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Name: The Glittering Spires
Description: Set along a coastline with golden, sandy beaches, these massive, shiny vertical structures are a mystery to any wolf. What they are? They are remnants of the two legged lives that bustled and milled down what used to be smooth sidewalks, now cracked and filled with weeds. The wild has taken over, and the massive sky scrapers are frozen in time; old hotel doors forever ceased in turning. Rusting cars stand on the streets, hardy vines choking their axles and doors. It is an eerie, desolate feeling place, despite the rampant trees birthed from the decorative maples planted there long ago, and the other flowers growing wild without human care. Step carefully; broken glass litters the ground in places.

Name: The Rolling Hills
Description: Miles upon miles of rolling hills, densely forested by such evergreens as Douglas Fir, Hemlock, Cedar, Giant Sequoia, Holly, and many more. Streams and rivers ripple along rocky beds, sourced from the center gem of these hills. A large mountain, her tallest peak touching the height of ten thousand feet, is the mother of small glaciers, her peaks snow covered almost year round, only becoming bare stone during the hottest months of summer each year. The waters from these glaciers, and the snow melt each year, is sweet, mildly mineral tasting, and clear, save for the rivers, which run wild with silt when the first thaw hits. This place is thick with prey life, and wild with many plants to tickle a Healers fancy. Many glorious surprises await the daring adventurer.

Name: The Starlit Plains
Description: True to its name, these plains stretch for miles, lush in the spring and early summer, drawing many prey animals. But its most striking feature lays not on the ground, but in the sky. The stars and planets shine brilliantly here, casting a faint glow at night over the plains. It?s almost magical, and when the full moon rises, not a shadow can be found, save for the one at your own paws. It is a place that can be romantic; a place to lay back, relax, and watch the stars with a loved one. However in winter, those bright points of light can find the harshest scenes in their sight. For in winter, a lush and beautiful place becomes a prime place for biting cold, blizzards, and death.

Name: The Shrieking Caverns
Description: These caves are well named. Each evening, the bats that make their home in these caves awaken, and add their piercing chattering to the evening noises. They flood out in a rush of leathery wings, ready to deal the end times to the insect population. The mountain the caves sink into is no impressive peak, only a large hill, who?s highest elevation only reaches three thousand feet, but its extent of these caves is its impressive side. The caves, if you can brave your way past the initial bats, are a mysterious, fantastical sight. The gems that sprout from the walls here and there glow with a natural light, though the cause of this light may never be truly found. Take away the bat guano under your paws, and this could be a romantic place.

Name: Hellfire Gorge
Description: Another one of those aptly named places. At the bottom of this gorge roils hot lava, billowing heat and sulfur to the sky above. The walls have been blasted by the heat for so long, they are fairly turned to glass at the points furthest enough away to cool, but not far enough away to cool completely. This lava rolls from the belly of a volcano, as active as a beating heart. Tread carefully, or come not at all. Death can find you here as easily as the flick of an ear.

Name: Crown Isle
Description: This Island rests just off the coast, nearly connected by a land bridge to the mainland. Cliffs rise fifty feet, in alternating points, rather like the points of a kings crown. The beaches are made up of soft white sand, and palm trees dot the shore. A jungle makes up the vegetation of the land mass, and tropical birds make quite the ruckus from within the canopy. Monkeys swing and dally through the canopy, while tapirs make their home on the ground. It?s a good hunting place for predators who can adapt, or were born for this place. Fresh water springs can be found at the isles center; a fresh, salt free drink for the travel weary.

Name: The Hall
Description: It was once a place of wealth and impressiveness. Now it lays in ruins. Almost. It is still a structure, with fine stone columns carved in intricate detail by long past artisans. The interior is still mostly discernible, though Mother Nature has invaded, retaking her territory. Paintings hang on the wall, some completely degraded by time and moisture, others seem to have never been touched by the hands of the wild, as bright and clear as the day they were finished and hung upon the wall. The roof has fallen in at places, and the floors of the stories are dangerously unstable under heavier paws, but for the light footed, or daring, this is a place full of mysteries and wonder.

