The Kartonga is a wound within Zhuru, a land so dry and desolate it rivals the worst of the world’s deserts. The ground is scarred with craters, the sky forever hazed with dust. At its heart looms Old Kartong, the spire-city, a jagged fang of stone carved into impossible angles. No one agrees whether it …
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Varduun – The Hyenalands
Varduun is a land cursed twice. Once by fire, when Drael fell and the earth split, vomiting up new coasts and subvolcanic plains. Again by its inhabitants, for the hyenas infested the land and made it their own. It is hellishly hot and dry, its grass scorched by fumes, its rivers bitter with ash. Coastal …
Izhura
The Grassland Courts Izhura unfurls as a broad and tranquil sweep of grass. The winds are softer here, the soil richer, yet still the land refuses the plow. It is no breadbasket—fields wither, harvests fail—but the grasslands are fertile for herds and caravans, and so the Izhurans turned their destiny toward trade. Their roads run …
Zhuru
The Great Contest Regions of Zhuru Zhuru is a vast, endless plain, too soft for stone, too lean for farming, too open for walls. Here the people live by hoof and fang, by wind and rut, by hunger and pride. It is no land for cities—crops wither, walls topple, towers sink into the grass. Only …
LORE: Equine Culture of Zhuru
The equine tribes of Zhuru defy simple categories. Each tribe is vast, numbering in the hundreds, splintered into clans that may feud bitterly yet rally in unison when their livelihood is threatened. The wide grasslands make them wanderers, but they are not drifters. They are caravaneers, mercenaries, merchants, and memory-keepers—a people who have turned the …
Vandyrus
Realms of Vandyrus Vandyrus is a world of drowned empires and savage frontiers, a land split by oceans and scarred by cataclysms. From the laughing hyenalands of Varduun to the dragon-haunted cliffs of Drael, from the steppes of Zhuru to the drowned ruins of Xalkul, each realm whispers of old power and new hungers. Every …