Ostren

Ostren is the northwestern country of Ebis with vast fields for farming, thick forests and large mountains. Resting on the coast they have a large export of magic items and brews. Although Ostren is the smallest country, it is one of the most powerful in Ebis due to their prominent magic use in their everyday life. They are also the most antagonistic, Levamore has outlawed magic and is constantly at odds with Ostren and on the verge of war. Estal was the base of the malevolent deities during the Cataclysm, while Ostren was the main supporters of the benevolent deities. Esmia rivals Ostren with their exports of magic items, minerals, and other goods.
==Geography==
Ostren has vast fields, thick forests, and large mountains, although most of the country is fairly flat.
===Banmont Plains===
Banmont Plains are a vast plains in the south east of Ostren.
===Blooming Fields===
Blooming Fields are vast fields at the southern foot of The Whispering Ridge stretching from the seafront to the east of Amcaster, fading into The Jagged Valley. The fields near Bromwich are sown with wheat and other grains with windmills and grainers across the fields. The south of the fields is cut by a great river named Lilypad Creek, flowing halfway through the fields.
===Barren Coast===
===Corburn Meadow===
Corburn Meadow is a large meadow to the north of Ostren just beneath The Ethereal Peaks, with The Elderhill Woods inside it, bordering The Jagged Peaks to the east, and The Whispering Ridge to the south.
===Elderhill Woods===
Elderhill Woods is south of the Corburn Meadow.
===Elmtry Cove===
Elmtry Cove is a natural whirlpool to the east in The Barren Ocean.
===Esfair Prairie===
Esfair Prairie is a large prairie on the southeastern border of Ostren.
===Gleaming Depths===
Gleaming Depths is a river got its name from the rocks and the sediment at the bottom of the river shining and somewhat glowing in the moonlight.
===Lilypad Creek===
Lilypad Creek is a large river named when the farming village Bromwich was founded, and the river was much smaller, but the name stuck and the locals refused to have its name changed.
===Moon-Lit Run===
Moon-lit Run is a large river cutting across the south of Ostren with two lakes on the east and west of it, The Rosewood Lake on the west, and The Gleaming Depths to the east.
===Redwood Wilds===
The Redwood Wilds are a thick forest in the middle of Ostren with only dirt roads and barely any pathing throughout the forest. Bandits frequently make hideouts in the woods. The woods are unruly and filled with monsters, with only adventurers or the truly desperate daring to pass through.
===The Ethereal Peaks=== 
The Ethereal Peaks is a mountain range to the north of Ostren with the Corburn Meadow to the south west and south at the foot of the range. The Whispering Ridge and the south western range create a valley called The Jagged Valley. The Ethereal Peaks are named as such because the range is covered in a thick layer of snow making it look ethereal and otherworldly.
===The Jade River===
===The Jagged Valley===
The Jagged Valley is a large valley between The Whispering Ridge and the southwest of The Ethereal Peaks. It is a jagged, twisting, and winding abandoned path used before Amcaster tunneled through The Whispering Ridge. After the path through the ridge was made the town of Ambermere was abandoned and left to the elements.
===The Rosewood Lake===
The Rosewood Lake is a large lake to the south of Ostren. Roselake is to the west of it and is a part of The Moon-Lit Run river.
===The Surging Bog===
The Surging Bod is a deep marshland to the far south of Ostren. The monsters and bandits have turned this area into a lawless area. The bog is home to hags, trolls, ogres, gators and the other swampland creatures.
===The Whispering Ridge===
The Whispering Ridge is a spine of mountainous ridges to the south of Corburn Meadow, and cuts the northern land of Ostren in half. There are two paths that go through the ridge, the western one winds along the ridge connecting The Blooming Fields to Ardmont and Corburn Meadow. The second route to the east was carved through the ridge by Amcaster to avoid going around through The Jagged Valley, and connects Amcaster to Corburn Meadow.
==Settlements==
===Villages===
*Ambermere: Ambermere is the abandoned village inside The Jagged Valley, rigged with traps and pitfalls by the local kobolds. It only served as a place of rest while making the trek to Corburn Meadow from Briskhollow and Nighbihr.
*Beckton: Beckton is a village on the northern edge of The Surging Bog.
*Bromwich: Bromwich is a small farming village to the south east of Krosston. It is mostly a town of humans and halflings, working in the large swaths of fields filled with wheat and barley. They have a small merchant square but mainly specialize in breeding horses and making flour. There are a lot of windmills and granaries, along with a large bridge made of perfectly cut stone mined in Nighbihr stretching over a large river cutting through the south.
*Ghoulcrest: Ghoulcrest is a swamp village in the northwestern area of The Surging Bog near the fork of Moon-Lit Run and The Jade River. The town itself is partially sunken in the wetlands, and isn't guarded very well. Despite being on a riverbed and a week away from Freywood, the town is almost entirely lawless. Bounty hunters, mercenaries, and thugs who don't mind the bog tariff the paths near the swamp.
