Adronian Sea

"The reflections of the pristine walls glisten in the waters of the bay, interrupted only by the slender forms of the long-ships, stacked with treasures to be traded in distant cities. Around me, on an overlooking cliff, youngsters in colorful clothes sing and dance, their eyes, filled with wonder and anticipation. They are fascinated by me and the Thaumaturgy I am about to perform, but their fascination is nothing compared to what they and their surroundings elicit in me. Oh! Wondrous and infinite world across the Boundary! May I never have to go back!"

-Boundary Walker Ariveas Av'Tun Dereias, the Explorer

Geography

The locations towards which most of the Boundary Portals point to are located in a region centered on the shallow sea known as the Adronian or Inner Sea. It is surrounded from the East by the continent of Ardugan and from the West by the Continent Paronia. In the south, the narrow straights of Hambides lead to the Great Ocean. The middle of the sea is traversed, from north to south, by an archipelago of volcanic islands, known as Gardun's Belt. In the north, the archipelago intertwines with the peninsula of Agrohetein. To the north of it, lie the Plains of Temerehez, across these there is the Sea of Ulmutz, which connects to the Northern Ocean, which some have assumed is the same as the Great Ocean.

Fauna & Flora

Flora and fauna vary latitudinally. Towards the straights, the climate is so dry, that plants only live near the coast. Beyond a few kilometers wide line of palm trees and cactuses, on both continents, lie only deserts. The largest animals are antelopes towards the coast, oguans further out and camels at the desert line. Within the desert the largest animals are lizards measuring only a meter at most, however it is said that on plateaus impossible to reach by anything without wings, lie villages of drakos.
Towards the middle latitude of the sea, oak forests and grasslands dominate Agrohetein, Paronia and some of Ardugan, as the colder climate of the Candrohophim mountain range allows only pine forests and tundras. The oak forests are the most rich regions in diversity of animals with many species of predator felines, canines, lizards and birds and even more herbivorous species of hooved animals, rodents and small lizards.
To the north, the winter is cold enough for it to snow. Most of the forests are of beech, spruce and some oak. Grasslands contain less shrubs here, with steppes being mostly vast green undifferentiated plains. Deer, wolves and bears roam the forests and herds of horses the plains. Various subspecies of ogrids will viciously defend their little communities in the forests and within whole mountain ranges they are the only sapient species inhabiting them.
The flora of the islands of Gardun is constant among them and unique from anything on the continents. Forests here are mostly koas near water and cinnabari trees in the drier parts. Flowering season bring forth an explosion of color unseen anywhere else from all the species of trees and bushes mixed in with the more common ones. Animals are just as unique, with insects being larger than usual with iron ants for example being two centimeters long on average. Lizards are the dominants animals on the land, water and air, with keromoas being the most impressive of them all. A flying predator lizard with glistening razor-sharp teeth, feathered wings of three meter span and a one meter long feathered tail.

Natural Resources

With the development of iron smelting spreading from Gardun's islands, iron ore has become more and more valuable. Humans mine it from mines, extract from the cooling lava of volcanoes and from sand if they have no better alternative. The islands of Gardun are the greatest exporter of iron due their blessed volcanoes. They exchange it mainly for wood from the city states in the northern regions, as their own trees are not ideal for building material. Wood is also imported by the city states in the dry south, who in exchange give spices and silver and gold from their mines. City states and empires on the continents in the middle latitudes tend to be the most self-sufficient as there is an ample supply of forests above ground and ores beneath it.

Alternative Name(s)

Inner Sea

Type

Sea

Location under

OPO1

Included Locations

• Aphomptis