Punjuki
Punjuki is the second largest continent of Magicians' End, lying in the southern hemisphere ocean at about the same longditude as Myruthea. Being closer to the equator, however, Punjuki is warmer and more richly verdant all year around, especially in the north, which is where the important cash crop of phryne is grown. The continent is elongated along the north-south axis and the climate in the south is somewhat cooler.
Fauna & Flora
The dried leaves of the phryne bush, used to make the popular hot drinks called ryne and cryne, make it the best known of the plants native to the continent. It grows mainly in the hills of the north and east, close to Katrapetch. Of equal, or perhaps greater significance, however, is the Triquetra Orchid, the source of Arcane Amplification Perfume, which grows in the central mountains around Highloft. The grass Celovass is farmed south of the Jold River and used to make the cloth Vassith, which is a well known and popular product from the continent. The sap of the Klewol Palm which is native to the northern forests is used in the production of White Draught.
History
The first colonists are thought to have sailed south to the continent from Myruthea, sometime between 11000 BPC and 10000 BPC. A second and much larger wave of settlers arrived as exiles in the early years of the New Kingdoms and established the city of Katrapetch, which claims to date its official foundation to the year 9462 BPC. Katrapetch rapidly became the most important centre for the trading of phryne which was (and still is) cultivated in the hills to the north and east.
In 9364 BPC, the Empire of Bradalkut unified the relatively small existing settlements of the continent to establish a single Punjuki government, when its opportunist leader took control of Katrapetch. The city of Bress on the western coast, was founded shortly thereafter and acted briefly as the capital.
When the northern continents of Myruthea and Tinturbean were iced over, following the Sundering in 7231 BPC, Punjuki escaped relatively unscathed and an independent Katrapetch would enjoy a golden age of prosperity for almost three thousand years until it was conquered by the armies of the Old Pale Empire during the Northern Punjuki Campaign in 4478 BPC. The entire continent was under the control of the Old Pale Empire within two centuries and remained so until the Planar Conformation.
At the time of the Breach Wars, Punjuki avoided some of the worst incursions and became a centre of resistance, which famously bore fruit in 77 APC when the controlled eruption of Mt. Defiance heralded the birth of the first of the Flame Kingdoms. The Water Kingdoms, which succeeded the Flame Kingdoms in the second half of the first millenium APC, also owed a lot to Punjuki enterprise and maritime skills with the city of Saltmoat gaining particular importance during these years.
The discovery of Arcane Amplification Perfume and the cultivation of the Triquetra Orchid in the high mountain rain forests of central Punjuki, led to the establishment of the city of Highloft in 1977 APC and that city would go on to become one of the four great capitals of the world during the age of the Four Aerial Courts.
Although Punjuki has generally played more of a peripheral role in world events in the following centuries, Katrapetch is noteworthy as the home city of two infamous magicians, Clarise Vabatan, who became notorious as the leader of the Sisters of Vabatan in the Time of Terrors, and much later, the "mad mage", Ixthamon, who overthrew the Jewelled Queendoms and established himself as a world dictator in the 6th millenium.
In current times, the important cities in the north and centre of the continent are part of the Alchemical Alliance, whilst the Trans-Oceanic Empire retains a foothold in the southern ports.
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Magicians' End : Punjuki
Punjuki is the second largest continent on the world of Magicians' End. It lies in the southern hemisphere ocean.
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