Enguan Isles

The Enguan Coast
The Enguan Coast

The lands of Engu are an unforgiving place. The winters storms are fickle, claiming many unwary travellers in their icy embrace and those who cannot read the cliffs will often find they fall to their deaths in the hungry grasping waters pounding below. But it is also a land of beauty. Where else will you see the droba swimming close to shore, their song calling out to us who take to the seas with them? Where else can you feel close to the home of our gods as atop those deadly cliffs, looking out at the lights of Enar?

(Spoken by Kapa Ralena to Muri during their stay in Tonueil)

To the west of the Delgon lands lies a broken coastline and a series of jagged islands that erupt from the powerful waters. This land is the home of a race of fubarnii known as Eragu. The Eragu are tall and physically powerful. They tower over their southern cousins, with some of the kopa standing almost six foot tall. The frozen coasts of Engu and the Enguan Islands are an inhospitable place, with freezing temperatures and bitter winds, but the Eragu have learned to thrive in these lands. The hulking kopa of clan Engu have overcome the fubarnii fear of water and take to the sea in small boats to hunt the mighty droba that swim off the coast. These droba form the basis of their economy, with every part of the carcasses being stripped and used or traded. Clan Engu also build larger ships that they sail down the coast, giving them access to the scattered settlements along the coast, some of whom are almost surrounded by the Naralon Forests and thus inaccessible to the trade caravans. These isolated villages thus rely on supplies from the Engu sailors. The Engu of the Galin Clan are no smaller than their coast-dwelling neighbours, but they prefer to keep their hooves on dry land. In spite of their distance from the Central Empire the Engu and Galin clans are a fiercely loyal, proud of their membership and happy to pay their taxes. They consider it a great honour to send their young to join the knightly orders. The Engu are close to the Delgon lands, but the mountains have thus far proved too much of a barrier to make them worth attacking. The Dhogu of the Setir Mountains are however a persistent problem and there is no love lost between the two races.


Source: Chronicles of Anyaral