Editing SOTDL: Setting (section)

==Clanclave==
The plains between the mountains and the coast as well as the coast itself is known as the Clanclave and is home to the Corsair and their great cities as well as three of the ancient standing stone formations known as the menhir and two of the ruined towers called kir in the forgotten tongue.

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===Menhir=== 
Ancient beyond belief, these great stone megaliths are thought to have been placed for religious or arcane reasons by a forgotten race of giants in the distant past. Each menhir is composed of anywhere from two to five upright stones jutting from the earth and topped with a single lintel stone across the tops of the others.

The individual menhir are named for the predominant carving of a stylistic animal on the lintel stone. All the stones are carved about with illegible runes of unknown origins.

Three of the five menhir stand on lands controlled by the Corsair.


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:'''Hart:''' Hart Menhir is farthest north of all the Menhir and is located on the plains just east of the Hartshorn foothills south of the headwaters of the Ice River.

:'''Bear:''' Bear Menhir lies in the flat valley in the center of the Pass of Shale cutting through the Hartshorn mountains, but despite being located in the Hartshorn, the pass itself is held by the Corsair, and so Bear Menhhir is considered to be theirs.

:'''Fox:''' Fox Menhir Stands in the middle of the Ferrous Wastes in the south. Excepting the coastal cities, no one really lives in the wastes, but the land is claimed by the Corsair.

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===Kir===
Relics of the age of heroes, these ancient towers have no doors or windows visible from the outside (though ancient maps always represent them with open gates), and no one is known to have entered them in the current age. Despite having stood for millennia, the great towers seem untouched by time or war or weather as if they had sprung from the earth with the dawn - newly built.

:'''Kir Tor:''' North of the northernmost Corsair city, Nothreach, Kir Tor clings to the eastmost cliff face of the mountains that overlook the sea of storms.

:'''Kir Ijon:''' Situated in the foothills between Kaaja and Trader Down, Kir Ijon is a traveler's landmark that can be seen for leagues from nearly any direction across the plain.

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===Cities===
Each influential in its own way, the cities of the Salt Coast represent the beating heart of the Corsair.

:'''Adamalash:''' Adamalash is the capital of the Clanlands and the gateway to the rich ores of the ferrous wastes and the shipping of those ores throughout the Salt Coast.

:'''Taura'an:''' Taura'an is a mining town grown into a city. It is surrounded by fishing villages.

:'''Faer:''' Sister city to Taura'an, Faer is also a jumped up metropolis that began life as (and remains) primarily a mining town and subsidizes its existence with a fan of nearby fisherfolk. 

:'''Bar Kesh:''' Easily the largest and most cosmopolitan city on the Salt Coast, Bar Kesh used to house the seat of Corsair government but has grown into the nation's central trade hub.

:'''Kaaja:''' A very old, very small city, Kaaja specifically supports relations between the corsair and the islanders, and fully half the population is made up of expatriates of the archipelago.

:'''Trader Down:''' Where Bar Kesh is the central hub of trade between the corsair and the wider world, the twin cities of Trader Down, straddling the mouth of the Salt river where it spills into Salt harbour, facilitates (and taxes) trade between the Hartshorn and the Archipelago. The Down houses the primary shipyards of the Corsair.

:'''The Citadel:''' As large as Adamalash, the Citadel is home to the Red Adept, the warrior priests of the Corsair. Though not connected with the secular government, edicts from the Adepts are treated as law.

:'''Northreach:''' This fortress city exists for the sole purpose of standing between the Clanlands and a strategic incursion by the Druidan through the Pass of Jade.

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