Brovnajian Steppes

The region to the north of the Klevarcht mountains and west of the Dark Lands is known as the Brovnajian Steppes. The terrain of the steppes reflects their positioning between these two regions: they are neither sharply mountainous nor as open and flat, but tend to be rolling and hilly.

Much of what is known about the Brovnajian Steppes comes from Elothininian relations with giants - indeed, the term Brovnajian is derived from the word giants use to refer to their race in their own language. The race of giants, along with several other giant variants of animals, originated in the steppes, and most giants still reside in their ancestral homeland. The steppes are arable but easily exhausted, which means each plot of farmland can support only a handful of giants. Subsequently, giants have formed a semi-nomadic agricultural society of small, loosely aligned, tribes which usually stake out a huge area and move from section to section of it as their soil becomes depleted. The massive size of Brovnajian animals and beings is thought to be a result of the extraordinarily low population density required by such farming techniques: giants and their livestock thought to adhere to the principles of goldfish, where a more spacious tank begets impressively larger specimens.

Curiously, no native magical creatures have ever been discovered in the region, suggesting that the evolution of massive creatures in this area occurred through mundayne means. The existence of magic has been confirmed in the northen parts of the San-Kesh desert, but the lack of it in either the Brovnajian Steppes or the Dark Lands has caused magicologists to speculate that the Klevarcht Mountains somehow block the magical currents in the Erkenheld Forest and Elothnin from traveling northward.