An Oznak horse theocracy on the western Middle Sea coast—vast grassy steppes ruled by the Kazigh, the chief horse shaman. The Ta Minn are cavalry warriors who once expanded freely across the plains, generation after generation, until they ran out of open grass and into settled neighbors on every side. They call that long outward push the Ride, and the borders it left them are simply the lines where it stopped.
West of the Crags of Geth (Griselia), south of the Browthiel Hills, with a jagged coastline along the Middle Sea to the south.
Ta Akikis
Western city, closer to the coast and the border with Thespia.
Kanüli Daha Plains
The northern plains: flat, fertile, windswept, and the one border the Ride never settled. A single river runs out of Anarak through the gap between the Kharvorn and Griselia ranges, and that gap is the only road wide enough for an army. Anarak's levies come down it. The Oznak ride north to meet them, and for as long as anyone living can recall the two have traded the plains back and forth without either holding them.
The pressure is one-sided in its origin. Anarak is a military state hungry for room, but its dragon ruler cannot take that room in the mountains he wants, where a feud in the Kharvorn passes keeps his northern flank frozen. So the hunger comes south instead, onto Ta Minn's grass, which is the nearest open country he can reach. The Kazigh treats the river-gap as the realm's standing wound and keeps cavalry wintered within a few days' ride of it. The fighting is constant and the line is old. Neither has ever come close to ending it, and from Ta Minn's side the war has the look of something inherited rather than chosen.
The Chedwin Strait
The strait along Ta Minn's southwestern coast, separating the mainland from islands and connecting to the broader Middle Sea.