The Verdant Road

The current-day ‘Verdant Road’ has remained largely the same, stretching thousands of miles East to West, though its width has increased to several miles with a mass of sprawling vegetation. Nearly 30 countries touch its borders and hundreds more reclusive enclaves exist within its bounds.
The 9 months of the year that DagDae spends walking The Verdant Road he is accompanied by his honour-guard, composed of Stormguard initiates, captains and clerics. They arbitrate disputes, offer healing and religious counsel in the settlements they pass through.
Merchant groups and the clambering nobilities have long wished to monopolize The Verdant Road for its resources but have been kept at bay by the Stormguard who safeguard it for the descendants of those born on the road and those truly in need of its bounties.

History

Before the first footfalls of a wandering godling bloomed life into this barren land there was stillness. A cracked arid trail from East to West that skirted the borders of a hundred nations, claimed by none. The lonely husk of a once mighty river lost to the ravages of time. In the Age of the Resonant Dawn, when kingdoms rose and fell like wheat before the ploughman's scythe, DagDae was born. When he tumbled from his mountain-perch, the spark of sentience and divinity igniting a fire within him, he rolled from West to East along the lonely path but nothing bloomed in his wake.
When DagDae contemplated the ocean's waves in still silence, nothing bloomed around him. He thought about the once-great rivers’ loneliness, the struggle of the nations at its borders and the people of Uru who begged for his return home. When his introspection met its end DagDae sprouted limbs to carry him home but his return, or rather the journey itself, would bring about great change. Rainforests and grasslands, oasis and springs. Life raced to meet his every step and an expanse of bountiful land remained behind him stretching from the Eastern coast all the way to the borders of Uru .
The nations on the border of this new ‘verdant road’ took deeply of its offerings to sustain themselves in the harsh climates of their home continent and soon DagDae came to realize that his work was not done. If left unattended his road would wither and die as his divine magics dispersed from the land or mortal-kind claimed all it had to offer. After four months of rest he once more began the nine month round trip on a journey he has continued to walk for nearly 20,000 years.

Type

Expanse

Location under

Great Barrier Desert