The Emerald Archipelago
The emerald archipelago is so named for it's bright green flora covering most of the islands in the chain.
Geography
The Emerald Archipelago is a large chain of islands off the coast of Elandar with an abundance of flora and on the larger islands, fauna as well. The islands have a variety of shapes and size, but it is common for them to contain large cliff sides with high hills, making many of them hard to create larger settlements on in combination with the dense flora. Since their discovery, the archipelago has been divided into the Strafworth islands, Merifell islands and Heretos islands.
Strafworth Islands
The Strafworth islands are the smallest region of the three. It encompasses the western islands. These islands rarely contain many hills and as a result often lay low above the water. The region is the most settled ones within the archipelago with numerous smaller settlements spread out amongst the many islands.Merifell Islands
The southern Merifell islands are known for their hilly terrain and larger sizes. The region is less settled than that of Strafworth due to the more intense wilderness of the islands and how they have over time become a favorite for pirates, smugglers and other illegal operations that needs discretion. The few settlements that remains in the area however use the hills to their advantages, often occupying the islands with less vegetation so that windmills can be efficiently set up to aid with farming.Heretos Islands
Stretching the northern archipelago are the Heretos islands. So named for their favor as refugees for heretics worshipping forbidden gods. This region consists of islands with often steep cliff sides that makes it hard to approach them outside of few places where they are close to the water. This doesn't even begin to describe the reefs located in the region as well, creating danger for ships that aren't careful to avoid them. While many dangers lurks in the waters around the Emerald archipelago, few compare to the stories coming from shipwrecked sailors. A dreaded creature lurking in only the darkest trenches of the archipelago. One moment the ship is sailing calmly within the archipelago, and the next it comes to a halt as enormous tentacles wraps around the ships, splitting it apart as if it were nothing but wet paper and dooming the sailors to the cold grasp of the ocean with only the lucky few remaining alive to tell the dreadful tales.History
The islands were some of the first discovered signs of Elandar before explorers managed to find the continent itself, but their small sizes had them at the start thought of as useless by the old world powers that were more interested in the land that Elandar itself consisted of.
However some time after the colonisation, some people began to settle the islands and learned to utilize the resources there for their own benefit in spite of the lack of landmass.
However some time after the colonisation, some people began to settle the islands and learned to utilize the resources there for their own benefit in spite of the lack of landmass.
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