KANGOR JUNGLE

Lying between the Blasting Desert and the Tranquil Terror is the vast Jungle of Kangor and the river it was named for. Known for oppressive heat and max humidity year round. Bordered on the west by the Chimera Mountains, the north by the Blasting Desert and Warriorforge Plains, the east by the Ragewaste Swamp, and finally the south by the Tranquil Terror, the Kangor is 500,000 square miles of will testing, equatorial jungle.

Several rumors, folkloric tales,and pure experiences about the place exist. Some about lost civilizations, giant creatures that defy imagination, and mostly about treasures untold. What is truly known about the place is no less fantastic.

Inside the jungle resides a tribe of half orc that swears no allegiance to lord or king of the realm. The way through the jungle is rife with hazards, natural and otherwise, which is not aided by the tribe that suffers no encroachment into there lands. Wealth untold is said to exist in the jungle and in point of fact several fortunes have been made by the most hearty and stalwart. Many more, however, have been lost by the foolish and unprepared.

One would ask why go there at all? A great many natural resources for one reason, gold, silver, and naturally occurring diamonds and gems round out the most desirable of these. Another reason would be on the other side lies Vunderbilt. A difficult journey but many risk it to get to the magical epicenter of Caldor. Care should be taken so as not deplete ones resources in the jungle for what awaits on the other side is a difficult and arduous journey through the Tranquil Terror.

The eastern reaches to the Kangor hold the Ragewaste Swamp, where the confluence of the Ragerush and Kangor Rivers inundate the land. The deluge is known to hold a lost city of wealth untold, few have risked the trek and fewer have reached it and fewer still have returned to share their tales.

The Kangor River flows from the Chimera Mountains to Dilfor Lake through the swamp and into the sea. The river is the life blood of the region. Means of food, water and travel to the indigenous population. Jianquieth people, an elven population are the primary residents of the jungle. They are for the most part more forgiving and hospitable than the Orc clans and the Dar.

The Dar, are the Half Orc tribe that lay claim to jungle and all in it. Brutish and powerful, they have proved more than a match against the outside forces of King Cornwallis and his knights. On the inside, however, they have achieved nothing more that a quiet stalemate with the elves and other inhabitants of the jungle. Primarily since they share many common social mores.

For those inside the jungle it is home, those outside whose goal is to take from it it's riches or conquer the region or merely travel its spans, it is seen as a nearly indomitable foe. The jungle is the jungle, dangerous and beautiful, nurturing and lethal, nature at its finest.