The Lands of Stone were vast, stretching endlessly in every direction until the horizon swallowed them whole, but in these regions where the Unbound Tribes wandered ignorantly from mountain to mountain, the Vassal Tribes knew better.
They knew who ruled the reaches of the Lands of Stone nearby.
They knew of the Three Pillars of Stone.
There was the Dominion of Crimson Stone, located in the eastern reaches and centered on the Crown of Dawn, a cluster of seven sacred mountains that had once been the heart of a different empire entirely. The Dominion of Crimson Stone was formerly known as the Vakochev Empire before its fall eight summers ago, its name changed along with its rulers when blood painted the palace walls red and a new power rose from the ashes of the old.
