Welcome to Eridan
Eridan is a rough, gritty and often times violent land. From the bloody deserts in the east to the mystical Obsidian Ice in the west, and everything in between, Eridan is a place where one can thrive or die trying.
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World Geography Encyclopedia
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Adania
The ominous and dangerous city of Adania is home to the sand elves of Eridan. These elves excel in martial prowess and pride themselves on violence and combat. Infighting and kinslaying are very much a common theme in the deserts of southeast Eridan. The Sands of Decay and the Bloody Dunes are awful places for a traveler to find themselves, unless they are looking for death.
Aonru River
A large river that spans from Mortas Bay all the way north to Teorann Lake. It spills into Lake Aonru and then travels north into Teorann Lake.
Arnweyal Plains
These great plains, named after the Aonach Pantheon's God of Plains, Arnweyal, span the vast majority of the central region of Eridan. Many humans farm these spacious lands, providing much of the continents produce.
Avann River
A large river flowing from the Thrandir Mountains into the Freyil Basin, creating a luscious, fertile landscape.
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Balienne's Elixer
A beautiful lake in the center of Graef’s Bulwark. A legend has spread throughout Eridan of the lake and its healing powers. Though, no one has been able to prove its healing effects, as the high elves who occupy the forest have guarded its secrets well.
Bastion of Autumn & Spring
A great elven city within Graef’s Bulwark. This fortress city houses thousands of wood elves and is a self-sustaining populace thanks to the bountiful forest of Graef’s Bulwark. Balienne’s Elixir is said to have unparalleled healing powers, enticing all kinds of travelers. However, the wood elves will do anything to protect their domain from intruders and interlopers.
Bloody Dunes
A desert in the southeast of Eridan. This terrible place is home to crimson stained sand as well as thousands of bones of long dead sand elves. Three hundred years ago, a civil war erupted between two powerful families. The result was utter annihilation, leaving not only both houses decimated, but thousands of warriors and other innocents. Their remains lay scattered throughout the bloody sands as a sad history lesson to those who dare pass through.
Bretten
This large city sits in northern Eridan, north of Talav’s Benediction and west of the Lesser Gandireav River. Talav’s followers built this city hundreds of years ago to support the Benediction, and it has thrived ever since. It is home to all manner of races.
Bronze Hills
This reddish mountain range spans western Eridan between the Corran Woodland and Cristolach Expanse. Dwarven clans dominate this mountain range as many cities and towns dot the mountainside, as well as underground dwellings and mines. Some of the finest crafted weapons come out of dwarven forges in these hills.
Bronze Rivers
Two rivers that become one in northwestern Eridan and west of the Bronze Hills. The northern river is known as Copper, while the southern is Tin. They combine to become the Bronze River, which flows out into the Sea of Rhew. The river slows and freezes the closer it gets to the icy sea.
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Claw Bay
A large bay of water in the southern reaches of Eridan. It is home to sea towns and ports. One of which is run by a society of goblins.
Collmhor Wood
Large forest region in the far southwestern reaches. It is home to orcs and bugbears, who are stuck in a constant violent struggle to control old ruins at the heart of the woods.
Corran Woodland
A large crescent shaped woodland on the western shore of Lake Aonru. It is known for its golden leafed trees. Many wood elves call the forest home, and they share the woodland with gnomes who have taken up residence in the southwestern region at the border of the Bronze Hills.
Cristolach Expanse
A gargantuan mountain range stretching from the Sea of Rhew all the way south near the Collmhor Wood.
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Diamond Thread
A river that flows out of the Bronze Hills westward passed the Winter Court and into the Sea of Obsidian Ice.
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Eldrin City
It is the largest city in southern Eridan as well as the most powerful in the region. It boasts a large population, invaluable trade, many labor guilds, as well as the wizard’s guild and the Arcane Academy. The current ruler is a man named Lord Tulver Cinval.
