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rainbowfic2014-09-21 08:52 pm
greenling) wrote in rainbowfic2014-09-21 08:52 pm
Entry tags:
Barbados Blue #20, Mystic Beach Blue #10
Name: Greenling
Story: Lordsverse
Colors: Barbados Blue #20 (Volcanic stone), Mystic Beach Blue #10 (Image)
Supplies and Styles: None
Word Count: 330ish
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Summary: An in-universe excerpt from a book detailing the geography of the North Coast, setting of Lords of Rose and Ivy. World-building stuff. Not sure if this counts as Photography?
Comments, criticism, and questions are all appreciated.
"Where the Midlands end and the North Coast begins is a question that seems much simpler to the amateur than to a serious student of geography. A phrase originally used to refer to any port north of the Alphan Sea, modern readers are likely to place its southern border hundreds of miles north at the obsidian foothills of the Black Spine. The truth is that the difference is semantic: the North Coast is known in popular imagination as a land of pirates and hidden countries, of monsters and wilderness, and so as the land has gradually been settled, in the popular imagination, its designation has changed, mirroring the more fluid, culturally-driven boundaries of the Northeast.
(...)
The coastal regions largely alternate between clear, fruitful beaches often hemmed in by massive, dangerous reefs; and rocky, shallow river-mouths speckled with tiny caves whose entrances may, at low tide, be guarded by tiny islands revealed a quarter mile out to sea. In part because the area is largely impenetrable by large merchant ships, much less a navy, much of the population can be found along the coast. Very little of the Coast makes for good farming, and so the middle-north makes its living with fish, fruit, and trading with neighboring villages for manufactured items using small boats or windsails and a superior knowledge of the local ocean.
(...)
Inland of the original Coast, north of the Black Spine, and south of the peninsula, lies the rich volcanic soil of the Eismenaian River region. A wealthy region and the source of most trade between the Midlands and the rest of the North, it is home to both independent farmholds and the great city of Mekasselon, known as the Red Thanhwe of the West. Much like Red Thanhwe, it was once a small neutral port between traders from the southern cities, exiles from the Spine, and the Salamander tribes of the peninsula's deserts."
-- Excerpt from Geography of the Western World, Vol. I (Published ~150y. before Godswar)
Story: Lordsverse
Colors: Barbados Blue #20 (Volcanic stone), Mystic Beach Blue #10 (Image)
Supplies and Styles: None
Word Count: 330ish
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Summary: An in-universe excerpt from a book detailing the geography of the North Coast, setting of Lords of Rose and Ivy. World-building stuff. Not sure if this counts as Photography?
Comments, criticism, and questions are all appreciated.
"Where the Midlands end and the North Coast begins is a question that seems much simpler to the amateur than to a serious student of geography. A phrase originally used to refer to any port north of the Alphan Sea, modern readers are likely to place its southern border hundreds of miles north at the obsidian foothills of the Black Spine. The truth is that the difference is semantic: the North Coast is known in popular imagination as a land of pirates and hidden countries, of monsters and wilderness, and so as the land has gradually been settled, in the popular imagination, its designation has changed, mirroring the more fluid, culturally-driven boundaries of the Northeast.
(...)
The coastal regions largely alternate between clear, fruitful beaches often hemmed in by massive, dangerous reefs; and rocky, shallow river-mouths speckled with tiny caves whose entrances may, at low tide, be guarded by tiny islands revealed a quarter mile out to sea. In part because the area is largely impenetrable by large merchant ships, much less a navy, much of the population can be found along the coast. Very little of the Coast makes for good farming, and so the middle-north makes its living with fish, fruit, and trading with neighboring villages for manufactured items using small boats or windsails and a superior knowledge of the local ocean.
(...)
Inland of the original Coast, north of the Black Spine, and south of the peninsula, lies the rich volcanic soil of the Eismenaian River region. A wealthy region and the source of most trade between the Midlands and the rest of the North, it is home to both independent farmholds and the great city of Mekasselon, known as the Red Thanhwe of the West. Much like Red Thanhwe, it was once a small neutral port between traders from the southern cities, exiles from the Spine, and the Salamander tribes of the peninsula's deserts."
-- Excerpt from Geography of the Western World, Vol. I (Published ~150y. before Godswar)
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