Vastemar

Vastemar is a huge, predominantly mountainous region in far southwestern Orithea, typically accepted as the continent’s southernmost extent; beyond it, where the rugged highlands drop down to the rolling subtropical savannah, Orithea ends and Ulthark begins. Until very recently, this southern margin of Vastemar marked the border between human civilization and the lands of the Orcs. Today, the frontiers of Orcdom have been pushed north to encompass Vastemar, and it no longer belongs to the human world. 
To the north, Vastemar is bounded by the Tigerstone Rift and Lake Lhodogir, and to the east, its mountains grade into the largely contiguous Sularian ranges. Vastemar’s western portion projects out into the Encircling Ocean as a very large peninsula with the Sea of Faerod to its north and the narrow Gulf of Thrakka to its south, separating it from Ulthark-Irsha. 
Vastemar has been home to human inhabitants for millennia; scholars believe mankind first settled the region after the Schism Wars, migrating south through Kelimaria and the Druune Basin after taking westerly routes from lands around from the Saulean Sea. The peoples of Vastemar are collectively known as Vastemards, though they divide themselves into a number of different tribes and kindreds. 
Ever since the first human kingdoms were established in Vastemar, they served as strongholds against the orcish menace to the south. Their repeated success in fending off invasions over the centuries helped them cultivate a widely admired martial reputation. Vastemards proudly regarded themselves as the bulwark defending Orithean civilization against the menace of Orcdom. 
That bulwark lasted thousands of years but now it has fallen. The cataclysmic Orcish invasions of Ghol Garga finally did what centuries of previous Orc warlords could not: Broke through this bulwark and destroyed the Vastemard kingdoms before pushing further north and east. Huge numbers of Vastemards were slaughtered outright (perhaps more than half), and countless others were forced to flee as refugees and scattered into other parts of Orithea. Those who were not killed or displaced by Ghol Garga’s horde were taken into slavery, where they now toil miserably under the lash of Vastemar’s new Orc overlords. The great human kingdoms of Vastemar--Dorovhnia, Morvendria, XXXXXX, XXXXXX--are gone, destroyed utterly, swept over by the orcs, their dynasties extinguished or forced into hopeless exile. Likewise gone are the major dwarven states that stood alongside them: Thubala, Thuldaran, and Umuzmatin.