The God Twi awakes, and while late begins to split their Spheres to create,
4+4Free ProvincesName: The Grasslands
Neighbors: The Forests, The Lakes, The Mountain Ring
Region: The Pastures
Traits:
+ Endless fields of tall grass to graze upon. Flowers of all colors in meadows of their own.
+ Very rich in nutrients, lush. Primary Region Feature.
- Disorienting to those who do not know the land. Easy to get lost if you do not know the way.
Description: [Free Province #1, The Pastures] The Grasslands are wide and range far, giving The Pastures their name. While it is naturally quite abundant, it is also devoid of water, simply plants for miles. While one can get their intake by eating these plants, those without the palette for them would do well to bring their own water to this ecosystem.
Name: The Forests
Neighbors: The Grasslands, The Lakes
Region: The Pastures
Traits:
+ Trees and underbrush abound, leaves shining in the sun and glowing in the night. These Forests never seem to sleep. And the trees come in many varieties.
+/- Due to the magic in the air, these forests are filled with dangers. The woods seem to grow back in days after being felled for their plentiful wood.
Description: [Free Province #2, The Pastures] An endless forest of life, filled with magic and nestled among the land in pockets. Be wary not to travel too deep lest you become part of the forest. For those lost may never be seen again. But the light and resources it provides to it's inhabitants is truly grand to watch. Preferable from outside The Forests.
Name: The Lakes
Neighbors: The Grasslands, The Forests, The Skies, The Underneath
Region: The Pastures
Traits:
+ Deep Lakes filled with life. Crystal clear lakes glimmering, light seen deep below.
+ Air Currents rising, bringing rain and cool winds to the rest of The Pastures.
- An ever present threat for divers, being swept into the undertow deep down. But down in the deeps rest ores and minerals, pearl and silver, amethyst and rose quartz, many others. They shine, tempting mortals and gathering life.
Description: The Lakes scattered throughout the Pastures connect to the Underneath. With crystal clear waters, the treasures below are easy to see, and add sparkle to what is already a prime location for life. It's a true show of the interconnectedness that make up the Pastures.
Name: The Skies
Neighbors: The Lakes, The Grasslands, The Mountain Ring
Region: The Pastures
Traits:
+ Clear Open Skies filled with magic waiting to be tapped.
+/-The Skies are one of the key ways to enter the Mountain Ring which surround The Pastures safely. Getting back on the other hand is much tougher, and will usually sweep you to the lower Pastures and Grasslands. The Forests have a habit of spawning natural disasters to those who think to fly above them.
Description: The open Skies, the clear blue, pink, purple. They are ripe for development and cloudshaping, and can technically get you anywhere in the Pastures, as well as being able to travel to them from anywhere. In practice, the Lakes are usually your best bet. Granted, you'd need flight to even get to this region, or a very tall tower that reaches the heavens. Which will likely break with the worst of the storms that fly above here from the Mountain Ring. Take Heed, here be nature untapped.
Name: The Mountain Ring
Neighbors: The Pastures, The Skies, Outer Regions
Region: The Pastures
Traits:
+ Filled with ore and housing tough greenery, it's peaks swirl with winds and create a barrier preventing casual access from the skies around, though The Skies currents are swept in as a result.
- Something bad. The winds spawn twisters, storms and rain, and occasional rockfalls to those within the Mountain Ring's valleys. Life is hard and hardy around here, and the only place you are safe is underground.
Description: The Mountain Ring. What more needs to be sad of this Region? It creates the stormwall and barriers which deny access to all but the most foolhardy of adventures, or the most prepared. This wall of winds even extends to cover the entirety of the Underneath in a bubble of calm. It's a tough place, The Mountain Ring, and it's mountain ranges difficult to transverse on foot, though such is much safer than flying.
Name: Caves of Light
Neighbors: The Lake, The Undergrowth. The Cloud Archipelago
Region: The Underneath
Traits:
+ Moss, lichen, mushrooms, and occasionally plants. They glow a gentle blue light. The rivers drain through the lake, and through the lake do minerals fall upon it's banks. Strange things can be found here, and strange dreams had.
+ Ore abounds among the seams, shining, promising more within. Magic runs deep within the stone and the rocks themselves are varied but precious.
- Extremely difficult to travel to The Lake. At times one can come to be disoriented by the Caves of Light.
Description: [Free Province #3] A series of caves and tunnels that is collectively referred to as the Caves of Light. Water drains through the open caves and tunnels, leading to a lot of moss, lichen, and mushrooms, and the rock and ore promise much pleasure and craft to those willing to take it.
Name: The Undergrowth
Neighbors: The Caves of Light, The Cloud Archipelago, The Mountain Ring
Region: The Underneath
Traits:
+ Trees! Granted, trees that make use of puff-seeds and grow their roots into the underside of the island region, but still. Evergreen, these trees bear the occasional floaty fruit among their number, but most choose to spread on the wind. Occasionally one of these seeds even manage to make it to the Mountain Ring, but most that fall end up in the Abyss below or the Cloud Archipelago, both of which tends to work out poorly for them.
+ The branches interconnect, with the trees having learned to share what light they can gather, though nutrients remain viciously hoarded. It's a careful balancing act.
- There isn't anything under you. Or is that above? Fall, and you die if you cant fly..
Description: [Free Province #4] The Undergrowth. A place where the forest floor is devoid of life, most taking place on the trees themselves or branches. This evergreen forest is a place of bounty, with occasional pockets of water within trees that have specialized in it's collection from the mists that spill from the waterfalls.
Name: The Cloud Archipelago
Neighbors: The Undergrowth, The Caves of Light, The Mountain Ring
Region: The Underneath
Traits:
+ Wispy cloud rives and solid cloudsoil. A unique ecosystem forms upon these many islands, cloudy oceans and flowing wisps.
(+ Magic flows free and clear upon the clouds, naturally forming islands and the many pieces upon which life is not only possible, but developed.
- The calm winds, the eternal wall, and the flowing, shifting lands. The old will drift as the new form, and collide with the Mountain Ring's wind barrier. The result of such is as obvious as it is sudden, slow as it is to approach. The shifting can also result in smaller islands ending up underneath a waterfall. Result is also obvious there, though it usually means more ocean and rivers forming in the aftermath.
Description: The Cloud Archipelago. White clouds, white rivers, white oceans, and white lands. The trees and plants are still green though, even if some are tinted black-violet. It is a land of plenty enough, and the rivers form to allow access to their neighboring provinces, though such can shift and still require a way to bridge the gap. The plants here take advantage of the mineral-rich water and magic which make up the clouds, allowing fruit, nuts, and cocoanuts.(Despite the name, cocoanuts contain a viscous toxin collected from the clouds, the trees themselves serving as a natural filter.) The mists which form from the falling waterfalls of the underneath are a gentle rain, though occasionally islands form as basins for a waterfall by moving under them and being solid enough, creating the largest islands.
So done, Twi spends her remaining time admiring the various natural beauty she has created. Life is good.
While Twi admires, The Great Wind Barrier forms from the excess energy.
Name: The Great Wind Barrier
Neighbors:
Region: The Pastures(Outer), The Underneath(Outer)
Traits: N/A
Description: The Great Wind Barrier, a curtain of clouds, stormwinds, stormbreaks, strombeaks, and hurricanes. Also the Stormfronts and Stormbacks. Lightning crashes, and the winds keep blowing. Sailing though unprepared is suicidal. And due to forming naturally, is a lot wilder than 'created' provinces. No telling what happens in here, or how it develops.
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Topic: Panopticotheon IC: Turn 8 [10/10] (Read 23957 times)