The Tooth of Vol Yhaera (Submission Article #1)

In any other land it would have been called the edge of the world, a land forsaken and left to waste away. Men and beast alike would avoid it at nearly all costs, for what good could there possibly be in a solid stone wasteland?
But to the people of Vol Yhaera, it is all they have. There is nowhere else to go; to the North an impassable wall, to the South a bottomless abyss. And so they make their home and eek out their living, at the mercy of the sun, the stone, and most of all the Wind.
For the Wind is everything in Vol Yhaera; it brings life and death, feast and famine.
The Wind carries with it Mould, a brown, claylike substance that can be shaped and worked with until it hardens into the same yellow stone that makes up the rest of the wasteland. When it carries Mould it is called Am, and the Katanari people rejoice when they wake to find it deposited in clumps and piles on the ground. Am can bring a second gift as well, for sometimes the Katanari discover the murky black Myzi Blossoms growing in the stone; from these they harvest Ichor, one of the only things that can be burned in Vol Yhaera.
When the Wind scatters the Eggs of the Irzhi it is called Na. While the Irzhi beasts are ferocious and cunning, their empty, leathery eggshells can be used to create the heavy cloaks the Katanari use for protection from the harsh landscape.
But sometimes the Wind sings a baleful song; then it is called Et, and it carries with it the Oluja Tides, great ravaging storms of lightning that carve deep troughs and gouges into the stone plains. None caught in the Tides survive, and if a house or settlement lies in their path its inhabitants have little choice but to leave everything behind and flee, lest the land which asks so much of them take a little more.
Together the Wind is Na'amet, as much a natural force as the sun and stone, a predictable yet capricious god. But when no other gods are available, the Katanari take what they can and see if they can survive the rest.

Geography

Over eighty percent of the Tooth is encompassed by an enormous wasteland composed of a yellow, chalky, nearly indestructible stone called Marrowstone. This wasteland takes up the center of the Tooth, and is where the vast majority of the Wind has its effects, and thus is where the vast majority of the Katanari people make their homes.
Towards the south is an abyss; the stone starts to grow older, darker, before ending abruptly in a jagged, seemingly bottomless void.
But to the North is something else entirely; known as the Apex, it is a unique reprieve from the dry, rough landscape of the rest of the Tooth, for it is there that the Winds do not blow, and instead another force holds influence.

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Landmass