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Elysia
The kingdom's land, once away from the craggy, unfriendly coastlines, is incredibly fruitful. Host to a huge variety of animal and plant life, this kingdom is highly self-sustaining; their imports are few. The popular metal is bronze, the popular architectural style is very open-air. This means that architecturally, the kingdom and its strongholds are not very defensible. Geographically, however, this is the kingdom that united the world under its reign, and trust me that you would be hard pressed to bring an insurrection to its doors. The Royal Seat of the kingdom is on the isle of Elysia. Centered in the Cretan Sea, it is powerful not just from a perspective of war, but of commerce -- Elysia, geographically, forms a linkage between three continents, protected from all three by the vast moat of the Cretan and Aegean, controlled by the Elysion Fleet, which is the pride of the Kingdom.
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Last post by Felix Artemis
in Close Encounters of the ...
on September 14, 2009
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The Northlands
The Northern Kingdom of Winter is vast in its sprawl, encompassing the entirety of the polar wastes and much beyond. Ice fields battle with vast expanses of tundra, thick forests of evergreen growing in defiance of the otherwise barren landscape. The Aurora Borealis paints the sky over a land of giants: mammoth animals wandering immense plains, towering waves crashing against looming glaciers, deep drifts of snow blanketing an entire land.
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Last post by Siavash
in The Stuff of Nightmares
on January 29, 2009
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K'a Peten
The Eastern Kingdom of Spring is made up of numerous volcanic islands, and most of the islands are incredibly dangerous jungle. Lions, tigers, and bears are the least of it. Think man-eating flowers, quicksand, oversized and hungry wildlife, and cave openings covered in moss that are just waiting for someone to accidentally step in. Even the natives think twice about venturing out there alone. Most of the kingdom's area -? about 200,000 square miles ?- is split between the two main islands. The strait that separates them is called the Mat Ha', and at its narrowest point it's spanned by the islands' most famous landmark: the Mat B'itun. This is a bridge four miles long and nearly half a mile wide.
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Last post by Ix Chakal Ahal
in Matan meets the catwoman
on February 22, 2009
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Kerr
The Southern Kingdom of Summer consists mainly of Swampland, complete with stagnant water, foliage much like Spanish moss, and gnarled trees. It is extremely hot and humid for the majority of the year, with winter occurring for perhaps two weeks, some time in January. Snow does not ever occur in Kerr, nor, indeed, does it frost. "Winter" basically means "It rains a lot." Naturally, this means the insect life, mosquitoes in particular, thrive like nobody's business, and are sometimes said to carry off entire babies, although everyone knows this simply isn't true. Only the gators do that.
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Last post by Serenity
in Fake Mardi Gras: The Dev...
on May 16, 2010
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Cibola
The Western Kingdom of Autumn is a very loose confederation of seven city-states: Eldorado, Coromo, Matkurk, Macchin, Kachina, Zu?i, and Dedaara. Its terrain tends to be stark, harsh, and extreme in temperature: wide-open plains, baked desert pans like the Llano Estacado, heavy mesas and buttes, gulches and arroyos, plenty of cactus, mesquite, and chaparral. The sun will broil you by day, the desert winds and lack of sun will freeze you by night, and at all times there will be poisonous critters to take a bite out of your unobservant hide.
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Last post by Numpayu Paracoa
in Against the Wind
on May 26, 2010
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Aha Pesu
Most of Aha Pesu's major cities are situated along the vast and fertile Nile, including the capital Kem Hedj at the top of the delta. Most structures, even the royal palace, are made of adobe brick and built close to the ground, with stonework reserved for temples and shrines dedicated to rulers past; small step pyramids are common. The city of Kem Hedj is a winding maze of houses, walls, and alleys: a place where it's very easy to lose one's way (or hide).
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Last post by Diamond
in Bad Reception
on May 09, 2010
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Alemannia
Alemannia is a land of towering mountains, alpine meadows, and broad, dark lakes surrounded by forested hills. There was a time when the land was filled with sunshine and life, but since the curse, it has sunk into perpetual shadow. The skies are forever overcast, nights seem to last far longer than they should, and fog clings to everything.
