Habira

Regions

The Gilded Gulf

• New Habira is the heart of civilization in the guilded gulf and the trade center of the world.  Over a thousand ships come in and out of this port city every day bringing goods from all over the world to be sold at the Habiran markets and loading their holds with spices that turn a very nice profit. The Spicelords control and tax all trade in the city. They have a stranglehold on all the towns in the Habiran plains and  employ slave labor in their harbors and out in the fields. The Citizens of New Habira are well versed in the language of business. A great number of residents are Merchants, Traders, Loaners, Accountants, Collectors, and Investors. Every trade and profession is taxed. There is little housing for the lower class. Poor individuals that pass through New Habira are usually delivering goods to, or spices from the surrounding villages.    

• Makoma is the largest island in the Gilded Gulf. The city of Karsa is a colony of the Leodran Empire, but It has developed a very independent culture. Karsan cuisine is known throughout the cullinary world. Ebondine is a small city located within the Darkwood. It was founded in 543 A4 by Yuosi migrants . The people of Ebondine are reclusive and are trained in deadly martial arts. They have a cult-like devotion to the goddess Ja'ate. Centuries of living in darkness has given them ghostly pale skin and large eyes. Karsa trades with Ebondine only once per year. Karsa offers knowledge of the world and Ebondine offers a variety of extremely rare extracts, poisons, and herbs. Many Karsans desire independence from Leodra, but none desire to fight in a revolution. Others are content to profit off of trade and tourism like the rest of the Gilded Gulf. 

• Miojin is a colony of the Leodran Empire. Established in 779 A4 as a supply cache and waystation for Leodran ships to venture farther west.  After a hundred years, the people of Miojin have yet to tame the wilds of Fili, but not for lack of trying.

• The city of Stradov sits high up in the northern mountains. This old city, carved from stone, was founded by humans who migrated from Dal in the 5th century of the 3rd Age. The population has since changed be a majority of Halforcs, as well as a few true-blooded orcs. 

• Little is known about the statue at Mt. Dovoran, besides that it was carved by Giants sometime before the 3rd Age.  It stands about 250ft tall and depicts an armored soldier at attention, clasping the pommel of a two-handed sword. 

• Fung'Tis is a fungally infected forest located in northern Habira. The Great Tree Ymias succumbed to a great sickness near the end of the 3rd Age.  The elves spent every effort to remedy their sacred tree, but they ultimately failed. They too fell sick to the spore-riddled air. Very few were able to escape to the Zakarri Forest

•  The ruins of Dal are located at the center of the Greenshorn. Dal was once a populous center of savage horse riders.  Their culture was centered entirely around horses, which led to their downfall when the river dried up and the grass stopped growing in the 16th century of the 3rd Age. The raiders of Dal caused Leodra to erect the Great Wall in 529 A3.