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The Fallow Lands are a large inland region in north western Ambar. The region spans about 500 miles in both directions. The region is home to an incredibly vast array of cultures and races, as well as vast untamed wilds. If the shockingly high number of ruins are any indication, The Fallow Lands have seen better days. At least 4 great civilizations once existed here, but all have crumbled to dust. Civilization in the region has receded steadily for countless generations. Even in the most remote corners of The Fallow Lands one can often find evidence of agriculture and settlement from millennia long past. Now the settled regions are small and often isolated. Those villages and towns that have weathered the glacial decay of civilization are filled with incredibly resourceful and hardy folk. And yet every year it seams another village is consumed by the encroaching wilderness, never to return.

Regions
The Grand Odan Plains: These high northern planes are the most northern region of The Fallow Lands. They are bounded to the north by the Kingsreach Mountains, to the east by the Riven Hills, and to the east by The Talon Mountains. The plains are fairly dry and cold, and life can be difficult to eek out for its residents. The plane is named after the Odan grass, a reddish-green grass that blankets the region. Horses, buffalo, saber tooth tigers, and woolly mammoth are all common in this region.

Agriculture can be difficult in the region do to the Odan grass, which lays down thick matts of roots into the reddish soils that extend about 10 feet into the earth. These roots provide good fertilizer once the grass above is cleared, however. The lack of water forces agricultural communities to be built next to rivers or some other water source. Once a great civilization ruled these plains and built incredibly extensive irrigation networks. The reason for their fall is unknown, but the civilization's surviving communities now live under the thumb of the Odan's knew masters: the Khans.