Aefhellen

Aefhellen is a northern hemisphere continent.

## Southern Regions

### Seagate Islands

The southernmost region is two large islands with a string of small islands along the south coast of the eastern one. These are tropical, with much of them being covered in dense jungle. Populated by small, individual tribes who make use of the difficult terrain to be extremely difficult to evict. Two ports, one on the close inside corner of each island, serve as ports to the rest of the world at large.

### H’Vitorken

The largest region of Aefhellen is the H’Vitorken, a massive arid landscape filled with massive dry canyons separated by deserts, with only patches of arable land around a central river, the Lymennos, which also facilitates trade between the two regions, at the forbearance of the triton nation who live in the caverns where the river disappears underground. Land routes through this region are harried by a small ‘nation’ of raiders who have made the canyons their unlikely home.

## Nothern Regions

The northern regions are separated by the Kopik mountain range that spans the breadth of the continent. The climate is much colder north of the mountains. Just south of the mountains is a thin temperate region filled with arable soil. Brelhage controls much of this mid-region.

### Brellen Highlands

A cold-weather region characterized by a lack of large flora. Has become farmland for the city of Brelhage, though it’s only able to be farmed during the warmer months, forcing them to rely on the contested and raid-prone temperate regions south of the mountains.

### Dasosahl

The northwestern region is covered in dense evergreen megaflora, with the largest trees stretching hundreds of feet up. The continent is largely inhabited by people from this region who spread south seeking shelter from the long winters or dominant religion. The forest protects any who need it, but their culture is held by a people with a very long memory.

### Frozen Lowlands

Commonly frozen, but not always, an expansive marsh with rare, strangely gnarled, plants that seem to generate their own heat. Even in the deepest winter freeze, the waters flow at the deepest parts of the marsh. Occupied by clans who have discovered the secret to growing, harvesting, and utilizing the strange plants. These clans closely guard their secrets, even in the face of a continent that has found a great deal of money to be made in their most precious natural resource.

## Warm Climates

### Seagate Islands

Off the southern end of what is technically the southern edge of Aefhellen lie the Seagate Islands. Dominated by two large islands, but technically include a large number of smaller islands that scatter for several miles into the ocean.The various tribes of these islands cut off contact from the mainland at a time outside living memory. Creatures, both humanoid and inhuman occupy this land.

### H’Vitorken

The H’Vitorken is the largest region in Aefhellen. Largely arid, water does flow in the form of the Lymennos River, contributed to by smaller water sources in the arable land under Brelhage’s control. The river forms in the midlands of the arable strip and flows into the canyons and caves it has carved over thousands of years.

## Colder Climates

### Brelhage and the Kopik Mountains

The Kopik mountains divide the continent of Aefhellen nearly in half, serving as an intimidating barrier between the cold climate of the Frozen Lowlands, Old Forest, and highland transition regions and the warmer regions of the H’Vitorken, Seagate Islands, and the arable land that lives in the shadow of the mountain range.

The gate-city of Brelhage is the only reliable pass through the Kopik mountains. A city built in rings around a large road that ramps up into a mountain pass that cuts directly through the range, directly into the highlands. Brelhage technically encompasses both sides of the pass. Most people choose to settle the southern side, as it’s generally warmer, and is where merchants tend to come to do business. Both sides have well-guarded walls.

Due to it’s nature as a chokepoint in the Kopik mountains, Brelhage naturally controls trade to and from the Frozen Lowlands and Dasosahl regions. It therefore controls the trade of the

### The Frozen Lowlands

Fed primarily by the river Imryllos, the majority of the Frozen Lowlands would be frozen year round, if not for the growth of