Demmen

Demmen

• Detailed maps in the works.

When speaking of the continent of Demmen it is useful to break it into two “civilized” zones, the Kastal Peninsula in the Northeast and the Rendren Coast that faces the Black Straits between Demmen and Demmen Minor (also known as the Black Isle for the extensive black cliffs on the southern coast). Both of these land masses lacked any significant population but both showed signs of previous, scattered, and seemingly unrelated civilizations presumably dating back to the Age of God Wars. What does exist leading up to the Day of Forgetting are a multitude of micro-cultures, small pockets of civilization within foundations left by past peoples.

The Day of Forgetting presents many issues in respect to the first colonization of these lands by the Kartâ. Evidence seems to suggest that they arrived upon Demmen Minor and the Rendren Coast regions just before the Day of Forgetting, and continued in greater numbers immediately after. Why these Kartâ were arriving and continued to arrive is speculation, mostly centered around the idea that they were refugees of a fallen warlord, but whatever the reason these Kartâ quickly come to dominate the region, razing most towns and cities they encountered while routing, destroying, or assimilating the many little cultures they came into contact with. This nomadic Kartâ people, with its violent disdain for civilization, is concentrated upon Demmen Minor and the Rendren Coast and reaches as far as the isle of Trâ, however, the further east they traveled the less extensive the damage to the local cultures.

In the first millennia of the Age of Stability this region is primarily about these Kartâ and their drive for dominance and destruction of civilization with relatively little influence from the more populated continents of the world. The Island of Trâ experiences some Lûxun influence, and they make contact across the region, but they never make a major push into the area except for trade. In the arctic south of Demmen, where tundra and mountains are covered in ice and snows, the undead are prevalent in abnormal numbers, particularly in the east that is closest to Kunûbis.

Off the west coast lies the Colonies Bay and Sea of Demons, where a multitude of tiny islands, uncharted and mostly so small as to not be mapped, lie. These islands are violent and mysterios, where strange and powerful creatures may be found. Arguably, the more intriguing feature of these islands and their diverse and dangerous populations, is that these creatures seem to be “imprisoned” upon these islands.

History doesn’t account for the odd variety of peoples in this region, not surprising considering the Forgetting, but unusual beings and peoples also seem to just appear in the frozen wilds. This is similar to phenomena upon Molo, with the addition of Forgetting style memory loss.