Taino Basin

is a vast tropical region of the planet Sierna.
== History ==
Once the cradle of a human civilization which blended animism and the occult with stunning architectural achievements, the basin was visited on several occasions by Mage Princes and their agents. While at first these encounters served to further elevate the technology of the indigenous people, they ultimately resulted in the destruction of the Taino culture during the apocalyptic failure of Siebern and Aztlan to control The Thing Behind the Door.
For millennia, Taino Basin fell into savagery, its people eking out a miserable subsistence in the ruins of their former grandeur, punctuated by brutal raids for prisoners to feed sacrificial fires to long dead gods. Overseeing it all was the crippled shade of Aztlan, with much of his godly power locked behind his own willful amnesia at the events that had destroyed the Taino civilization. He and his various spawn cast their terrible shadow over the basin until the events of the Third Knights Mercantile Expedition, which ended in the death of Aztlan's children, Aztlan's own self-sacrifice to keep the Thing Behind the Door in its place and the opening of a new etheric gate.
Since, Taino Basin has fitfully entered the modern age under the often indifferent or cruel yoke first of the Knights Mercantile and then, in a sudden change of hands in the mid 4th century A.U., the Aeldrum Trade Company. Its people no longer fear sacrificial raider-gangs, but now they toil under elvish gunpoint.
Category:Regions