Masks

In the northern eastern mountains lie the Spine of the Worldbringer, also known as the Dragonspine Mountains. It is said that here, the Worldbringer did lie for her final rest. This is not said by the people of the Kingdom of Elba, not for a very long time. To admit that the Worldbringer rested in the heart of their Kingdom, giving rise to her children the Dragons, would be to admit the hubris behind their historical attempts to hunt the Dragons to extinction.   In the northwestern mountains and tundras lie the Kingdom of Hirkonat, and the Kingdom of Drys. It is here that the Blacksmith Diety made his home in ancient times, using the caldera of Vamcirine as his forge.   They say that the Soushard Coast is the place all souls lost at sea come ashore again. It is forbidden to disturb the small blue crystals that sometimes wash ashore along the beaches and cliffs of that coastline, as they are Soulshards and contain the souls of those who perished by sea. Of course, what is forbidden to be disturbed often is, and that is the theory behind how the barren wasteland known as the Soushard Badlands blocking Sostherime from the rest of the coastland came to be.   Torume is the central most country on Ostencia and it is mostly a farmland, with a central swamp. The Mana Mire is the secret home of Mana's Rest the last known location of Mana. The heart of Torume lies in keeping Mana's rest a secret. Mana wishes to not be disturbed, she deserves her rest.   The leading theory goes, to own the Sea of Mana is to own the world. All rivers flow from the Sea of Mana to the oceans, passing every major settlement on the continent. Travel by river is by far the fastest way besides airship to get anywhere. This is why all territory east of the Sea, and most territory west of it is disputed.   It's said that the All-Mother gave rise to the Elves. That they all originally came from the woods of Mystivental. The truth is that they've existed so long, that myth is the only original story they have remaining from the time before their people had writing, and it does not speak of all Elves, only the Elves of the misty woods.   The Zurani Coastlands is home to the Zurani Collective. Not much is known about the origins of the Zurani but their own records claim they came from space, in a ship that crashed into what is now commonly known as the Toxic Gulf, and they have survived here for millenia since, due to the technology to create a new ship and return home just not existing on this planet. However true that may be, the Zurani of Earth are a far cry from whatever or whoever their ancestors may have been due to their millenia of interbreeding with other earthlings.