Loremaster Nick

Dominate Terrain volcanic mountains and jungles, with caves and mines

Rulers Political cults and warlords

Climate
tropical rainstorms to warm and humid.

Alignment
Chaotic

Danger
Unsafe

• Drakwald Forest
• Spice Route

• Eye of the Tiger - Cave

• Beastmen
• Ogres
• Cults

A vast far off island eastwards. Exotic spices, jade and other treasures lure the adventurous to this sweltering realm, although few return. Some fall prey to storms and waves, to bestial creatures on the route to Ind, others are captured and sacrificed by bloodthirsty cults.

However, travelers that do return report that the rulers of Ind are wealthy and generous, living in opulent palaces surrounded by slaves and servants, and are great patrons of the arts and Ind's many golden temples.

Beastmen appear to live in the central and southwestern regions of Ind. Travelers from the east bring stories of man-shaped beasts as equally removed from humanity as the creatures of the Drakwald Forest.

Spice merchants from Ind have spun tales of creatures with heads of the hunting cats they call tigers, which dwell in the dense jungles at the interior of their land. At least one vicious tribe of tiger-headed Beastmen has taken the cave of the Eye of the Tiger as their lair.

The people of Ind regard these as noble but fickle beings, as likely to fight off attackers of an Indish village as raze it to the ground. These creatures are rarely seen, and their motives are unfathomable, yet cautionary tales are told up and down the Kingdoms of Ind, and offerings of meat and rice to keep them at bay are made at roadside shrines wherever the path passes through, or near the shadowy forest, in the hope of appeasing them.

The Swamp Eater, Skraggleguts, Boulderbellies, Treehammers and Death Toll Ogre tribes are settled along the Spice Route to Ind