The Great Grass Sea
Description
The Great Grass Sea is just that - no known standing watering holes, but grass for as far as the eyes could see, and covered an expanse that stretched from the low foothills that led up to the Mortanis Mountains that were far to the north, and south, fading out perhaps a hundred miles northh of the The Hole. Legend had it that the Grass Sea had been created during the long-past Wizard War, a clash between what was said to be wizards of all stripe came together to plug the breech in the fabric of the world itself. They succeeded, but...as with all things of any magnitude, there was a price.
The magic they wielded in defense of the world, the magic they used to force this breech to close, it warped reality just for a moment and caused the wide, vast area of cities, the farms, the forests that filled this region to simply vanish and become a broad, vast plain that would become known as The Great Grass Sea.
At this time, roads and trails through the Great Grass Sea are still rough at best; the most reliable and fairly well-marked lay far to the north, and a few run to the south, with at least one skirting the very boundary hills that circle The Hole, as the caravan masters attempt to blaze new trails and work out their best routes and form roads at the same time.
Truth is, the Great Grass Sea doesn't seem to like roads - the tall grass just seems to swallows them up, and the very terrain sometimes seems to change erratically in the depths of the huge prairie that covers this region of the world. Though scarce two hundred miles separated the great rivers to the east and to the west, only, almost two-in-five caravans through this most narrow point were simply never heard from again. Of the rest, a few would come through on time, others might take as much as six, eight weeks on the march.
There were also tales of the beasts that lay in wait in this sea of grass, some were rumored to be great creatures of fur and horn and fang, some were said to have seen creatures of green and scales...but who could say, who could say.
