Skylands

The Skylands is a shattered region once dominated by mountainous peaks in northern Terragard, almost impassable due to the Winterspine Mountains, few roads travel through the mountains, and the ones that do are in ill-repair. On a clear day you can glimpse what appears to be landmasses floating in the sky between the mountains from the Lake and the reaching forest regions, but the peaks are almost always obscured by clouds.

You can see some of the floating masses of land clearly from the northern tip of the Lowwind Hills, but there is little reason to travel that far west of Burningbor, Due to to the proximity to the Barrow Downs, a dangerous region rumored to be filled with undead.

Long ago, this region used to be just mountains, a razor-sharp range of towering peaks and rocky wild-lands, too narrow and too steep for most explorers or roads, barren and dangerous to traverse. The mountains of the region were known as the 'Winterspines', due to the white coloration of the exposed stone slopes, ubt most of the white stone now hovers in the sky, the mountain range still planted on the earth that form the southeastern border of this realm are still called 'winterspines' to this day, despite their lack of white coloration.

A cataclysmic disaster known as The Sundering (supposedly a shifting of massive deposits of metals and earthen tectonics underground) turned this region quite literally upside-down, and the Skylands took quite a different form.  The earth had shifted and heaved the white stone into the sky - the mountains literally broke apart and turned upside down, massive chunks of stone floating in the sky, carrying the weight of broken mountains on their backs. The massive earth motes hover ever on, drifting slowing on their delicate dance around each other in perpituity, becoming a utopic home for mysterious denizens, rumored to be angels or flying constructs.

Now the region is split into two very different parts - the land on the ground, known as the Broken Lands, and the land floating in the sky above, known as the Skylands.  There are few to no real destinations on the ground in this land, the only reason anyone has to come here is to try and find a way up. Few ever find passage and little is known about this region except for a few mysterious individuals who claim to have come from the 'Sky cities' of Northspear, Whitewing, or Thunderlight.

## Broken Lands

Mostly tundra to the north, and impassable spiny peaks to the west of the Winterspines, this region is desolate and rocky.  There is green growth here however, though its mainly mosses and weeds - stubborn plants that can grow in unfit soil and refuse to give up.  These plants do not often produce anything edible and do little else but soak up the rainfall, of which there is plenty.  Aside from teh constant clouds and thunderstorms, there are some great falls pouring over the edge of some Skyland motes, most of the cascading water is scattered to the wind, contributing to the rainfall and making an impressive show of it.

## Skylands

Little is known about the massive chunks of land floating in the sky, but one thing that is know is that there are cities located on some of the larger motes. Oftentimes you can spot a speck in the sky, floating on the wind, navigating across the broken chunks of earth to an unseen destination.  Sometimes you can even see several all floating together, gleaming white or gold in the sun.

The skylands are often shrouded in cloudcover, and sometimes lightning storms are seen deep within its borders, but if you watch for long enough you're bound to catch a glimpse of the skylands unshrouded, and it is truly a sight to behold from atop a winterspine or from the bay or sea to the north.

## Borders

The Skylands stretch north and east from Burningbor, bordering the winter region of reaching forest on the east as it's trees climb up the slopes of the Winterspine Mountains,  taking up 3 large peninsulas on the northernmost borders of Terragard. The Broken lands region is mostly tundra and frozen wastes in the north, and barren cliffs and spine-peaks in the west, and the Skylands climates vary depending on the time of year and elevation.