Vyshtanka (concept)
Biozone: Vyshtanka
A region of rugged hinterlands that lay between the surrounding Black Mountains and Iron Spines. It is best known for sheltering some of the last mammoth herds on the Shattered Coast
The rugged hinterlands of Vyshtanka have never been a friendly place for human habitation. While the soil is highly productive - perhaps some of the best in Aeras thanks to the frequent ashfalls from the neighboring Black Mountains - the rugged terrain and difficulty in utilizing the Vyddrin River's rocky bed for irrigation has made taming the region too costly to be worth the effort for the empires who have come into possession of it.
And so Vyshtanka has remained pure, barely touched by human hands. Here there are vast, cold plains where roam thecontinent_possessivelast great mammoth herds. Savage, fast flowing rivers that cut sharp canyons into the sides of mountains. And looming, trackless forests which shelter cyclopean stone idols, who have not known the touch of sunlight since a time out of memory.