Hylo is the only major city which remains on Northern Ergoth - the rest were destroyed by the Cataclysm (which transformed Hylo into a port town). The kender dwell in the forests east of the mountains on the island, toward the northern end. The Straits of Algoni flow to the east protecting their smaller inhabitants from that direction, as the mountains keep the Ergothian empire of the west from expanding. The city of Hylo is about 150 miles north of Goodlund, the nearest kender settlement.