Name: The Mudpots
Description: This is a place where underground volcanic activity has brought to life these seething fixtures of nature. The smell is a mixture of old egg, sulfur, and gas, all rolled into one. The heat is tolerable from a close distance, but be wary of setting foot into the mud; it?s hot enough to cook your paws.

Name: The Geyser Fields
Description: This place is strife with peril if you enter it at the wrong time. Looks like a watery place with the occasional harmless boulder, eh? Wait a few minutes, maybe an hour. Then the eruption begins. From the roiling bubbling pool of sapphire, super heated water, to the powerful roar of a geyser shooting it?s water over a hundred feet into the sky, this is both a place of beauty, and a place to never let your guard down when you pass through. Prey avoids this place, and maybe predators should, too.

Name: Emerald Forest
Description: As green as its name. Moss grows thick and lush on the ground, ferns spread far and wide. The trees are a mixture of alder, cottonwood, maple, and birch. Herbs and other plants of medicinal uses grow mad here, and the light that filters through the leaves on the trees lends the emerald factor to the forest.

Name: The Forgotten Isle
Description: Shrouded in mist and mystery, this large island should have been unforgettable. However, it lays abandoned. What used to be a thriving city stands silent and despondent. Cruise ships rot in their moorings, and hotels stand open and unguarded. That being said, it is a place full of things for a curious wolf to explore.

Name: Roaring Rapids
Description: True to their name, this stretch of river is rife with large boulders and rocks. The river flows at a steep downhill grade; not enough to become a waterfall, but enough to gain high speeds. The water smashes against these boulders with a roar, sounding for all like a furious lion. The boulders, however, are close enough together, that a daring wolf could conceivably leap from each one to the next, and cross the roaring, churning waters safely. However, with rushing water comes mist and moisture, making footing slippery. A bad landing can send a wolf into the water, to be at the mercy of the churning river.

Name: Starstruck Cliffs
Description: This place was not named for the excellent star gazing opportunities it provides, but for the large crater, front and center of the cliff face. Within can be seen a porous, metallic boulder. It was named by the witness of the meteor strike; a witness long since past, but the name stuck.

Name: The Ice Palace
Description: Frozen in time, built long ago, this ice palace had defied the seasons, and remained frozen. This may have something to do with being far north, where the snow never truly melts away. It is a fantastical structure, each paw step of an explorer chiming like a faint bell. It may survive for many more years to come, or maybe the next summer will see it melting away to become a mere memory, lost by time. Time will only tell.

Name: The Swimming Plains
Description: This lush area is actually a floodplain for a nearby river. Each year, in spring, snowmelt precipitates a great flood. As Summer arrives, the water recedes back into its channel, leaving room for the lush grasses to grow and attract large prey animals. Moose enjoy this feeding ground almost year around.

Name: Elk Valley
Description: This large Valley is a prime feeding ground for Elk. Not only elk, in fact, but bison, deer, and maybe even mustangs graze here. It?s a prime hunting ground for a hungry pack. The vegetation is lush and green in the warmer months, though winter and autumn will find the grass buried under at least a foot of snow. The hills of the valley walls are dense with evergreen trees and herbs a plenty.

Name: The Herbal Garden
Description: This wildly growing morass of herbs was once a well tended garden of some human who long ago passed on with the rest of its kind. Now the herbs have taken off, growing wild; every plant imaginable grows in this small patch of healer paradise.

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Name: Cedar Falls
Description: This river tumbles gaily down a rock face with a gentle hush of water over stone. Surrounding the falls, cedar trees grow thick, giving the air that delicious scent of evergreen and cedar wood. Deer range through the area, though smaller prey is more abundant, and salmon migrate upstream through this river. Bears are a common predator in these times, so it would be best to not let ones guard relax during the salmon run season.

