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THE LAND
U-Lyshak
is one of Jamains most fertile areas, despite it's decimation in the Wars of
Dominion, which closed the Second Era of Ire.
Heavy forests cover much of the land; grasslands and farms line the
fertile strip along the rivers and coasts, and fill the small pockets that
people have cleared of woods. Originating
in the small mountains bordering Lakyran, three small rivers join to form the
Zepler Fosse which flows west to the Bay of Ulor.
The capital city of the Vorn region, an inland state north of Norek,
O'Bnthi (:Where rivers meet") sits at the the junction of the tributaries
that form the Zepler Fosse. Cynar,
capital city of the Helyssa region (just west of Vorn) and seat of the
nominative ruler of all U-Lyshak, lies at the far end of the Zepler Fosse, where
it flows into the Bay of Ulor. The
Remirath is a great wooded region stretching across the southern border of
U-Lyshak. Though within he physical
borders of U-Lyshak, Elves are the sole occupants and rulers of the wood.
Mortals who cross its well-guarded borders without invitation usually
regret the decision, and often fail to return.
Invitations are difficult to come by; the Elven King Liras extended his
most recent invitation over seven hundred years ago.
Miran trees, once found throughout U-Lyshak and in groves about Jamain,
now flourish only in the Remirath. The
wood of the Miran tree is very valuable and particularly rare. Alunn Road is the major east-west path through U-Lyshak. It begins at the headwaters of the Alunn River and extends to Lakyran along the southern bank of the Zepler Fosse, through O'Banthi and along Henner's Fork, where it meets the headwaters of the Arrow River and runs to shore. Lugroki from Ly-Aran walked this route more than six thousand years ago on their sweep of southern U-Lyshak. Legend has it that the Alunn Road was etched into the surface of U-Lyshak with such evil that they trail will not support life, nor grow a single weed along the entire four hundred mile length. |