Seperated from the mainland by the treacherous Dirdum Strait,
the Dirdums are a chain of rather large volcanic islands. The
main island, officially Johor on the maps of the royal
cartographers is most commonly known as Dirdum. This chain was
discovered by the merchantman Belian Dirdum, who himself
discovered that the island chain was once part of a thirving and
advanced maritime culture and that it had completely fallen to
the worst sort: goblins. The Dirdums sit firmly within the
temperate climate belt and have a rather long and sunny summer
and short mild winters. During the time of the now defunt
Johorian Alliance, this meant that the islands were able to
produce bountiful crops of grapes, dates, olives, as well as
pasture land for goats. Most of these cultivated fields are
memories now. Mount Udama is the largest of the Dirdumian
volcanoes, though it is hardly a massive or impressive specimen.
Dormant for nearly 300 years, the mountain shows no sign of
waking. It is the ashfall from this volcano that actu