Mist Vale Mountains
The Mist Vale Mountains are located on the southern region of Volat island, within the Pelago Islands.
The mountains and vale are stunning on a clear day. Found by a set of Gnome cousins (Tosslemane), who were looking for a new start - after their town on Ruary was burnt down in an Ogre attack.
TOSSLE RIVER
Was named by Isophina Tosslemane, a female Gnome went searching for gold and gems in it's waters.MIST VALE
Named due to the early morning mist that collects inbetween the three mountains and the hill.Seasons
autumn = muddywinter = dry, hard
spring = rainy - river refills
summer = lush and wild flowers
SKY MOUNTAIN
The mountain is the tallest in the south region of Volat. It often has cloud hiding the peak. It has become home to a tribe of Air Genasi.Has a shrine to Gil'lon The Master Cat within a small cave, low on the northern side facing where the ruins of the settlement once named Mahyrst are.
SOLARE MOUNTAIN
It sits to the East side of Mist Vale. It gets the morning sun and tends to block the vale and Tosslethistle Hill from getting much sunlight in the early morning.The clan of Ihina Tosslemane - followers of Taiia. Experiment with uses of Solar power.
Solare Academy = small school of learning and testing the capabilities solar power.
Animals = sunbears, sunfinch, Squirrels.
Sun Finch
Adult Sun Finches have a long, square-tipped tan tail and are a creamy yellow colour across the back with some shading into deep orange on the wing feathers - with deep red around the eyes. Breast and belly feathers might be streaked - the flanks usually are.
Adult males - heads, necks and shoulders are reddish. This colour sometimes extends to the belly and down the back, between the wings. Male colouration varies in intensity with the seasons, and is derived from the berries and fruits in its diet. As a result, the colours range from pale straw-yellow through bright orange (both rare) to deep, intense red.
Adult females - creamy yellow upperparts and streaked underparts, with dark red around the eyes, and darts of deep orange along wings.
LUNA MOUNTAIN
When both or either of the moons are full, it tends to get drenched in moonlight. Being the shortest of the 3 mountains are Mist Vale - it gets less cloud - especially in the evenings.The clan of Venzyre Tosslemane - followers of The Twin Moons. Experiment with uses of moonlight power.
Luna College = small school of learning and testing the capabilities of moonlight power.
Animals = Hedgehogs, bats, pygmy owls, night finches.
Night Finch
Adult Night Finches have a long, square-tipped brown tail and are a creamy yellow colour across the back with speckled black and white along the wing feathers - with ring of silvery white feathers around each eye. Breast, flanks and belly feathers might be streaked in dark gray.
Adult males - heads, necks and shoulders are white. This colour sometimes extends to the belly and down the back, between the wings.
Adult females - creamy yellow upperparts and streaked underparts, with silvery white around the eyes, and darts of white and black along wings.
TOSSLETHISTLE HILL
Named after the tosslethistle that grows all over it. Which unlike Milk Thistle is not good for making wine.The locals raise a small herd of goats on the hill.
The clan of Brucosa Tosslemane - followers of Baervan Wildwanderer.
Animals = goats, White-Browed Scrub Wren, Raccoons, Chipmunks, Opossums, Martens, Foxes, Lynx, Wolves.
Behind Sky Mountain is a flooded village - once known as Mahyrst. There are signs of the stop-banks, built too late.
The Grandhall is the only totally standing building. Mud covers the floor.
Friendly competitions
+ boat races+ power lights
+ land vehicles
+ feeding stock
* There are some other races amongst the Gnome.
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* Some take the rivalry to nasty places. Some two moon follwers have turned to Hecate Darkmoon. Some sun followers choose the destroyer side of Taiia to worship.
History
Ihina Tosslemane - study of sun
Isophina Tosslemane - gems & gold
Venzyre Tosslemane - study of moons
Brucosa Tosslemane - animals
The first village was named after their shared grandmother Mahyrst - built on the plane behind Sky mountain. It was fertile land and easy to build upon. Then in the spring the sea flooded onto the land. The village was basically destroyed.
The cousins moved onto the moutainsides. They ran experiments - like rolling rock melons, sun melons and moon melons down one mountain to see if it would roll up the other very far.
Ihina Tosslemane - had three children to Xalston Sagefork, Brucosa's cousin from the other parent - descendants still live on Solare Mountain.
Isophina Tosslemane - had no descendants. Her collection of gems is hidden somewhere in the vale.
Venzyre Tosslemane - had 4 children - descendants still live on Luna Mountain.
Brucosa Tosslemane - had 5 children - descendants still live on Tusslethistle Hill.
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