It is first seen (called simply "The Southern Continent") in "A Darkness at Sethanon" where Pug and Tomas arrive there on a quest to the Halls of the Dead, to which there is an entrance from this continent (though living people usually do not venture there) and where the goddess Lims-Kragma judges the dead.
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Due to the manipulations of the sorcerer Macros the Black, he received a gift of white and gold armor and a golden sword from the dragon Rhuagh and merged with the essence of the long-dead Dragon Lord, Ashen-Shugar, to be a weapon against the outworld invaders.
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Ashen-Shugar, the most powerful of the Valheru, felt something "alien" to his kind, a desire to protect the world, and the presence of Tomas via the magics of Macros the Black.
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The Elven city of Elvandar is heavily borrowed from Lothlórien, and the Mac Mordain Cadal is certainly influenced by Moria.
Hartraft's Marauders, a band of kingdom raiders have come across a Tsurani patrol at a garrison overrun by moredhel (dark elves).