Name: Sapphire Springs
Description: This deep pool of cool water is well named for it?s rich blue color. No one is sure what gives it this color, but no wolf or animal has died from drinking from the water, so whatever it is, the color is harmless.

Name: Star Lake
Description: This lake catches the reflection of the stars and sky perfectly at night. It gives the illusion of a portal to the sky, but the illusion shatters with a mere touch of the paw to the water, sending ripples across the surface, stretching and marring the reflections.

Name: Dove Lake
Description: This lake centers a valley filled with wildflowers and sweet grass. It gets its name from the birds that use it as a water stop on migrations. Doves of all colors; white, blue-grey, green and grey. All kinds of birds pause at this water source, before moving on.

Name: Mustang Meadows
Description: Aptly named, this is the home of a large assortment of wild horses; bands roam the miles of rich grassland, foals frolic and cavort at their dams hips. All is peaceful, until one stallion ruffles the dignity or sanctity of another studs herd. Then all hell breaks loose. This would be a prime hunting place for wolves with a taste for horse flesh.

Name: Walrus Beach
Description: An aptly named beach, this strip of rocky sand is a favorite lounging area for the mighty walruses. From lumpy pups to mighty bulls with long tusks, and everything in between, this beach is usually packed with big bodies. A careful wolf could snag an easy meal in here. Ware the beach master, though. He may look slow, but he can hit like a rhino if a wolf messes with his ladies and children.

Name: Jewelers Shack
Description: Located within a long abandoned and derelict town, this was once the shop of a prosperous jeweler. Rings, watches, necklaces and more lay scattered on the floor, or still set to rest on old, rotting velvet busts. A magpie would have a field day in here. Weeds have grown up around the broken windows, and the door hangs off of hinges ready to fall free of the door frame.

Name: Ghost Town
Description: This was once a small town, long, long ago, even in the time of the humans. This was a ghost town long abandoned in the eighteen hundreds, and taken care of as a tourist attraction later on. Now it lies abandoned again, timbers rotting once more, saloon doors on the rotting floor boards. Tumbleweeds bounce through weed eaten streets, and ramshackle buildings fall in on themselves for a mile in either direction.

Name: Hallucination Caves
Description: These caves twist and turn, carving a path ever deeper into the earth. However, the name comes not from the dizzying turns and switchbacks of the caves, but from the gasses rising up from deep, deep under ground. They aren?t too harmful; meaning only that they won?t kill you. However, they do cause a mind to hallucinate, and depending on how disoriented a wolf gets, getting lost is a likely-hood, and That can kill you, via starvation. There are no prey animals down here. So be careful, adventurer.

Name: Misdirection Forest
Description: This forest is as easy to get turned around in as a cave system. What makes it so easy to get lost in, if you have no ability to track yourself out, is the tightly growing trees and bushes, twisting paths with many forks and intersections, and a thick fog that permeates the area like some noxious substance of evil. A young pup can be lost in these woods, never to be found again.

Name: Dreamers Grove
Description: This is a grove in which young saplings, long ago, somehow grew together on their years long journey to the sky, creating a natural gazebo of sorts. Draped and twining around these now fully grown trees, creating a sweet smelling canopy, are wisteria flowers, climbing roses, clematis, and many other climbing, sweet smelling flowers. Whether this is a natural occurrence, or mankind long ago had a hand in this, it is a romantic spring setting, perfect for matrimonial ceremonies, or simply being by your loved ones side, dreaming of the future.

-Mooore!-

Name: Putrid Marsh
Description: As foul smelling as its name, this marsh contains some of the rankest smelling water and mud around. No one knows where it gets its horrible smell; a mix of rotting meat, foul eggs, and rank sweat, but one thing is for sure, this place will leave a lasting impression.

Name: Paradise Hills
Description: A lush, forested stretch of hilly land. Wildflowers, herbs, and green grass grow thick in these hills, especially around the small brooks that wind through the dips in the hills, or tinkle over rock faces. Fish are abundant in the water, year around, as this area is only lightly affected by winters cold grasp. Even winter is beautiful, here.

