Editing LetsBuild5e:Geography and Cosmology (section)

==Ruins of an Empire==

In the north of the starting region is a nation of elves and humans. They are skilful traders, and they export court scholars and diplomats to other nations. Their trading capital is a mass of ships, chained together in a coastal lagoon, representing the many other nations and cultures with which they do business. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19342866#post19342866]) (This city is at the most northerly river mouth on the map.) A second city, to the south, provides an administrative centre, but most of the elven lands lie further north. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19367909#post19367909]) Their native language is a member of a wider group of Elvish tongues. To the south, beyond the settled nations, live clans of horse-riders, predominantly orcs, halflings, dark elves, and humans. They speak a language known as Old Imperial, which derives from a human tongue spoken on the other side of the world before the last flip. Since then, it has grown to have some features in common with the speech of the mountain-orcs who have lived on this side since before the flip. The steppe is about as far in north-to-south extent as the distance from the mountain-orc kingdom of Brugo to the elven lands. Beyond the steppe lie tundra and taiga, and then a huge high ice sheet. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19367909#post19367909])

Much of the territory hereabouts was once part of a large empire ruled by half-orcs who spoke the tongue of the horse-clans, although their orcish ancestors came from Brugo. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19317929#post19317929]) Vikreng, the former capital of this empire, is the capital of Gartihann, although its grand halls grow dusty with under-use and its parade-grounds are vaster than the current militia could ever use. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19342866#post19342866]) Gartihann and Brugo are neighbours in the south-western corner of the plateau. A range of hills divides this area from the rest of Axalvo, causing the main river to drain south over a waterfall onto the steppes. The area from the waterfall westward to the mountains is claimed by Brugo; Gartihann lies to the north of it, and includes part of the foothills and a portion of the plateau to the northeast of the hills. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19367909#post19367909]) A band of unclaimed land just over a day's fast ride in width separates Gartihann and Brugo from three nearby nations to the east; the unclaimed land is partly wilderness, and partly the private holdings of monasteries, smallholders, and other private interests. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19428404#post19428404])

In the northern region of the mountains is a great peak, Narrhest, said to be the highest in the world. It is revered by the locals as an ''axis mundi''. There are small dwarf-majority nations (with dragonborn enclaves) along almost every river as it passes through the foothills on the eastern side of the great mountains. Beyond the mountains to the west is an extensive basin-and-range system with many salt lakes and pocket deserts; it's not widely known how far beyond it the next ocean is. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19367909#post19367909])

Far to the east of the elven lands is the nation of Wáyéhì speakers where the central bard colleges are found. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19367909#post19367909])

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