Mildanesi Mountains
The Mildanesi Mountains are a huge range of mountains that runs from north to south across nearly the entire length of Arcadia. The northernmost parts are known as the Crownpeaks, after the Crowned Regents who once lived there.1
Xopatl
The nation of Xopatl is located in a valley in the middle of the Mildanesi Mountains, where a meteorite struck in -5293 AR during Earthfall. A great and flourishing forest, now known as the Jolizpan Forest, sprung up around the meteorite. This fragment of the Aeon Star, possibly a weaker shard of the Starstone that landed half a world away,2 was found by the locals from nearby Innazpa and, though less powerful than the Starstone, it still granted mythic power to these explorers, transforming them into hero-gods, known in the local language as yans and yantis, who went on to free the land from the Razatlani Empire and founded the nation of Xopatl.34
References
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- â . â5: The Rotating Gearâ in Guns & Gears, 209. Paizo Inc., 2021
- â Sources prior to Divine Mysteries imprecisely conflate fragments of the Aeon Star that struck Golarion during Earthfall with the Starstone, a specific fragment of the Aeon Star that landed in what became the Inner Sea. Barring an official clarification, the cited assertion has been edited to conform with the clarifications to canon in Divine Mysteries.
- â . âXopatlâ in Borne by the Sun's Grace, 63. Paizo Inc., 2019
- â . âXopatlâ in Borne by the Sun's Grace, 65. Paizo Inc., 2019