Rovanna

The region of Rovanna lies to the north east of Tarlant, east of Aerdon and south of the little know Angard. Protected by soaring mountain ranges, it is a remote, beautiful land of tumbling rivers gouging routes through the mountains, swamp, rolling hills and wild woods to seas and inlets in the east. Forests and glens rise from the sea into the mountains of the north and west. A handful of isolated settlements can be found in these glens but the inhabitants are wary of people they don’t know.

The narrow but fertile plains on the lower reaches of the rivers and on the coast provide rich growing for grain and vegetables and the produce is traded with the merchants and peddlers travelling from the south. The upper reaches of the glens and the hills are covered in wildwood, moorland or marsh. The dark forests are generally little visited and the creatures known to inhabit them give the region generally little bother.

The wood from ironwood trees is carefully and respectfully harvested once a year and is valued for its strength and durability. It is seasoned over the winter, and then what is not kept for local use is sold to the spring caravan. The dominant Leath Torrs in the north are the source of precious metal ores and gems but the mountain doesn’t give them up lightly. A few river prospectors try their luck panning for the precious ores and can just about make a living.

It is sparsely populated except for a handful of villages and the small market town of Huntsford where most of the Rovannans live. Well maintained trackways hugging the sheltered coastline connect the main villages of the region to Huntsford. A few shallow drafted coastal cutters sail the shallow waters of the firth and the seas between the town and the port of Silverwell in the south taking produce to southern markets. The sea journey can only be undertaken during three months between the end of spring and towards the end of summer as the treacherous Spiroan currents in the Eastern Ocean prevent boat travel. Even in the summer, fierce sea storms can rise up making passage by boat treacherous at the best of times.

Rovanna