Castle Whiterock

The Bloodstone Lands refers to the region between the Great Glacier and Impiltur, particularly the two former states of Vaasa and Damara, now reunited as The Kingdom of the Bloodstone Lands. The whole area encompasses roughly 150,000 square miles in a roughly triangular shape, using the southern line of the Great Glacier as its northernmost boundary. To the west, beyond the Earthspur Mountains, are the wicked land of Thar, the Moonsea, and the independent citystate of Mulmaster. To the south is Impiltur and beyond that, the Sea of Fallen Stars. To the east looms Narfell and the Great Dale.

The Duchy of Vassa lies in a triangular region bounded by the Earthspur Mountains, the Great Glacier, and the forbidding Galena Mountains. For centuries untold, Vaasa remained an unclaimed wasteland of frozen moors and broken clumps of tundra, a captured pocket of deep winter. Summer does come here, if only for a few short weeks. Even then, Vaasa feels the edge of its climate’s wickedness. When the moorwaters melt and the top layers of tundra soften, the entire region becomes one vast bog of sludge and mud where “the tallest horse would wet its belly,” as the saying goes. Even more insidious, many bottomless bogs open up, particularly in the central region, above the Beaumaris River. These deadly moors would do much more than “wet a horse’s belly!” Where small farms have been scratched in Vaasa’s rocky soil, harvests show a somewhat fertile land. However, nowhere in the entire kingdom has a large enough stretch of arable land been found capable of supporting a large-scale community. Few people live in Vaasa. Even they probably wonder why.