taur-beleg[

]n, elvish tongue, great forest
In this great forest lies The Pan'ish Kingdoms. It is here the great old Elven Lords once ruled. And it is here trolls and other foul creatures roam and rampage.

A tradesman in Caras Pan speaks:

"Travelling by land is very dangerous, first of all because of the many trolls that live here, and also Wood Elves, these strange nature folk in which you cannot trust. They are sharp and quick and very skillful using their bows, and they do not often like to see men walk in "their" forests."

A Map of Taur Beleg
-The Taur Beleg Bay
-The Mountain Isle (Ered Torog)
The Racial & Political Institutions of Taur Beleg
-The Pan'ish Kingdoms
-The Wood Elven Realms
-The Night Elven Communities
-The Dwarven Realm of Mountain Isle
-City State of Culost-Eden
BRIEF INFO ON TAUR BELEG
Size: In this huge forest ranging over 100.000 square kilometers, maybe 100.000 humans dwell spread. Most of them are gathered around the Caras Pan and Mountain Isle. In the depth of this forest elves dwell. Few humans have survived their arrows, and no-one knows how many there is.
Terrain: As the name Taur Beleg says, its is giant forest. Near the coasts it is mostly hardwood forest, while coniferious forest domminates the higher altitudes near The Southern Mountains and the rocky mass called Mountain Isle.
Coast: The coasts of The Taur Beleg Bay is the richest trading routes one finds here. All other coasts lie out to The Great Blue Sea.
Borders: To the north lies the Southern Mountains and beyond them lies Calendôr. To the south lies The Red Mountains, and to the west the coast to the Great Blue Sea.
Goverment: As there is a wast number of individual realms and kingdoms in Taur Beleg, right as many governments are there.
Capital: Because Taur Beleg is not one country no actual capital can be named, but the absolute largest city of Taur Beleg is the city of Caras Pan.
Main Religions: The Pan'ish Belief
Internal Relations: Within Taur Beleg's borders does unity not exist. The Pan'ish Kingdoms is in constant war with eachother, and when not they have trouble with the Wood Elves who also constantly raid and kill traders and merchants. Even the rich water trades are often attacked by pirates, who knows where the gold is.
External Relations: The Pan'ish Kingdoms does trade alot of tree to Calendôr, but the Taur Belegians care most about local matters. The Calendôrian recruitment crusade has not been welcomed under the trees.
A MAP OF TAUR BELEG
The Taur Beleg Bay
The giant fjord called The Taur Beleg Bay, or The Hir -Caras Panian Bay. The name decents from the Hir - Caras Panian Trading Alliance. From this bay the largest amount of lumber and stone in the known world are shipped out. The Hir - Caras Panian Coast Guard are constantly struggling with pirates from the out shores.
Mountain Isle
In the depth of the great forest Taur Beleg an island rises. Heavy steady rock rises from the waving leaves and needles of the trees. Home to a once large and strong tribe of trolls. Before the time of man, elves fought these rockskinned giants. Time went and the trolls was forced back into the mountains. The Taur Beleg Man began mining and settling the area around the found the great city of Culost-Eden where a strange kind of wizards ruling the province. Trading routes were establish and the area blossomed in wealth. And with wealth came power. Because of inner struggles in the provinces and counties around the Mountain Isle The Elves came back and claimed their forests again. The sneakish ways of elven warfare the trading stopped and the society of Mountain Isle fell into an era of bitterness and misery.


 "And so.. so came the Orcs. The Age of Chaos had now reached the Kingdoms of Pan"

- Morpheus Count of Hark

Within the Mountain Isle, The Dwarves of The Ancient Gods dwell.