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Freyil Basin
A large fertile river valley in northeastern Eridan. This basin is isolated from the rest of the continent, protected by the Thrandir Mountain range. It is said that a large number of wood elves dwell within the basin. There have even been human nomads seen wandering the area, though they wore heavy furs and were believed to be from the north. The Avann River flows through the area.
Frostbound Wastes
Unlike its frozen tundra cousin, the Sea of Obsidian Ice, the Frostbound Wastes are a much more naturally occurring icy wasteland. As far as anyone knows, there are no inhabitants north of the Teorann Lake, leaving the vast snowy land mostly unexplored.
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Gandireav Rivers
The Gandireav and the Lesser Gandireav sit in north central Eridan. The Gandireav flows north from Lake Aonru and splits into the Lesser Gandireav, which flows past Bretten and into the Torril Wood. The Gandireav continues north and spills into the Thaive Sea. The rivers are named after a famed monk who dwelled in the area many thousands of years ago.
Graef's Bulwark
A massive, forested region named for the god of Autumn, Graef. It surrounds Balienne’s Elixer, named after Graef’s wife, the goddess of Spring, as it fuels the region from the heart of the wood. A large populace of elves known as the Eaomai call the forest home, believing themselves to be the children of Graef and Balienne, and named their city The Bastion of Autumn and Spring. The Eaomai protect the forest and their home at all costs, attacking any foreign creature that ventures into the forest unwelcomed.
Great Glacial Fen
This is a huge wetland region east of the Sea of Obsidian Ice and the southern Cristolach Expanse. It is rumored to hold secrets of long-lost treasure, but no such finds have been made to date.
Great Sea of Morimar
As the name implies, this massive sea borders southern Eridan from Mhistana Detritus in the southwest to the Sands of Decay in the far southeast. Named after the God of Deep Ocean, this body of water is home to many monsters that dwell in the deep depths of the ocean.
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Lake Aonru
A large lake in north central Eridan with a huge island at its center. It is said to be home to an elven civilization. A large forest, Corran Woodland, borders the northwest, west and southwest of the lake. The Aonru River runs into the lake from the south and continues northward to Teorann Lake.
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Mhistana Detritus
A land with just as much history as obvious destruction. This archipelago type region in the far southwest was once a thriving coastal community. Now, it is nothing more than ruins and rock. Many adventurers have traveled to this place in search of relics of the past, only to never be heard from again.
Mortas Bay
Named after one of the founders of Eldrin City, this large bay is in south central Eridan. Eldrin City sits in the northern part of the bay, serving as the hub of trade for the area.
Mount Felxtra
A towering mountain of stone on the eastern side of the Bronze Hills. It is unknown if this behemoth natural wonder is a volcano, or if it is a harmless giant. Only time will tell.
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Prakov's Gift
A fertile Riverland in southern Eridan just northeast of Graef’s Bulwark. This land is home to many halflings and many, many tobacco farms. The biggest and longest river feeds into Balienne’s Elixir and sustains the most bountiful tobacco fields in all of Eridan.
Proxus Strait
Large body of water containing both Mortas Bay and Claw Bay in the south. Named after the God of Open Ocean, Proxus, this sea is traversed by many pirate and merchant vessels alike.
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Quellan's Retreat
A lake in the central region of Eridan. It is named after the Goddess of Mercy, who was said to have eased the passing of a mortally wounded legendary warrior over five hundred years ago.
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Raduna Woodland
A decent population of humans and orcs live together peacefully in this harsh northern environment—a region that is permanently covered in soft, powdery snow.
Raonai Strand
A moderate region in southwestern Eridan that has a little bit of everything all in one: Mountains, hills, a small river and a woodland. Gnomes call this place home, residing in the forest, mountains and beneath the surface.
