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{{image|The Unclaimed Hills by Marie Seeberger.jpg|side=right|width=300px|A slave caravan riding into the Hills}}
The Unclaimed Hills get their name from their uneven terrain. Some hills are little more than mounds; others are far taller.{{map ref|Roshar}} They are rocky, covered with tough, retractable grass stretching as far as the eye can see. On
The whole region is highly exposed to the [[highstorm]]s, making the plants skittish. At any sign of movement, they retract, leaving behind only brown stone.{{book ref|sa1|2}} Most of the Hills' fauna stays hidden, only revealing their presence after a highstorm. Then, one can find numerous [[cremling]]s, [[legger]]s and slugs coming out to drink the water.{{book ref|sa1|4}} Though the land is arable, it would be difficult to farm it properly -- rockbuds grow small, and crops give little yields.{{book ref|sa3|50}}
Back during the [[Heraldic Epochs]], the territory now known as the Unclaimed Hills was split between the [[Silver Kingdoms]] of [[Alethela]] and [[Natanatan]].{{map ref|Silver Kingdoms}} It's possible that the final battle of the [[Aharietiam]] was fought in a canyon within the Hills -- [[Stormfather]] would later bring [[Dalinar]] into a memory of it through a [[Dalinar's visions|vision]].{{book ref|sa3|38}}
Following the splintering of Alethela and the destruction Natanatan, the land slowly dropped in importance. It's possible there was another kingdom there at some point; however, by the late [[Era of Solitude]], the region was essentially uninhabited, traversed only by travellers, hunters, bandits and, on
=== Rediscovery and the War of Reckoning ===
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