Name: Mistveil Falls
Description: This sixty foot waterfall crashes to its base, sending up a constant misty shroud to veil the base and river, and surrounding areas. The roar is earth shaking, and in winter, this spectacle becomes something even more miraculous. Deep freezes halt the water in it?s tracks, bringing a tremulous silence to the area. Ice coats anywhere the mist touches, and the great icicles that hang, seemingly quivering, promise that movement will return in the spring.

Name: Aurora Tundra
Description: This tundra is a frozen wasteland, or so it seems. It is also the pathway of migratory caribou, and at night, a theater for the Aurora, or the Northern Lights. At night, which can last for a long time, they spread their ribbons and fingers of undulating light across the sky, and if you listen hard enough, maybe you can hear them sing.

Name: Shimmer Vale Forest
Description: This forest, in the summer, is home to millions of fireflies. All night, from evening to morning, they flash and blink, and with so many, it seems as though the air shimmers. During the day in the warm months, prey flock to the forest to feed on the vegetation.

Name: Sonata River
Description: Graceful as a song, this slowly flowing, wide river flows through some of the loveliest countryside in the lands. Large fish; trout, bass, and others, fill this large river, providing tasty meals for the experienced fisher. Reeds and cattails, alders and willows, herbs and grasses. All line this river, making a prime place for land bound prey to eat.

Name: Astronomers Peak
Description: A lone ledge juts out from the side of a tall mountain, with a small cave backing it, and a narrow, singular trail leading down, down, down to the earth below. This single ledge, so high up, seems to brush the stars, each night. This is a place of solitude, meditation, and thought. The small cave would be a perfect den site, facing away from the weather, with a slight bending curve toward the back. The mountain itself sits at that edge of a ripe valley, lively with game.

Name: Aster Canyon
Description: The walls of this canyon are streaked with veins of blue lapis, blue as asters. Stretching for forty miles, with a lazy river at its bottom, this canyon is one of the few water sources in an arid desert bluff. The water is difficult to get to, but rewarding once you manage to reach it.

Name: Delgado Isle
Description: A thin strip of land in the sea, this island lives up to its Spanish name, meaning ?slender?. At only about half a mile wide at it?s widest point, and a mile long, this island doesn?t have much room for a pack, However it does have some interesting features. Such as the Spanish galleon crashed upon its seaward shore, the belly of the ship having caught against the submerged reef in a wild, stormy night long ago.

Name: The Arroyo
Description: A dry, arid desert, with a spark of life at the center. A single, tiny stream runs down the center of this land, a boon to those lucky enough to find it. Plant life grows, just barely, around this stream, marking its location, and tracks of both prey and predator line the stream, giving the chance for a much needed meal.

Name: Switchback Mountain Range
Description: Ten peaks make up the necklace of mountains running northwest to southeast. From the tallest peak, tickling the skys belly at thirteen thousand feet, to the tamer peaks that rise only to three thousand feet, this range is wild, stretching miles, blanketed with evergreen forests, thick with prey, and dotted with hidden meadows and glades here and there. Herbs, flowers, and other plants grow thick in the warmer months, and steep, twisting and turning mountain trails challenge the mountaineering wolf to climb and seek an adventure.

Name: Beartooth Island
Description: A huge, mountainous island, with jagged peaks of white rock at it?s heart, the peaks resembling the teeth of a carnivore. However, a moderate population of black bears gives this island its bear related name. This seems to be a place the bears love. It could be because of the high berry output of the plants here, or because the river that flows through the island is a salmon route. Despite the bear population, this large island boasts a good amount of prey, and it?s relatively easy to reach from the mainland.

Name: The Stone Spur
Description: A claw-like strip of land jutting into the sea on the southeastern coast of the mainland. This spur is bare of vegetation, a mere sea and wind blasted strip of stone. An adventurous soul must walk carefully here; the stone is slippery, and not all that stable, A wrongly placed paw could send a wolf sliding into the churning sea.