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Ehizahar
Hunt Domain
Bound to Hinka
The domain that feels most primordially "of the world itself."
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At a Glance

Etymology
Basque ehiza (hunt) + zahar (ancient, old) → naturally eroded. The ancient hunt. The oldest name on Talan.
Position
Northeast Talan: the largest domain, spanning arctic north to jungle south
Terrain
The most varied domain. Arctic/icy tundra in the far north, with a small ice-isle archipelago off the northern coast. The highest mountain range on the continent and the oldest trees (ancient dark conifers, northwest corner). Open grassland through the centre. Deep jungle-like old-growth forest in the south and southeast. Rivers throughout.
Character
Ancient forest, arctic tundra, jungle
Oldest LandDispersed PowerOld Magic
Bound God
Hinka: domain of Hunt
Peoples
Three dominant ancestries share the Lands of Villtur, two who hunt and one who survives: Orc (the ones who close; Hinka is depicted as a red-headed orc), Lizardfolk (the ones who never stop coming), and Centaur (the prey-bodied herder-coursers of the open grass, who cannot be carried). Beside them stand the Fenurran tribes of the crater-country, four peoples united by one wyrm-blood: Draconis Dwarves, Vexiren Goloma, Brakkaun Orcs, Seravain Hobgoblins.
God's City
Veidrath →
The Hunting City · the Hunt-seat caught mid-settling, where the goddess herself is settling with her people
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Sub-Regions

Lands of Villtur
Icelandic villtur (wild, lost, strayed)
The umbrella territory covering most of Ehizahar. Overwhelmingly tribal: no unified kingdoms, no formal borders. The many tribes that live across the arctic tundra, grasslands, and ancient forests fall under this collective name. Veidrath sits within this expanse.
TribalUmbrellaHouses Veidrath
Fenurra →
Icelandic funi (flame) + Basque iturri (source) → "the Flame-Source"
The volcanic homeland of the four Dragonblood tribes, led by the Draconis, built around the Scar of Aeris meteor crater. Sulfur wastes and slow lava; source of Blackglass, Velthite, and Spice Wine. The Draconis caretakers of the Speaker's Mantle hold the tribes together by belonging to no faction.
DraconisVolcanicPromoted
Basogur Jungle
Basque baso → drifted to Basogur
The deep jungle territory in the south and southeast, shared with Nashavel.
BorderSharedJungle
Ardo Beroa
Basque ardo (wine) + beroa (hot/warm), "warm wine"
The small ice-isle archipelago off Ehizahar's northern arctic coast. The name's literal meaning is at ironic odds with the geography: drift has partly obscured the etymology, and the locals lean into the joke.
Ice IslesArctic Archipelago

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