Valley of the Magi

"...And he went down, down to the Valley of the Magi, the valley where wizards and sorcerers slumbered in their last rest, and called them all by name, where they lay. Each of them, the powerful and arcane of days past, he called by name and bid wake from their eternal sleep, to join him in his cause. And his army, the Army of the Arcane, marched at midnight with 70 centuries of new troops, seven thousand troops which did not speak or sleep and needed not food or rest... "...But the world paid, too, for the Valley of the Magi, which once was renowned as a place of beauty and gentle power, and the forest for leagues either side, is no more, and in its place lie a wasteland so desolate that I fear nothing with thrive there, evermore..."

From Dark Tide Rising: Being an Account of the Army of the Wakeful Dead at Windy Point, by Davilan the Scribe.

For five centuries this area was a wasteland. Recently, though, the Companions of the Rising Sun have been given a glimpse of the Valley from afar, and it seemed lush, verdant, and peaceful. They are unsure what to make of this development.

The Valley of the Magi is one of the areas recently claimed by the newly founded Jade Imperium as part of their sovereign territory.