Adhen

= Adhen, or Kyttyxote =

Strange Lands
Adhen, or Kyttyxote in the Mother Tongue, is a distant land, far beyond the great sea, to the east or Kylorne. From that land naught but rumours travel far enough to reach the ears of proper scholars, and only the maddest of sailors know more about these distant territories.

The mountains of Adhen are said to be much higher than those of Kylorne, and they have great, watchful eyes. Their ardent glare often stirs towards Kylorne, and who knows what these strange mountains think about. These strange beings are the reason why Adhen sometimes appears in the dreams of the people of Kylorne, especially amongst those who are about to die.

With Strange Peoples
It is said that there feline warriors do battle not with swords but with mirrors, and war against great insect people led by a grand arachnid king.

Strange men use the coasts open to Kylorne as home, and they use serpentine swords and no clothing. They are not human, and worship strange glamoured gods.

The nigh gone race of the kikimores is said to have miggrated to Kylorne from Adhen, and some few animals found in Kylorne are actually originals from Adhen.

Adhen Moth
A strange species of giant moth formerly shepherded by the kikimores of young Kylorne, they nowadays roam free of bondage.

Ashen in colour, what was actually useful to the kikimores was their larvae, who grazed on the long golden grass of the planes, storing what they could for their later adult life, and excreting the excess as extremely sweet and slimy milk-like liquid from their back pores, liquid which the kikimores dearly loved and named Adhen Milk.

The moths were given this name because in their winged adult lives, where they had no mouth and survived only on fat stored during their young days, they migrated to a distant lands, their true homes where the females were fertilized by the males, who then died of starvation, their reserves of fat having run out. The females then returned to Kylorne to lay their eggs on the giant dragontrees, where hundreds of Adhen Larvae burst out at once, falling great heights, protected by their soft and blubbery shapes.