[Maplore] Ruhnskar

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Ruhnskar

The Final Journey of ᛒᛟᚷᚱᛁᚾ and the Kadrin’nazkarumm (Anvilbreakers)

 

 

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The Broken Anvil

 

The Ruhnskar is a land characterized by it’s deep valley and jagged, thin mountains that part each way for it. Separated from Goldleaf Gap and Ilharcress to the north, and The Southern Shores southward, The Ruhnskar runs deep across the southeast as a natural barrier upon Azuras. Bearing golden fields of grass and buckwheat with hillsides of tall trees on each side, The Ruhnskar is an idyllic place. Shear cuts and cliffs lined much of the central valley, signifying what may have been landslides in the past. Quiet windswept forests watched over the lowlands, snows dotting their treetops. At times, the mountains split abruptly into knife-edged passes and plunging gullies where rockslides had torn paths straight into the valley below.

 

Bearing woodland creatures oft found in temperate climates, The Ruhnskar would find itself basked in sunlight throughout most of the day. Despite it’s calm and collected nature, The Ruhnskar would bear a sobering feeling to any of Urguan’s children who entered it. A sense of pride, respect, and heritage that they felt connected to this land. 

 

Nearby one of the mountainside peaks, at the far side from the tallest point upon Azuras, Mount Bezmadan, lay a forlorn dwarven ruin forgotten and abandoned to time. Tattered to pieces, the land beneath it almost seemed disconnected from the ground and earth nearby. It brought to attention that at one point, it seemed likely a massive glacier must have run through the valley to have carved such a shape. Yet, there bore no natural rivers or streams throughout the entirety of The Ruhnskar. Down the straight of the valley, plantlife refused to grow other than short grasses and shrubs. A blackened burn of when the world was rent and The Anvil, the mountainrange of southeast Azuras, was split in two. There was no magic, no remnant of some careless god or fated creature of design. Only the remnants of raw might as The Anvil was split in two.

 

It was unknown what caused the formation of The Ruhnskar. Only the wound upon Azuras which remains.

 

 

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