Amsar (concept)
Biozone: Amsar
Amsar is a land of immense ecological diversity, and over the long ages has seen drastic changes to both its human and animal inhabitants. Deep in antiquity it was known as an arid land. In those days, only some lucky regions in lower Amsar were graced with enough water to support meager vegetation and itinerant farming. Today, that same region is a lush paradise crisscrossed by farms, orchards, and well-groomed woodlands kept as hunting preserves by the nobility. Only the mountains of Amsar have remained almost unchanged from this nearly forgotten age. Foreboding, immense, and riddled with a labyrinth of enigmatic stone highways strung across its peaks and valleys, they have a way of swallowing up even the most well-prepared travelers.
In Amsar game can be found aplenty, thanks in large part to the efforts of bored Qanamsars from ages past, who decreed the importation of the wild game their once-desert land was missing. Most of these animals are benign, but populations of wolves, lions, and other dangerous predators have taken root in the hinterlands thanks to the fickle adventurism of the Hiklahn's often eccentric high nobility.
These same nobles can also be thanked for driving the Amsar valley's oldest and strangest inhabitants uphill into the mountains, thus turning the valley into the place of tranquility and safety it is today. Nevertheless, among the great and ancient peaks those entities from the dawn of time still lurk, gazing enviously upon the green and bounteous valley below.
We set out into the wilderness of
temporary hunt biozone, excited for the hunt ahead of us. After weeks of handling the boring minutae of organizing the hunt itself, as well as details such as supplies and transport, we are finally in nature and at peace.
Now all that is left to do is actually pick our quarry. It will take a few hours to reach a spot far enough from civilization as to be worth screening for trails, but a pleasant walk in the great outdoors will surely serve as a good warm up to the hunt itself.