“You can spend all day toiling away at the still, or a forge, or the factory line to make nothing more than a few measly Slag. Or, you can join me, and go and take what the world has denied you.” -The Haze Lord

The Hazelands have a mysterious and, unsurprisingly, not well recorded history in the Anvil. The area known as ‘the Hazelands’ is actually a relatively large radiation zone that is just dangerous enough to keep out most sane people. Thankfully, the Haze Raiders that live there are anything but sane. The extensive population of raiders has always been present in the Hazelands just as much as the radioactive mist that clouds it. There are reports that there are pockets of relatively low amounts of background radiation in the area and this seems to be where a growing town of mad Tainted have set up their homes. 

Masking as raiders by going with them on raids, the Tainted of the Hazelands gain the respect of the locals by projecting power, bullying the other settlements and homesteads, and joining in with the madness. So long as they can do that, they can point the real raiders in any direction that they choose. Assuming that those raiders don’t simply go off on their own and wreak havoc against anyone that stands in their way.

The town is led singlehandedly by a warlord known as the Haze Lord. A wicked and ruthless Tainted that enjoys violence for the love of it, stealing valuable goods from those weaker than his people, and collecting garden gnomes. The Haze Lord had a maddening epiphany one day where he foresaw a second Fall. Another end of the world. This time not from the zed, but from the raiders. Their populations will grow, Bad Brain will become impossible to stop, and the only people who are left will be the Full Dead who hide among the zed and the Tainted who hide among the Raiders. This has given him a quest to be able to change the very DNA of all the other strains and turn them into Tainted in order to ‘save’ them.

Common and Rare strains

Most common: Tainted and some other strains with high levels of Bad Brain. 

Least common: Literally anyone else that's sane. 

Faiths in the Hazelands

Most common: Final Knights, and some twisted members of the Nuclear Family find their way here, although a large amount of the population remains faithless.

Least common: The rest of them. Faith was largely abandoned when you start ransacking towns for food, weapons, and beer.

Important People

The Haze Lord - The leader of the town by virtue of might and seemingly the only one who can  get the raiders to follow his commands at nothing more than his presence. He is also feared in the Anvil for his brutality and some even say the raiders fear him as well. 
“Papa” - A brick-shithouse of a Tainted, and the Haze Lord’s left-hand man. Almost as cunning and brutal as the Haze Lord, but not nearly as smart.
Dr. Pyra Mania - Someone who was tasked by the Haze Lord to find a cure for ‘non-taintedness’, and promptly got too involved in their own work. They have been missing for several months.
Salvador - A spidery little Tainted who is the announcer and host of the Haze Land’s favorite past-time; the Blood Dome. A massive, dome-like iron cage that is made from the weapons of the Hazelands’ enemies. Inside, bloodsport and violence keep the masses amused and keeps their blood-lust sated. There, audience participation is not encouraged, but demanded.