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[Doomblade187]

The Walls of Nikase (1): Maxim_inc
Hong River (2): Quarque, TricMagic
The Furrow of the Gods (0):
The Ice Wall (4): m1895, NUWUKE9.13, Powoder Miner, Duwumblade

[Man of Paper]

Little over an hour before we continue on, get your votes in!

[Doubloon-Seven]

The Walls of Nikase (1): Maxim_inc
Hong River (3): Quarque, TricMagic, D7
The Furrow of the Gods (0):
The Ice Wall (4): m1895, NUWUKE9.13, Powoder Miner, Duwumblade

Managing the bay12 UI on a phone is misery but I gotta get my vote in. The heart of darkness river slaps.

[A_Curious_Cat]

The Walls of Nikase (1): Maxim_inc
Hong River (3): Quarque, TricMagic, D7
The Furrow of the Gods (0):
The Ice Wall (5): m1895, NUWUKE9.13, Powoder Miner, Duwumblade, A_Curious_Cat

I’m hoping that this means there’ll be lots of biomes in between.  *eyes Antarctica wearily*

[m1895]

You and me both.

[Man of Paper]

You have decided to give priority to the following proposal for the final map vote:

While borders can be quite fluid in nature, the easternmost extreme of our land is harshly cutoff by a monolithic wall of pure ice, 3000 meters tall. Although a sparse population has carved out a home within the sheer surface, our ability to project power over them has always been extremely limited, even when the ice box made their home a lucrative trade resource. Few expeditions have dared scale the wall, and none have ever found what must lie beyond it, only an everstretching plane of blinding white.

There are two currently ends to this landmass otherwise penned in by the barriers you've chosen, and you must now focus your attention on one. You will have approximately 24 hours to create a description for the region the nation will spread from. You are only determining natural features. You are not describing the urban environment or any manmade developments. The sides will be assigned a capital at random, and a functional civilization and capital will always find a way, so you cannot predetermine which team will be where.

When coming up with the environment that makes up the First Future Capital, please address the following:


Which end of the landmass does it sit on? [North or South]

What sort of terrain makes up the local area?

What kind of weather does the region experience?

What environment sits beyond the future borders of the capital? [The off-map landscape "behind" the capital, typically ocean in the usual arms race]

Are there any interesting features and natural landmarks that would stand out or otherwise provide no effect on the outcome of the map but add flavor to the region?

Does the capital region contact one (or both) of the previously selected barriers? This decision will also be reflected in the second Capital. This will largely only impact the size of the capitals relative to the rest of the landmass.

[Doubloon-Seven]

The Hypranorian Geothermal Anomaly

Recent advances in the science of geology have ascribed the unusually temperate climate in the north of our continent to a colossal mantle plume; an upswell of convecting magma that drives volcanism and other geothermal activity.

The landscape is pockmarked by ancient calderas and the gentle slopes of broad shield volcanoes, most long dead or dormant but a few still periodically spewing ash and smooth flows of undulating lava. The lowlands of the calderas are characterized by boreal forests of towering redwoods, stout pines, and other conifers. Geysers and hot springs are common in these lowlands, formed as geothermal heat boils up through the water table. The volcanic highlands bear alpine tundra above the tree line, or occasionally bare igneous rock when an eruption occurs.

Thanks to the heat of the anomaly warming the earth, temperatures are more moderate than the region's latitude would suggest--but the winters are still plenty dark and cold, with the sun dipping low in sub-polar twilight for several months and blizzards coming off the ice wall to the east to envelop the country. Even in summer, ash falls can lay a dusting of volcanic cinders upon the land. The agricultural establishment gives these ash falls credit for the anomaly's high soil fertility.

Beyond to the north lies a polar ocean of increasingly distant volcanic islands and ice sheets. The harsh coast is defined by fjords and glacial flows, the greatest of which is created by the ice wall as it slowly inches toward the sea, calving icebergs the size of small islands in a single go.

Within the borders of the anomaly is a great lake fed by a confluence of many rivers flowing from snowmelt off the mountains and the great eastern ice sheet, whose steaming waters never freeze, even in the coldest of winters. Bathing in its waters, particularly in the hot springs along its shoreline, is a traditional therapy for countless illnesses from tuberculosis to gout.


"What if Iceland and Yellowstone had a baby?"

The Hypranorian Geothermal Anomaly (1): D7

[Maxim_inc]

"What if Iceland and Yellowstone had a baby?"
I like it!

The Hypranorian Geothermal Anomaly (2): D7, Maxim

[TricMagic]

Can't come up with anything more interesting that that. have a bote.

The Hypranorian Geothermal Anomaly (3): D7, Maxim, TricMagic

[Powder Miner]

Monsoon Point

This particular point is at the northern extreme of the continent, bounded by its coast and containing multiple natural harbours. Although it does not contact either the great desert of 'Amit or the great Icewall, it is in reasonable range of the climates that are contacted by them - if the world were for some incomprehensible reason cut into three lanes, Monsoon Point would be at the extreme end of the middle, presumably temperate one. Monsoon Point is so named because winds that come off of the coast, off of 'Amit, and off of the Icewall contact to create a spectacularly broad storm network which ensures Monsoon Point is constantly lashed with rain - an extremely rainy season dominates nine months out of the year, and then during three months of the year there is what can't be called a dry season so much as a "less rainy season".

The landscape in Monsoon Point itself is surprisingly dramatic as a result - a hilly region has been carved out into a land of beautiful red cliffs, with intense and verdant greenery blooming across the tops of slopes that host streams and waterfalls. Besides making the land itself fertile (although without the heavy plantlife protecting the soil this would not be the case), this has a couple of other effects on the land south from the capital - this half of the continent has much more rain and other inclement weather than the southern half, and streams and drenched water table in Monsoon Point flow down from the hills into a river down south.

[The goal here is both to make the northern half of the map have a distinct terrain feature broadly, to be presumably mirrored by the southern capital and southern half of the map, AND to create a distinct temperate lane of the map, allowing for all of the fronts of the game to differ from each other on clear sliding scales that allow for design variance - but also I was taking inspiration from Cherrapunji for this capital itself]

[Quarque]

The Hypranorian Geothermal Anomaly (3): D7, Maxim, TricMagic
Monsoon Point (1): Quarque

[Powder Miner]

The Hypranorian Geothermal Anomaly (3): D7, Maxim, TricMagic
Monsoon Point (2): Quarque, Powder Miner

[Doomblade187]

The Hypranorian Geothermal Anomaly (3): D7, Maxim, TricMagic
Monsoon Point (3): Quarque, Powder Miner, Doomblade

[Doubloon-Seven]

I didn't really provide a pitch for the idea in my post like Powder did, so I guess I'll put this here.

I think it'd be cool for each regional capital to be defined by a relationship with one of the two borderlands, in this case the Geothermal Anomaly is characterized by the Ice Wall. At the same time it's not a total mirror image of the Ice Wall, it's got twists that differentiate it from just being a generic cold land. Also, if I may advance this thesis, volcanoes are sick.

[TricMagic]

Honestly maxim put it best.