Northeast Zakhara was in many ways the antithesis to the civilization of the rest of the continent. It comprised the Land of the Yak-Men with their evil empire within the World Pillar Mountains (the Zakharan part of the Yehimal) and the untamed expanse of the Jungle of Monsters towards the Foreigners' Sea. Together they effectively cut off land travel towards Kara-Tur in the northeast and east.