Illcara Map / Location / Geography

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Illcara is located in Southern Avalon landlocked between the Kingdom of Evendarr (sharing a border with Fellmist Principality) and the Mydian Valley. It is North of Greyhelm and Lorinorea, South of Fengate, and Southwest of Willowdark, Naringal, and Wolvaera/Wolveria, (sharing some border with each) listed as # 41 on the Avalonian map by NERO National (a minor discrepancy involving the major river being the middle or southern river means it may be shifted about twenty miles north).

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Illcaran geography features a wide range of areas for a temperate land. The West is bordered by the Cumberland Mountains, high nigh-impenetrable peaks, extending down into the Keplar Mountain Range (a sovereignty awarded to the nation's Gypsies) and the Golden Foothills on the Illcaran side (and into the Mydian Valley on the eastern side). In the northern central is a thick dark wood spanning some miles known as the Fenwood, containing in the open southern mouth both the walled capital castle city (and Lundor Principality Keep within) and the Warden headquarters of New Safehold. East past that are the Far Plains, a mild and uninteresting but fertile (due to silt from flooding rivers) land stretching up to 80 miles at it's width (beyond the kingdom's borders the land continues similarly for some ways until it reaches Wolvaera and its mountain borders). Dividing the kingdom almost evenly into four quarters are the great rivers. From Lifebloom Mountain and Crystal Lake (the island center of which is home to the Talia Principality Keep) in the Northwest flows the mighty Silverstream to the Crossroads in the center of Illcara (where the major rivers roughly meet and the five largest trade roads cross, the city there is also home to the military house Sylune Principality Keep). From Crystalclear Peak almost straight east across the belly of the lands runs the steady Brandywine River (splitting after Menka and flowing into Wolveria, Westhaven/Tyrangel, and Oakhurst/Fellmist). Flowing south from the crossroads (technically from the Brandywine, not the Silverstream) is the cool Cypress River. The shores of these rivers (which in many places make up Principality or Duchy lines) are home to a good portion of Illcara's cities, including Willowbrook, Somerset, Rockbridge, Cypress, Elmtan, Menka, and Rosewood. The lands from the span of the Cypress to the Brandywine in the Eastern Territory are predominantly wooded areas (in various states of being logged or thick woods), collectively known as the Brackenwood, especially the thickest and swampy center of the enormous forest (over the Oakhurst Evendarrian border, these swampy woods are called the Bracken Swamp); these dark swamps have warded off many creatures and all but the bravest settlers, but also seem to keep the Undead at bay entirely. In the farthest southwest corner lies the dry plateau (albeit barely one) known as the Badlands (though not unlivable by any stretch, but the utter lack of crops in any color but dull browns gives a dead feel), and just inside it the City of Trademeet, predating Illcara by several years.
Lakes of note include aforementioned Crystal Lake, Quicksilver Loch in the Northeast, and the points where rivers converge at the Crossroads.
Forests of note include aforementioned Fenwood and Brackenwood, Stranglethorn Wood and Wildwood Forest in the far East, frequently stormy Lost Wood at the North of the Bracken, and Riverwatch at the South of the Bracken.