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 ==== Bloody Plateau ==== ==== Bloody Plateau ====
-FIXME+FIXME NE highlands
  
 ==== Howling Labyrinth ==== ==== Howling Labyrinth ====
-FIXME+Dominating the central heartland of Gyag, up through the northwest to the western Chloros range, the Howling Labyrinth is a turbulent tangle of windswept canyons, bottomless caves, and craggy badlands. 
 +The land is a heaving mix of twisted layers of natural stone and overturned cities that form sharp spires that whistle in the unending gusts of magic storms, wounds of [[polemos:3rd_age:events:elesh_rebellion|The Great War]]. 
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 +The region has some of the most severe magic wounds of the continent, if not the world, and only rarely sees normal weather patterns. 
 +For this reasons pools of water are brackish and often toxic, and little vegetation grows. 
 +Animals can be seen, but are often twisted into monsters by the wounds and angry spirits. 
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 +Only the bravest Gyag journey amongst the labyrinth, and exile to its clutches is often seen as a certain death for most. 
 +Still, meager tribes have adapted to its dangers and delve its depths to find treasures of the lost world.
  
 ==== Shimmering Flats ==== ==== Shimmering Flats ====
-FIXME+Dominating the southern and eastern flatlands of the subcontinent, the shimmering flats are a wide desert of salt and fine white sand. 
 +An unnatural stillness from magic wounds prevents most wind and rain, and only a few distant wadis support scant life. 
 + 
 +At regular times each day, the stillness is broken by distant rumblings of hooves, screams, and other sounds of battles long forgotten. 
 +At night the sands reflect the star and moonlight, leading to shimmering waves of light that bring moans and whispers of the ancient wounded. 
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 +Those Gyag that do brave the flats know that one must not listen to the sounds, or risk following them further into the nothingness to join them in death.
  
 ==== Silent Shore ==== ==== Silent Shore ====
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 ==== Veil of Retribution/Crystal Desert ==== ==== Veil of Retribution/Crystal Desert ====
-FIXME+A crater formed by the final battle of the [[polemos:3rd_age:events:elesh_rebellion|Great War]], the crystal desert is all that remains of [[polemos:3rd_age:locations:utopolis|Utopolis]]. 
 +Concentric waves of glassy crystals dominate the crater floor, evidence of the intense heat of the explosion that destroyed the city. 
 +Petrified ash remains of Elesh's faithful can be found, but no structures stand, even in ruined form.
  
-==== Valley of Death ==== +Standing stones warn that angels will punish any that approach the tree of [[polemos:4th_age:locations:tree_of_life|Tree of Life]] at the crater's center, and desiccated skeletons of those that have not heeded these warnings lie scattered across the region. 
-Site of the remains of the [[polemos:4th_age:locations:tree_of_life|Zayulonzoes (Tree of Life)]]. + 
-FIXME+=== Valley of Death === 
 +At the center of the crystal desert is an inner valley between the roots of the [[polemos:4th_age:locations:tree_of_life|Zayulonzoes (Tree of Life)]]. 
 + 
 +For the [[polemos:4th_age:religions:gya_shamanism#hyiisi|Hyiisi]] pilgrimage to the valley is the highest sacrifice one can make.
  
 ===== History ===== ===== History =====
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   * [[..:religions:gya_shamanism#kuy|Kuy]] - The ascension is an internal, mystical individual experience of transcendence when a person's pain and sacrifices are so great as to achieve enlightenment. Many adherents practice self-mutilation, sometimes to the point of extreme measures such as amputation.   * [[..:religions:gya_shamanism#kuy|Kuy]] - The ascension is an internal, mystical individual experience of transcendence when a person's pain and sacrifices are so great as to achieve enlightenment. Many adherents practice self-mutilation, sometimes to the point of extreme measures such as amputation.
-  * [[..:religions:gya_shamanism#qwu|Qwu]] - The ascension is an external, communal experience but still requires individual sacrifice. +  * [[..:religions:gya_shamanism#qwu|Qwu]] - The ascension is an external, communal experience but still requires individual sacrifice. This takes many forms, mostly determined by a local warlord. 
-  * [[..:religions:gya_shamanism#hyiisi|Hyiisi]] - +  * [[..:religions:gya_shamanism#hyiisi|Hyiisi]] - The ascension is an external, universal experience that calls individuals in mystical ways to participate in the //babastor//. The mystically called, sick, or old make a life-culminating journey to the [[polemos:4th_age:locations:tree_of_life|Tree of Life]] and are never heard from again.
  
 ==== Education ==== ==== Education ====
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