The Lands of the Highpriest

The Lands of the Highpriest, also known as the Demesne or more scholarly as the Orient, was a tall and narrow landmass in the east of the world.

Locations

The Marches

The uttermost borderlands marking the edge of the northerly Snarl. Though most of the Marches were undeveloped settlements such as the ancient duchies of Elfheim and the rugged city-state of Winterwend along with a handful of orcish fiefs and human hamlets marked the edges of the civilized lands.

The Wildered North

The miry forested region inhabited by eclcetic peoples including powerful feudal powers. As of the Era of Humanity, the once dominant dwarves had abandoned their high halls and closed themselves within the mountain-home of Bekla for fear of annexation by the Highpriest. Similarly, the Strix and Vishkanya had long since retreated to their hidden city of Sun-In-Shadow.

The centerpiece of the region was the Kindly Mountain, a fire-spewing peak with roots stretching between shores. On the inland sea near the westernmost shore lay the Isles of Umbra, an archipelago blanketed in eternal night.

The Nameless Lands

A mountainous lowland area which was home to tribal human cultures, the most prolific of which were the wizard-kingdoms of Ion and the dreaded People of the Dragon. The Holy House of Vestige marked the political axis of the Nameless Lands and was administered directly by the Highpriest and his Dicasterial See.

The Unapproachable South

A highland region of mountains and deserts where the dunes stretched endlessly toward the Snarl. The late empire of Bel-Ka-Trazet once administered much of the Holy Desert, but after a brutal secession executive power instead fell to the local baronies and fiefs.