The Hunters' Chain

The people of the Hunters' Chain are strong and protective of what they have. They live in the most dangerous chain of mountains in the Circle of the World. The dangers found on those sheer cliffs and impregnable heights, the diversity of wild and thrilling animals that can be found there, the strength and wisdom of the Hunters that live there... all of these things are legend.

It is difficult for those unaccustomed to these dangers to survive there and the Hunters do not encourage it. They intermingle with others from time to time, but it is rare. A few prominent Travelers have been born to those lands, for if one can survive the Hunters' Chain a life of travel around the rest of the Circle must seem natural.

The name of Traveler Nanoka is well known here in the Giant Lands. She married Traveler Dakarai, hero of the Giant Lands, and supported and respected our ways, even to the point of supporting the Traveler Ban on the Giant Lands when she knew full well it would shut her out from these lands and banish her from her husband's side.

~ Fujo (Year 27 of the Giant Wars)

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