Myruthea
Myruthea is the largest continent on Magicians' End. It is the cradle of civilization and has been the home of the controlling powers of the world for the majority of its history.
Geography
Myruthea has a temporate climate, generally mild but cold enough for snow and ice in the northern winters. The southern plains are warmer, with a climate similar to that of the Mediterranean on Earth Zero along the coast. The Eroveth mountains are the highest peaks, dividing the continental rivers between western and eastern watersheds. It is here that two tributaries of the Eroveth river have their source. North and south streams merge in the east to form the longest river, not only in Myruthea, but the entire world.
The land that falls away to the south and east of the Eroveth mountains is heavily wooded and bounded by the Triquetra hills. This has been largely given over to wilderness throughout history and it contains some of the most beautiful landscapes on the continent.
The area to the north and east of Pale Lake, has some of the most important agricultural land in the world with vast grain fields, harvested by the populations of a few small towns and villages.
More important settlements tend to be found along the coasts, although this is a generalisation with many exceptions. Article links at the bottom of the page show some of the most significant in chronological order of their formation, from the earliest to the most recent.
The Three Stigmata of Myruthea
No description of the geography of Myruthea can be complete without an account of three of its most tortured regions, which have suffered from the side effects of a painful history. These are popularly known nowadays as the three stigmata of Myruthea, a designation originally coined in the famous novel of the same name written by Kamarin Berr in the early 65th century APC. In the far north and west are the punished plains, once the cradle of civilisation but subsequently scoured flat under the ice that followed the Sundering. When the glaciers withdrew the region was left as a desolate cold semi-desert and it was further damaged by the disasterous North Western Myruthean Soil Fertility Project, a failed attempt to restore life and hope to the plains. Also in the west but further south, the punctured lands around the ruined city of Honirham, the once mighty capital of the Old Pale Empire are heavily cratered from the meteor storm unleashed by the denizens of the Dark Domains shortly after the Planar Conformation. The scarred land is a permanent reminder of the potential threat the Dark Domains still present, thousands of years later. Then finally to the east is the zone known as the Melancholia, a seemingly permanent effect resulting from a magical weapon unleashed by the mad mage, Ixthamon during his conquest of the Jewelled Queendoms in the 60th century APC. This has left a vast swaith of land around the now ruined city of Ralsimoor, which was Ixthamon's target, uninhabitable.History
The north west of the continent is the location where advanced civilisation first developed, when hunting and gathering societies started to establish permanent settlements, such as Pavol-Rag-Rag. As these began to grow in number and in the sophistication of their organisation, there was an important transition from the early age of the Painted People and their Old Kingdoms into the more ambitious and wider reaching civilisations that came to be called the New Kingdoms. The first of the New Kingdoms, was created in 9996 BPC by the Settlement of Zaranon and was called the Kingdom of Myruth. It is this kingdom that has given its name to the entire continent.
Northern Myruthea was badly affected by the results of the Sundering with much of it lying under a thick layer of ice for almost two thousand years from 7231 BPC in an age called the Long Thaw. Even after the ice withdrew, the north west was permanently affected climatically and is now a dry and barren semi-desert where it used to be fertile.
Two later events which left a lasting effect on the continent are worthy of note. The punctured lands around the former capital of the Old Pale Empire, Honirham in the west are a result of the meteor bombardment that destroyed the Empire in 7 APC.
Much more recently the city of Ralsimoor and an extensive area around it in the far east, was badly affected by the magical attack of the mage Ixthamon, and the region marked in grey on the map is now called the Melancholia. It is largely empty to this day and full of subtle dangers.
For a much more detailed examination of the history of the continent in the context of the whole world, you can read the following historical overview.
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Magicians' End : Myruthea
The continent of Myruthea
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