedrock beneath. For millennia, the waters cut away, yielding the canyon that shelters travelers and bandits alike. When the course of the river changed upstream of the Blue Escarpment, the canyons were left dry. Seasonal showers, usually in the spring, combine with snow melt to create a ghost of the once-mighty river that flowed through here; a ghost with teeth, for spring floods can easily come up suddenly and carry away man and horse.
The Blue Escarpment poses other dangers than seasonal floods. Wild animals congregate here, as do people, both seeking some relief from the sun and the wind of The Plains. Water pools here from time to time, but outside of the spring rarely forms anything but a trickle. In the summer months, the canyons of the Blue Escarpment provide shade, though that hot season sees little water on the surface. Besides the many wandering animals and monsters, bandits and K’Haln tribes visit the canyon lands from time to time.

Type

Cliff