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Yellow Sea
Beyond the vast forests lies a barren steppe known as the Yellow Sea. It is said that humans born on horseback live there and that terrifying horned creatures roam it.1
The steppe
Scholars give the name Yellow Sea, somewhat ironically, to the eastern steppes. Far in the east, where no civilised city or stone building casts its shadow, finding water and food in these barren lands seems nearly impossible. The plains are so vast that not a single hill breaks their monotony, and crossing them is likened to crossing a sea.2
Peoples
Beyond the edge of the forest, in the heart of the Yellow Sea, dwell the capra. Further east still, a civilisation of horse lords is known to live.2
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PeopleCapraA tireless, goat-headed nomadic people of the Yellow Sea beyond the forest frontier, led in herds by their strongest warrior, the Shepherd, and divided between herds bound to nature and herds touched by dark gods.
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