The Unclaimed Lands
You'll find a lot in the Unclaimed lads, most of it ripe for the taking- There's no one left to care, anymore. You'd be hard pressed to find any survivors willing to go back and rebuild from the ashes of nothing.The Unclaimed Lands span the majority of the Mortal Lands as it is currently known. They were claimed, once; it was hard to find an acre of sandy dirt that wasn't held by some authority or another. But the The Night of Falling Crowns changed all of that. Now it is a world of ruin, and renewal. Grass grows freely and gently where there were once cobblestoned streets, and misty rain falls upon abandoned citadels. But the Night of Falling Crowns is not the only reason the Unclaimed Lands were abandoned...
Geography
The Unclaimed lands are primarily made up of gentle plains, ideal for farmland. Walker's Canyon bisects the Unclaimed lands, splitting them in two and cutting the eastern countries off from the west. The Begoria Mountain Range dips through its southernmost part in the east, and only a couple smaller, nebulous countries have eked out survival within. Those countries that remain in the world stick close to the coasts of the continent, leaving everything in between... unclaimed.
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Wrath of the Memoria
The Unclaimed lands were, in ancient times, the homeland of the ancient Memoria. The ruins of their great cities can still be found, be it buried under the earth or nestled deep in the forests. They were masters of technology, wielding power close to the Creative power that flows through the world. Some say their technology was an attempt to harness the Creative power for themselves. Their technology was built to last. And last. The Mechanical were proof of that. And when they died out, their technology was left for whoever could find it. Including the machines they used to control the weather. At first they were no more than novelties, as those societies that came after learned to manipulate these strange marvels. Then they were lifesavers, used sparingly to disperse storms and bring rain to suffering crops. There was much debate over its usage, if controlling the weather was dallying in the realm of God. The the Night of Falling Crowns came, and the kingdoms controlling the devices crumbled. But the devices were not. And they were left on. Rampant storms now plague the unclaimed lands. Numerous expeditions have been launched to try and reach the control facilities, and none have been successful. While some have returned with useful data, others were consumed by the very storms they were trying to stop. Those small frontier towns that have survived in the power vacuum have had to rapidly adapt to changing climates. And the weather is not the only danger; devices used for managing farms or otherwise untamed nature now run rampant, creating hazards across once reliable trade routes. The The Forest of Metal is a slowly-growing monstrosity that consumes anything that stands near it, and Old Euripetes is a beast that stalks lush fields of wheat.
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