Land of Many Names
Inarezu is known by many names throughout Nefyran, each individual region typically coming up with its own common name for the greater mass of land the populations inhabit and share. This name, Inarezu, is the one most commonly carried by travelers between lands, from the Church of Dawn and its dedicated missionaries to the salt-crusted sailors who once journeyed to the land's rocky shores.
The name isn't a common one in typical discussion among those who live in Inarezu's many individual locales, but most will understand those who visit carrying the name upon their tongue, at the cost of being outed rather immediately as an outsider to the local cultures.
Rathis
The folk who reside in Bolkan, and even some from pockets of Everbright, know Inarezu instead by the name of Rathis. The word holds significance in their local cultures, honoring one of the most ancient of Primordials, Errathet, and its continued influence on their lands and people. Their belief dictates that this primordial entity, a being of earth and flame, shaped their home in the ancient times and continues to protect both the lands and those who inhabit them.
The landmass is often referred to, by these folk, as the Tongue of Rathis, for its rather elongated and tapered shape, as compared to the northernmost lands of Nefyran.
Solar Brilliance
The region known as Everbright wasn't always so deserving of its namesake, though it now embodies it fully. With the emergence of the leyline of revelation, all darkness ebbed away from this land, now sun-bleached and largely barren.
There is no hiding in these lands, no shadow to obscure moments or intent, and the people who survive in this scorching locale live each day as plain and open as their landscape. Hooded and cloaked figures walk the grassy fields and along the trade routes, but their bells and voices dispel all mystery from the encounter.
Ashen Skies
Where perpetual sunshine sits on the horizon, the skies begin to cloud with volcanic ash and dust; this is Bolkan, where the historic jungles of old burned and fell away in the shifting landscapes stirred by the leyline of agitation, which brought long-forgotten volcanoes — and a few more, for good measure — bubbling and erupting to the surface.
Now a land forever burning, only those who can handle the heat are capable of visiting this place, let alone living in it, though populations have managed it, and thrive in their flame-touched lands.
Singing Stone
From humble ridges and rolling hills grew mountains so immense they grew their own empire. The Earthen Kingdoms found themselves a long-standing shift in the landscape, unaltered by the leylines which have come and passed through the past millennia.
The leyline of tenacity holds true, preserving the immense and strong rock formations which uphold the kingdom and all of its infrastructure, but many fear the day when this stronghold will all come crumbling to dust, especially as the leyline of oblivion threatens to expand into its southern borders from Yulrorim.
Gnawing Oblivion
Ever the shadow on the distant horizon, Yulrorim is a land touched by the leyline of oblivion, and this is a connection that seems unlikely to sever any time soon. Though the leyline's emergence has been ever-present for an age, it finds itself in a constant state of ebb and flow where intensity is concerned. Some pockets of the land remain unaltered by this consuming force, while others see it come and go regularly.
Finding magic of any kind here is a rarity unlike any other — for it would sooner be snuffed out by the leyline, or consumed by the hungry inhabitants who have been deprived of it for so long.
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Author's Notes
This article is more than likely getting absorbed by the larger Nefyran article later on, after the event! But we'll see if this turns into something more individual by then ;)