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Overview

Oscillia (Imperial \ˌɑsˈɪliə\) was given its current name at the end of the Shattered Age for its numerous battlefields strewn with dead bodies, as a result of Sindra's March. Lore about Oscillia is common, complete, and accurate. It has been studied by countless historians and scholars.

History

In the early Shattered Age, Agria was named Lenhaugr in Nortongue, meaning long hill, because of densely hilly terrain. It was renamed Milcolles, meaning 1000 hills early in the Imperial Age, as Imperial became the dominant language of the Shard, named for the same hilly features. It's current name was bestowed after Sindra's March, toward the end of the Shattered Age, referring to the countless bones of dead and undead alike after the brutal war.

Cosmology

Oscillia is a fairly cosmologically typical for a region of a shard realm.

Geography

Oscillia is roughly 800 miles east to west and 500 miles north to south.

It is comprised of the following regions:

Bleadridge: A tall hilly region in the east, leading down to the Viridian peninsula.
Brackenreach: Region around a massive lake in the west, choked with reedy plants.
Crimson Hills: A region of scrubland with red dirt and clay in the north.
Hollowmere: An isolated marsh in the northwest of the region.
Thornholt: A region in the south full of briars and dense, thorny forests.

Inhabitants

Primarily Humans from Mercatia, who settle the southern central and eastern coasts, as well as from Agria, who settle the the rivers up through Brackenreach to Stonewall.