Society :  A volsaxi field posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 Orlanthi of Volsaxiland in Heortland mark their fields borders with stones, as their Sartar cousins do. Moving these stones is a good way to gain more land and a good feud with the neighbouring clan.

Geography :  Vulari Peninsula posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 This stretch of land is quite lower than the rest of the Heortland plateau. It is situated in the southernmost part of the Sixth, at the border with the Leftarm Islands.

Geography :  The White Shore posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 The White Shore is a peninsula not much higher than sea level on which sits Leskos, capital of the Leskos Barony. Orlanthi peasants use the land as pasture for their cattle, while the Aeolian lords of the place live in their castles.

Geography :  The Backmarsh posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 In Heortland, east of the Shadow Plateau, there is a dread marsh haunted by Darkness spirits. It's now occupied by Ezkankekkists, Uz wishing the return of the Only Old One.

Geography :  Solthi vale posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 A view on the Solthi river in Heortland, as it flows along Godar Hills, before passing under Jansholm.

Geography :  Upper Marzeel Vale posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 The Marzeel river flows in Heortland across Volsaxiland. The upper Marzeel vale is in the Bacofi tribal lands. On its banks, Orlanthi breed red-haired cattle.

Quotidian Life :  A Heortling noble castle posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 Aeolian nobles in Heortland built manors everywhere in the southern regions, on their lands. Here is a typical example, the little castle of a low baron or maybe a rich sheriff or bailiff in the Karhend earldom.

Geography :  The Old River posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 When Belintar the Stranger killed the Lead Serpent, the immense body of the beast crashed on the north-east of the Shadow Plateau, forming the Lead Hills and blocking the path of the Creek-Stream River. Nowadays, the ancient valley of the river has been taken by the Marzeel and some little rivulets. Most of the valley is now dry all year long, and Volsaxi sheeps graze where the powerful waters flowed in the ancient days.

Religion :  A dolmen in Heortland posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 As in Esrolia, in some distant places in Heortland, old sacred stones can be found. This one is the entrance of a tomb. The clan on which lands the stones stand brings offering there in Storm Season and in Ancestors Day. They hope to calm the angry ghosts haunting the place, to prevent them from coming among the living.

Geography :  Heortland cliffs posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 Heortland ends in the west with high cliffs. Some days in Dark Season, when Elmal is weak and the Darkness encroaching, the atmosphere can be quite gloomy. One of the watchtowers which defend the coast can be seen lighting the way for passing ships.

Geography :  A Heortling Watchtower posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 Heortland is great plateau where rivers cut deep valleys. At the mouths of rivers, earls and barons built many watchtowers and little forts on the high cliffs, to guide ships and see pirates from afar.

Religion :  An Aeolian church razed after Rikar the Tigerhearted conquest posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 When the Rokari mercenary Rikar the Tigerhearted conquered a part of Heortland in 1618-1619, he established the ephemeral kingdom of Malkonwal, burning Aeolian churches as he went and trying to put the Rokari faith in its place. Here can be seen the remnants of an Aeolian church in the green pastures of Esvular earldom.

Quotidian Life :  An Aeolian interior posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 An example of the interior of an Aeolian house, clean and shiny, as the Examples of Kwaratch say it should be.

Geography :  Mount Passant (2) posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 Another view from the city of Mount Passant, showing the way the capital of the Esvular earldom dominates the plain.

Geography :  Mount Passant (1) posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 The great city of Mount Passant in southern Heortland is the capital city of the Earldom of Esvular, a holy place for those of Aeolian faith. The city is newer than any other in Heortland, built anew under the influence of the Aeolian Church.

Geography :  A glacier near Stormwalk Mount posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 In the highest reaches of the Stormwalk Mountains, Norag and Valind still hold sway. We are not far from Stormwalk Mount itself, whose head has been twisted into a spiral by Urox. Only heroquesters know the way to cross this treacherous maze of ice crevices.

Geography :  The Hidden Valley (2) posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 Another view on the Hidden Valley in Stormwalk Mountains, as it can be seen from a zarur's back.

Geography :  The Hidden Valley (1) posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 In the Stormwalk Mountains heights, there are places where the barrier between the Mortal World and the Hero Plane is weaker. This hidden valley is but one example. Local legends tell of the heroic stand warriors made here during the Great Darkness, when this valley was one of the few unspoiled places.

Geography :  Trollwood posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 Trollwood is a vast conifer forest in northern Heorland, between the Stormwalk Mountains, Volsaxiland and the dreaded Print. There live most of the Kitori, a strange tribe of humans and trolls worshipping Darkness spirits and Storm gods.

Geography :  Syphon river (2) posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 A picture of one of Syphon's children. These are strange tributaries which spring from the body of their father, attacking fields and jumping cliffs like mad salmons.

Geography :  the Syphon river (1) posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 The Syphon is a mad river, going higher into Heortland between the Karhend and Gardufar earldoms instead of flowing downward to Choralinthor and Magasta. It flows into Larnste's Print, where dwell scorpionmen. This river is an old and powerful warrior, still remembering the day when the seas attacked the Dry. It hates Chaos fiercely and its waters are poison to any chaotic being.

Geography :  The Minthos source posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:48 From the Stormwalk Mountains in Rock Pine Scarp, the Minthos river runs across the Gardufar earldom before flowing in the Choralinthor Bay near Duchamp, in Andrinfjord.

Geography :  The High Marches posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:24 The High Marches plateau is situated in southern Heortland, on the Marcher Barons lands. Refuge, the Hidden City, is a bit farther south, along the Bandori valley.

Geography :  Landscape from the High Marches posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:24 The Marcher Barons guard the southern border of Heortland, where the chaparral of Prax meets the high plateau. The vegetation begins to look like the plains of Prax and the land gets drier as one goes east. In the background, there are the foothills of the Stormwalk Mountains.

Geography :  South part of the Stormwalk (2) posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:24 Another view from the Bandori river. There are some fortifications built by the earls along the river.

Geography :  South part of the Stormwalk (1) posted on 2004-01-10 at 15:24 The Stormwalk Mountains as can be seen from the Bandori river, in the south of Heortland, between the aeolian earldom of Esvular and the High Marches.