Editing Mirrors: Geographical Setting (section)

=The Dragon Archipelago=
Before the dragons returned, the archipelago was simply called the Near Isles. But the dragons have returned to the Reaches of the northern and southron edges of the Archipelago. Only the denizens of the Archipelago call it that. Mainlanders don't make the distinction between the main body of the islands and the reaches and refer to the whole as the Dragon's Reach.

Like the Confederacy, the Archipelago is a moiety - this time of Hall Giants and Halflings. Descended from storm giants, the Half Giants are masters of elemental magics and crafters of stone beyond even the skill of dwarves. The halflings of the isles are traders, and fishers, and herders, and farmers. 

Both Half Giants and Halflings are jovial peoples who cherish hearth and kin above all.

==The Dragon Gate==
Standing on the isle of Ward, the Dragon gate is the only gate of the five known to be active - or partially active. The carved knotwork on its face glows a faint emerald and azure, and it is believed that the Half Giant loremasters who keep it use its powers to keep the dragons in the stony reaches to the far north and south of the isles.

==The Reaches==
The small islands in the northern and southern chain of islands are mostly rock and hardy scrub and wild goats.

And dragons. Serpents of sea and sky that cavort and fish the seas and sun themselves on the stones.

==Rune==
Rune is the largest of the isles of the Archipelago and the hub of trade between the islands.

===Cref===
Cref is a small harbor town, primarily peopled with halflings and folk of the Empire and the Confederacy.

===Shi Jinn Monastery===
A small tower on the north end of the isle houses the dragon monks of Shi Jinn.

===The Bu Na Ka===
While Kir Lan towwer is the center of arcane learning in the empire, the Giants maintain a modest school on Rune that is open to any with the skill to study.

==Faer==
South of Rune and the smallest of the majorly inahabited isles, Faer is almost exclusively a halfling settled isle of fishing villages and farms.

==Ward==
Ward is a big island, but low slung and wind whipped. It is inhabited mostly by those giants who keep the Dragon Gate.

===Fellian Steadfal===
The Steadfal is a humble community of giants who serve and house the Loremasters of the Gate.

==Torn==
The sourthernmost of the bigger isles is Torn, a rugged, mountainous little rock known for its aggressive greenery. Both giants and halflings dwell on the island and are universally considered a bit eccentric by more civivlized denizens of the Archipellago. The bamboo of Torn supplies the building material for most of the isles.

Torn is the only one of the inner isles that is home to a dragon.

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