Blood-thirst Wildlands
The south-central region of western Noefra, south of the Windwalker Confederacy and bordering Byssia to the west and the Jungle of Fangs to the east, the Blood-thirst Wildlands are not claimed by any single nation and are considered hostile terrain. Home to a wide variety of races, tribes, and strange beasts, the wildlands are a dangerous place about which very little is known.
History
Not much is known about this area. It seems to have been substantially different during the Old Western Empire--surviving maps and records from before the War of Souls show a completely different landscape. Whether that landscape was destroyed during that war, cut off from reality, or simply altered into the current territory is unknown. What is known is that the incidence rate of re-appearance of Imperial-era ruins, structures (some still operational) and other such phenomena is much higher as you move further south than in more settled lands.
During the reconstruction era (from the end of the War of Souls until the Cataclysm), this region was considered uninhabited and unknown. Covered in thick jungle, it held a dangerous allure for adventurers and explorers and claimed many lives. What is known is that there once was a large temple to an unknown goddess located near the center of the wildlands. This temple was the home of the Left Eye of Qa'desh for many centuries, until the Divine Three retrieved it just hours before the Cataclysm. That event drained the anima out of much of the continent and the effect was worse near the epicenter of the blast. All life within 50-60 miles of the temple withered and crumbled to dust and much of the rock crumbled to colorless sand. According to the Catalysts, even 200 years later there was still a ~10 mile band of blasted lands (although the temple itself still remained intact somehow).
Life returned to the wildlands, and about
Major Inhabitants
The northern region (nearer to Fort Hope) is known to be inhabited by goblinoid tribes, some of which still bear significant abyssal taint.
