The Wilderness (District 5) - Roglaras

Clovers Point is located within Roglaras.

The Roglaras is named for the great River Roglaroon, a wide estuary of strange depths and ancient secrets that splits the region in twain. At the heart of the Roglaras stands Dearthwood Forest, so named as one upon a winter deep and grim the bones of the dead outnumbered the deadwood under the ancient eaves. Upon the shores of the Roglaroon, between the Mermist Marshes and the Dearthwood stands the City State of the Invincible Overlord (CSIO), the most powerful realm of the Roglaras and some say, of the Wilderlands entirely. Its evils are ancient though its walls are young, for the city is built upon the ruins of countless prior cities, a veritable ruinous hill within which are tunnels and dungeons deep into the heart of the earth. The skyline of the city is dominated by the Cryptic Citadel, the tallest manmade (?) structure known, a vast pile of huge black stones 500 feet tall. Between deepest dungeon and tallest parapet is a great city, a fearsome city, where merchants rub shoulders with savages, goblins trade with dwarves, and elves and orcs sip ale and eat mead side by side. The Overlord rules a great realm, with most of the cities and towns of the Roglaras paying tribute or held in fief by his nobles and lords outright. Most, but not all… To the south, between walls formed by the Cloudwall Mountains and the Ered Losthain are the highlands of the Altanians, red-skinned barbarians savage of heart and mighty thewed. To the east, from the Graven Hollows to the Stillring Vale, are the lands of the Tharbriana. Most are either allied with the Overlord, paying tribute to him, or outright held in fief by the King of Modron, the Overlord’s greatest vassal. The eastern coast is dominated by the realm of the Skandiks, bitter and ancient enemies of the City State. The northern coast is similarly dominated by the lords of Warwik, descended from nobles of the City State exiled long centuries ago for their alliance with Viridistan, though the Sverkka and Norkka contest the rule of the Green Lords. To the north stands the citadel of the Overlord’s greatest ally, Thunderhold, home of the mountain dwarves of the lost Majestic Fastness; the Fastness itself lost these long centuries to Analegorn the Great, a great red wyrm who still rules the ancient dwarven delves with his vile offspring and hordes of humanoids and fouler things. And to the west, the Middle Kingdoms, a patchwork of small realms amidst forest, glade, and vale, each paying tribute to the Overlord, the Emperor, or both. In between the greater realms can be found tribes of orcs, clans of trolls, forests filled with elves, plains crawling with savage nomads, and ruins — countless ruins of ancient civilizations from time out of mind.

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