Vhoon
Pronunciation: VOON
Map Index: E4, E5
Location: Northeast coast of Beorlan
Geography: Vhoon boasts a scenic landscape of undulating grasslands and low hills adorned with scrubby vegetation and stunted trees. Crisscrossed by drainageways and streams, the geography creates a challenging terrain for its inhabitants. A land of steep gullies, travel between two points can often be circuitous.
Primary Population: None
Secondary Population: Ranfaroth
Minor Population: Garuun
Climate: Vhoon experiences a temperate climate marked by cool, moist winters and hot, arid summers. Spring brings a burst of wildflowers, flourishing in the ample rainfall. The grasses, shrubs, and trees grow vigorously while ample moisture still exists. The frequent spring rains fade away to be replaced sunny skies and dry weather. Streams begin to dry up, and the land becomes parched. With the full arrival of summer, the land becomes parched, and many plants respond by going dormant. Fall brings relief with storms full of revitalizing rainfall.
Wildlife: Vhoon's diverse wildlife features tenacious species adapted to the region's extremes. Among the animals found here are antelopes, gazelles, leopards, jackals, and hyenas.
Humanoids: This wild untamed land is home to tribes of gnolls, Kitsune, and Draelorin. All three of these races were once human before being corrupted by the chaos storms of the Great Cataclysm. The gnolls, residing in small walled villages with crude huts with subterranean chambers, are semi-primative nomadic hunter-gatherers. Several times a year as game becomes scarce due to overhunting, they migrate to new locations. Only capable of making primitive weapons, the gnolls are without the knowledge and skill to smelt and work with metals. However, some members of the tribe possess metal weapons and armor that they acquired as spoils of war.
The Kitsune, a shape changing race of fox-like humanoids live in underground dens.
The Draelorin, a race corrupted by chaos storms, resemble a cross between humans and antelopes and live in large nomadic tribes. They subsist by living off the land primarily by gathering grains, tubers, wild fruits, and nuts. These two species share an uneasy coexistence with each other and disagreements between them often end in small skirmishes.
Monsters: The common monsters found in Vhoon consist of creatures produced by the chaos storms that swept over the land long ago and left many creatures corrupted. Commonly found in this land are broods of Ankheg, packs of worgs, and small tribes of wereboar.
History: The tragic history of Vhoon unfolded during the Great Cataclysm, when immense seismic upheavals and chaos storms devastated the Kingdom of Korune. While only a fraction of the land sank beneath the sea, the people suffered irreversible changes due to the chaos storms. Formerly humans, the vile corruption of the chaos storms transformed much of the population into the hyena-like humanoids known as gnolls or the half-human, halfauroch beings known as aurokhon. Tragically, within a few generations, the formerly human population lost all memory of their former existence and live today as primitive humanoids, nearly devoid of civilized culture.
Today: Vhoon, scarred by the cataclysm, stands as a demonstration of the enduring impact of a world-shattering event.
Map Index: E4, E5
Location: Northeast coast of Beorlan
Geography: Vhoon boasts a scenic landscape of undulating grasslands and low hills adorned with scrubby vegetation and stunted trees. Crisscrossed by drainageways and streams, the geography creates a challenging terrain for its inhabitants. A land of steep gullies, travel between two points can often be circuitous.
Primary Population: None
Secondary Population: Ranfaroth
Minor Population: Garuun
Climate: Vhoon experiences a temperate climate marked by cool, moist winters and hot, arid summers. Spring brings a burst of wildflowers, flourishing in the ample rainfall. The grasses, shrubs, and trees grow vigorously while ample moisture still exists. The frequent spring rains fade away to be replaced sunny skies and dry weather. Streams begin to dry up, and the land becomes parched. With the full arrival of summer, the land becomes parched, and many plants respond by going dormant. Fall brings relief with storms full of revitalizing rainfall.
Wildlife: Vhoon's diverse wildlife features tenacious species adapted to the region's extremes. Among the animals found here are antelopes, gazelles, leopards, jackals, and hyenas.
Humanoids: This wild untamed land is home to tribes of gnolls, Kitsune, and Draelorin. All three of these races were once human before being corrupted by the chaos storms of the Great Cataclysm. The gnolls, residing in small walled villages with crude huts with subterranean chambers, are semi-primative nomadic hunter-gatherers. Several times a year as game becomes scarce due to overhunting, they migrate to new locations. Only capable of making primitive weapons, the gnolls are without the knowledge and skill to smelt and work with metals. However, some members of the tribe possess metal weapons and armor that they acquired as spoils of war.
The Kitsune, a shape changing race of fox-like humanoids live in underground dens.
The Draelorin, a race corrupted by chaos storms, resemble a cross between humans and antelopes and live in large nomadic tribes. They subsist by living off the land primarily by gathering grains, tubers, wild fruits, and nuts. These two species share an uneasy coexistence with each other and disagreements between them often end in small skirmishes.
Monsters: The common monsters found in Vhoon consist of creatures produced by the chaos storms that swept over the land long ago and left many creatures corrupted. Commonly found in this land are broods of Ankheg, packs of worgs, and small tribes of wereboar.
History: The tragic history of Vhoon unfolded during the Great Cataclysm, when immense seismic upheavals and chaos storms devastated the Kingdom of Korune. While only a fraction of the land sank beneath the sea, the people suffered irreversible changes due to the chaos storms. Formerly humans, the vile corruption of the chaos storms transformed much of the population into the hyena-like humanoids known as gnolls or the half-human, halfauroch beings known as aurokhon. Tragically, within a few generations, the formerly human population lost all memory of their former existence and live today as primitive humanoids, nearly devoid of civilized culture.
Today: Vhoon, scarred by the cataclysm, stands as a demonstration of the enduring impact of a world-shattering event.