Ion Eilean - The Mainland
Jan 31, 2019 0:07:05 GMT -11
Post by Temperance on Jan 31, 2019 0:07:05 GMT -11
The mainland of Lunaria is Ion Eilean; A crescent shaped land mass that stretches roughly 115 miles from tip to tip and 52 miles across. The landscape changes dramatically as you make your way down the island.
The Northern most point of the island is a long stretch of lava fields from the last time Mt. Amaris erupted, covering the landscape in a thick layer of lava; that then dried in to igneous rock fields. The black, hot stones create a desolate and dark blanket across the land in stark contrast to the rest of the island's lush landscape. Lava flows beneath the rocks can occasionally be seen through cracks in its surface. These barren fields support minimal plant or animal life. Wolves rarely travel here as the hot stone can easily burn ones paws. On the eastern part of the coast, below these barren fields, a small minefield of geysers separates the lava stone from the beach beyond, erupting every few hours.
As you move south, the Rakesh Mountain Range stretches along the western coast of the island, making the coast here primarily jagged, rocky cliffs that cut off abruptly and plummet into the ocean. Moving inland the mountain range gives way to rolling hills. Among them, various small hotspring pools dapple the landscape as a result of the lava tubes far below the surface. Dense forestry stretches a few miles before breaking up into the open hills toward the Badru River. The Badru begins somewhere in the northern Rakesh and flows down the rocky slopes into the hillside where it finally spills in to Lake Sinope via a cascading waterfall that descends 10 feet into the lake below. Glacial Ice that once covered this land etched into the rock here, leaving a cavernous basin. On either side the stone has been eroded into slippery slopes that divert the falls down either side and make for an enjoyable waterslide in the summer. The bottom of the basin filled with water as the Badru continued to flow, and left the rest of the exposed rock abandoned and open to others to explore the caverns within.
To the West of Badru a few yards separates the waters edge from scattered trees and hills that eventually level out into a wide Valley at the base of the southern portion of the Rakesh mountains. This is where the pack calls home, this is MoonValley. Lush forests to the North and South flank the valley itself, providing ample hunting while Lake Sinope supplies fresh water. The Badru continues on after the lake stretching for miles before splitting in two and spilling into the ocean at the southern part of the Island.
East of the Badru River is open flatland. The small grass meadows steadily disappear into the sand and onto the soft sandy beaches of the eastern shoreline. Follow that south though and the fine grains of sand get larger and more jagged until you reach the jagged edged shores of the Southeastern part of the isle. The shoreline here is avast with rock formations and caverns aplenty that is exposed at low tide but disappears beneath the ocean waters at high tide.
The Southern portion of the Island contains a small cove on the western edge with smooth sandy beaches that turn to the jagged edged cliffs as you head east along the lower border until you reach the marshland peninsula that completes the tip of the isle.
The Northern most point of the island is a long stretch of lava fields from the last time Mt. Amaris erupted, covering the landscape in a thick layer of lava; that then dried in to igneous rock fields. The black, hot stones create a desolate and dark blanket across the land in stark contrast to the rest of the island's lush landscape. Lava flows beneath the rocks can occasionally be seen through cracks in its surface. These barren fields support minimal plant or animal life. Wolves rarely travel here as the hot stone can easily burn ones paws. On the eastern part of the coast, below these barren fields, a small minefield of geysers separates the lava stone from the beach beyond, erupting every few hours.
As you move south, the Rakesh Mountain Range stretches along the western coast of the island, making the coast here primarily jagged, rocky cliffs that cut off abruptly and plummet into the ocean. Moving inland the mountain range gives way to rolling hills. Among them, various small hotspring pools dapple the landscape as a result of the lava tubes far below the surface. Dense forestry stretches a few miles before breaking up into the open hills toward the Badru River. The Badru begins somewhere in the northern Rakesh and flows down the rocky slopes into the hillside where it finally spills in to Lake Sinope via a cascading waterfall that descends 10 feet into the lake below. Glacial Ice that once covered this land etched into the rock here, leaving a cavernous basin. On either side the stone has been eroded into slippery slopes that divert the falls down either side and make for an enjoyable waterslide in the summer. The bottom of the basin filled with water as the Badru continued to flow, and left the rest of the exposed rock abandoned and open to others to explore the caverns within.
To the West of Badru a few yards separates the waters edge from scattered trees and hills that eventually level out into a wide Valley at the base of the southern portion of the Rakesh mountains. This is where the pack calls home, this is MoonValley. Lush forests to the North and South flank the valley itself, providing ample hunting while Lake Sinope supplies fresh water. The Badru continues on after the lake stretching for miles before splitting in two and spilling into the ocean at the southern part of the Island.
East of the Badru River is open flatland. The small grass meadows steadily disappear into the sand and onto the soft sandy beaches of the eastern shoreline. Follow that south though and the fine grains of sand get larger and more jagged until you reach the jagged edged shores of the Southeastern part of the isle. The shoreline here is avast with rock formations and caverns aplenty that is exposed at low tide but disappears beneath the ocean waters at high tide.
The Southern portion of the Island contains a small cove on the western edge with smooth sandy beaches that turn to the jagged edged cliffs as you head east along the lower border until you reach the marshland peninsula that completes the tip of the isle.