Ridgeton
A small settlement on the western shores of the Mortas Bay, it is home to mostly human folk but welcomes all. Sitting in the heart of the Tameless Shore, Ridgeton is a rough place with unsavory origins: slavery. Ridgeton has long since outlawed slavery, but slave trade still exists in Eridan. People disappear frequently from the Tameless Shore never to be heard from or seen again. Ridgeton is booming from logging and lumber trade, as such, it is growing rapidly as the town expands by the seasons.
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Sands of Decay
A desert in the southeast region of Eridan, this rotting sandpit is home to Adania and stretches far to the southeast past the known lands. An unspeakable blight ripped through the land thousands of years ago, eating away at life until nothing but sand and death remained.
Sea of Obsidian Ice
A harsh land of ice and perpetual whiteout snowstorms, this place is home to those who worship the Queen of Falling Snow. A mysterious goddess who is rumored to dwell beneath the sea of ice, permanently freezing everything within her reach. The city of The Winter Court lies in the east near The Diamond Thread river and is the only stationary settlement in the frozen tundra.
Sea of Rhew
This icy sea rests in the northwestern region of Eridan. To its south lies the ever-frozen Sea of Obsidian Ice and the Cristolach Expanse, and to its north lies the seas beyond the Frostbound Wastes. Only the brave, and those who wish to die, attempt to traverse this icy ocean.
Sepulcher Hills
A massive complex of cairns for the dead, located north and east of Eldrin City. It is home to one of the largest temples of Sioch, the God of Peace. There, his clerics tend to the dying and dead while his paladins, the Heralds of Sioch, train for battle, ever ready to defend peace.
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Talav's Benediction
This holy hill is a place of worship for the God of Land, Talav. It is welcome to all those who worship Talav. The city of Bretten sits very closely to the Holy Hill, and benefits from the Torril Wood and Gandireav Rivers in the region.
Tameless Shore
A wild coastline of Eridan, southwest of Eldrin City. This savage land contains Ridgeton and many other small towns, and it is frequently targeted by brigands and slave traders looking to kidnap people for illegal captivity. If one is to survive in this region, it would be wise to have powerful friends.
Teorann Lake
Large lake in the northwestern region of Eridan. The Frostbound Wastes border the body of water to the north and a small woodland realm sits on the southwest shore.
Thaive Sea
Huge expanse of ocean north of Eridan. Few small islands have been seen in this sea, inhabited by kobolds and bugbears.
Thrandir Ridge
A wide-stretching mountain range, reaching from Quellan’s Retreat in east-central Eridan all the way to the Avann River in the northeast near the Freyil Basin. These mountains are the tallest on the continent and are known to be the domain of dragons—though a dragon has not been seen for nearly one hundred years.
Tiuv Forest
A massive forest in the western portion of the Tameless Shore. This woodland realm is home to bandits, brigands and many lawless creatures. Lately, it has become set in the sights of Varlon, a local merchant and businessman heading the Ironwood Consortium.
Torril Wood
A wooded region in north central Eridan. The city of Bretten and Talav’s Benediction sit to the south, and their many inhabitants frequent the woods, split north to south by an unusual formation of jutting hills.
Tririver Marsh
A large marsh in the northcentral region of Eridan. Three rivers drain into a lowland area, creating a massive marshland. This area is populated by humans and gnomes.
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Windshear Peaks
A treacherous mountain range in southeast/eastern Eridan with wind gusts so fierce, they have been known to throw climbers to deaths. It has also been rumored that a band of brigands called the Wasteland Raiders.
Winter Court
A large elven city in the western reaches of Eridan. It sits at the base of the Cristolach Expanse at the mouth of the Diamond Thread, where the water is completely frozen. The elves here are called snow elves, and they are known for their great fervor for the Queen of Falling Snow, the Goddess of Winter.
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Ylestrea Valley
This valley of death is enclosed inside a mountain range in southeastern Eridan. It is rumored to be home to a species of reptilians that many claim to be long extinct. People venture into this valley, but few make it out alive, and the ones who do are said to suffer from a fatal madness.