Earos Hills

Nestled between the forbidding Eloitan region of the Green Warden Forest and the peaks of the Odarnadar Mountains, the arid Earos Hills are sparsely populated and wild. Grassy or forested hills are interspersed with rift valleys inhabited by megafauna such as mammoths, daeodon, giant sloths, paraceratherium, glyptodon, giant otters, saber-toothed cats, and others. Much of the region has been left in its natural state by the nobles of the city of Djir who use the Earos as a sort of a private hunting preserve. In the spring and summer, elaborate caravans venture out of Djir, guided by professional hunters who lead their wealthy employers on long, luxurious hunts to seek the rare and exotic species that flourish here. While outsiders are not strictly forbidden to venture into the Earos Hills, they may find themselves actively discouraged from exploring by nobles and their hired bullies. The nobles of Djir generally consider the hills to be theirs and theirs alone and have little tolerance of visitors.
There are good reasons to risk the nobles’ ire however. Mighty mammoths have roamed this region for aeons, and tales are told of fabulous “graveyards” where ancient mammoth skeletons can be excavated, along with a fortune in ivory. Other stories, actively discouraged by the Djir nobles, suggest that remnants of the region’s oldest intelligent inhabitants, an advanced race of reptilian humanoids who ruled during the Age of Dragons, may be found here in small numbers protecting powerful magical artifacts that they no longer understand.

Type

Rolling Hills