The Cracked Coast
A coastal region west beyond the Kingdom of Leon and The Taifas
Geography
The Cracked Coast earns it's named from the harsh rocky coastline that follows the bulk of the western continent beyond the main kingdoms at it's core. It's known for its storms, and cliffs with occasional dunes littered by rocky beaches and highland mountains beyond. The region is wet, warm, and struggles to produce any long term airable land as much stone as dirt. The region manages to have some harbor covers, but few and far between and while the coast boarders easier hills and freener lands in Leon, its north boarder ends in jungles once the mountains are clear equally inhospitable before Chault.
The name refers to a common believe given the poor shores where cliffs and shallow rock-filled waters are common and where chunks of rock are seen to fall that the coast was a Crack in the world where part of the continent fell into the sea.
History
The Cracked Coast's history is considered deeply confusing and largely irrelevant to most of the people of Southern Faerun, the population has never been high, largely Humans or Halflings. Monstrous races do not live there in great number even. Many petty kingdoms and clans formed on the Cracked Coast, most of whose names have been destroyed as much as ships against the rocks. For many years the Coast was conquered by the first Edren Empire in an attempt to control the trade between northern and southern Faerun, however attempts to populate and turn the province profitable were seemingly abandoned. After the Second Calamity the Edren Empire simply abandoned the region entirely, the first Empire still claiming ownership without ever attempting to enforce it, leaving its people to their fate. For the last 1000 years the remaining towns and villages have struggled and formed quick and panicked governments some connecting to their authority to the Empire others against. Few maintain any real power or are even of a size to be identified on a map of the continent. Of them the largest, Kingdom of Zaragoza, at it's height failed to be even a third the size of the The Grand Dutchy of Aragon, or match half the population of Hell's Landing. Despite this many people traveling in and out of the continent will stop along the coast for supplies and there are still many villages, castle towns, and something approximating a micro city along it's coasts.
Type
Coast / Shore
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