Caldera

Home to the xenophobic Tiefling, Caldera is a dichotomy of volcanoes and the fertile valleys they produce.

Climate
Central Caldera is home to the largest known Volcano in the world: Gorgon's Mouth which spews lava in flows out onto the sea, causing the island to grow larger by the day.

Surrounding Gorgon's Mouth is a mountain chain of gray that appears to be always in winter for the ash that falls from the sky all year round.

To the North, fertile valleys sink into marshes the further one goes toward the coast. It is here where Tiefling slavery was once at its height.

To the South, the Tiefling capital of Gran Quellar was wrought on conjoining isles.

History
Tiefling history is perhaps the most well recorded of any race on Erebus. Often written poetically, or sung in Poems by Tiefling Bards, one can find that Caldera goes back well into the Mythic Era, and was the sight of wars fought by the Aeytheri over conquest. During this time, Caldera would oversee the forming of many Tiefling Noble Houses established on the basis of important bloodlines.

While most races during the Mythic Era would find themselves either conquested or locked in eternal war with the Aeytheri Empire, the Tiefling Houses under the leadership of Veloth (their god) would drive the Aeytheri from their shores at the Battle at Gorgon's Mouth during which a particular House betrayed Veloth and was eternally destroyed for it.

In the Second Era, the Tiefling would appear in Heartland society as slave traders and peddlers of exotic goods, while internally they retreated, focusing on inward perfection over outward dominance.

In the Third Era, Caldera would be annexed peacefully by Trajan II who would allow chattel slavery only therein to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed.

Before the flood came, Caldera was divided by political strife as some Noble Houses withered under the leadership of the Empire - their cultures too fundamentally different to be compatible. Several battles were fought between rebels of an unknown House upon the banks of Gorgon's Mouth, and finally as the Third Era came to a close, the Tiefling shrugged its Imperial chains.

Now, Caldera exists in total isolation, for any who sail to its shores are never heard from again. Tieflings who sail from Caldera do so at the risk of death, and claim of a new and strange god that commands their people.