Altor is the promised land for the people of King Alorn Torgond I, revealed to him by Usol in a prophetic vision while he wandered starving with his Arisen Knights and faithful Dawnfolk across the plains of Revana. Altor is a fertile land and the Dawnfolk and the Lunai wished for nothing. The Lunai were masters of the westlands, where they trained horses and became proficient riders with vast herds. There is wild game, and the soil across the entire continent bears crops well, except in the frozen reaches of the north. There is a large population of black bears living there, one crossing into legend when King Alorn Torgond I slew it in the pass to the Vale of the Sun.
Historically near-impossible to navigate to due to a ring of jagged rocks mired in confusing fog, Altor lay relatively untouched by the folk of the southern lands. The native people of Altor, named the Lunai, were the descendants of the followers of Al-Gailun who came from Lun far to the western edge of Zakour.
The mountains of Altor were rich with obsidian, and monolithic spires of the rock jutted from the ground all over the continent, especially on the southwestern peninsula where the people of Al-Gailun made their home. There the soil was black but bountiful, and lurid moss spread across the black hills and jagged peaks. In later years, this became the haunt of the Marrow King and his armies of cursed souls.Their capitol was named Kulzugai, which in their language meant “shadow of the west”.
To the east of the continent is the Bay of the Morning, and the town of Bjorhaven, the site where Alorn Torgond I and his dawnfolk first made landfall. On the bluffs above is Mael’s Rest, where the eternal fire is kept burning by the descendants of Mael as decreed by the king. To the north is a great forest and the southern arm of the mountain range that encompasses the Vale of the Sun, where the Line of Torgond makes their seat of power at the Dawnhold.
Torgaldur lies on a plain astride a great river to the west of the mountains and forests of the Dawnhold, and serves as the first line of defence from the Lunai and later the Marrow King. To the north of the Dawnhold beyond another mountain range and vast grasslands and hills lies the city of Aurveth, on the shores of Lake Ustvar.
To the west of Bjorhaven there is a vast saltwater swampland where rivers from the mountains and from Torgaldur empty into the sea. Beyond the swamps and Torgaldur and a mountain range to the west lies the lands that once belonged to the Lunai, a land of small lakes and rivers and a mournful forest along a long peninsula. It was here that the city of Feornar once stood, before the curse of the Marrow King. No it lay abandoned and decrepit, and has become a haunted place.
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