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Axehead Peninsula
This region has a mild climate. The rainy season that occurs during the summer, followed by a brief period of storms at the end of the fall. The deserts that separate the northern and southern ends of the peninsula are particularly inhospitable during the dry winters. There are three cultures here—the technologically advanced Blue peoples…
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Hemicynes – Healfhundingas – Langobards – Angamanains
I often think about who the people are in these maps. Or I don’t, or not often enough, or not seriously enough, because the one basic question I continually ask myself is—are they beast people? Like, with the heads of dogs or birds. Because wouldn’t that be interesting? So, maybe not a powerfully existential “Who…
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The Big and Little Horse Islands
The mild climate and native pastures have made these islands particularly hospitable to horses. The rainy season begins late in the summer, with increasing intensity until its culmination at the end of fall. Hurricanes are poetically compared to stampedes. Four horse-loving cultures prevail here, some of which experienced great turns of fortune when the last…
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The Plains Against Magetower
This small continent features a cool climate with abundant rain in the late fall and early spring, and consistent snows in the winter. Prospects for farming are modest in the rocky soil, but the land offers sufficient pasture and herbage to sustain a robust population of large flightless birds. The flock-dwelling ‘pack birds’ are plentiful…
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Shelter Island and Broad Glacier
This subarctic region is covered in ice much of the year. Snows begin late in the winter, giving way to rains in the early summer. Despite this precipitation, the dry air and strong winter winds have created an arid environment. There is one culture here, though memories of others remain. Shelter Island boasts a vibrant…
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Four-seas Gallows
Although it rests at a temperate latitude, this region at the convergence of four seas is punishingly arid. Cold, still winters bring clay-cracking droughts that are timidly wetted by early spring rains. Much of the area is uninhabitable, but not all. On the east-most point of the western peninsula rests the grand Silver City. Memories…
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Four-river Veldt
Four-river veldt has a temperate climate. The rainy season lasts from late fall to early spring, with only occasional snows in deep winter. When the rains end there is a regular, sudden onset of torrid weather. There are two cultures here—silver broadly on the eponymous veldt, and a syncretic city-state in the archipelago to the…
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The Winding Peninsula
I’ve been making maps and I want to share them. This map has blue, silver, and red cultures. The climate is mild. It rains much of the year. Blue once lived in the shadow of Silver. They now thrive peacefully on their maritime interests, unbothered but for hill bandits descended from Silver settlers. The wealthy…
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