Those venturing beyond the Davelmar Forest enter the vast, untamed region known as the Northern Reaches, a land of scattered forests and shrublands, meadows and thickets, stretching for hundreds of miles along the winding path of the mighty Sayell River. Bordered by the Great Mountains to the west and smaller ranges east, it gradually descends further north into a waterlogged plain riddled with countless lakes, ponds, and soggy marshlands lining the coast of the Cold Seas.
Hidden in this wild expanse are numerous peoples, tribes, and small nations, most of which are united in a loose alliance known as the Northern Kingdoms and ruled by a supreme warrior king or queen. The inhabitants tend to be combative and distrustful of outsiders, but they have been known to enter into treaties and trading agreements with foreign kingdoms.
Orcish states exist in the mountains of the northwest, with the oldest and most populous being Nostrum, while other races tend to live in smaller and more isolated pockets.
