Monster Island

 

Location: Sea of Dawn, where western Alphatia used to be.

Area. 128,199 sq. mi.

Population: 1,500 (the Sixth Army of Seashield, plus mercenaries and adventurers) and many monsters.

Description: This island is actually what remains of Alphatia's westernmost mountain range; when the continent sank, these mountaintops remained above water.

Notable Sites: Denwarf-Hurgon, the capital of the old dwarven nation of Stoutfellow, survived Alphatia's sinking with minimal damage. However, all its inhabitants were transported to the Hollow World, as were those of every other mountain community. Denwarf-Hurgon is now an eerie, dark, underground city occupied by monsters-and by the Sixth Army of Seashield, stationed here by Emperor Zandor to secure the island for his New Alphatian Empire.

History. Before Alphatia sank, these mountains bordered on the Alphatian nations of Limn, Stonewall, and Stoutfellow. After the continent sank, the Immortals transported the city's inhabitants to the new Floating Continent: of Alphatia, leaving the old Denwarf-Hurgon abandoned. Monsters from Limn, fleeing to the mountains when Alphatia began to sink, soon spread across this mountain range. In late spring of AC 1010, Zandor stationed the Sixth Army of Seashield in Denwarf-Hurgon and declared Monster Island conquered and a part of the New Alphatian Empire. He left the Sixth Army of Seashield to establish a "working govemment over the island's populace," despite the fact that nothing lived there but monsters.

Important Figures: Estavar Henock, Captain of the Sixth Army of Seashield.

Flora and Fauna: The monsters on Monster Island are primarily nonsentient, as most of the intelligent inhabitants of Alphatia were transported to the Hollow World. The subterranean depths of Denwarf-Hurgon are home to such things as oozes, slimes, puddings, and jellies; fungi of various types; bats and rats (including giant rats); giant spiders; giant beetles; giant lizards; rust monsters; and a few trolls overlooked by the immortals. Animals and monsters such as bears,wolves, giant badgers, wyrverns, giant weasels, stirges, giant beetles, basilisks, bulettes, dispalcer beasts, and herd animals inhabit the island's forested mountains.