Puthawanan

Demographics
The people that live within these villages are a mix of every race—although, humans and elves outnumber the other races. Those that live down by the shore are masterful fishermen and warriors who have seasonal raids depending on where they want to go, for they follow the trade winds. Those that live by the bottom of the island have great limestone buildings and hill citadels to combat the harsh typhoon winds. Additionally, they are known for having docks that facilitate trading for the rest of the islands. Up on the ridge, where the mountain city lies, master miners harvest the abundant iron deposits - an otherwise rare resource in the other islands.

Geography
Puthawanan is one of the largest islands in the archipelago. Most villages upon this island learn to revere the spirits of Arimaonga’s Ridge. The Ridge cuts through the island of Puthawanan with a sword of finality, causing land travel to cross from either side to be difficult, although zig-zagging mountain roads have been built to help ease this. Additionally, the mountains are packed with plateaus which have cool and dry temperatures that travelers may find refuge in.

Every once in a while, Arimaonga, the Lion Celestial Eater, breaks through the sky and runs across the mountains in its daily play. The giant lion’s footsteps severs chunks of the mountain off, revealing more deposits of ore. It has been one hundred years since this has happened.

Everblue ocean surrounds Puthawanan. Their cities and villages enjoy a certain luxury, since being in the Northeast lets them travel by Amihan, the Northeast Wind, which facilitates their travel down the islands and across all of the islands. Eventually, they make their way up back again to Puthawanan with the Habagat, the southwest wind, carrying them back to their island.

Climate and Lifestyle
The people of Puthawanan’s most abundant resource is iron along with rice. Their homes are the same as the huts of every other island: raised bamboo slat houses with roofs of cogon grass, save for the limestone houses of the southern villages. Poultry and pork are the main food, and they follow the yearly season of harvests. In addition to mining, they’ve built terraces for farming and growing rice, and thus have become a central hub for travelers from both the city by the northwest shore and the southern tip.

As the traders come back from trading with the rest of the islands during Habagat, the warriors leave for the jade house and gold statue isles up north. There, they plunder and gain treasure, which they bring back during the Amihan season and give half of to the traders.

Villagers enjoy the protection of the warriors. There is major land trade (mostly through the rivers) with the mountain villages and cities. There are some things that can only be grown in the cold dry air up the river, after all. Hunters, trailblazers, and warriors are never lost for work here, as travel through the river and the roads to get to and from the mountain settlements are fraught with night ghouls, headless giants, and shapeshifting demon dogs.

Traversing Arimaonga’s Ridge Few have seen Arimaonga himself running along the mountains of Puthawanan, but his presence has left a irrevocable mark on the land, creating one or more of the following effects:
 * Dry thunderstorms rage among the mountain peaks.
 * Large claw marks gouge the dirt across the range. These marks lead to hidden caverns and iron-rich deposits. No source of the claw marks can ever be found, though they appear to be left by a beast of Huge size or bigger.
 * Earthquakes shake the paths along the mountains. Every hour, there is a ten percent chance that characters are caught in one of these quakes. Creatures caught in an earthquake must make a successful DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or fall 1d6 × 10 feet down the mountain.