Sitting at a solid wood desk in the candle light of a dark room, with the smell of burning incense filling the air, was the Ra'zorlich Hunt Commander Farok. Despite the pleasing aroma of his candle, a disheartened frown dominated his feline face as he slowly unrolled a map onto his desktop and traced over the recorded cartography.
From mountain peaks in the south, to extensive expanse of forest in the north; from the stretch of Rock lands expanding far past Redding in the west, to the rolling grassland far, far to the east; the map showed the entire known world bordering their home in Atzla.
So-called "civil" provinces were written along the southern border of the map, a place never visited by the Ra'zorlichs, but still recognized by them as the Astiko region. It was the place where the
