The Ashlands

The Ashlands is the a blighted wasteland to the northern west of Ortugan. The Ahslands is home to The Interslice and Mount Korah. To the eastern border of these cursed lands is the Twisted Forest, home to a variety of Taint infused and aberrant flora and fauna. To the south west are the Swamps or Sorrow, once prosperous farming land twisted to a nightmarish swamp.

Mount Korah - A towering mountain in the center a crater in the formerly rolling hills of northern Ortugan. Mount Korah was created when a massive meteorite struck Rakendawn and burrowed deeply into the crust. Almost the height of the Skyway after only a few decades of near-continuous eruption. Other than the obvious climate disaster this impact and pyroclastic event caused, a stable portal to another dimension was created deep in the heart of the mountain. Horrors from beyond imagining slither through this portal whenever the lava flow abates, menacing the countryside of Ortugan. Additionally, through this portal a cloud of foul-smelling otherworldly ash continually spills out and reaches hundreds of miles in every direction. In addition to choking the land like a heavy silt, the Taint also mutates unprotected plants and animals in ways that range from the subtle to the ghastly, but always foul in nature.

Blasted Wastes - the former rolling hills of the northern Ortugan plain-lands

Twisted Forest -

Swamp of Sorrow -

Interstice - A hole or rip in reality in northern Ortugan formed after the impact of a massive meteorite. The Interstice provides a stable bridge to a dimension of horror that regularly permits armies of demons to enter Rakendawn. After the first incursion by these other-dimensional ravagers, the Clans of Ortugan, banded together and constructed The Pristine Frontier to prevent these legions from ravaging the countryside. While demons continue to menace man and nature alike, the constant threat has had a dramatic stabilizing effect on the region.

Ashstorms - Violent, turbulent winds and cyclones which form around Mount Korah and thunder across the Blasted Wastes. High winds and tons of ash, embers, lightning that stream up into the air, and Taint offer no mercy. Partly magical in nature, they would often lead to the corruption of plants and wildlife, or even people, exposed to it when they do not kill everything in their wake. Legends hold that those killed by these storms will rise to devour the living. Most of these storms die out quickly, but their force and after-effects are strong enough to ensure death or mutation.