The High Barrens

Once covered by the vast Jungle of Shadow, the upper world homeland of the burgeoning empire of Vilik Strad, this massive plateau on the Talanos Peninsula was turned barren and desolate when the elves of the Green Realm raised the Cinderhame Mountains and rained down volcanic ash and altered the local weather pattern to divert moisture to the north and south. So severe was the consequent drought that most of its original population perished, and the numerous cities and settlements built by slaves of the dark elves fell to ruin and were eventually consumed in dust.
The broken, sometimes volcanically active land is sporadically inhabited by ogres, trolls, giants, drakes, and worse. Vilik Strad still considers the Barrens its own territory and has begun funding expeditions of its humanoid forces into the hinterlands where they have established bases in the Cinderhame Mountains. Patrols rarely extend into the ashen interior, however, where choking dust storms are still known to swirl.

Type

Plateau