The hollow Lands

the hollow lands: #minor spoilers

 

The hollow lands is a vast stretch of grassland interrupted by the urn(i think) river, a river of blood.

 

It used to be the site of the greatest city of all Edil-Amarandh: the high city of Afinil. Home of nelsor and the first bards, this used to be such a city, that people would risk their lives just to glimpse it. Its origins began before the war of the elementals, when the elidhu fought each other and bards. Once this period ended, there was a time of light and learning. This was when Nelsor created his runes including the treesong and the runes on Maerad’s lyre. It used to have a shimmering lake so pure you could see its reflection on it, but. now it turned into a swamp.

 

Then, Sharma arrived. He was a good bard, and he studied at afinil. but soon he betrayed the light, cast off his name, and created the dark. Others followed in his footsteps, known as hulls or black bards, and they took over Den Rave´n. They created horrible creatures, a city of death and metal called Dagra, and appointed many dark sorcerers.

 

Sharma Grew extremely powerful. So powerful, he destroyed afinil and scattered its remains into the 7 kingdoms. What followed was a period called the great silence, when bards were afraid to show themselves, and everyone lived in fear and in the dark, for they were scared of the nameless one, or sharma (his usename).

This new hollow lands in which Maerand and her lover Cadvan travel through (twice, once in the naming and once in the singing) are filled with bandits, desolation, and a forest inhabited by the Elidhu Queen Ardina of Rachida, and her city.

 

Surrounding the land on one side is Innail, Gilman’s cot, and the Landrost, and on another side Lirigon, and on the final side, Den Rave´n.