Anderus

The Kingdom of Anderus is located on the western coast of the continent. It is bordered on the east by The Grey Spine, and stretches from Glenwood River in the north to Henshire in the south. It has close cultural ties to Malthier and Falorum, and, like those nations, traces its founding lineage back to the kingdom of Signy.

The climate of Anderus is temperate, with warm, breezy summers and cold winters. Snowfall is common between the months of November and March*. Although not a particularly large kingdom, Anderus' geography remains diverse. It is covered mainly in light forest and rolling hills, although plains, mountains, highlands, thick woodlands, and marshlands are all present.

The north of Anderus is home to the southwestern reaches of the deep Glenwood, as well as the Cerid Highlands. The central part of the kingdom is situated mostly on and inland of a large peninsula, which ends at Sunset Cape in the west. Inland is the ancient and mysterious Labyrinth Forest, which surrounds the Lake of Dreams. Directly south of Labyrinth Forest is the rolling hill country of Lemongrass. To the west of Lemongrass along the Trent River is the city of Trent, Anderus' capital. South of Trent and Lemongrass is the Witchwood Marsh, and south of that is Placid Valley, where Henshire is located as the southernmost settlement of Anderus.

There is much debate among human scholars as to the nature of the few ancient ruins and structures along the Trent River and on the island of Caelwyth. It is clear that these areas around the Lake of Dreams in the Labyrinth Forest were inhabited long before the kingdom was founded, and even before the Signyan tribes settled in the area. It is known that a proto-Anderan people who were unrelated to the Signyan offshoots inhabited much of the land of southern Malthier and northern Anderus, but their architecture and monuments seem to be entirely different than the architecture found around Elwyth and Caelwyth.

(to be continued)