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Last post by Gretchen von Abend
in Voices Never Share
on May 24, 2010
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Amantsu
Unfortunately, no one has ever heard of Amantsu, because it is a tiny little archipelago in the ass-end of nowhere. On the main island, where the sacred mountain and the sacred lake and the royal palace are located, there is an interesting pattern of mountains and plains and cliffly shorelines. There are only two natural harbors along the entire coastline of Amantsu's royal island, and both of them are held in an iron fist by the royal family. The capital, Miyako, is in the south of the royal island; a city ringed by mountains, with one great hill in the center. In the hill's crater is a lake, and in the middle of the lake, an island: on the island, there is the royal palace, which was originally built to house the most important feature of all Amantsu: the Gate to the Underworld.
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Last post by Kaede
in Calling All Ninjas! And...
on July 24, 2010
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Jannah
Jannah is a cluster of oases surrounded on three sides by a desert otherwise totally hostile to forms of life that are not themselves also totally hostile to all other forms of life. The port city of Ajma' is its capital, and its other major cities are Arous, Hay'oun, Arfalum, Marum, Qaydum and Rafi, in approximate order of size. Jannah has little in the way of smaller settlements, due to the all-or-nothing nature of oases, but the cities it does have are sprawling, because they are a people very clever with irrigation.
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Prydain
A land steeped in the fantastic, the wellspring from which all of Elysium's wild magic is born, rainy, green-clad Prydain has far longer been home to supernatural beings than it has to mankind. The men who have settled it over the ages have learned to live with brownies and faeries for neighbors, and to this day remain outnumbered three-to-one. Ask for a Pryderi and you are just as likely to be pointed to a pwca as you are to a man or woman.
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Last post by Jaeir
in Moonage Daydream
on November 07, 2009
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Ohi'a Lehua
Eight islands, one actively volcanic, warm beaches, cliffs, green forests, pristine waterfalls. Of the eight islands, Honopu is the largest and most populated. It's also the one with the active volcano, and the seat of the government (which isn?t a government at all but a monarchy). The other islands range in size, and aren?t really very important to list. Except one! The island of Kilolani is home to the tallest mountain, and many starlovers wander up for a clear view. Well, as high as they can get, as the air is very thin near the top, and it's also very cold year-round.
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Last post by Honuhoku
in The Great Menehune Adven...
on October 10, 2009
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Turtle Isle
It is not just a clever name: Turtle Isle is a mind-bogglingly huge, ponderously slow sea creature teeming with life. Spreading around and behind the turtle is a patchwork of ocean vessels, ranging from bamboo-and-vine rafts to, especially on the fringes, full-fledged sailing ships, rigged together at usually several points per ship. It is navigable by an insane network of planks, rope bridges, zip lines, repurposed ladders, and the occasional 'Jump! You'll be fine!'. There is the odd sloop with a broken mast, but for the most part these ships are fully seaworthy and, if necessary, could disengage from each other and scatter (the thought of what will happen should the turtle ever decide to dive is a source of considerable angst for many islanders).
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Last post by The Sundering Chimera of the Bituminous Deep
in Awake? Might as well be...
on February 08, 2010
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The Quiet Court
Attempting to describe the physical layout of the Quiet Court is almost an exercise in Heisenberg Uncertainty, it's so futile -- the kingdom changes day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. It exists on no map and has no definable borders; it simply is where it is and is what it is, sculpted only by the imaginations of the fairies who live there.
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Last post by The Spagyrist
in No Love, No Space, But W...
on October 10, 2009
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The Elysium Empire is its own state, and is known for foreign policy consisting of national expansion in the guise of diplomacy, especially with respect to the whole of Earth. Many nation-states currently swear fealty to Elysia, and the rulers of the four largest and oldest occupy positions on Elysium Councils and Honor Guards.
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