Pragous (Prah-gah-ous)
Ecosystem Cycles
While specific climate shifts vary, the general pattern for Pragous is warm, moderate summers, and harsh, cold winters. Additionally, due to its proximity to the polar regions there is significant variation to the day/night cycle. From December 9 to January 2 the island of Pragous enters Polar Twilight, with the northernmost regions experiencing extended polar night, up to three weeks of darkness. Alternatively, in summer months the days can last longer than 24 hours in the nothernmost regions between 12 June until 1 July. This primarily applies to Northern Pragous, while Southern Pragous instead has their days or nights significantly reduced in winter and summer respectively. Due to this there are various plants and animals that go dormant depending on the season, with more herbivores emerging during the summer and more predators active during the winter.
Localized Phenomena
The Polar Region is closest to the Abyssal Realm and the great void spits out forgotten souls from time to time. The farther north the more common the occurrence of wanderers emerging from the darkness on cold stormy nights.
Climate
Southern Pragous has a largely consistent ecosystem, it is a warm-summer continental climate with warm to hot summers and freezing cold winters. Coastal foothills ascend into a mountainous interior, all of which is populated by coniferous forests, with a few exceptions. A large central lake known as the King's Basin dominates a crownlike valley in the middle of the southern peninsula. This lake is partially artificial, with a dam and aqueduct network manually altering outflow to feed man-made streams in addition to the lake's natural southbound river.
Northern Pragous has three distinct biomes. The northern valley region is an arctic desert, the tall mountains on either side largely preventing natural rainfall. Direct rain or snowfall generally only occurs during massive storms. Under normal circumstances water only enters the valley via snowmelt from the peaks on either side of the mountain, or when high winds blow snow down from the summits. During winter these wind-snow storms are common, but technically are not precipitation. Wildlife here is concentrated heavily in subterranean tunnels that are formed by both natural underground water flow as well as both human and animal activity. Herbivores have a fungus heavy diet centered around mushrooms that grow in the moist depths of the tunnels. Predators are largely nocturnal, with larger predators sleeping in the tunnels in the day and emerging onto the surface in the darkness in order to hunt. Predators from the northern valley are particularly dangerous to humans and other sentient species, the overall lack of food availability causing native predators to develop man eating habits.
The western region of Northern Pragous is dominated by a tundra biome. Its coastal region features coniferous forests as the average temperature is more moderated, but the interior consists largely of alternating grasslands and badlands, interspersed by shrubby woodlands.
The southeast region of Northern Pragous is a humid continental biome centered around a brackish estuary known as the Putrid Sound. This is a marshy region, full of swamps, bogs and bayous. Saltier sections of the bay region remain accessible year round, but sections of the internal waterways freeze during the winter. The Putrid Sound and surrounding Scalefeather Swamplands are one of the most biodiverse regions of the Auslind Isles.
Type
Island
Owning Organization
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