Chimeria

Written by Katherine Russell (1913021)

Chimeria (aka New Haskos to the DCA occupants) is a tropical tropical island that was violently formed from the lass masses of The Deltier Kingdom and Libitannia during The Merge. The island holds one of the largest concrete mountain ranges (mountains made of broken skyscrapers and buildings of old cityscapes) in the known post-merge world, due to its location to two major cities. The area surrounding the mountains, making up the remainder of the island, is made up of tropical forests and fields that have managed to survive and thrive on the new island. The island, and broadly The Merge across the whole world, was created accidentally by Oog.
The island is home to the Chimerians, a people made up of the ancestors of those who survived The Merge and the civil conflicts that shattered what remained of the previous two countries. The Chimerians have broadly stayed alone on the island for the last 170 years. At the current year of the setting, 220AM (After Merge), the The Defence Council of Astros (The DCA) has landed and begun a colonial campaign on the island. Initially with violence as it carved up the shore, taking down several mobile districts in its path. The air has settled, just barely, with a weak truce between the DCA and the Chimerians lasting for around 5 years now. But with the increasing advancement of the DCA on the land, restoration factions calling for a return to the old Deltier ways, the push-back to both, and the increasing number of earthquakes on the island, the water is going to boil again. May the Sun God have a bright future for the end of this.

The Map

_{The dotted path on the map details the path the nomadic districts take around the island. Map made in Wonderdraft.}

Names of the Mining Towns and Nomadic Districts

Nomadic Districts

• Avolan
• Filta
• Vilayla
• Phey
• Norte

DCA Towns

• New Howe
• Zwella
• Churchton
• New Jarin
• Wrekfind
• New Cavities
• Trila

Geography

On the Chimerian Mountains

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Harsh rocks made of the concrete and glass remains of skyscrapers and buildings long forgotten, the Chimerian Mountains is a living monument to how disastrous The Merge was. Effectively inhospitable, with no real ground that can be lived off of and regular earthquakes, the only settlements that dare place themselves near it are the DCA Mining Towns. On the edges and sides of the old buildings, you'll find slithers of Starlight rock and crystals, which are collected by the Chimerians during their expeditions past the ranged, and mined in bulk by the DCA. The peaks of the mountains hold shrines to the Sun God Durla, which Chimerians take pilgrimages to. To plant messages to them in the hopes that they'll listen.

Under the Mountains

The land under the mountains is an impenetrable amalgam of stores, insides of buildings, tunnels, and caverns. Some of which explicitly made to obscure the existence of Oog, the sleeping cosmic entity that willed The Merge to occur.

In the Chimerian Fields

^{image found at https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/447474912958844475/} Tropical fields and forests make up the Chimerian fields outside of the mountains. Mixtures of small flatlands and hill terrain. Generally hospitable to constant movement through it, both due to the convenient nature of the island and also infrastructure created by the Chimerians.

Deep within The Deseased Land

This place may look like it's just a part of the Chimerian Mountains, but it's actually a radioactive hazard zone created when a nuclear power plant got crushed during the merge. Most of it is contained, for lack of a better term, under the rubble. But it's dangerous enough that Chimerians don't go there in fear of getting sick.

Alternative Name(s)

New Haskos, The Floating Island.

Type

Island