Rulership: The Bear-Look Confederacy – A council of chiefs and clans of mixed blood of old Synedcia; The bears are a reference to the once famous great mother bears (now extinct) of the eastern hills of the Broken Lands.
Symbol: Two bear faces looking inward to a wavy black line – symbolizing the vigilance against the movement of The Curtain of Night and the denizens of the Dark Lands.
The Forest of Bones is a blasted and burnt forest – nothing grows, nothing dies. Its always been there, but no living creature goes there. The entire area around it is steppe/desert – it wont support much population and the it as a natural buffer between the Orrish and lands of civilization. The Orrish are not adaptive enough to survive in its hot winds and ash – too much working against them. Their shamans cannot even eek out water by magic means – such efforts are countered by forces which – despite their corruption – still hate the Orrish. In such as place the druids and human shamans still can. It is a place elves shun, a dead soul tree lies at its center, corrupted.