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--- polemos:4th_age:factions:vandal-tuonia [2026/01/22 14:58] – Blake Anderton
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 ===== Geography =====
+==== Aeterkanth Knelldale ====
+FIXME upper seraphis river
 ==== Murkmist Lagoons ====
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 ==== Orgus Skierod ====
-The lands of the "Orc Crusade" lie to the far northwest of Vandal-Tuonia and represent the furthest and harshest border for the Tuons.
+The highlands of the "Orc Crusade" lie to the far northwest of Vandal-Tuonia and represent the furthest and harshest border for the Tuons.
-Though trains often cross the Rumwis river into the even more distant [[cisosgalia|Cisosgalia]], most of the energy that would be put into expansion there is blunted against keeping the highlands pacified.
+Though expeditions often cross the Rumwis river into the even more distant [[cisosgalia|Cisosgalia]], most of the energy that would be put into expansion there is spent instead keeping these hills pacified.
+Lacking major visible magical scars, the relentless danger of the region comes instead from inhuman hordes that regularly descend from mountain holds to raze and pillage.
+These raids are sometimes minimized by lowlanders as a pernicious but ultimately straightforward case of syphkolk infestation, and over the centuries several clan councils made attempts to scour the lands of syphkolk nests with favorable but short-lived results.
+The highland clans, and those that answer their persistent call for volunteers, view the Orc Crusade as the last true battlefront of the ancient [[..:..:3rd_age:events:tuonic_crusade|Tuonic Crusade]].
+Orc crusaders speak of the armies they face as far beyond syphkolk rabble, but combined armies of giants, centaurs, wolves, and monsters of every kind with ranks then merely filled out with syphkolk.
+These armies, they say, fight as well organized legions of the [[..:..:2nd_age:factions:romalia|Romalian Empire]] and operate with cunning strategy, demonic echoes that wish to relish and replay the bloody climax of the Great War for all eternity.
+Outsiders sometimes detect a hint of the same among the crusaders, as some seem to take dark pleasure in the continuous warring.
+Some lowlanders suspect they may even be enthralled to the point of orchestrating stalemates, intentionally or subconsciously, instead of achieving victory and the peace it would bring.
+Who leads the invading armies is a subject of much conjecture, with popular theories being Eleshite immortals, Stained Anthegals, or even [[..:..:3rd_age:events:tuonic_crusade#black_crusaders|traitor Tuons]].
+==== Praedurus Glassdrifts ====
+The ruins of the [[..:..:2nd_age:factions:romalia|Romalian]] diocese Praedurus, utterly destroyed in the [[..:..:3rd_age:events:elesh_rebellion|Great War]] even before the [[..:..:3rd_age:events:tuonic_crusade|Tuonic Crusade]].
+The cataclysm left the region's rich estates, cites, people, and all life turned to clear glass for hundreds of miles.
+Those that would come after the Romalians, including the Vandals, would with few exceptions utterly fail to find a way to resettle the land.
+Glass soil refuses to nourish even simple lichen, and requires difficult and hazardous to dig tunnels to unaffected rock.
+After centuries of toppled and broken glass objects, the ground is now littered with pockets of finely pulverized glass dust that appears at first glance to be snow.
+When blown by the wind it quickly scours all unprotected skin, blinds uncovered eyes, and shreds the lungs of those that breathe it to drown in their own blood.
+To add to this danger, whether by the difference in heat insulation between the glass and its original earth, or by some secondary effect of the cataclysm, the region is far colder than its neighbors and mundane snow and ice is mixed with the glass sand most of the year.
 ==== Stainragin Glyphmarck ====