The Burnt Hoike is one of the busiest places on Anatemia, there are many questing centres, things to do for quests and 2 world dungeons. It is often spoken of with a wry smile, and yet most won’t say why the place is so…strange, maybe it’s the pirates, or the wild west, the demons, or all of it…. Once it was a great forest, home to mining elves for this place has always been an area of mineral mining and wealth. When the demons came with Itchilda lending their weight to the fight alongside Chemerlin the Accursed the demons struck against the elves while the undead hit the dwarfs. The Hoike was peaceful, many mineshafts and small elven settlements shipped quality gems of emerald and vast quantities of gold back to the elven heartlands. The great city of the region, Lellean, was destroyed, soon the smaller settlements were wiped out, and in some cases there is no physical trace of there ever being a settlement at those locations. The demons poured into the region and the great forest was burned to the ground, today the place is a semi desert with only a few trees remaining. Since the destruction of Itchilda the demonic forces in the region have pulled back somewhat, but recently they are growing once more. Once the demons influence waned and the elves either killed or left, the minerals and gems had been left unguarded, and it was not long before other types moved in. The pirates, always ones who will go places in search of gold landed at the only river in the Hoike which cuts through a river cliff like in a hot knife, at a sheltered cove just inside the cliff they built what has become Safe Haven (described in the advert books as anything but Safe and that heavy drinking is strictly encouraged), from this foothold they spread across the new landscape and found much gold. Once word got back that this place had gold a wild west style gold rush ensued, pirates and cowboys now live side by side with typical wild west style boom towns that flourish as long as the mine shafts produce gold before disappearing back into the dust. All this while fighting a never ceasing fight of pirates prospectors and demons that in the north and east particularly have raised giant factories creating machines of death. In the very furthest north of the zone lies the end-game world dungeon of Enginuity, where the greatest demonic forge masters are building world ending death engines. This zone offers fun, hardship, insanity and death with pirates, cowboys and demons…it’s never dull