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Müden (MOO-den)

The western border of Müden is the Mueller River. Where this river exits the Mountains of the Silent Watch, an east-west pass through the backbone of the range zig-zags its way amid the peaks and valleys to form the domain's southern border. At the eastern edge of these mountains, the Edlenna-Saarmen Pass heads north through the domain of Berhagen to intersect with Müden's eastern border. At this junction, an eastern fork--the Sagumzeit Pike--runs along the Müden-Berhagen border (while the Pass continues on to Saarmen). On the northern edge of Müden, the Krakennauricht and the Black Ice Bay mark its boundary.

Years of serving as home to a major mercantile society has eaten away at Müden's landscape. Forests once stood proud throughout the realm, lapping up the waves from the Krakennauricht with their roots. Centuries ago, however, the wood from these thickets were converted into homes, carts, wagons, and ships of trade and war. The only remaining forests in the state run along its southern and eastern fringes.

The rest of the land consists of grassy meadows and plains transformed into rich farmland and ranch tracts. This terrain, too, shows the signs of the realm's mercantile nature: Fences tie the earth down, and bull-drawn plows trace straight lines through the soil to receive hand-dropped seed. The cluster of mountains in the middle of the state, the Archestüel range, once held a population of "unstoppable" orogs but now lies empty-- though Müdenite folklore still tells of Archestüel orogs stealing away the struggling bodies of ill-behaved children.

Müden's two waterways are very important to the life of the realm. The two rivers, the Mueller and the Forisain, are the breeding grounds of millions of salmon, which make a yearly jaunt up the flows to spawn. River trout and flathead fish are abundant in the streams as well, but these two breeds stay away from the salty Krakennauricht.

Not far off northwestern Müden's shoreline lies the small island of Ichthasen. With a population of just over one hundred, it is considered part of the Allesrecht province.¹






Footnotes:
1. Player's Guide to Müden, slade, www.wizards.com/dnd/files/Muden.pdf (p. 7).