Xhorhas

Xhorhas lies in the expansive wastes and turbulent badlands of eastern Wynandir in Wildemount. The northern lands of Xhorhas are ruled by the Kryn Dynasty, which is centered around the ruins of Ghor Dranas (now known as Rosohna), a former city of the Betrayer Gods during the Age of Arcanum. The Dynasty is ruled by the Empress Leylas Kryn. The southern portions of Xhorhas consist mostly of awful marshes.

Xhorhas is smaller than the Dwendalian Empire and has few natural resources. It is a scarred landscape overrun with beasts and terrors left over from the Calamity.

The Xhorhasians are derogatorily referred to by the Dwendalians as "cricks" (short for "crickets"). This is due to the holes that are cut into Xhorhasian armor, causing the armor to produce a chirping sound as the troops charge forward.

Geography

 * The Ashkeeper Peaks: The mountain chain running through the center of the continent of Wildemount.


 * Barbed Fields: A desolate wasteland past the Ghostlands, the ground zero of the Calamity and home to dangerous creatures and errant magic.
 * Arbor Exemplar: A lone, giant tree that grows in the midst of the barren wasteland.
 * Rosohna: The capital city of the Kryn Dynasty, built on the ruins of Ghor Dranas.
 * Bazzoxan: A large village at the base of the jagged mountain cliffs at the northernmost point of the Penumbra Range.


 * The Brokenveil Marsh lies surrounded and encompassed in the valleys of the craggy hills of the Brokenveil Bluffs.
 * Urzin: A roaming town which slowly moves through the Marsh atop the massive, mossy shells of about forty horizonback tortoises, in addition to hundreds of tents and mobile huts.


 * The Dreemoth Ravine cuts deeply through the southern tip of the Ashkeeper Peaks for almost eighty miles, ending just north of the Whitedawn Lagoon.
 * Draconia: Once a floating archipelago of cities in the southwest of Xhorhas, southeast of the Ashkeeper Peaks, turned to ruins by Vorugal. It was the home for large poppulation of dragonborns kingdom including Tiberius Stormwind.
 * Xarzith Kitril: The new dragonborn city constructed by the ravenites in the southern end of the Dreemoth Ravine after the fall of Draconia.


 * The Iothia Moorland: Hilly grasslands, muddy fields, swamps, and lakes in the west-central portion of Xhorhas. Yasha Nydoorin grew up here.


 * The Lotusden Greenwood: A vast, leafy forest along the southern portion of the Ashkeeper Peaks on the eastern side of the mountains, and is surrounded by somewhat swampy land.
 * Charis


 * The Penumbra Range: A mountain range bounding Xhorhas to the east and north and separating it from Blightshore.
 * The Braan: A stronghold of stone giants.
 * Dumaran: A hobgoblin stronghold turned into the headquarters of the Children of Malice.


 * The Vermaloc Wildwood: A sizable forest along the western portion of the Penumbra Range.


 * Asarius: A mid-sized city near the western side of Xhorhas.
 * Fevergulf Lake
 * Jigow: A town on the far northern coast of Xhorhas.
 * The Many Hosts of Igrathad: A loosely united network of seven villages located south of the Sorrowseep Waters in Xhorhas.
 * The Sorrowseep Waters

Racial makeup

 * Drow (dark elves)
 * Half-elves
 * Minotaurs
 * Goblinkin - including bugbears, goblins, and hobgoblins
 * Giants - including hill giants, ogres, and stone giants
 * Orcs and half-orcs
 * Tieflings
 * Dragonborn
 * Kobolds
 * Gnolls
 * Humans, though they are rare

Fauna

 * Nergaliid - toad-like devils
 * Horizonback tortoises - gigantic tortoises used as war machines
 * Rocs - giant birds
 * Udaaks - large, dangerous, vaguely ape-like fiends
 * Moorbounders - giant cat-like creatures bred and used as mounts in Asarius
 * Gloomstalkers - inhabit the Barbed Fields
 * Sorrowsworn - inhabit the Barbed Fields
 * Purple worms - used as excavators and mounts by the Kryn.
 * Mammoths and mastodons