{"id":937,"date":"2014-04-25T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2014-05-16T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:01:36","slug":"daltain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/daltain\/","title":{"rendered":"Daltain"},"content":{"rendered":"
General description<\/strong><\/p>\n Entymology<\/strong><\/p>\n For a long while, Daltain was considered merely a portion of Raleigh.\u00a0 However, a wealthy buyer named Dalton Blackshire was willing to lead a group of hardworking individuals and families, and purchased a relatively large plot of land in southwestern Draconis from the leaders of Raleigh.\u00a0 Ever self-important, Blackshire named the fledgling country after himself.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Geography and Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n Daltain is bordered by mountains on its west side, and the ocean to its south.\u00a0 It also shares a border with Raleigh on its northeast.<\/p>\n Typically, weather that affects Raleigh is known to inhabit Daltain as well.\u00a0 The winter months are not as taxing, though, as Daltain is farther south, closer to Tellest\u2019s equator.<\/p>\n Daltain\u2019s borders expand into the mountains, where they are carved into tunnels for certain inhabitants and citizens.\u00a0 There is a small expanse of desert that stretches through Raleigh and into Daltain, but many travelers avoid it, as rumors of terrible beasts living within it persist.\u00a0 Blackshire was a savvy buyer in that he correctly devised the area in the desert where Raleigh\u2019s ghastly deathwinds would cease to blow.\u00a0 He purchased the desert land there at a very meager price.<\/p>\n A dense forest sits relatively close to the ocean in the southeastern portion of the country.\u00a0 There are a multitude of caves that lead into tall hills and small mountains in the western side of these woods.\u00a0 In the center of Daltain, a river splits the country in half vertically.\u00a0 A great wall stretches horizontally, splitting it that way as well.<\/p>\n Just like Raleigh, the ecology is not specific to Daltain.\u00a0 There is an abundance of wildlife, however, as respect for nature is much more prevalent in that country than almost any of the others of Draconis.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Races<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite the purely financial prospects of Blackshire\u2019s purchase of Daltain, over time, the land has prospered.\u00a0 Typically, no race is outright ostracized, and in fact even some of the less hospitable races have found solace within the country.\u00a0 That said, the majority is made up of humans, dwarves, elves, gnomes, minotaurs and werewolves.<\/p>\n Humans can be found just about everywhere, from the towns of Forsynthia and Sungarden to the White Keep of Gardone.\u00a0 Dwarves often share the locations with their human allies, but they also maintain a strong presence wherever there are mountains.<\/p>\n The elves, while plentiful in the south, do not mingle very much with any of the other races.\u00a0 Rather, they do their best to protect the forest kingdom of Cefenediel, and the magical Cordus trees that grow there.<\/p>\n Gnomes typically have free roam of the country, but they can be found most often with the dwarves, in an effort to study the earth and its properties.\u00a0 To that point, the minotaurs also can be found with the dwarves, yet they prefer a more open living situation.\u00a0 To some, it can appear that the minotaurs are the first line of defense for the dwarven clans.\u00a0 They also have a strong presence in their capital city of Caledos.<\/p>\n The werewolves escaped from Gandarst many years earlier, and settled in southern and eastern Daltain.\u00a0 Of course, because of their proximity to Warus, this has led some to speculate that the werewolves are just ragged kobolds.\u00a0 This is not the case, however.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n