Great Vale
The Great Vale, or Asanibis, is the breadbasket of Mulhorand. Here on great farms slavers and freeholders labor to produce food to feed the cities of Mulhorand. The Great Vale begins in the shadow of the Sword Mountains, where the god-kings and their servants are buried in elaborate tombs on the vale floor and on the mountainside. Ancient step pyramids mix with obelisks as 3,000 years of the honored dead find housing to continue their existence in the afterlife.
Ancient pumps provide continued irrigation for these farms, and the flooding of the River of Spears provides these farms with much-needed sediment. Priests of Osiris and priestesses of Isis travel into the Great Vale and use their magic to enhance the fertility of this land. Slave farms are owned by the churches, with individual faiths allowed to build their own farms and compete in the selling of goods, though the majority of these farms belong to Horus-Re and are sublet to the priests of Osiris (which gives the priests of Horus-Re the threat of revoking the leases on the farms if the priests of Osiris should turn against them). Crops grown here include wheat (emmer) and barley (this is also the center of Mulhorand's ale, beer, and wine making); sheep, goats, pigs and cows are the principal animals herded in this region. The Great Vale is primarily a dwelling place of humans. There are four towns, Surbroar, Klondor, Ulzel, and Mishtan, each of which have between 2,000 and 5,000 people. Towns serve as a place of gathering during celebrations and trading; there are some slave farms with more people than the towns.
Near Mishtan is the Land of the Dead, to which thousands of slaves and freemen are brought at flood time to help with the construction of new tombs. Transportation in this region is by horse (for nobles), by river, or by foot (poorly tended roads lie some distance from the river in a parallel course, and a road connects Mishtan and Klondor). At the present time, Klondor is threatened by an attack of the dreaded Skriaxit.
