Goradeen
Goradeen existed in the time between The Empty House Interregnum and the end of the Age Of Star Cauldrons. Great rifts had brought the ocean inward through the middle of Hamashal, dividing regions and turning the great inland seas brackish. Hilgar and Alotha split into distinct continents, as did others. while islands formed them and a new Southern continent now called Yugbarlek. At the time, these continents were simply called the equivalent of North and South, and then as they split further, named after the regions of which they were composed.
The arid interior deserts that had once banded the the First World and brought summer rain and wind through the equator, making the once inhospitable desert of Bhabolek rich and green, with semi-arid lands in the immediate north and southern tropics still remaining relatively dry.
Beyond them in the subtropics, great forests fed by seasonal winter rains grew. Over time much of the western Alothan lowlands sunk below the sea, leaving a chain of large exterior and interior islands which were once Alotha's great mountains. A large portion of Hilgorath and Bhabolek would also slip beneath the ocean turning much of Bhabolek's original eastern rainforest and south Hilgorath into a series of small island chains.
Over time Goradeen would become a warmer, wetter world with warm tidal ranges that were once the lowlands, its regions continuing to pull apart until much of the land of the two great continents were separated by deep oceans.
Goradeenian Malbarom followed the slow rotation of Goradeen's crescent landmasses, becoming the crsecent's approximate middle-left. Mountain ranges separare much of it from Cycathil to the North. It's left coast is amongst the least mountainous and rainy along the western coasts of Goradeen. Compared to most locations, the deep ocean is very close. Only a day or two away, leading to a slightly cooler climate than other regions.
Most of Malbarom's west coast is a large tropical and subtropical rainforest that extends into the southern temperate regions leading to powerful rains that soak its less monolithic islands and thick layer of westcoast rainforests. Its right interior is dominated by a semi-arid desert that branches all the way to the top of Bhabolek and far right and down into the south central regions of Yug'Endul.
Because Malborom's forested west coast covers a range from the equatorial to the the southern reaches of Goradeen, its forest is amongst the most climate and biology diverse of the time.
While Malborom has some eastern mountain ranges and some small southern mountain rainges along the coast, it's interior is free of serious differences in elevation, allowing most species to travel freely through its climates and habitats. Winds from the sea make it far into Malbarom's interior, reaching as far as the southern edges of its northeastern counterpart of Bhabolek.
Aside from a small branch of the great desert that reaches all the way to its left border, Yug'Endul is a massive temperate forest that makes up the southeastern crescent of Goradeen's landmasses. Yug'Endul is ringed by massive mountainous archipelagos and massive coastal mountains which are only interuppted in a few places, trapping rains that would otherwise reach the great ocean beyond. Yug'Endul has the largest uninterrupted sub-tropical forests in all of Goradeen, with few to no interior mountains and mild elevations similar to Alotha or Malbarom. The exception to this is a somewhat mountainous and somewhat cold region in southwest Yug'Endul, bordering Malbarom. This was the coldest point on all of Goradeen, with taigas here sometimes having year-round snow on the ground.
Equatorial Bhabolek is to the right of Cycathil, and is at the approximate center of Goradeen's broken crescent. The deep seaway that creates a natural border between the two creates rains for the left side of Bhabolek, feeding a tropical forest with summertime rains. on Bhabolek's right side, a semi-arid inland desert is ringed by a coast of tropical forests. This semi-arid inland desert is the largest in all of Goradeen, extending well beyond Bhabolek's southern border with arms extending left and right into Malbarom and Yug'Endul.
Like most of Goradeen, Bhabolek has an extensive shallow coastal ocean on it's east which includes a number of island chains, and it also flanks one of the largest complexes of large islands and archipelagos on its north border, sandwiched between it, Alotha and Hilgar.
Traces of Bhabolek's boggy eastern rainforests remain on now distant archipelagos, and much of its semi-arid desert became highly inhabitable at this time. Bhabolek's shallow false coast faces on to a Goradeen's largest sea.
