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The remnant of Ageond, now known as the Forsaken Land, is an island-continent slightly larger than Australia, and through the power of the dark gods, it is a land shrouded in dark clouds.

Danaij, Danaij’vai, humans, vampires, and Asath that managed to survive the war rebuilt their nations that had been wholly devastated and began their societies anew. The land is broken up into several nations divided by race, but they all share the same religion of darkness.

Desert of Black Sand

In the heart of the Forsaken Land is the Desert of Black Sands. In the sinking of Ageond, the center of the southern tip of the continent was a sink for lava flows, swept by tsunamis, and generally ravaged by the Cataclysm. Black volcanic glass was ground to sand in sweeping dunes. This desert is not a place of scorching sun and sapping heat, but it is a cold, arid wasteland where few plants can find a foothold to grow, and though it is perpetually covered in clouds, it sees little rain and ravaging windstorms.

Rivers flowing from the mountains have gradually cut their way through the desert and deposited sediments to enrich the soil, but this process has been slow and painstaking. Many north-flowing rivers find their way into this basin, and at present, the Naslip river from the northern end of the Ormiss Mountains has shaped the northwestern edge of the desert and spreads into a delta to empty in the sea. Rivers from other mountain sources further north join with the Naslip, and have confined the desert to the central-east region of the continent.

East Coast

Ny’skel Mountains

The east coast of the Forsaken Land rises up from the desert, and on the northeastern tip is the small mountainous region of Ny’skel, which is the remains of a much larger mountain range. If one travels north, a sprinkling of islands up along the coast of Thiskel marks what else is left of this mountain range. The Ny’skel range blocks most access—short of a broad pass long what is now a cliff pass on the north coast—to a small human nation on the upper east coast called Rilema.

Kiran

On the south side of the Ny’skel is the northern border of the Danaij nation of Kiran which occupies the rest of the east. There is a small human nation ruled by a vampire lord that is carved out of Kiran and sits on the east coast. The borders of Kiran to the north are narrow, keeping a distance away from the desert before it broadens into the heart of the nation, which is nestled in a valley between the southern arc the long Ormiss mountain range that goes down the west coast and an offshoot called the Kixes Mountains.

The nation of Kiran also contains two major rivers; the Neasit which flows from the Kixes Mountains, going northeast from the mountains to empty into the ocean on the east coast; and the Aldeti which flows from another source on the southern side of the Kixes, cuts across the southern part of the valley and flows into the ocean on the southeast. The Aldeti also provides a natural border for two nations of Danaij’vai, which are further separated by broad, but short, river that flows down from the Ormiss Mountains and merges into the Aldeti.

Most of the Kiran lands, as well as the rest of the continent, is forested with dark-needled conifers, though there is some open space between the edges of the desert and the forestland. The northern reaches of Kiran are steppes and hilly prairie until it rises into higher altitudes and transitions into forest.

West Coast

Ormiss Mountains

The Ormiss Mountains are a long, high, craggy mountain range that follow along the west coast and down to the south of the Forsaken Land. When the continent of Ageond was whole, they reached several hundred miles further north, and the remains of this lost portion can be found as islands just north of the Forsaken Land.

There are two off-shoots of the Ormiss Mountains; the northern range being the Fisay, and several hundred miles south is the Kixes range. The valley between the northern arch of the Ormiss and the Fisay is occupied by the small Danaij nation of Nalxad; between the Fisay and Kixes is the nation of Mairax, and between the Kixes and the southern arch of the Ormiss is the nation of Kiran.

Rivers

The Ormiss and its connected ranges are also the source of many rivers. Starting from the north is the Samim and Hatal rivers. The Hatal River starts in the west of the Fisay Mountains and flows northwestwards through the heart of Nalxad, then forks north and northwest, the northwest becoming the Samim River, which cuts through the north of the Ormiss range, creating a deep canyon, then empties into the sea on the northernmost point of the continent. The Hatal continues on slightly northeasterly, and is joined by a short river that flows from the end of the Fisay range before emptying into the sea.

The largest river in the continent is the Nasip, which has its source in the Kixes Mountains, flowing from the Mairax nation and cutting straight through the center of the island, through the desert, and emptying into the ocean from the central north coast at the lowest point of land, where it fans out into a delta.

In the lands of Kiran, there are two major rivers. The northern river, the Neasit, flows from the end of the Kixes range on a mostly easterly path where it empties into the ocean in the east coast. The second and southernmost river of the Forsaken Land is the Aldeti, which flows from a southern point of the Kixes and cuts a natural border through the southernmost point of the Kiran valley, separating Kiran from the Danaij’vai lands. There is another small river that follows from the Ormiss Mountains and merges into the Aldeti, which then flows on a southeasterly course and empties into the ocean in the south.