Quick pitch: Jadidon's past is almost as rocky as its jagged terrain, and the two are closely linked. In ancient times the region was comprised of a vast mountain chain surrounded by jungles, populated by warring clans of lizardfolk and kobolds. The area was united under the legendary lizardfolk conqueror Zira Goranth, called the Earthking, who used powerful geomancy (alongside a group of his students) to prove his right to rule. Following the Earthking's passing, a war of succession erupted between his two sons. A cycle of civil war between east and west would continue for over 2000 years, with brief decades or centuries of peacetime scattered throughout. The near constant warfare between powerful geomancers left the land irreparably scarred and fractured; a barren, dusty wasteland called the Deadlands formed over time from the front lines of the war, created through the sheer amount of stone and earth that had been ripped away from the mighty mountains that once stood there. By the time that the halves finally rejoined in 3552 AC, the country boasted a truly unique environment. Immense multi-layered systems of ravines, cliffs, spires, and caverns had formed from the upheaved land and the geomancy cast upon it. The descendants of the old jungles adapted to the verticality of the region; thick canopies span the upper layers of the fractured landscape, and vast networks of vines and roots descend down the sides of fissures into the marshy depths.