Ijuguk-Piguttuk-Mik
"Why would anyone leave in a land so terrible, cold, and unforgiving?" I am often asked. This land is our home. We know her, understand her, and cherish her. Yes, she is harsh but she is also not without her own gifts. The lands of our mother are not for everyone but they are for us. If we can ever free her from her disease that is TuKungajuk-Piguttuk, she may yet welcome more to see her beauty.
Mostly barren wildland, ancient city ruins can be found along the eastern coasts. The interior is ruled by a terrible lifeform that none dare to approach.
Geography
The Lower Northlands
These lands are a covered in evergreen forests. The soil either rocky or is often too hard to farm, due to the long winters and short summer months.
The 3 of the 5 Tribes of Kinnitak-Ujagak live in this area. The nomadic Ippittuk Tribe to the west, and the more stationary Kulugjak and Kukiutik Tribes.
The Deep Northlands
The Deep Northlands are a cold, frozen land constantly covered in snow and harsh winds. Most of the time, the temperatures of below freezing. As the land continues north towards the ice caps, trees become fewer and further between until they do not grow at all.
The two main tribes that live here are the Angakkuk and Savitsuk Tribes which are entirely nomadic, following the migratory beasts as their primary food source.
Ecosystem
Beasts in the Northlands are adapted to extreme conditions and take advantage of the temporary explosion of plant and insect life in the short growing season. These beasts build up stores of fat to sustain and insulate them through the winter. They also have thick coats of fur for insulation. Some save energy by hibernating during the long winter months. Others migrate to the southern lands during cold months. Some flyers migrate into the Northlands during the growing season to feed, mate, and nest before returning south again.
Localized Phenomena
The Corpse Flower
In the center of the Northlands is the area's Almighty Primal Lord, the Corpse Flower . The Lord is so named for its spores that it is capable of releasing, for miles in all directions, that once inhaled by a homon host take root and steal the agency of the victim, inflicting them with Walking Dead Sickness.
The land surrounding the giant plant-like Lord is a water logged mire covered in short grass and stunted trees. The hundreds of decomposing homon bodies protrude all over. The further one gets from the flower's location the land hardens though the covering of dead bodies does not. These bones are from the army of "soldiers" the Lord "recruits" using its spores, that implant in the bodies of homon, as a way to controlling the bodies until they decompose to much to move.
Fauna & Flora
Natural Resources
Maps
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Ijuguk-Piguttuk-Mik, The Northlands.
Ijuguk-Piguttuk-Mik or the Northlands, used to be lands of mining and industry before the Abandonment. Now the tribes are largely nomads surviving the harsh winters and the occasional pollen storms of The Corpse Flower which inflice Walking Dead Sickness .
