The Great Wall

Though the Great Wall may indeed have been once created for defensive purposes, it now houses thousands within its structure; both within the ten Wall Keep fortifications but also in the smaller Wall Towns where the walls populous have gathered to make homes and outposts of their own. Few know what lies beyond the wall save what they can see with their own eyes. Over the generations few are brave enough to explore beyond the Kingom, fearing not only the unknown but the retelling of the stories of those who travelled beyond the Wall before them and how none that ever returned.



The Far Reaches
 The jagged icey peaks of the Far Reaches are the least likely travelled of the areas outside of the Wall, regardless of what dangers may lie beyond the fortifications the mountainous region is unsafe on both sides of the wall and even within the territories of the Kingdom the mountains claim many lives.

The Icey Wastes
 Beyond Northwood all that exists is bleak tundra; a land of ice and wicked blizzards. As equally uncharted as the Far Reaches, the weather alone is enough to turn away any would be explorer who would freeze in the arctic conditions.

Whisperwood
 To the west of Ashen lies the dark forests of Whisperwood, so called due to the rumours of the trees themselves whispering bad omen on the winds to all near it. It is said that only those born in Ashen are accustomed enough to live there, too long an exposure to the nearby woods enough to drive the weak willed to madness.

Sharptooth
 The Sharptooth Ranges are disected by the Great Wall, the range to the north of it as equally perilous to an inexperienced traveller as those to the South. The jagged peaks said to be the claws, spines and teeth of all the fabled dragons that were once felled by the Drachenwand (Dragon Wall) Keep.

Distant Steppes
 The great flatlands offer little in the way of scenery; the leveled territory showing what little lies beyond the wall to the South save the stretch of water known as the Far River.

The Distant Waters
 Unable to travel the great blue gulf of the ocean only the Gods know what lie further east of the Kingdoms islands. Few able seamen have sailed off into the blue, to do so in the knowledge that their ships aren't meant for such travel would be an expensive suicide. Every so often though a daring Captain will come forward and once more try to sail further than those before him.