Featured Jarthenpedia Article: Perejin

Elothnin's province of Perejin is home to many strange men and beasts: it will undoubtedly behoove the astute Jarthen reader to develop an acquaintance with this mysterious region.
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a bustling logging camp near Fennilmar

The province of Perejin supplies the majority of wood to the Elothninian Empire. It was, in fact, first established for this very reason. After exhausting the meager timber resources from the lower sections of the Klevarcht Mountains, King Gimmelthorpe launched an aggressive expansion into the southwestern hinterlands. These settlers made their home at the edge of the forbidding Erkenheld Forest and quickly began exploiting their new home for its resources.

The resources of Perejin flood the empire through the 'Great Wet Way,' as it is referred to by the rather rustic locals. The Great Wet Way is a series of waterways the logs are floated down, and comprises a network that reaches ever the farthest corners of the empire. Generally, cut logs are brought by land to either Fennilmar or Pertalhorne, the province's capital city (see left). From there, the logs are placed into the nearest body of water and sent to the other provinces via rivers and a few accompanying canals.

Unlike Lilhelndine's expansion of the Fethil, Gimmelthorpe's efforts were met with little outward hostility by the indigenous inhabitants. Prior to the human settlers, Perejin was home to several clans of gnomes and a few herds of centaurs, but both races merely retreated deeper into the forest when their new neighbors arrived. While Perejin has the reputation of being full of magickal creatures, it should be noted that humans and other beings only coexist in the western parts of the province which actually fall within the confines of the Erkenheld. In the deepest border towns, such as Narfroth, humans and centaurs have extensive contact with one another. Though racial tensions still exist, some claim that deep human-centaur friendships have occurred.