Xinchoi

Xinchoi is the westmost continent on the map. It is bisected by a huge mountain range. The Kodamaii Islands spread out from its eastern shore.
Since the War of Five Dynasties and the Xinchoi Exodus in 1302 AoV, it has been ruled by squabbling dwarf shoguns. Their underhanded maneuvers are no secret. For centuries they have employed elf ninjas to assassinate their rivals while bowing to them in public. Over the years, rival ninja clans have sprung up and begun killing each other on the streets. The cities are as dangerous as any held by the Black Blade.
Xinchoi is home to small, embattled kingdoms ruled by hereditary monarchs that formerly headed clans. Each kingdom uses an animal to represent itself (like the Mantis, Boar, or Ox) which also generally corresponds to a style of martial arts unique to the region taught to elite warrior monks who serve as honor guards to that region’s ruler.
The smaller half of the continent is the Desert of Cho’ma, with an immense mountain chain called Shaoqiang's Wall at its western edge. This desert is all most explorers ever witnessed before the Age of the Virgin Lands, when further exploration became possible because of easier access to supplies.
The furthest northern reaches of Xinchoi are cold, jagged yeti-haunted mountain wastes where only the exceptionally brave or suicidally foolish dare to tread. But there are many more secluded places in the south where monastic sanctuaries will be found filled with those of all kindred. The sukong take a particular interest in teaching patience and reason, for they feel it is what Xinchoi needs above all else.
In the Age of the Virgin Lands, where the powers of Tellaria gained copious amounts of new resources, the Kodaman people decided that it was time to revive interest in Xinchoi. So scouting parties and adventurers were sent to Cho’ma, went through a screening process of ability including travelling through the wastes of Cho’ma, trials of endurance at Ironcrane Height, and then a journey over Shaoqiang’s Wall to explore Xinchoi and bring back reports for the Kodaman military.
Category:Continents