Plains of Édain

The Plains of Édain (Classical Arazi: [e:'dajn]) is a mythical region of Antel, where the Asatic people supposedly originate from. Today the name is occasionally applied to the flat regions of land between the Grey Mountains, Bay of Thrig, Red Sea and the Iron Mountains, as well as the more expansive plains north of the Grey Mountains..

It area a kind of a steppe or a savannah, with low levels of precipitation and only small and dispersed trees. It is possible that Édain used to be a greener place up to the very end of the third age and a large group of people lived there. In the last centuries of 3A the climate changed drastically, bringing drought and famine to the plain, which, along with a previously un-encountered foreign force invading, sent the people migrating. They were the hypothetical Proto-Asatic people, but the invaders – Machoric marauders, later settling within the Iron Mountains and founding Danoé-Dan.

The region, although directly between the prosperous Vale of Eduin and Silken Coast, has been sparsely populated and poor for most of the 4A, mostly because of the climate rapidly becoming much more arid than before shortly before the onset of 4A.

Etymology
The name of the plain is derived from Édayna, a mythological leader of Men in Obenist mythology, under whom the Men learned agriculture and social skills from the Ageless. As it is now believed for Proto-Asatic people to originate in the Plains, they were named after the supposed first King of the people.

In History
All through the 4A the Danoé-Dan kingdom has been located in the north-west of the area, while the southern coasts of the Red Sea have been populated by several closely related Cāvarī tribes. Eastern shores reach the cultural spheres of Dáuai (Tàow-Ai, Taog-Ai).

From 24th century till the 27th century the climate changed again, becoming more humid and fertile (probably due to changes of water current in the Silk Sea); this resulted in a rapid growth of population and culture in the region.