Fae's Redoubt
Geography
The Fae's Redoubt is a lost place, it was said once that it was a massive island of gently rolling hills, stitched and crisscrossed by deep rivers and creeks. That place a memory long ago forgotten, existing only now in the tales of the Gnomes and Dwarves. That misty isle, a haven for a people now divided. Now nothing like it's origins, the homeland is gone, changed beyond recognition like the people who once called it home.
Now a craggy snow capped continent that defies the laws of nature. Great rings of mountains mare the once gentle rolling hills, inhospitable to all by the most prepared. The only haven that exists now is the inner ring of mountains that are the Seat to the Gnomish Empire. This redoubt has become a fortress that few have ever been able to see.
Climate
Not much is known, that history has been lost. During The Hammer fall is when all information of this place was annihilated, the only memory of it exists in the songs of the those who lived through it. The Dwarves remember it as a paradise that their people enjoyed without hesitation.
"Fields of gold, rolling on waves earth and sound. Not a single moment of wary, never tarry. Home to be filled aplenty, a cornucopia of boundless treasures. Not worth is weight in gold, an irreplaceable time. Never touched by the cold."
While the Gnomes share much the same feelings of this place long gone, they had a different type of reverence found more in, Ironically, the methodology of magic that became the Druidic practices used by both Gnomes and Dwarves.
"From trees ghosts and forgotten. The earth remembers while man forgets, it feels the roots that set deep, tapping into the energy of the world around us. Though the grasslands may be gone, the trees monoculture and stubby, the mountains a far cry from the plains. It still remembers that old power."
History
The ancestral home to The Namoux, or at least one of them anyway. The clan was broken into two factions at the earliest onset of the Dawn of Truths, The Zelth and Mhuzelti clans lived on this vast grassland, until thier differences finally got the better of them. Though the reasons for this conflict have been long forgotten by the Clans who now are the modern Dwarves and Gnomes, the Dwarves being the Mhuzelti clan and the Gnomes being the Zelth.
Not even the ruins survived, though they both talk about how the Isle was the last safe place while a hellstorm took the world in the south. This storm is debated by both modern nations as to what is was. But, this history lines up the formation of other nations to the south as well, matching perfectly the founding histories of both Galus and Huron who spoke of a great cataclysm the rended the skies.
Though, as their own war continued, they woke something sleeping beneath the isle. This sleeping god angered destroyed the Fae's Redoubt and made it into the ringed mountain structure that it is today. Many also speculate the name of this place, as both cultures call it the same thing. They are not sure where the name came from, or why it got the name to begin with.
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But, dear reader, I know. I, the Imperial Scholar remember full well. The Fae's Redoubt was infact a massive defensive structure built by the Quartet. The surface of it was a vast grassland that the Fae used as a staging ground for many of the orbital launchers during The War of the Shadows on The Cradle. Lost to them, that when Vilorlith glassed half the planet during her battle with Bhal, this hellstorm destroyed much of the planet's surface.
The surviving Fae were changed into the Zelth and Mhuzelti. Not quite the original, but built better to survive the caustic air, the poisoned rivers, the obsured sunlight. Now, this sleeping god is a story for another time. Yet, the final change to their forms and minds was made here as the Isle was shattered to the wills of The Shadows. For what purpose? That remains to be seen.
Alternative Name(s)
The Homeland
Type
Grassland
Location under
Owning Organization
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