The Ice Age and the shaping of the Amsorak basin

5000 years ago, the land in the area now known as Darokin, and in particular Lake Amsorak, looked very different. Where the lake now stands was a region of rolling hills, copses, grasslands and forests filled with plentiful game - animals, birds, reptiles - hunted by the early humans living as hunter-gatherers.
Then came the Great Rain of Fire, the cracking of the world, and the ice age. The whole region was smothered under several miles of ice which flowed slowly from north to south through what would become central Darokin and Alfheim. The Cruth mountains in the west of the land channelled the ice flow eastward to join the larger flow south. The immense pressures scraped out the earth in the Amsorak basin, deepening it and carrying it eastward where it was deposited at the point where the two ice flows merged, forming the fertile hills now to the east of Akorros.
The earth's crust had cracked in the turmoil and under the immense weight, and a string of volcanoes opened up under the ice, moving from west to east over the centuries as the ice moved and the hot spot also migrated. The heat from these melted the underside of the ice, lubricating the flow and increasing the excavating power, and the remnants are still visible in the islands sticking up above the lake - Itheldown Island, Greenleaf Island and Razak's Rock, as well as many smaller peaks both above and beneath the waves. They also formed the peak which forms the centre of Akorros, as well as the many islets which protect its harbour. The volcanic hot spot then drifted further east, forming the ridge which points towards the centre of Darokin and forces the road to Darokin City to take a large dog-leg further north than the direct line to city.
Eventually the volcanoes quietened, the ice sheets receded, and the land was again visible. The deep valley left behind filled with water, forming the massive lake, and the transported earth and ground up rock dust settled out forming the fertile fields and hills of Darokin.

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