=====The Border Zones Region=====

The area surrounding the City of Polychronopolis from the Farmlands to the North to the Jorak Mountains in the South and from the Break Ridge to the East to the Western Sea and the West Hills to the west are called the Border Zones, marking the southern edge of the Kingdom of Kotharia and the north edges of the Chaotic Wilds.  It encompasses an area 200 miles wide by 200 miles long (40,000 square miles)  (slightly larger than Hungary, slightly smaller than Pennsylvania).

**Zone Encounters**: each zone will have a set of cards in a central file box with a number of encounter cards tide to the zone's terrain and EDL.  See this link for [[Encounter System|Encounter Details]]. 

Each Zone will have its own page, but below is a summary.  Each zone is labelled with the letter Z plus a number on the [[main_map|main map]].  In addition to the zones, there are separate entries for all the other labelled items on the map.

  * [[Settlements|Settlements]]
  * [[Castles|Castles]]
  * [[Ruins|Ruins]] 
  * [[Caves|Caves]] 
  * [[Way Stations|Way Stations and the Caravan Road]]
  * [[Dungeons|Dungeons]] 
  * [[Encampments|Encampments]] 
  * [[Mines|Mines]]
  * [[Craters|Craters]] 
  * [[Other Features|Other Features]]

|**Zone**|**Name**|**Encounter Difficulty**|**Dominant Terrain**|**Settlements and Castles**|**Features**|
|[[Z1|Z1]]|NW Cattle Country|2|Grassland|Cattle Meeting|R1 H1 R4|
|[[Z2|Z2]]|March of Chronos|2|Cultivated Farmland| Polychronoplis, Farmington| Argon, Amra, Horizon, Zureth, Rathgard R3|
|[[Z3|Z3]]|East Waste|3|Poor Grassland| none|H2|
|[[Z4|Z4]]|East Grassland| 3| Grassland| none| R2|
|[[Z5|Z5]]| Great Myr Forest| 4| Heavy Mixed Forest| Myrdol Palace| R10|
|[[Z6|Z6]]| Break Ridge| 5| Mountain| none| M1, M2, C1, C2, C3, R7|
|[[Z7|Z7]]| The Long Wood| 4| Deciduous Forest| Portburg| Light House, D1|
|[[Z8|Z8]]| West Plains| 4| Grasslands| Balth, Codros| R5, R6|
|[[Z9|Z9]]| Dead Peaks| 5| Dead Forested Mountains| none| R9|
|[[Z10|Z10]]| Dead Hills| 7| Dead Forested Hills| none| C5, R12|
|[[Z11|Z11]]| West Hills| 6| Hills| None| R13|
|[[Z12|Z12]]| The Border Country| 5| Heavy Brush Land| Dyr| W1 W2|
|[[Z13|Z13]]| The Haunted Forest| 7| Dead Forest| None| R11|
|[[Z14|Z14]]| River Land| 4| Grassland| Edgar| D2  R8|
|[[Z15|Z15]]| Frith| 5| Hills| Castle Frith| C4|
|[[Z16|Z16]]| The Mud Flats| 6| Mud Flats| E1 E2| none| 
|[[Z17|Z17]]| Bog Wood| 8| Boggy Forest| none| R18|
|[[Z18|Z18]]| Wide Waste| 9| Poor Grassland| Paltron| W3 W4 R14 R15 Obelish Mulok H3|
|[[Z19|Z19]]| The Open Prairie| 9| Grassland| none| W5 W6 W7|
|[[Z20|Z20]]| Terror Heights| 10| Dead Forested Hills| none| R16 R17|
|[[Z21|Z21]]| The Badlands| 11| Broken Badlands| E3 E4| K1 K2 Oracle of Vegtrix M8|
|[[Z22|Z22]]| Shadar| 7| Grazing Land| Shadar, Road Moot, Herd Moot| W8 D3|
|[[Z23|Z23]]| Jorak Mountains| 12| Mountains| Gormling, Gash| M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 R20 R21 R22 K3|
|[[Z24|Z24]]| Mountain of Fire| 13| Lava Fields| none| Volcano|
|[[Z25|Z25]]| Rocky Desert| 10| Rocky Desert| none| R19|
|[[Z26|Z26]]| Deep Dunes|13| Dunes| none| R23 R24 Pyramid of Thang|