The Tribelands

The Tribelands, known locally as Shuroth Vuun or The Howling Hills, is a rocky, bone-littered desert that forms the northeastern tip of Vorith. For centuries, it has been the home of the nine Bloodscreamer tribes.

Lifedrinkers
The Tribelands are dotted by thorny, crimson trees called lifedrinkers. These trees are immune to fire and magic and are considered sacred by the Bloodscreamer tribes, who bury their dead beside them and use its hallucinogenic sap for trances and shamanic rituals. Felling a lifedrinker is punishable by beheading.

Spinewolves
The Tribelands are populated by several ferocious predators, but few among them can match the spinewolves in sheer strength, speed, or savagery. These six-legged creatures hunt in small packs and are capable of killing other dangerous creatures like mammoths and basilisks.

From a young age, Bloodscreamer children are taught to respect the spinewolves, since failing to do so can be fatal. Almost all of the tribes use domesticated spinewolves as hunting companions, but it is not uncommon for the beasts to brutally turn on their supposed masters when starved or frightened.