Running along the ocean in these old, forested hills are the home of superstitious yokels, moon-shining ogre clans, crafty conjure-men, and magical beasts. In the south, where the mountains shrink to hills, then flatten, and finally sink to vast swamps, we again find monsters–prehistoric holdouts and belligerent (and malodorous) skunk-apes.

Source: http://sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2010/04/this-land.html