Uncharted Lands of Rheagonn
by
High Moth Otrygg the Wise
1996 D.F.
King Beron the Bard finds the Fuma Free HoldsThere can be no denying of Norse mastery of the sea. The raiders and sea patrons of Norsia are the only kind to have mapped and catalogued the coasts of all of Nirn. It is well known that within every holdfast from Thane to Jarl, there are detailed maps of the continent. No where else will you find this, not in Dwarve Mountainhomes who hide underground, nor the Elve treeforts who claim to know all. Despite our gift for setting oar like no other, there are lands of Rheagonn that elude Moth cartographers still.
Fuma LandIt was the Nord exile Fuma who discovered this land mass when he served as a captain, early in King Hrirrar the Old's reign. The man, notorious for his greed, mapped a sea lane, through treacherous currents in the Sunrise Sea and kept such maps carefully hidden. For years he raided the coasts of the land, bringing back exotic thralls of short, stunted Elves. Fuma soon lost favour with the king, and after a failed rebellion, retreated to settle the land along with his exile followers.
Nigh on sixty years later, the odd merchant sails into the ports of Norsia, holding the same exotics in stow, and speaking news of the land. We know that Fuma Land is divided into three island city-states, and is known by those who have been there as the Fuma Free Holds. It is known to be a haven for those of upstarts and exiles, banished from their realms looking to rule once again.
Early in his reign, King Beron the Bard set out to find Fuma Land, however his cartographer, along with his crew and himself, were said to be heavily inebriated after days of raiding the wine coasts of Gothra. After finding the land, Beron and his crew were unable to recall the way back, though Beron's songs of the bawdy houses of the Free Holds are a mead hall favourite even today.
ElyswyrRumoured to be a vast continent far across the Sunset Sea, Elysyr is the fabled home of the Elves. Elvish heresies depict their people being born from "Light" in this land across the Sea. In the limited relations we have with the Theraynships of Galadriel, we ascertained that Elves live their still, though their complexion has turned dark, said to be so for falling to evil. Beyond that, little else is known of this land.
EverwinterIn the northern realm of Norsegard was the seat of the mighty Thor, who led mortal men to Odin's glory. As Dreagonn rised to steal the power of the Gods, Loki and Thor, with their combined might, ripped the land asunder, flooding a great divide with the Shivering Sea. Yet even that would not deter the heretic and his vast army. Across the sea they travelled, where the final battle was fought, and through the sky, Thor used his hammer to strike a rift into the nether-realm, and escape into Valhalla, along with Loki and the lesser Gods.
Dreagonn stole the powers of Thor and returned to Norsia an immortal, and ruled with an iron fist. His savagery soon turned his followers against him, and fought him back to Everwinter, where he lays entombed for eternity.
Though no one has returned to Everwinter in a thousand years, it is said that vast wealth in mines lay there, beneath the frozen landscape, as well as dozens of shrines to the Gods. Beron the Bard, Himself, vows to go there one day, to build a colony and find Thor's rift and see the Gods returned.
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