Ulloa

Ulloa is a long, narrow, forbidding peninsula in Tamoanchan's South District, reaching south with the Atlantean Ocean on one side and the Stygian Sea on the other, with Paragua and a sliver of Nazca to the north. Most of it is barren, though the north holds lush jungle and, in the high mountains, rich copper.

Ancient Atlantean records tell of a thriving civilization of mountain cities much like those of inland Quechua, broken apart by long religious wars among new and often depraved cults. The Atlanteans invaded for the copper and took city after city. At the last siege, of the capital Yamquisapa, the city's High Shamaness of a foul cult tried to call the Old Gods down on the invaders; they intervened by turning her to granite. The rite was left unfinished, yet it thinned the barrier of reality there, letting evil things slip through. The shaken Atlanteans accepted the surrender but never entered, and the people abandoned the city, now the most dreaded of Ulloa's ruins.

A few years later, refusing to serve as slaves, the whole population followed a prophet-shaman up Mt. Achane to the Gold Door, which legend says opened onto a wondrous world underground. They have never returned; some scholars call the tale myth, though adventurers still claim to find the door. The Atlanteans soon left too, and Ulloa has since been a bleak, eerie land of monsters and near-extinct dinosaurs, walked only by a few backward tribes.