Ruhal

Most southerly kingdom of the Northern Continent, safe behind its protective cliffs and tall border mountains, diverse in climate and geography, the kingdom would take more than a month to walk the length of its longitude, and almost as long to walk East-West at its widest latitude in the country's north. At its southern point it curls into a sandy cape, hiding among its scrub forests many small and primitive fishing villages, among them the village of the Seven Shrines.

As Orland wrote of his native country:

" The curving lines of the green vineyards, the bursting yellow sunflowers, the waving green and gold of the oats, later on the flaming autumn leaves reflecting in the glassy river——none of these beauties bothered to hide its splendor despite the rule of a new political system. . . .

. . .Ocean cliffs protect us in three directions, and the wide northern valleys narrow to ice mountains, which have protected this land for many ages beyond knowing."