Baying Wolf Rifts

Baying Wolf Rifts is located in the far north, overlooking the Maschev Colonies. It's several miles long and is quite difficult to access if you aren't prepared to face freezing temperatures, high winds, and several feet of snow. Snow covers the mountains all year round except in the spring when the snow melts for two months. Miles and miles of thick dark green coniferous forests cover the valley and segments of the rifts. The forest extends all over the rifts and is a source of lumber for the people of the Maschev colonies, who have been slowly cutting down large segments of the forest. These woods also provide homes for the beasts that live within these woods and the most dangerous one is the werewolf. It is called the Baying Wolf Rifts because of the howling sound the wind makes when it swoops over the craggy mountain tops, but it is also possibly from the sound of the dire wolf packs that possibly roam these harsh lands. The sound of werewolves howling over 1,000 years ago in these mountains may have also been responsible for the name.

The timber in these rifts are the livelihood of the people of the Maschev colonies, since they run a trade-and-barter economy with lumber being the most expensive primary resource that they trade with Sidon. The second are the precious metals found underground in the mines.

The werewolves, thought to have vanished centuries ago, have begun to emerge back into their snowy homes. Recently, they have begun to gallop down the rifts during nights of the full moon and attack any human nearby, but these attacks have been dismissed as regular wolf attacks. Unfortunately, not many believe in the return the werewolf is actually happening and most just regard it as a drunkard's account of a seeing some large wolf when he was pissing in the woods.

There is fear, however, in the hearts of the few who believe that the werewoves who are returning will eventually travel down the mountains and attack the Maschev colony itself.