Tailté na Gréine

the Land of the Sun

Tailté na Gréine is a peninsula in the south eastern region of the Inis, extending down from Doan Toor and wrapping around the eastern fringe of the Crescent Bay & Grey Sea. Unlike much of the Inis the lands here are mostly untouched by the roiling clouds that dominate the other regions and allow sun to fall willfully across the emerald fields and verdant groves. However, this can easily lure the unexperienced into a sense of safety. Despite its outward appearance, Tailté na Gréine is often accosted by devastating storms from An Mhuir Thoir, the southern currents from the sea dragging terrible storms up to the fringes of the eastern Inis. These hurricanes and typhoons often cause wholesale devastation to Tailté na Gréine and Inis Albeon.

Likewise, its rolling hills seem to capture the anger of these storms afterwards. With the low areas between hills filling with marshy wiregrass ecosystems. Many might assume that Tailté na Gréine is the perfect breadbasket for the country, however, the marshy low areas, rocky oak-covered hills and thick brambles make farming difficult in many areas. There are some things that can germinate here despite its hidden difficulties. Wine berries, water herbs and the like are cultivated here thus making Tailté na Gréine wine country.

Geography & History

Geography

Tailté na Gréine is mostly settled farmlands and hills with a few, thick flatwoods seeded between them. The roads are fair when they aren't washed out by storms and the sunlight and weather leaves the land often in a perpetual state of fecundity that is difficult to locate anywhere else on the Inis. The many hills here are slow rolling children compared to the Ardenroot mountains and gently sloped compared to the vicious and often cruel looking rocks jutting from Tailté na Bearú.

Sunlight and fertile lands with access to the Crescent Bay and the eastern coast mean that trade is desired and accessible to the wider Inis with the Bulthron and Doan Toor protecting the peninsula from the Caern-Raths further inland.

History

It is said that when the Ardruids threw off the cloak of the the endless winter on the Inis, Tailté na Gréine was the easiest to take to the new spring of the world. As such, its always been a place for farms and herders stretching back to the Age of Spring. Few times in the history of the Inis has the mortal tribes threatened its peace for fear of destroying the only truly green and peaceful lands of the Inis. During the subjugation of the Fwoarians Tribes, however, it was a war torn land. The Fwoarian tribes new its importance as an agricultural center and sought to conquer it in order to stem the flow of resources to their enemies. An endeavor which, to the Ardruids, they were frightfully successful at. It did not avail them, in the end, of course and so with the closing of the conflict they lost control of it. In the end, though, Tailté na Gréine seemed destined to be Fwoarian lands as part of the armistice agreed to turn over control of the south-eastern regions, Doan Toor and Tailté na Gréine included, to the Fwoarian tribes.

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Ecosystem & Species

Ecosystem

Coastal plains and flatwood forests with the average kinds of woodland and grassland creatures. While there is a lack of predators aside from raptorial birds and some canines, the coast is inhabited by a myriad of vicious fey and monsters that sometimes drag themselves up from the depths of An Mhuir Thoir.

The summer, autumn and winter are all incredibly mild with spring bringing in storms that can wash out entire farms and leave caern-hearths, roads and even caern-raths in ruins.

Flora & Fauna

Animals consist of boar, small deer, eagles, storks, typical vermin, typical amphibians, some serpents and very few wild cattle.

Plants consist of sweet gum, magnolia, bay, and hickory trees, which live near streams. Pine, live oak, saw palmetto, wax myrtle, and wiregrass grow in the flatwoods.