Grenmeer Lowlands

The Grenmeer Lowlands is Quillmore's breadbasket, its primary source of nourishment -- which is what makes the looming threat to it all the more dire.

The Lowlands was not always so lush and verdant. Before the Sundering the earth was rocky and inhospitable, loved only by the people of Quillfain, one of the twelve Human Kingdoms known as the Twelve Crowns. It was from this unlovely earth that the people of House Quill arose: stocky, sturdy, and stubborn. Qualities once looked down upon by other Houses, Houses that perished utterly in the dark days of Elanthia's past.

The Sundering transformed the Lowlands and, in one of the rare "good" outcomes, made it lush and fertile. The people farming the land today are survivors of the same families that worked the land from the beginning, but now the forces they find themselves contending with are not drought and sandy soil, but Sundering-warped oddities and raiders hungry for gold and blood.

The Grenmeer Lowlands is surrounded by a high wall known as Trugar's Barrier or, in some circles, Trugar's Shame. Originally intended to keep out the insidious hordes of Boneshard Clan hunters and ruthless bandits, the wall has ultimately proved less effective than initially desired. The Ukar, ever adaptive, have constructed siege engines and conscripted sappers to aid their cause. Clever bandits resort to stolen spellcraft and hooks and ropes to scale the walls.

Not a day goes by in the Lowlands that a farmer does not pause to glance westward and wonder how long the Barrier will last, and who will save them if -- or when -- it finally does collapse.