Safety
There are many dangers waiting across the plains: wild beasts, owlbears and other arcane monstrosities that stalk the wooded regions; bandits looking to prey on the enduring societies; and cults of the Betrayer Gods, the most fearsome of which is the Ravagers. However, people of the plains persevered, training train people old enough to hold a spear, with even the smallest villages learning how to defend their homes.
Silvercut Roadway is the safest way to avoid being beset by monsters but it still receives close attention from highwaymen and bandits.
Fauna
The Dividing Plains are inhabited by Plainscows, a breed of cattle endemic to this place. They are most often used as beasts of burden and mounts for their endurance, and occasionally raised as livestock as well.
Points of interest
- Torian Forest, the most northwestern side of the dividing planes and the home of the Rivermaw Herd.
- Wildwood valley
- Turst Fields, a farming community located on the northeastern side of the plains.
- Bramblewood Forest, a thick forest, surrounding Westruun, to the southwest of the Turst Fields.
Westruun, a central city in the Republic of Tal'Dorei with a large population and a pivotal location for the movement of goods across the continent.- Shadebarrow: an ancient druid burial chamber located to the southeast of Westruun. It was purchased by the eccentric lord and baron Sevil Howthess who renovated it to house his own tomb.
Kymal, a mining town transformed into the center of gambling and drug trade in Tal'Dorei. Hometown of Kaylie.- Ironseat Ridge, a small mountain range near near Kymal, north of the Ivyheart Thicket.
- Ivyheart Thicket, a forest south of Ironseat Ridge.
- Foramere Basin, a low-elevation region in central Tal'Dorei to the east of Kymal where water from three rivers comes together in a giant lake.
Economy
By 812 PD settlements living in the Dividing plains, imported: fish, gold, silver, arcane components and exported: wood products, lumber, grain, produce, cobalt, iron, livestock
By 836 PD, silver became an item of export, perhaps, due to excavations in the Murdoon mines of Bramblewood Forest; diamonds became an imported material; wood products stopped to be an exported item.
Religion
By 812 PD and through 836 PD, the main deities worshipped in the region are Wildmother, the Lawbearer, and the Platinum Dragon, with smaller followings of the Stormlord, Everlight, the Ruiner, the Strife Emperor, and the Chained Oblivion.
Notable people
- Camellia Springshower, a firbolg druid who wanders the Dividing Plains hoping to use her new powers to do some semblance of good in the world.
- Atz Yuminor, a heroic wizard from the Age of Arcanum, who assisted in killing the crazed wizard Clemain Astural, taking his scrolls back to his house in the Dividing Plains. He is the namesake of Yuminor Observatory and his descendent, Estella Ladimar, is the headmistress of Westhall Academy in Westruun.
Notable factions
Tribes of centaurs gallop across the open plains, incredibly faithful in worshiping their creator, the Arch Heart. Dwarves with tanned skin and sun-bleached hair known as gurdheledr, Dwarvish for "hill travelers", also wander the Dividing Plains.
Ravagers
As of 836 PD, the Ravagers are rumored to be ruled by four Slaughter Lords leading four main branches of the horde. One, based in the Bramblewood Forest, is led by the elf Kalydria Darkeye, follower of the the Ruiner; another one, roving toward the Turst Fields, is led by the half-elf /half- dragonborn Grud the Great, follower of Bane, the Strife Emperor.
Rivermaw Herd
The Rivermaw Herd, formerly known as the Rivermaw Tribe, is a tribe of folk from the wild peoples of the Dividing Plains, who shunned the constraints of society. Living as hunters and scavengers, they call the Torian Forest their home.
