UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Eirwold has regions, but it does not divide itself into clean administrative provinces. Internal geography is understood through watersheds, forest types, elevation, clan territory, migration, traditional hunting grounds, settlement networks and the routes people actually use.

Those identities frequently overlap. A wetland clan may describe itself through the Southern Waterways while a nearby forest household identifies more strongly with the central canopy. Watchroots may use one name for a security zone while families living there use another name centuries older.

Borders between regions therefore behave less like surveyed lines and more like transitions. Forest becomes wetland. Canopy becomes cliff. Settled routes become sparse country. Old human scars disappear beneath new growth without disappearing from memory.

Foreign maps tend to simplify all of this. Eirwold has never felt particularly obligated to help them.

The Western Scarwoods stretch toward the Pecos frontier through rainforest that still carries evidence of earlier logging attempts, survey routes, capture expeditions and border incursions.

Much of the visible damage has long since been reclaimed. Roots split old roadbeds. Canopy closes above abandoned clearings. Moss covers stone survey markers and former equipment foundations.

Local memory is less forgiving. Scarwood communities tend to be heavily involved in Watchroot activity, refugee crossings, false routes and border observation. Human approach is treated with far greater suspicion here than in Eirwold's deeper interior.

Southern Eirwold broadens into river country where flooded forest, marsh channels, slow waterways and wetland settlements replace many of the drier ground routes of the central canopy.

Communities here frequently orient toward water rather than plazas or roads. Houses stand on raised foundations. Boats tie directly beneath homes. Walkways flex with seasonal water levels and swimming may be an ordinary form of neighborhood movement.

Wetland clans maintain some of Eirwold's strongest traditions of river travel, fishing, aquatic medicine and sanctuary movement.

Eastern Eirwold rises into steep rainforest, deep ravines, exposed ridges and cliff country as the realm approaches Thornwyck and higher mountain terrain.

The canopy here can be exceptionally tall. Waterfalls cut through stone. Suspended bridges may cross spaces that would require hours of ground travel, while winged residents can move between cliffs and high settlements with considerably greater freedom.

The east also carries one of Eirwold's most important external relationships. Routes toward Thornwyck are more established than most foreign approaches, though alliance has never meant unrestricted access.

Along Eirwold's northern edge, old-growth rainforest finally reaches the sea through dark stone cliffs, narrow beaches, sheltered coves, sea caves and coastal forest.

Communities remain small and scattered. Fishing settlements may hide behind cliffs or inside tree-covered coves rather than growing into visible commercial ports.

The sea expands Eirwold's resources and travel possibilities, but it also creates a more exposed horizon than the deep canopy. Coastal concealment depends heavily on geography, weather and settlement scale.

The Outer Green is not one continuous province. The name refers collectively to Eirwold's farthest inhabited margins: remote forest, difficult ridges, deep wetland, isolated coastline and settlements separated from major civic centers by long travel.

Communities here are often more locally autonomous simply because distance makes constant central administration impractical. A Root Council decision may matter nationally while the details of ordinary life remain firmly in local hands.

Many people living in the Outer Green prefer it that way.

The Old Green is a loose name for some of Eirwold's least publicly documented interior territories. These are not magical forbidden forests. They are simply places where old clan memory, protected ancestry, archaeological sites and difficult geography overlap.

Some contain ancient grove circles. Others contain fossil ridges, cave systems, old burn sites, historic herdholds, abandoned settlements or naming grounds still used by nearby communities.

Eirwold does not place every culturally important place on a public map. That is especially true when a location could expose rare bloodlines, vulnerable families, old sanctuary sites or information foreign governments would immediately attempt to classify.