Sea Bastions

Geography

The Sea Bastions reach to just before the Crescent Bay and then back west almost all the way to the Roiling Sea. Some scholars even speculate that the great peak of Inis Míol Mór is one of the estranged Sea Bastion peaks with some natural event causing a portion of the Inis between the western most reaches and Miol Mór to collapse into the Roiling Sea. This, however, is disputed by the Fwoarians who claim the mountain of Miol Mór was actually thrown into the sea by the great chief Cú Chulainn, having been the body an immense sea beast he slayed south of the Serpent's Way.

The hills and outer-slopes are mined for copper, tin and some iron. The rivers that flow down offer meager traces of silver which lead to large deposits up the slopes. Those same river waters are clear and fresh, much desired by the nobility of the Inis.

History

What history there may have been in the Sea Bastions is lost to time. One might expect, if the rumors of giant weapons and bones littering the cliffs are true, that they would have a deep and violent history. But, what, if any, answers there might have been to the questions of whose bones they are, what are the horrifying creatures that roam the caverns and who exactly are the extant mountain giants, are lost to the annuls of the deepest histories. 

Its more modern history is distinct in its lackluster. That there are deep valleys, pine slopes and mountain passes is known as they can be accessed from various places at the range's edges. However, crossing them in their entirety is unheard of, especially with an army. So while war waged at the Sea Bastions' feet, very little blood was shed on the mountains themselves. While there are many mines at the hinterlands and hills, very few expeditions have made their way into the range proper as its considered to be not worth the time and coin. What goes on in those grey peaks, evergreen valleys and cold streams is, by nature of its uncanny ecosystem, largely unknown.

Ecosystem

The mountains and their valleys are fairly sparse as far as plant life and animals go. There are herds of elk and big horn sheep that make their way along the hinterlands all the way around the Sea Bastions, but the actual valleys within are dominated mostly by pines, furs, some sheep and strange fey creatures suspected to have made their way there from the An Deireadh region of Otherworld.

The caverns are host to a series of bizarre creatures and this is where the few actual giants of the Inis, that aren't hill giants, hide themselves away. Their communities are incredibly primitive and primal, even more so than the Fwoarians, but they are still dangerous and must be taken in to account unless one wishes to be crushed under heel.

Within the Sea Bastions, the weather is often cold and dry mimicking much of the same climates as winter in the rest of the Inis year round. However, there is a strange point up the sides of the slopes where life springs a more verdant color. The greens ferns and hanging vines toppling over the cliffsides.

Flora & Fauna

The mountains themselves are inhabited by a host of animals such as mountain lions, big horn sheep, elk, a small amount of bevulfs and smaller bruin, the timid pikas and marmots watched over by the soaring glintwings and various other birds.

Pines and furs dominate the slopes that roll up the side of the mountains and then back down into the valleys. Outside the range these meet up with the rolling reeds and grasses of the Horselands or the cattails and gnarled oaks of the Washer's Shoal and Loch Bán & Coillte Ciúin.

In the hinterlands winter comes hard and drives most species to seek warmer climates as they can. Otherwise, it is much the same temperate weather as the rest of the Inis with winter devastating the land in quiet rage, before spring melts the snows and floods the rivers. 

There's also a small assortment of Fomorii tribes known collectively as the Remnant Tribes.

Localized Phenomena

Bones of the Earth - Bones of immense humanoid creatures standing in excess of 40 feet tall have been found alongside similarly scaled weapons and armor made of a strange red metal. To date, no living specimen has been found, but there persists rumors of these titans locked in the glacial ice lakes high in the Sea Bastions' peaks.