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 ===== Geography =====
-==== Ravencall Downs ====
+==== Rafnleith Downs ====
-Formerly the [[polemos:4th_age:factions:romalia|Romalian]] province of Versutia, upon the coming of the [[polemos:3rd_age:events:tuonic_crusade|Tuonic Crusade]] the governor chose to avoid open battle and successfully used a delaying strategy to tie down significant crusader forces in multiple hard-fought sieges. Defenders made extensive use of magic familiars to communicate between partisans and besieged forces to inflict maximum attrition, but were ultimately undone as [[..religions:Wistaljan]] crusaders were able to corrupt the messages and lead to the fortresses falling overnight. Legends speak of this curse lingering over the land, with the usual advice being to assume that any talking animal you meet is lying.
+The "ravencall" downs were formerly the [[polemos:4th_age:factions:romalia|Romalian]] province of Versutia, upon the coming of the [[polemos:3rd_age:events:tuonic_crusade|Tuonic Crusade]] the governor chose to avoid open battle and successfully used a delaying strategy to tie down significant crusader forces in multiple hard-fought sieges.
+Defenders made extensive use of magic familiars to communicate between partisans and besieged forces to inflict maximum attrition, but were ultimately undone as [[..religions:Wistaljan]] crusaders were able to corrupt the messages and lead to the fortresses falling overnight.
+Legends speak of this curse lingering over the land, with the usual advice being to assume that any talking animal you meet is lying.
+==== Huzdalthida Glitterdunes ====
+Dominating the arid southern border leading to the midnight dues of [[zulithan|Zulithan]], the glittering sands of the Huzdalthida, the hidden desert, was home to some of the last holdouts of the [[polemos:2nd_age:factions:romalia|Romalian Empire]].
+After an initial set of pitched battles against golem armies and other alchemical monstrosities, Tuonic [[polemos:3rd_age:events:tuonic_crusade|crusaders]] were content for almost a century to leave the region as a rump state, though several limited campaigns were fought to keep raiding to a minimum.
+In time exploring knights discovered that the sands held far more value than a buffer space with tribes and petty warlords, and that the sands themselves were infused with valuable alchemical substances, particularly gold dust.
+Thus the region saw a form of gold rush and settlements and outposts were built.
+Though the boom soon ended as the hard labor necessary to collect and sift the treasure became apparent, several marches were organized and incorporated into the empire.
 ===== History =====