The Unclaimed Lands

So much was lost, when Cailar fell-Then almost everyone else fell with it. So many cities and towns just up and died, their people seeking safer refuges. I watched bastions of commerce dry up in fortnights as supply lines died. People so separated from the farms their food came from they couldn't fend for themselves. So many countries falling like Dominoes...   There's nothing left out there, now. Some few towns survived, aye, but it will be decades before anything can really rise out of the ashes.   Maybe that's for the best.

— ~a daydreamer.

  The Unclaimed Lands aren't a single region or kingdom; Rather, they're the negative space in between such spaces. The Unclaimed Lands are those lands which were formerly beholden to a Kingdom or Country that fell after the Night of Falling Crowns. With no single kingdom strong enough to boldly claim the land for themselves-or too far removed to keep such a claim-The Unclaimed lands soon returned to nature, roads overgrown with brush and trees, cities slowly crumbling away, their windows dark.   While there is unclaimed territory East of Walker's Canyon, It's commonly held that the Unclaimed Lands formerly begin on the Western Side of the canyon. From there they stretch across the continent, only ending at the Lands of the Lost and Cincini, the western countries that managed to hold themselves together during the Calamity. The space between holds a few towns that have managed to hold themselves together as waypoints for those few caravans that brave the roads, such as St. Fiule. The rest... is empty.   but that does not mean it is safe.  

Wrath of the Empty Land

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The Unclaimed lands were fraught with peril even before the Night of Falling Crowns. Great Whirlwinds were common on the midplains, between the Canyon and St. Fiule. The Canyon itself was prone to earthquakes, especially during Walker time. and the southern lands are slowly being enroached upon by the The Forest of Metal, with no end to its growth in sight. And now, without anyone to tend the natural land, wildfires have become more common as dried brush and forests grow, die, and accumulate. It will take any one country-if any dare, now- to rebuild in this now hostile territory.