Verra Basin

We were sent by airship to tour the Basin, with no stops. As the clouds guided us to our destination, I felt disappointment. When the expanse below revealed itself to us though, disappointment changed to astonishment.

An expanse stretched to beyond the horizon, groomed with flowing green hills, and curving lazy rivers. A gleam of soft red caught my eye. The sun had begun to set on a mountain range. Two peaks, too symmetrical to be natural, guided the sun down to its set.

— Adventine Mathis Baptiste

The Verra Basin stretches from forests in the north, to high elevation deserts in the south. The massive C-shaped mountain range traps in jetstream moisture, pounding the landmass to the east of the mountain ranges with monsoons.

The Northern end is renowned for its fertile soil, river valleys, and rolling plains. The foothills up to the mountains are dense with forests. Snow can be found almost year long dusting the mountain peaks.

In the south of the Basin, the heat and elevation create a high-altitude desert. Sandy soil and hardy life eek out their existence off the yearly typhoons that hammer the basin from the southwest. The basin ends where the tropical forests of the Peninsula begin.