
The Hills of Noddenoddy are a wide, expansive, and lush expanse of hillocks. For the most part they stand unblemished, as lush as they've been for hundreds upon hundreds of years. One thing about the Hills that separate them from other ranges is that these Hills "heal" at an accelerated rate. Wounds in the earth or fires used to burn the vegetation not only lack in permanency, but can't seem to do damage that lasts more than a week regardless of severity.
But this regenerative ability is not present throughout the entirety of the Hills. In fact, there is one area that is visibly afflicted by something that was once dangerous but is now inert.
During, and shortly after, the battle that overtook the guard tower near the Black Range, dragons and giants crawled throughout the land and advanced as far as these hills before the people, tired of huddling in fear of these beasts, finally lashed back. There is a petrified dragon to be found somewhere among these hills, at the dead center of the deepest valley, set in stone by a distant ancestor of Odin Haze.
The ancestor is petrified as well. The dragon is caught mid-way through the motion of snapping down onto the ground, claws poised to cleave chunks from the earth and a maw wide enough to swallow five men whole. The champion stands still, brow furrowed in brazen courage, and sword mere inches away from cleaving into the beast's eye. In this manner, they are frozen in eternal conflict with one another.
An odd sort of tangible ambivalence takes place here. The expanse a half a mile out behind the ancestor is ripe with life and vegetation. The grass can grow no lusher, no greener, and the wildflowers can gain colors no more vivid. There are no green pastures save for the land touched by this holy man.
A half mile behind the dragon, though, things are diametrically opposed. There is only desolation in the domain claimed by the beast. It is a barren, blighted thing that shows no whisper or twitch of life. This divide is east-west, with the east being the side of the ancestor, and with both sides extending as far out as the coast.

