An area of the Asterian Empire bordered on the north by the Aster River, on the south by the Altun-Shan Mountains, to the east by the Verrn River, and on the west by a rough line from the imperial capital Aster City down to the Upper Aldenrod River. The dominant feature of the area are the Central Highlands wine region themselves.

The history of the area really begins thousands of years ago, towards the end of the Divine Era, or perhaps the very early Slumbering Era. At that time what we know as the Central Highlands was a gentle, well aged range of mountains predating the rise of the Altan-Shan Mountains. This range was the heart of a nation of Sun Giants, who apparently saw the direction the world was progressing, and used their vast and bizarre powers to chop the range off about one to two hundred feet up, and float the entire mass up into the skies. Today, after eons of erosion, the Highlands aren't as abruptly flat as they once were, but the giants never returned.