Va'acroacs
The Voidlands
"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Braakklavkol hisses before Suseil has a chance to push past xem1. "No. We're not going to Va'acroacs. No. I draw the line there." Suseil's expression holds the question ey isn't asking: why? But then, ey doesn't have to ask, because Braak is already explaining. "There's a reason the name translates to "Voidlands". Living beings don't go there and stay alive."Va'acroacs is something and nothing all at the same time. To say it is an inhospitable place is putting it lightly. Even the vast deserts of Bausoa are nothing compared to Va'acroacs. It seems to be the only place on Felithera where life is not meant to gain a foothold.
Geography
Put simply, Va'acroacs is an ice desert. The ground is completely frozen year-round, making it nearly impossible to plant anything or for anything to grow save for particularly tough shrubbery. Usually, this would be enough for something to live there, but there is no sapient life here. The land is also completely flat, lacking any kind of dunes, hills, or bumps in the landscape. There are no trees, not even small ones.
Va'acroacs has never been studied very intensely, and so it is assumed that nothing more complex than a mouse could possibly live there. After all, there simply isn't enough food to sustain the life of any feline, so many attempts to study it have failed due to lack of funding from the appropriate governments. Unfortunately, that may very well be a tragic decision on their part.
We tried many years ago to get the necessary funding to explore this land, but time and time again, we were stopped. Eventually, we stopped trying. Perhaps that was our biggest mistake.
1The pronoun set used by Braakklavkol are xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself and can be seen in action here if you aren't sure how to use them.
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