The Stout Weald is the common name for the thick-forested rift valley that cuts centrally across Avandell in the east-west direction. Nearly half of the Weald is considered impenetrable and human efforts to tame it have been costly and fruitless. Only the hardiest trackers have dared to penetrate its mysteries and so many people have been lost in its wilderness throughout the centuries that "a fair stout weald" has become a colloquialism for putting too much effort to a task clearly doomed to fail.
Notable Features
The Ruins of Azedoma
As Erelaan prospered its landowners cleared the Weald and in the process discovered the ruins of a city that the Inyare say predates The Long Tranquility and was called Azedoma by their ancestors.
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