From the lands of Slozgo Sagus, the Universes of Dawning
Who are we and why should you care? We are seven dwarves cursed to start a penal colony(in reality, the nobility expects it to be more of a death colony). Basically, it’s a PR move. Rather than condemning us, we are giving a chance to redeem ourselves at an outpost considered unworthy of any true dwarf – and if we die, well, we had it coming anyway, didn’t we?
*Note: I tried to do this hermit style, but any time I use adjuststart on this version it hangs for a while and I get the dreaded DF must close Microsoft message. It won’t really affect the story substantially anyway*
Now this is not exactly like most ‘miserable condition’ fortresses you’ll see around here – most of them are glacier-type maps. But in thinking about what would the most hideous place you could send a dwarf, the worst punishment – it would be a place with no cliffs. No obvious valuable resources of any kind. A place where you could disappear and no-one would notice.
I give you … well, we’ll get to that. Took a number of world generations to get a suitably hideous starting point.
In any event, here’s the location of the Mountainhomes in Slozgo Sagus: The Superior Tower, a small mountain range in the central east. They are called Mafol atast, “The Chamber of Bravery”.
By the way, this world is filled with redundant/contradictory names. Many more so than usual. Check out the brook name in that shot, and there is also an elven retreat – my favorite ever so far – the “Natural Artificial Jungles.” Stupid pointy-eared gits. Gotta be one or the other, fellas.
In any case, our doomed journey takes us northwest … almost to the northwest corner of the map. We pass through the wide expanse of the Swamps of Pondering, rich in wildlife and timber, until reaching the peaceful mountain, the Tower of Dance. The same swamps continue(they are huge, taking up basically a four or five-wide square on the world map), and eventually give way to the Plains of Bursting(shrubland and savanna, a couple sinister areas but mostly pretty tame and unremarkable).
The journey gets a lot more dangerous after that heading into more rocky terrain. The Evil Hills and the Courteous Violence-Dunes are the type of places that only elite expeditions would dare go: plenty of mineral resources, but also quite dangerous. After passing through a small neck of the Violent Granite Forest(huh?), we come to a small crossing of the Moral Water(temperate).
On the other side(we are now midway from east to west and about three-quarters to the north side on the world map), we find the Lyrical Jungles of Foot. Don’t ask, just don’t ask. Another trip across a section of the Moral Water, and we find the Lyrical Swamp, followed by the hot, sparse, uninhabited Fields of Silk. The hardest part is yet to come. We must navigate the Occult Dunes of Scintillating, a mixture of desert, badlands, and rocky wasteland that seems to never end.
Still not there yet, we encounter the Malignant Steppes, the Hills of Steel, and the Mellow Plains of Song. All are warm to hot climates at this point, but none of them are worth noting otherwhise. Fittingly, one of the last areas we cross is the Prairie of Craziness – we’re all just about ready to go stark raving mad at this point.
Of course, all of those would be great compared to where we are headed.
This entire area is known as the Continents of Justifying – our particular branch of hell is simply the Dark Wicked Desert. Simple, but an apt description. Totally flat and nearly devoid of life, the surroundings range from Haunted to Terrifying. Top row, third from the left on the world map. It’s the kind of place you’d travel around, taking several times as long, just to avoid going there. Naturally, all four biomes are scorching. Fit for no life, it’s where we must make our home, or die an ignoble death and be lost to history’s ash heap.
It is the story of Rothral, “Domainsilver”. It begins now, and ends only with our doom.
Those foolish enough to join, please submit a preferred name(what I will refer to you as in updates), preferred activities if you have any, and gender desired if you care. I have a rather unique fortress construction in mind, but I’ll keep it a secret until such time(if any) as I am able to start implementing it.
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