Perlane

On the southern coast of Exdora, ridding the cold rough waters of the Barren Tides, draped in mist, fog, and the permeating stench of the bog is the province of Perlane. Steeped in the chilly marshlands the province is largely uninhabited save for small bastions of civilization cloistered around its dries points. The people of Perlane are deeply set in their traditional ways, mostly cut off from the rest of Exdora. Few people have reason to travel the isolated swamps of Perlane save for the Calirary and those that wish to disappear from the world beyond. Most villages across Perlane have remained set in their ways for hundreds of years, ignoring the cultural and technological growth of the world around it. As such they hold strange pagan gods, barbaric traditions, and odd views compared to the world beyond their mist swamped villages. The exception to this being Benith and Laridwayr where the contact with the general world has allowed them to advance  alongside them and allowed them to cast off some of their stranger superstitions.

Perlane is home to four duchies: Far Marshes, Benith, Laridwayr, and Mullem. In the farest south and uncivilized lands there is Far Marshes, an expansive marshland that covers a large portion of the land along the border of Atardec and the shore of the barren tides. Further north is Benith bordering the Surrowood and Far Marshes this thin area of land is the driest of the lands in Perlane although still inclined to fog and rain. In central Perlane around the Aghast Bay is Laridwayr. The most populated area of Perlane and also home to the Bastion of the Keepers Laridwayr is the center of power for Perlane. East of Laridwayr beyond the deadlands and the Harrowood is Mullem. The people of Mullem mostly farm their expansive swamplands for cranberries, peat, and produce rare liquors distilled from the various amphibian species of the area.

Perlane is also the home of the religion known as the Children of the White Lady. The White Lady in question is a godlike being that many have claimed to have seen amongst the mists of Perlane. Also known as the Mistmother and the Maiden of the Winds the being is described as a woman made of fog or mist that glows with luminescence. Spotted mostly at night and usually, if legends or to be believed, appears prior to tragedies either as a warning or as a harbinger depending on who you ask. While the prevalence of Unician influence in Perlan has purged many of the more extreme beliefs about the White Lady many still worship her in smaller isolated towns and villages and many have adopted the Unician belief of her being an angel of Unica.

Perlan is also home to a series of strange ruins scattered at different points across the province. While most provinces have whitestone ruins hidden in their woodlands, glens, and other hidden places in their natural world Perlane is home to a very different type of ruins. Known as the Shadowstone ruins there are dozens scattered across Perlane. The most famous is the Glaussfort which resides in the center of the city of Trenta in the province of Laridwayr. These ruins are made of a black opalescent stone that almost seems to absorb light unless it is wet, at which point its opalescence is revealed. However not one of these ruins is intact, all of them seem to have instead “melted” the stone running down their sides like candle wax and suddenly hardened in its half melted state. Most of these ruins are avoid, whispered for being cursed or haunted, some however have human residence either in them or around them.