Ore-Land

Map of Ore-Land

## Common Knowledge

A desolate and mountainous region on southeastern Orelisle, which also includes the ruins of once-great Cliffhaven. Those who frequent the underground tunnels of Calahay or Marza might have learned not to mine past certain borders, lest they anger the beasts of metal and stone called “Ore-acles”. The boundaries of this land are called “Ore-Land”.

## Topography and Climate

The Ore-Land is a varied and diverse place. The woods of the Wolven Forest scrape against the Ore-Land’s northern border before they transition first to highlands and then a high-elevation desert. Countless mountain ranges dot the landscape, which increase in density closer to the coast. A tiny swamp on the far east coast, not far from where Cliffhaven once stood, fed by a river running east from the mountains. Its climate is warm and dry.

## Population

The primary inhabitants of Ore-Land are the Ore-acles, though no doubt there are countless settlements or tribes of other peoples which cartographers have simply overlooked.

## Exports and Trades

The Ore-Land doesn’t really engage in trade. Individual tribes might export furs, pelts, or lumber, but the Ore-acles themselves have little interest in mutually beneficial transactions -- especially not ores of any kind.

## Government

The Ore-Land has no centralized government, but the Ore-acles can be treated as a single collective organization which decides how its borders or resources are managed. More information about the Ore-acles can be found here.

## Military

Ore-Land’s primary defense, barring the denizens of its surface, is the Ore-acles themselves. Ore-acles are competent and passionate fighters, their burrowing power lends itself easily to cave-ins and ambushes, and they hardly ever make the same mistake twice.

## Social Hierarchy and Culture

Individual tribes on the surface may have their own traditions, but most information about the Ore-land’s culture comes from the Ore-acles themselves. Information about their culture and beliefs can be found here.

## Cities, Towns, and Villages

### Cliffhaven

The ruins of the once-great coastal dwarven city. Cliffhaven was destroyed by their efforts to keep the Ore-acles enslaved, and its leadership overrun. What remained was the Urist’s Own mercenary company, which itself collapsed after the fall of Delcho in the Draconic Incursion. People may still live there, but there likely isn’t much there to live in.

## Alliances

The Ore-acles of Ore-Land have little in the way of alliances outside of a live-and-let-live attitude. It has no formal alliances.

## Enemy Countries

Ore-acles consider anyone who destroys their “brethren”, which includes raw ores, in their borders to be an enemy, but they hold an especial resentment towards dwarves of Cliffhaven, dragons, wyverns, and other dragon like creatures. They aren’t especially fond of dwarves in general, but not to the point of calling them enemies.

## Historical Timeline

* 10,015 A.B. - Cliffhaven wishes on a visiting Constellation that the ore of a nearby mountain would mine itself. This wish gave life to the ores, creating the Ore-acles,
	+ Shortly thereafter, Ore Genesis rebels against the dwarves, who had been enslaving the Ore-acles to ensure they kept mining themselves and then killing the excess for ore
	+ The Cliffhaven government approaches the Binturian Party for aid, and are patently refused outright. Cliffhaven crumbles under the Ore-acle rebellion
* 10,017 A.B. - The Binturian Party meets with the Ore-acles while in Cliffhaven’s ruins, and brokers a peace between them and the surrounding nations
	+ This is the beginning of Ore-Land as it is now known

## Further Information

* The Binturian Party
* Calahay
* Cliffhaven
* Constellations
* Draconic Incursion
* Marza
* Ore-acle
* Starless Nights
* Marza Military#Urist’s Own
* Wolven Forest