*Mirefield: Mirefield is a large village on the outskirts of The Redwood Wilds.
*Vonia: Vonia is a small village to the north of Ostren close to The Barren Ocean and above The Whispering Ridge. It is surrounded on all sides by The Elderhill woods and set in a clearing. Vonia is ruled by Opal Marmoreal's adoptive parents, who are Earth Genasi gifted the land as a treaty between Ostren and Abalon.
*Warren Warren is a village on the eastern border of Ostren in The Esfair Prairie.
===Towns===
*Addersfield: Addersfield is in the middle of Corburn Meadow and at the foot of The Ethereal Peaks. Addersfield connects south through The Elderhill Woods into Ardmont. Other than Briskhollow, Addersfield is the closest town of jewelers, tinkerers, and artisans making all kinds of items, but barely any weapons or armor.
*Arbington: Arbington is a town on the edge of The Redwood Wilds renowned for its hunters and their exports of furs.
*Ardmont: Ardmont is a large town just off the southern outskirts of The Elderhill woods. It is owned by a noble who was gifted the land and funded by Amcaster. The goal was to profit off of the few adventurers and passersby of the forest and Springarden and through the mountain path.
*Argosa: Argosa is a large town on the edge of The Surging Bog within Esfair Prairie. They make frequent trips into the bog and prairie and have many exports.
*Blindpeak: Blindpeak is a small town on the southern border of Ostren.
*Halfpost: Halfpost is a halfling town to the east of the Redwood Wilds, and borders The Barren Coast. The halflings have built up to the craggy cliffs and push towards the forest to the east. They have a few Ostren Guards posted to the east and protecting the town from the monsters in the wilds. There are streets filled with inns for the caravans of people passing though, and taverns on the east for any lucky souls who make it through the Redwood Wilds alive.
*Lindow: Lindow is a town near Ostrens eastern border.
*Roselake: Roselake is a town between Freywood and Ironhaven, built next to a bridge and the Rosewood Lake, the namesake of the town.
===Cities===
*Briskhollow: Briskhollow is a small city in Ostren populated mostly by gnomes with a few halflings, humans, and dwarves. Briskhollow is at the edge of Corburn Meadow and The Jagged Valley. It is a town filled with tinkerers and mechanics working on gadgets and magical items most of which are shipped to Amcaster or Moonbright Port.
*Ironhaven: Ironhaven is a large fishing town between Freywood and Moonbright Port, used very frequently as a rest point for caravans traveling to and from Freywood. Ironhaven is the main fishing village of Ostren, as the majority of The Barren Coast is craggy and unusable.
*New Cresthill: New Cresthill is a large city on the northern riverbed of Moon-Lit Run. They produce the majority of the drinks of Ostren under the brand Cresthill Brews. It has vast apple orchards where they make apple brandy and cider, fields of corn, rye, wheat, and barley to make whisky and ale. Large stretching vineyards to make wine, apiaries in fields of flowers and other plants for making mead.
*Neverguard: Neverguard is on the eastern border of Ostren, and frequently allow monsters and beasts into the town. Once Ostren declares war on Estal, Neverguard shifts to the main battlefront.
*Nighbihr: Nighbihr is a large dwarven city in the northern mountains of Ostren. They have a large cavernous city within the mountains mining for ores and minerals, and there is a large quarry further to the south of Nighbihr where they gather stones for the kingdom. The city works from sunrise to sunset and enjoy themselves after a long day of work with a drink.
*Orrinshire: Orrinshire is a large city to the east of Amcaster, acting as a toll for the eastern country. Though Ambermere was abandoned and left to the Kobolds, Orrinshire is secure and fortified, acting as a military encampment. The ruler is Lady Lilith Nightshade. Orrinshire is one of two figurehead-esque cities within Ostren, the other being Krosston and the Shade Guardians led by Lato Tallglade.
===Metropolises===
*Amcaster: Amcaster is the capital of Ostren at the foot of The Whispering Ridge, and it is flourishing with magic. They have once of the largest magic academies in the world named Amcaster Academy.
*Dalry: Dalry is a metropolis on the edge of The Esfair Prairie and Banmont Plains.
*Freywood: Freywood is the second largest metropolis in Ostren, second only to the capital Amcaster. Freywood is the import capital of Ostren. The docks are always filled with busy working merchants, artisans, artists and sailors. The buildings above the docking areas are filled with taverns, inns, and shopfronts circling around the metropolis.
*Krosston: Krosston is a metropolis on the western edge of Ostren, they make most of their money from sailors and trade across The Barren Ocean. On the surface Krosston is run by an elven noble family, The Whitmores, but the criminal guild named Shade Guardians led by Lato Tallglade that runs the country is underneath the metropolis.
*Moonbright Port: Moonbright Port is a port and is the main export of Ostren, it is a metropolis where Ostren ships out most of their magical items, weapons, and armor made in Amcaster. As well as the precious metals and gems mined in Nighbihr along with the trinkets made by Briskhollow.
==History==
===Cataclysm===
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==Law and Order==
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