Valkan

Valkan is a island off the coast of the Moonshore providence of Woodblocks. It is home to the descendants of varies native tribes but also immigrants from the mainland. Valkan once was politically autonomous from Moonshore, until the Woodblockian annexation of the southern half of it.

Geography
The geography of the island is that of heavily forested, cold like environment. The majority of the island's center is dominated by steep mountains and terrain, with vast tracks of underground cave systems running throughout them. Numerous fjords and large lakes can be located on the island. Valkan is geologically rich with the southern half of it teeming with priceless gems and despots of valuable metals.

Fauna
Valkan hosts a vast array of wildlife that are well adapted to their habitat such as snow foxes, snow bears, elk, boars and hares with it's surrounding waters teeming with fish. The island is also home to exotic and even dangerous denizens ranging from the subspecies of underground dwelling troll, mischievous gnomes, varies forest and mountain spirits including the dreaded Shur'froyte, elemental apparitions of ice who prey on lost travelers.

Flora
Valkan's environment supports many species of flora, most notably its expansive coniferous forests. Other more common plants found growing on the island is the Snowberry, the hardy Valkan Cotton, Mountain Thistles, Frost Ears and varies types of fungal.

People
The first know inhabitants of Valkan were indigenous goblin tribes and several dwarven city-states, but as time went on humans began to settle on the island, eventually dominating the whole island and driving the native goblins deep into the forests and mountains, while the dwarves sealed themselves in their secluded mountain keeps. With the annexation of the southern half of Valkan by the Woodblockians, scores of immigrants from different races and people have settled on the southern areas of the island.

Culture, Politics and Law
Long ago, the people of Valkan's earlier society venerated varies avatars representing nature. Following the annexation of the southern half by Woodblocks, Spanner missionaries arrived and began to convert the local populace. Over time, the Golden Spanner emerges as the dominant religion. However the locals have adapted the Spanner's practices, creating a slightly altered version. Most notably differences between the Valkan's branch of the Spanner, is the adoption and mixing of their ancestral beliefs with it such as the Woodcutter, a mythical figure who protects the forests of Valkan. Another example of this is the cremation of the dead instead of burying them as the mainlanders do.

Valkan is political divided between North and South. The North is fiercely independent, and is governed by a strong centralized government. While the South being annexed by Woodblocks, follows Woodblockian laws, thus is under the juridification of Moonshore. The South is wealthy and has a prospering mining economy and trade, unlike their northern counterparts who's economy is based on fishing, lumber and hunting.