Exiles

The people of Valomir practice a unique form of punishment for their criminals: they banish them to the inhospitable Outlands. 

The Outlands are a crazy patchwork of different ecosystems going from rain forest to coniferous forest in one step. Monsters of unimaginable strength and danger roam the forests. No one should be able to survive with poisonous plants (and some alive ones too!) and even more dangerous landscapes.

But they do. 

The Exiles are either work together to survive in villages surrounded by high walls or join with the bandits who steal from others to survive. The rare hermit who can survive into old age serve as wayfinders at strategically placed way stations before the most dangerous of places.

Exiles take new names, distancing themselves from their past lives. Animalian choose new clans of their own devising. Mineralites are stripped of their powerstones. Elementi powers become unpredictable. 

The dangers of the Outlands are only made worse by the Exiles who live there.