North Zakhara

North Zakhara was dominated by the conflicting world-views of the independent-minded Free Cities of Zakhara on the one hand and the Mamluks of Qudra with their fierce loyalty towards the Grand Caliph and belief in order on the other.

It was mainly an arid region, broken by short rivers that supported the major cities.

It was framed by the shores of the Great Sea in the West and North, where it touched Faerûn at the border to Konigheim, and the Land of the Yak-Men in the East. The Furrowed Mountains separated North Zakhara to the South and East from the Haunted Lands in the continent's interior. In the Southwest, the region stretched beyond the Sea of Caravans to where the territory directly controlled by Qudra bordered the High Desert.

Utaqa
The City of Free Man, at the mouth of the river Al-Zulma, was the northernmost major settlement of Zakhara. The inhabitants were an independant lot and took pride in their position as last stronghold of civilization towards the barbaric northern lands.

Hafayah
The City of Secrets, at the mouth of the river Al-Kufr, was a place of dark-colored buildings, dark-dressed people and dark political machinations. A bloody coup in 1364 DR left the city simmering with the acitivities of different factions.