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==='''[[The World Tree/Shade Lands|Shade Lands]]'''===
Located centrally of the country, the '''Shade Lands''' holds the largest expanse of desert region in the area, with villages and settlements working together to survive in the hostile lands. Holding the capitol of '''Kusha''', this land is rich with trade from distant lands, skilled craftsmen, and unique agriculture. Life here is difficult, but the '''Shade Lands''' hold a hardy people that hold teamwork and acceptance as their highest ideas.  Where villages and settlements may be safe from the elements, this land struggles with traveling and caravans, losing many to the harsh storms, lack of water, and ferocious desert beasts.
====History====
Originally settled by the Azer, the Shade Lands was paramount in its trade with the Old World, crafting and trading many of the needed weapons and materials to fight with the Great Freeze. As the Azer expanded, large amounts of bronze and electrum were found buried beneath its sands, causing the other natives, the Efreeti, to claim a dynasty over the region and to submit the Azer to mining these goods for their building of the "City of Brass" in the elemental plane of fire. After a failed holy crusade by Demedor of the Old World Crusaders, the Efreeti ruled the Shadelands for over 300 years, mining the bronze beneath its land, until the Azer were nothing but a memory. Their greed, however, blinded them from the others in this world. Fire giants from the Tajzina Mountains invaded from the mountain and claimed the Shadelands by force, banishing the Efreeti to the Plane of Fire. These fire giants ruled for almost five centuries, using the forges of the Efreeti and using their created salamanders as its fuel. It was in this moment, when Kusha seemed hopeless, that Demedor traded with the long forgotten Azer of a way to survive the land and to smite the fire giants from where they came. One by one, the mighty army of Demedor captured each of its cities. It was not until Ar'dabh fell, that the fire giants surrendered and agreed to leave the Shade Lands.