It is fortunate that Kūsho Shinzō is blind, for its sight would encompass all of Ikaiguchi. This great mountain towers over the center of the island, a landmark for the lost. Even so, its gray flanks show no hint of the wonder inside.
Category: LOCATIONS
Chika-Rin
They say that Ikaiguchi is built upon its own secrets, but nowhere makes this as clear as Chika-Rin. Seen only through fissures in a barren plane, this immense underground forest flourishes below Ikaiguchi, and none know its true extent.
Tsurunoya
Inside the towering beauty of the Crane House reside the Order of Cranes, an inscrutable group both ancient and powerful.
Kinomama Glade
The Yasei revere life in all its forms. When the oldest trees begin to rot and decay, they retain that life, transforming them into carved shrines.
Shirinyoku
A collection of thermal pools and shallow lakes, said to be able to heal any wound.
Hebi-Gawa
This river flows through southern Ikaiguchi, marking the edge of the territory of the Yasei. Its source is associated with an ancient legend.
Zetsubō Kurushimi
The First Age is recorded in legends, in scrolls sealed in the depths of Kioku libraries, and, some say, known by the dwellers of the Tsurunoya, the Jade Cranes. But the presence of the legendary conflict is proved where, in places like here, it is written into the earth. Known colloquially as the Plains of… Continue reading Zetsubō Kurushimi
Jikan no Genshin
A wellspring in the heart of the oldest forest. To drink from it is to invite visions; of other times and of other places.
Kodai no Mori
Where the woods are at their thickest, and the trees are their oldest, you are outside of the realm of men. Kodai no Mori, the Forest of the Ancients, is a sacred grove within the heart of the primeval wildwood, where the trees are so old that they are encased in moss and lichen, and… Continue reading Kodai no Mori
Hone no Jōsai
This immense citadel would be one of the greatest in the land were it not wrought soley out of bone. Few come near, for all know that none of the bones’ owners will know peace.