Saudient

The Saudient Mountains are a range of cold gray peaks in the southeast of the Land of Song, distant from the Lor'Sha'Une and separated from it by a span of old battlefields and the badlands of the Burren. They became the second home of the Celeste: more than a thousand years ago the exiles of the Schism at Saudient — the banished princess Freyaðri and the many who followed her — settled here, and Celeste have kept flocks of have'ene (the large, chicken-like birds whose feathers make their cloaks) in the mountains ever since.

From the peaks the exiles can look upon the forest they cannot return to. Its trees stand tall enough that, from Saudient, one might imagine leaping from peak to branch to reach the wood again — but the chasm of battlefields, and the refusal of the Celeste who cast them out, keep them on the mountains.