Taloned Highlands

Taloned Highlands
Location information
PlaneMaterial Plane
WorldExandria
ContinentMarquet
Ecological information
Terrain
  • High mountains
  • Mountain shelves and plateaus
  • Elevated fertile valleys
FloraBluff oaks[1]
Historical information
AffiliationsStratos Throne
Notable locations
Points of interest

The Taloned Highlands are a high mountain country in the southwest of Marquet, governed by the Stratos Throne and known for their rural agriculture and military might. The Stratos Throne and the Court of the Lambent Path of Aeshanadoor were engaged in a military conflict known as the Apex War, which culminated around 823 PD.[2]

Locations[edit | edit source]

The village of Gelvaan, from which Imogen Temult hails, is in a grassy plateau valley closer to the western part of the Taloned Highlands.[3]

The northeastern portion of the highlands are known as the Highland Bluffs.[4] A river passes through this jungle region and silently falls down as a waterfall about "10 or so feet" into the next river. The waterfall is a portal to the Feywild.[5] Bells Hells passed through this portal and traveled about 35 or 40 miles to the west[6] to the village of Gelvaan, where Imogen spoke with her father before the party was picked up by the Silver Sun.[7]

In the southern part, there are the Southern Apexes, a mountain range marked by the Coven Peaks as its highest point.[6] The peaks harbor the city of Sruwargas, the seat of the Stratos Throne[8] and the source of Otohan Thull's epithet "Legend of the Peaks".[9] Alongside the southern mountains are plateaus covered in jungle forest and terraced farmlands that also expand to the western region of the Taloned Highlands.[6]

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