Hamashal (Hah-mah-shol)
Hamashal verdant and green world said to be inundated at various times with all manner of lizards, giant insects, giant sea-scorpions, squamous plants, segmented trees and giant fungi. Hamashal is said to have 'hatched' from the icy world-egg Korath. The world of Hamashal is said to have been a giant crescent shaped landmass alone in a vast ocean, save for few islands and smaller landmasses that eventually merged with its megacontinent.
Mountains and Deserts
Hamashal had vast inland deserts with coastal forests and swamps on the outside of its coastal mountains. Over all a dryer world with greater extremes between interior and coastal rainfall, many of the world's weather patterns related to the immense size of its central landmasses. Many of Hamashal's coastal regions lay beyond tall mountains, creating large rainshadows. Unlike Geron, Hamashal's habitats were vast and relatively homogenous. Any animal found in Hamashal's north was also likely to be found in it's south.Planetary Seasons and Monsoons
The interior of Hamashal was dry and arid, with extremely hot days and frigid nights. Only Hamashal's coastal regions experienced seasons, with all of Hamashal experiencing a similar weather pattern of extreme rains for half the year and extreme dries for half the year. For the latter half of the year, most of Hamashal's denizens relied on large rivers fed by the prolific snow which built on high coastal mountains. Much of Hamashal's interior forests and deserts were alluvial, shaped by the constant flow of these rivers which quickly carved through Hamashal's sandy, rocky soil. Hamashal had no grasses, with liverwort-like plants dominating the terrain and stabilizing 'islands' of plant growth in the alluvial regions. Over the course of the Empty House Interregnum, large rifts formed through Hamashal, splitting away Hilgorath and Alotha into the continent Alogorath, with the remaining regions of the southern continent still being referred to as Hamashal. By the beginning of the Age of Tangled Riches, this rift created had created a massive ocean between the two. The Recallers of Skiath call this the Second World, 'Goradeen'.Hilgorath
The region of Hilgorath was Hamashal's northeastern crescent. The large western mountains that separated Hilgorath from Alotha merged into contintental forests into a cool and arid desert-scape which dominated Hilgorath's east, a stark contrat to Hilgorath's eastern conintental forest. Along the south coast of Hilgorath, a more arid, warm forest eventually gives way to the mountainous northeastern crescent of Hamashal, cradling Hilgorath's jungles that run along the outer edge of the crescent. At the beginning of the Great Abandonment Interregnum, a number of long, snakelike subcontinental island north of Hilgorath were pushed up against its northern coast, creating a series of mountains which would persist throughout several worlds, giving Hilgorath a distinctly mountainous appearance with multiple west to east chains. Hilgorath had a single large island off the west coast of its northermost point. This island was the coldest and most remote in all of Hamashal.Alotha
Much of Alotha is dominated by cooler continental forests that grow from the winds of the equatorial desert of Cycathil. These are the largest uninterrupted forests in all of Hamashal, rivaled only by those of Yug'endul. To the west of Alotha was a snaking limb of temperate forest grasslands warmed by the ocean. Alotha's north was composed of brittle tundra, and beyond it ice-swept northern wastes. Alotha's east was a series of high mountains, between which more arid, mountain woodscapes led to the arid and cool deserts of Hilgorath. Along Alotha's west coast were three large islands, making it the third largest group of islands in Hamashal.Cycathil
Cycathil was a western equatorial region of Hamashal. The Archaea which remains of this region represents the earliest appearance of the Ebokan in the form of their Cycathidian ancestors. Beneath the cool continental forests of Alotha, equatorial and westward Cycathil begins as a thin skein of arid temperate border forests which stretch south down the western coast and northeast until it his the great central mountains. The rest of Cycathil is an extremely dry and hot desert which regularly plunges below freezing at night. It rarely ever rains, save for a handful of rivers that flow from the western mountains in the spring. Cycathil is hemmed in by tall mountains that separate it from the south and the east.Bhabolek
Eastward of Cycathil's great mountain bowl, Bhabolek dominates Hamashal's belt with a tropical but arid forest flanked on the west and east by warm, boggy rainforests that soak up the majority of Hamathal's westerly rains. Bhabolek's arid tropical forest broke onto a a large equatorial desert that girdled Hamashar. Little to no rain fell there, effectively dividing the north and the south center of Hamashal's megacontinent with an mostly uninhabitable wasteland. Bhabolek's eastern rainforest is known for it's massive equatorial storms which every few hundred rears would rage all the way into the southern interior desert, temporarily turning it verdant. Bhabolek was home to two of four of Hamashal's huge inland seas on Bhabolek's northeastern border with Hilgorath. Off of Bhaboleks eastern coast were the second largest cluster of islands on Hamashal. These islands had seaosnal summer rains. During the winter they had an arid tropical climate. Malbarom Hamashal's outer western crescent is Malbarom is a warmer sub-tropical forest flanked by a coast of wet, western mountains and a long eastern mountain range that bisects most of Malbarom from the continental forests of Yug'endul. More temperate than the northern sister Alotha, a thin line of icy tundra follows Malbarom's coast along the Hamashal megacontintent's southernmost border. Malbarom contained one of Hamashal's four inland seas, located at the region's southern point. It was a long, thin sea which along with the flank of mountains separated the rest of Malbarom from the southern tundra.Yug'endul
Yug'endul is host to Hamashal's second largest uninterrupted forest. The temperate subtropical forest is warmer than its northern counterparts, dominating all but Yug'endul's north and east coasts. The north coast has a thin arid forest, while the eastern tip has a arid, warm climate caused by Yug'endil's broken eastern mountain chain that hungs the southern tip of Hamashal's crescent. Remarkably, only a the westernmost part of Yug'endul's southern coast has year-round ice or tundra, with the rest of it being cooler temperate forest fed by warm ocean rains. A thin, long inland sea separates much of west and east Yug'endul. It is one of only four such seas on Hamathal and by far the longest. Yug'Endul had a single lage island on its northern coast near the edge of Bhabolek.Delon
Delon was a chain of rugged tropical jungle islands located between the north and south crescent of Hamashal in Hamashal's only sea. They were also the wettest and warmest of Hamashal's lands. There were 10 large islands in the chain of varying size, with most being larger than Bhabolek or Alotha's islands. Curiously, 9 of the islands seem to have emerged from the ocean later than the oldest island in the group.
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