The Fallo, The Horn, and the Moors

The Fallo, the Horn, and The Moors were the three subcontinents that formed the southern chunk of the Indrateran continent. They had a shared history and culture, and were thematically inseparable. The area was intensely tied to the history of the Lusken Empire and the Euluskan diaspora.
== Regional Names ==
=== The Fallo - Falloroül ===
In the Fallonese language, the west coast of the area was known as Y Luraetha Afallo, meaning 'The Golden Coastline'. It was calqued into the related Euluska language as Lurai Falloroül, and always written in English as the Fallo.
=== The Horn - Irrakavulegi ===
The area in Euluska was named Irrakavulegi, meaning 'the horn', which referred to the horn-like shape of the southern peninsula. The name irrakavulegi was shortened to kavu which came to refer to any peninsula or cape landform. As the homeland of the Euluska people, it was also referred to with the full epithet orellaka ka irrakavulegi, meaning 'the homeland of the horn'.
=== The Moors - Tyrmix ===
This area in the now-dead native languages of Tibealan and Alder, the area was referred to as Termowek, Tibeal, and Tarmēck. By the time the Euluska-speaking Luskens arrived and borrowed the name into their language, the final /k/'s had been palatalised, and the Euluska borrowed the name as Tyrmix. The original names' meaning are lost, but it's possible they referred to the once-present salt flats, or from the proto-Tibealan *dherm meaning 'flat/open land'.
== Brief History ==
The Horn was where the Homo euluskans race of humanoids evolved and spread. The area was fertile and well-suited to the expanding populations over these hundreds of thousands of years. 
The area was full of early burgeoning civilisations, moving from hunter-gatherer to agrarian, with the advent of cities in the first ten thousand years before 0. Lusken, back then called Iluzikanuz, was founded some time before the -8000s, because it was mentioned in a Rakki saga. The Alder people had the largest kingdom in the 2nd millennium before 0, but by the time 0 rolled around, they disappeared - scholars think that the Sky People had something to do with it. 
The warring tribes became warring towns, warring cultures, and eventually warring city-states by the first millennium before 0. In the first century before zero, Regulus Kingmaker united the warring clans into the first semblance of an empire that would become The Lusken Empire. Over the next three centuries, the Euluska people settled and colonised most of the Fallo and the moor, mingling with the Fallonese people, wiping out the Tibealans, and controlling the place. 
The Luskan Empire maintained Euluskan cultural dominance over the peninsula for the rest of time. In the 1500s, after the fall of the Empire, war wracked it again, and the Vortic Mercatorium controlled some Fallonese coastal towns, whilst everything else splintered into successor city states. Centralised power never came about again. By the time of the Collapse Era in the 1700s onwards, 
== Local Peoples, Tongues, and Cultures ==
The Horn was the homeland of the southern population of all humanoids (Rakkimar being the other homeland of humanoids). See Anthropology and the Evolution of Humanoids for a deep dive, but essentially up there you had Homo rakimarensis and down here you had Homo euluskans. In time, the Horn was home to the Euluskans; the Fallo was home to the Fallonese, the now-extinct Uloyzerisch, and South Vist; and the Moor was home to the ancient Alder and Tibealans. Everywhere was eventually mingled with Euluskans, and the Alder and Tibealan people dwindled to small populations, their languages mostly heritage or moribund.
Most of the Euluskan Saints were from the area, because most of the early Euluskans lived in this area.
== Notable Geographical Features ==
The area was very varied, ranging from temperate to tropical and mediterranean climates. There were moors, mountains, lakes, cliffs, hills, forests, and gorges, and the landscape was dominated by several notable features - The Morna-La, a large inlet; The Caliveri, the world's largest mountain range; Caledvýlh Basin, a huge inland sea; and the Saint Verehia River Valley, a large watershed valley. These four landmarks were prominent and featured heavily in history.
The Estir Woods were a large woodland in the northwestern Fallo, which were said to be haunted. This superstition came about from, in the first century before 0, the cultist Weyloran killed Saint Cordelia of the Estir and the dryad goddess Mielikki, thence leaving the woods with no domineering nature spirit or guardian and letting nature run wild and corrupted. 
The Caliveri were the largest mountain range in the world by size (but not the tallest, the Kaserini in Rakkimar were). The Caliveri provided an obstacle for ancient armies, shelter for refugees, and the dominating feature of the landscape visually. They were written about in poems, stories, and songs. Pretty much anywhere in the area, you could see them, unless another mountain was in the way. Also, interestingly, the names of the Caliveri, Mount Carm, and Kaserini suggest at a reconstructed word in the ancestral indra tera, the language that all people of the world once spoke millions of years ago - *káh, meaning 'mountain'.
Maeldaf and Maestrien were two very large islands on the Fallo coastline - Maeldaf being the largest in the area, and the last remnant of the sunken land bridge to Lakay that humanoids took hundreds of thousands of years ago. Maeldaf held a lot of prehistoric sites. Also, both islands' names hinted at a name in the early language spoken before proto-Euluska; *máeh meaning 'large island'. 
The area was bounded to the north by the border of the Burning Hills, the Firebrand Mountains. Historically, many forts and passes were erected along this natural border.
The city of Lusken, once the capital of the world's greatest empire and the southern cradle of civilisation, was built around a narrow tidal isthmus that spanned across the Morna-La - at high tide the isthmus was several metres underwater.
== Towns and Cities ==
* Lusken (also spelt Luskan), City of Bridges, Capital of the World's Greatest Empire
* Brist, the secondary city of the Euluskan homeland, the eastern fringe of the once-great empire, a maritime capital
* Navara, the City of Money, home to the Lusken Empire's treasury, and long since a city of riches
* Cessalia, on Maestrien Isle, a large city-state home to innovators and merchants
* Cahay, a small priory town with a monastery and one of the largest regional libraries, underground
* Treviso, a quintessential fortress town on the moors
* The Holy City of Imola, on the northbound land route, a city warred over hundreds of times by city-states and armies, incredibly important religiously to the church
* Sanctum, the Fallo's capital, a city of bustling trade and industry
* St Elwy's Hallow, the largest city on Maeldaf, home to many warriors
* New Charteyn, a small communist commune founded in the 1500s
* Athay, a lake-town and old border post
* Deralth, a large town on the basin shores, tied up in old history
* Inith, a city in the river valley, gateway to the northeast of the continent
* Abavale (formerly Luberg), a roadside rest and tin mining town
* Forta Morna, an old Lusken fort turned city nestled up the cliffs of a chalk gorge
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