Goradeeninan Cycathil's western coast becomes an archipelago hugging its western mountain range which becomes its new western coast. An inland sea reaches south from Alotha all the way to the northern border of its semi-arid heartland, leaving only a thin area of warm temperate forests that leads north into Goradeenian Alotha.
Cycathil's southern desert becomes a a shallow lagoon, flanked on all sides by tropical forest. Eastward, its border with Goradeenian Bhabolek
The changing sea levels, coast lines and humidity of Goradeen greatly stabilized the temperature of what were once virtually uninhabitable deserts, leading to a unique landscape of remote tropical forests and temperate arid lands watered by rivers extending from northern winter rainstorms.
Hilgar was the western portion of Hamashalian Hilgorath. It was the northernmost of Goradeen's continents and the coldest, though not even its most northern Islands had ice year-round. Hilgar split away from Esorath due to inland flooding that created the Sazarikan Sea.
Goradeen's rising oceans submerged much of Hilgar's southern and northwestern portions, creating several large islands. Southwestern Goradeen remained above water, connecting through a thin central landmass to the larger, elevated eastern half's temperate forests and northeastern bulge's taiga. These areas experienced wet, sometimes snowy winters and relatively dry summers, with the northern taigas regularly covered with several feet of snow during the winter season. Not quite as mountainous as its eastern sister Esorath, Hilgar none the less had shallow coasts that stretched to far away mountaintop archapelagos and a western, central and eastern mountain chain.
Esorath was the eastern portion of Hamashalian Hilgorath, split via rising sea levels from it's western half of Hilgar somewhere around the time of the Eankabi Pacification Interregnum by the incursion of the Sazarikan Sea, with both Esorath and Hilgar slowly following Hamashal's original curvature towards Goradeen's equator.
Goradeen's rising oceans also pushed far into its Esorath's coastal lowlands, turning its once mountainous coast into a series of barrier archipelagos that sheltered very shallow, warm seas. Where its northern climates had once been tundra grew pockets of arid desert, Esorath's warm rainforest gave way to Goradeen's smallest arid desert. Hilgorath's once south-eastern crescent now pointed almost directly south, putting the lower third of the continent straight into the summer rains and balmy weather of the equatorial band. There, a hot, wet forest existed where all three of Hilgorath's mountains chains met in an nested series of wet valleys and nested archipelagos.
Goradeenian Malbarom
Goradeenian Malbarom
Goradeenian Malbarom followed the slow rotation of Goradeen's crescent landmasses, becoming the crsecent's approximate middle-left. Mountain ranges separare much of it from Cycathil to the North. It's left coast is amongst the least mountainous and rainy along the western coasts of Goradeen. Compared to most locations, the deep ocean is very close. Only a day or two away, leading to a slightly cooler climate than other regions.
Most of Malbarom's west coast is a large tropical and subtropical rainforest that extends into the southern temperate regions leading to powerful rains that soak its less monolithic islands and thick layer of westcoast rainforests. Its right interior is dominated by a semi-arid desert that branches all the way to the top of Bhabolek and far right and down into the south central regions of Yug'Endul.
Because Malborom's forested west coast covers a range from the equatorial to the the southern reaches of Goradeen, its forest is amongst the most climate and biology diverse of the time.
While Malborom has some eastern mountain ranges and some small southern mountain rainges along the coast, it's interior is free of serious differences in elevation, allowing most species to travel freely through its climates and habitats. Winds from the sea make it far into Malbarom's interior, reaching as far as the southern edges of its northeastern counterpart of Bhabolek.
Goradeenian Yug'Endul
Goradeenian Yug'Endul
Aside from a small branch of the great desert that reaches all the way to its left border, Yug'Endul is a massive temperate forest that makes up the southeastern crescent of Goradeen's landmasses. Yug'Endul is ringed by massive mountainous archipelagos and massive coastal mountains which are only interuppted in a few places, trapping rains that would otherwise reach the great ocean beyond. Yug'Endul has the largest uninterrupted sub-tropical forests in all of Goradeen, with few to no interior mountains and mild elevations similar to Alotha or Malbarom. The exception to this is a somewhat mountainous and somewhat cold region in southwest Yug'Endul, bordering Malbarom. This was the coldest point on all of Goradeen, with taigas here sometimes having year-round snow on the ground.
