Sutân

Sutân

The Great Forgetting was relatively tame on the continent of Sutân as there is little that can be called civilized about this region. The better part of this continent is dominated by vast mountain ranges and dense jungle, and even in the far Northwest, jungle dominates around the seismically active geyser fields, where lakes of steaming water keep the surrounding environment warm.

Despite the lack of civilization in the F.E. there is plentiful evidence of a previous and powerful nation, ranging from massive abandoned cities to libraries full of tomes unreadable now. Nobody knows the name of the people who once dwelt here, but their civilization was likely at its height during the God Wars and dominated all of Sutân and Kûtu, so it is assumed that the people and their gods were extremely influential in those times. Map fragments from the Ages of God Wars and Warlords which depicted this area as one piece of land have labeled the region as Totukotwonu, and without any further eidence of what to call this ancient people, Totukotwonu has come to mean both the larger Kûtu-Sutân Continent and the mysterious people that ruled it.

One culture remaining on the continent is the Îgœ, a mannish race, burly, fanged and more powerfully built than humans, the Îgœ are thought to have been slaves to the dominant people of the continent during previous ages. The difficulty of communicating with these people, whose language is primitive and difficult, has proven fruitless in learning of their past beyond the Forgetting. They are also a primitive, untrusting, and violent people, just as likely to kill strangers as to attempt communication.

The numerous ruins scattered through the jungles are certain to date to the Age of Warlords at least, and many to the God Wars, so treasure hunters, explorers and scholars are drawn to this continent from circa 450 F.E. onward. How much knowledge of the God Wars is hidden in all those texts, just waiting for the day they can be translated? Nobody knows, but it is worth many lives and hoards of gold to collect such treasures.

The jungles and mountains are teeming with dangerous creatures ranging from tiny disease carrying bugs to three ton monstrosities to poisonous tree dwelling Yûn-Tœhô and the Spirit Jaguars known as Lîpû. Around every tree, in the foggy haze hanging in the jungle’s canopy, beneath the surface of every stagnant pool, something is always out to bite and eat the unwary.

The interior of the continent is a geographic phenomenon, a high altitude plateau surrounded by mountains so difficult to reach that it is not known to exist until circa 650 F.E., and what dwells in those dense jungles is a mystery until well into the S.E.