World Cinderlands

## **The Cinderlands**

 **On The Map:** | * **Territory:** Between The Eastern Wall & The Wild Lands
* **Zone:** Stretches from Mount Shasta to The Sequoia National Forest
 **Threats:** | Raiders, Mutated Wildlife, Plague Ridden Undead, Great War Remnants: Undead Abominations from Ragener, Remnant Machines from The Citadel.

The Cinderlands are a treacherous land between The Eastern Wall (that borders The Dead Zone) that stretches along the Sierra Nevada Mountains and The Wild Lands. In the Pre-War Earth Years it was a destination filled with expansive forests, vast stretches of rolling mountains and crystal clear lakes. By the time World War III was nearing its end, the land has been consumed by unstoppable wildfires that ravaged the landscape. In Jenjara, the land was considered a sacred elvish forest, filled with temples, shrines and trees so massive they would rival the mountains. And so, upon The Fusion of the two worlds, the land was mostly restored and became a lush vibrant landscape that all the races coveted. The Orcs were the first to move in as the Elves were too busy defending their capital city in the early years. The Orcs found an abandoned underground city left behind by the Dwarves and made it their own. For decades they even watched over the lands and protected it from those wishing to destroy the sacred landscape. However, that all changed the day The Great War started.

Located in what was once The Yosemite Valley and stretching for miles underground, the Orc Capital of Briktauk was destroyed by an underground nuclear explosion of unknown origin. The Orc Race became an endangered species in a matter of moments and the nuclear fire from Valley of Briktauk spread for hundreds of miles before it ran out of trees to fuel the fires. The land would become even more ravaged during The Great War. And even more so when the death and plague from the creation of The Dead Zone spread out from the city and into what was then known as The Cinderlands.

Toady it remains the least explored region in Gerdan due to the dangers in and around the land. It stretches from Mount Shasta, all the way down to Sequoia National Forest To its East is The Dead Zone and to the West is The wild Lands. The region is a mixture of terrains from deserts, massive dunes, mountain areas, canyons, and covered mostly in burnt out forests. In the years after the war a strange occurrence began. Whether it's a mixture of radiation, the magic that fused with the land from Jenjara or a mixture of the both. In random areas around The Cinderlands, life will suddenly spring forth from the ash covered landscapes and forests will grow seemingly overnight. Record of travelers have spoken of making camp and falling asleep amidst a cluster of dead, dying, decaying or burnt trees, but when they awoke, they were surrounded by a lush green overgrown forest. Nobody is sure what causes this phenomenon, but the miracle of it is short lived as underground gas pockets, lava flow from the San Andreas fault and a already fragile landscape cause the land to catch flame quickly. The whole region is subject to storms of various sorts but the most common being 'Ash Storms' which is caused by recently formed forests burning to the ground once again. Great and powerful windstorms then pick up the ash and rain it down across the lands. However, there are a few patches of livable land and even crystal clear and clean fresh lakes that have survived since WW3-most of which are kept secret and known only to the few that have been there. The territory ends on the map just before Yosemite Valley and The Sierra Nevada Mountains-and the start of the The Wild Lands.