Goradeenian Bhabolek
Goradeenian Bhabolek
Equatorial Bhabolek is to the right of Cycathil, and is at the approximate center of Goradeen's broken crescent. The deep seaway that creates a natural border between the two creates rains for the left side of Bhabolek, feeding a tropical forest with summertime rains. on Bhabolek's right side, a semi-arid inland desert is ringed by a coast of tropical forests. This semi-arid inland desert is the largest in all of Goradeen, extending well beyond Bhabolek's southern border with arms extending left and right into Malbarom and Yug'Endul.
Like most of Goradeen, Bhabolek has an extensive shallow coastal ocean on it's east which includes a number of island chains, and it also flanks one of the largest complexes of large islands and archipelagos on its north border, sandwiched between it, Alotha and Hilgar.
Traces of Bhabolek's boggy eastern rainforests remain on now distant archipelagos, and much of its semi-arid desert became highly inhabitable at this time. Bhabolek's shallow false coast faces on to a Goradeen's largest sea.
Goradeenian Cycathil
Goradeenian Cycathil
Goradeeninan Cycathil's western coast becomes an archipelago hugging its western mountain range which becomes its new western coast. An inland sea reaches south from Alotha all the way to the northern border of its semi-arid heartland, leaving only a thin area of warm temperate forests that leads north into Goradeenian Alotha.
Cycathil's southern desert becomes a a shallow lagoon, flanked on all sides by tropical forest. Eastward, its border with Goradeenian Bhabolek
The changing sea levels, coast lines and humidity of Goradeen greatly stabilized the temperature of what were once virtually uninhabitable deserts, leading to a unique landscape of remote tropical forests and temperate arid lands watered by rivers extending from northern winter rainstorms.
Goradeenian Hilgar
Goradeenian Hilgar
Hilgar was the western portion of Hamashalian Hilgorath. It was the northernmost of Goradeen's continents and the coldest, though not even its most northern Islands had ice year-round. Hilgar split away from Esorath due to inland flooding that created the Sazarikan Sea.
Goradeen's rising oceans submerged much of Hilgar's southern and northwestern portions, creating several large islands. Southwestern Goradeen remained above water, connecting through a thin central landmass to the larger, elevated eastern half's temperate forests and northeastern bulge's taiga. These areas experienced wet, sometimes snowy winters and relatively dry summers, with the northern taigas regularly covered with several feet of snow during the winter season. Not quite as mountainous as its eastern sister Esorath, Hilgar none the less had shallow coasts that stretched to far away mountaintop archapelagos and a western, central and eastern mountain chain.
Goradeenian Esorath
Goradeenian Esorath
Esorath was the eastern portion of Hamashalian Hilgorath, split via rising sea levels from it's western half of Hilgar somewhere around the time of the Eankabi Pacification Interregnum by the incursion of the Sazarikan Sea, with both Esorath and Hilgar slowly following Hamashal's original curvature towards Goradeen's equator.
Goradeen's rising oceans also pushed far into its Esorath's coastal lowlands, turning its once mountainous coast into a series of barrier archipelagos that sheltered very shallow, warm seas. Where its northern climates had once been tundra grew pockets of arid desert, Esorath's warm rainforest gave way to Goradeen's smallest arid desert. Hilgorath's once south-eastern crescent now pointed almost directly south, putting the lower third of the continent straight into the summer rains and balmy weather of the equatorial band. There, a hot, wet forest existed where all three of Hilgorath's mountains chains met in an nested series of wet valleys and nested archipelagos.
Lands
- Alotha
- Bhabolek
- Cycathil
- Hilgorath
- Malbarom
- Yug'Endul
- Delon
Type
Planet
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