Empty Plains
The University of Karradone declared that the Empty Plains were a separate region from Azermathia in the middle of the 7th Century, well after the establishment of Hopki, the region's largest settlement but before Rathgar - one of Azermathia's largest cities - gained its independence. Enough reports from the region had come back to indicate that everything south of the Eldorian Sea was too large to be lumped into a single region. As such, geographer's made three regions, declaring everything from the mountains south and west of the Blasted Lands all the way to the next set of mountains - either the Grey Peaks in the north or the Shi-Loft Mountains in the south, a region largely of empty grasslands, the "Empty Plains". No one in Hopki complained about naming convention for a few decades - largely due to their ignorance of the change. And by the time someone did complain, too many maps had been made to make another change.
In fairness, there is very little in the Empty Plains. In the east a few coastal forests, well watered by the Sea of Storms, grow. Just east of them the ridges of the Blasted Lands all reach like fingers in the Bertagin Savanah, a vast stretch of grassland with short, intense rains in the fall and long, dry periods the rest of the year. Further east these give way to the slightly wetter equally empty Windstone Plains. Both are drained by several long rivers but otherwise fairly unremarkable. The Bertagin Savanah, at least, has a few ridges of hills to break up the monotony.
While the people of Hopki reacted too late to object to their inclusion in an empty region, its other residents have no knowledge of the name. Not coincidentally, the University of Karradone has little knowledge of the of the diminutive but fierce tribes that make up the Kyushu Horde. These tribes migrate across the Empty Plains along with the great herds of grazing animals and giving their reputation for dining on their sentient enemies, it is perhaps best that the University scholars never come to their attention.
A Kyushu and His Mount in the Bertigan Savanah
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