Geography

Introduction

This page lists the Ten Kingdoms, and individual cities within them. Click on the names of each kingdom to see the main article for that kingdom. The individual kingdom articles have information about the country as a whole, while the location links have information about the city, town, island or area as well as links to specific RP locations. Some town names are not described with a link; you're welcome to use your imagination, and reference these locations in your character's backstories or roleplay.

Below the list of Kingdoms, you will find links to maps of the Ten Kingdoms (the Headlands and the Vales), including a detailed map of Anaxas.

Anaxas

Anaxas is the primary roleplay kingdom in Thorns. It is a successful and advanced kingdom, but one plagued by the constant threat of civil war. The social situation in Anaxas is volatile and oppressive.

Central Anaxas

• Brunnhold - the most prestigious university of sorcery in the world
  • The Stacks - Brunnhold's college town, located inside the university grounds
  • Ghost Town - a phasmonia dedicated to the dead, near Brunnhold
  • Muffey - a fashionable little village located near Brunnhold
• Vienda - the capital city of Anaxas and the seat of the government
• Surwood Isle - an island in the Arova River, location of the yearly Wick Festival
• Wraithwine Wood - a large forest wilderness
  • Dorhaven - a small town near Wraithwine, location of the Dorhaven Massacre

Eastern Anaxas

• Old Rose Harbor - the primary trade port, responsible for a good deal of the nation's wealth
• Fentail Isle - an island off the western coast of Anaxas
  • Plugit - a very boring little town, home of the annual Cartographer's Convention (and not much else)
• Cellas Isle - a large island with a large wildlife population, popular hunting destination
  • Marvane - hunting village on Cellas Isle
  • Astonie - a lush campground visited often by the Black Hand tribe
• Brayde County - a wide stretch of farmland

Nothern Anaxas

• Fen Kierden - a forbidding swamp
• Northern Tors - the hilly area in Northern Anaxas
• Nomadic Land - Anaxi plains, traveling ground for some wicks
  • Ballast - horse-breeding and training village; exports beasts of burden

Southern Anaxas

• Numbrey - a medium-sized town, home to the Seventen Training Facility

Western Anaxas

• Anhau - the lost city of the wicks located in the Anhai Valley
• Hatcher Territory - a forbidding place where many covens of hatchers roam
• Shier Mountains - a wide mountain range that forms most of the border with Hesse

Mugroba

Mugroba is a vast desert nation located to the north of Anaxas. It is a prosperous and spiritual country, and Anaxas' greatest ally. Mugrobi people worship the water, which they depend on for trade.

• Thul Ka - the capital city of Mugroba and home of the spice trade
• Muluku Islands - an archipelago that contains the major trade ports of Mugroba
• Manatse - a large floating wick encampment on the Turga river, in western Mugroba
• Holaga - a human town in mid-western Mugroba, famous for its natural phosphor mines
• Pa Krat - a small village near Fen Kierden
• Pa Olakano - a small fishing village in eastern Mugroba, on the coast
• Asha Mora - a medium-sized fishing town in western Mugroba, badly affected by the Mugrobi Plague
• Demoga - a large human town in western Mugroba
• Serkaih - a valley of ghosts (phasmonia)
• Redomseko Dailotoma - translated as "the village that is smaller than its name", this famous tourist attraction is similar to Muffey in that it is a center of fashionable galdori, two miles northwest of Thul Ka
• Paora Fo - a desert village
• Isla Kura - a mysterious and legendary island lost in the mist

Hox

Hox is a mountainous kingdom located north of Mugroba. Its society is highly isolated, but Hoxian galdori often travel to Anaxas for education or work.

• Frecks - capital city
• Dessteka - a secluded galdori city in the mountains
• Montack - a galdori town
• Xerxe - a small galdori village known worldwide for its enormous, ancient grave-caverns
• Korse Koron - an abandoned galdori city, uninhabited for seven hundred years; it was sacked in a civil war, and is now a subject of curiosity for archaeologists
• Pesxe - a human city at the foothills of the Spondola
• Yrth - a small human village in the taiga
• Rroxa - a small human village in the mountains
• Aexx Aora - a galdori town renowned for its beautiful women
• Dromboth - a very poor and suffering human village, plagued by wild animals, bandits and disease
• Kzecka - a galdori town in the mountains, home of a very large religious library
• Oer - a galdori village on the river
• The Spondola - the longest mountain range in Hox