The Lands of Anár

The continent of Anár holds a wide variety of environments and terrain, moving from the temperate and forested coastlines, through the high, broken mountains, to the subartic interior lands. Anár hosts arid, interior tundras, deep gorges split from the earth during seismic cataclyms, deep mountain lakes, and ash-laden active volcanoes. In this diverse land, civilizations have grown and flourished, creating great empires, small nations, and tribal lands alike. Each exist in a modicum of peace with its neighbors, despite the inevitable conflicts.

The continent of Anár contains 5.3 million square miles of land (approximately 1.5 times the area of the United States) and is divided across its center by the Bulwark mountains. This range has been hit hard by the seismic cataclyms of recent centuries, as some mountains have raised and some have collapsed, making the terrain treacherous and often impassable. The mountains have served to divide the continent, however, between Greater Anár, which comprised three-quarters of the landmass, and Lesser Anár.

Greater Anár

Greater Anár is the seat of civilization on the continent, hosting the Red Empire of the Duar and the Horn Forest of the Kernuar. Both nations grew slowly, one in the mountains of the continent, the other in depths of the great forest. Each established themselves on their own, only gradually interacting. Over the millenia, all corners of Greater Anár have been explored, even settled. leading to the widespread view that civilization only exists in Greater Anár and beyond the Bulwark Mountains, only wildness rules.

Lesser Anár

Lesser Anár is viewed as the "wild lands," and, despite that it hosts several prominant nations, it is largely unsettled and untamed. The nations that do exist generally have a healthy buffer from one another, leading to insularity and even xenophobia. Enough wildness exists in Lesser Anár to make routine travel somewhat hazardous lending insulation to the nations.

The Finger of Anár

Jutting from the edge of Lesser Anár is a rocky peninsula, known as the Finger of Anár, that extends into the Eldritch Sea. Geographically dominated by the Shattered Mountains, there is little in the way of hospitable or arable land on the Finger of Anár. The land is thus, even more of a a wilderness than Lesser Anár, and is considered a "No Man's Land." There are no nations here, but certainly inhabitants, usually small settlements ruled by warlords of various races. Some Ursuar make the Finger their home, but they are as solatary in this region as in others.

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