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Jarvisuomi Three rivers meet in Jarvisuomi, surrounded by a relatively flat area composed of grass, rocky hills and groves of woodland. People of many different professions and backgrounds make their home here, in relative peace and prosperity. These include a number of glassmakers who have...

Pale of Settlement Though comparatively green and fertile the Pale of Settlements is a very underdeveloped area, with rickety bridges across the many waterways and few major rivers here, ramshackle villages with unpaved roads, and very little industry. Artisans, merchants and moneylenders form...

Hashikko Hashikko was struck hard by the Moon's shattering and the resulting destruction. The plain but infamous cliffs have been shattered, and one massive shard of the moon juts out of the ocean and reaches out to the sky from where it came, as though it longed to return to it's greater whole.

Londor Londor is a low-lying area composed mainly of wetlands and marshes. Due to the its topography few inhabitants live along the seashore, as minor coastal flooding is commonplace here. A number of villages lie along the banks of Londor’s only river, however, where the flooding seldom...

Serpent Steppes The Serpent Steppes is an area of twisting mountain paths, corridors and maze-like rock formations all composed of sleek and slippery rock specked with sharp, dangerous spikes that can easily hurt an inattentive traveler. The area’s geology was used strategically by the Yotsuki...

Ryūmizo Ryūmizo is characterized by a combination of rocky, uneven terrain interwoven with grassland. The area was the site of a great battle; large and deep trenches have been constructed here in byzantine patterns. Craters can be found on the old battlefield, revealing the type of Ninjutsu...

Oxen Gateway The Oxen Gateway originally went by a different name, back when it was the true entrance to one of the few, extensive mountain paths. However after the rampage of the Hachibi in 480 the name was changed. These pathways, once collapsed during said rampage, have since been partially...

The Hinterlands The Hinterlands is pleasant, flat and dominated by grass and fields. The population of the area is mostly rural farming or ranching communities, whose pastures and fields dominate the landscape, with only narrow dirt roads separating the plots. Sharp rock formations hide beneath...

Chittagong Chittagong was once part of the Thunderbird Valley, but it has been utterly decimated. Chittagong's humid climate once made it perfect for cultivating rice, allowing many collections of settlements to thrive and flourish within the region. Now it's a smouldering crater, a result of...

Mymensingh Mymensingh is part of Thunderbird Valley, the area of the Lightning Mountains between the Wadden Flats and the mountains proper. Mymensingh lies on the periphery of the mountains proper and is thus more rocky and uneven than its counterparts. Hoodoos have formed here centuries ago...

Barisal Barisal is part of Thunderbird Valley, the area of the Lightning Mountains between the Wadden Flats and the mountains proper. Here the land is green and fertile; more suited for habitation than most other areas of the region. The settlements of Barisal are concentrated around the banks...

North-East Kinai Island Northeast Kinai was spared the grim fate of it's cousin to the West, but they had their own problems to contend with in the aftermath of the Cataclysm. Primarily in the form of the death of their main export and food source. The shard of the Moon that struck Hokurikudō...

Khulna Khulna is part of Thunderbird Valley, the area of the Lightning Mountains between the Wadden Flats and the mountains proper. Here the land is green and fertile; more suited for habitation than most other areas of the region. Khulna was once dominated by farmland, but has undergone waves...

Dhaka Dhaka is part of Thunderbird Valley, the area of the Lightning Mountains between the Wadden Flats and the mountains proper. Dhaka is the maritime powerhouse of the Thunderbird Valley, its long coast dotted with fishing towns, ports and shipyards. Most of its inhabitants are in the...

Sylhet The valley of Sylhet was one of the first coastal regions to suffer immensely from the natural disasters that swept across the world with the coming of the Cataclysm. Once a running range of fertile grasslands and windmills, like many of the other coastal regions, has been transformed...

South-East Kinai Island The southeastern part of Kinai is considered dangerous even by the locals of the Water Archipelago as it is home to a number of pirate crews, led by fearsome pirate lords that make their homes deep in the humid, jungle-like forests that encompass most of the area’s...

South-West Kinai Island The southwestern part of Kinai is a sight to behold, with much of the coastland of the area being littered with shipwrecks of all shapes, sizes and origins. Historically, because of a mysterious phenomenon affecting the ocean current, shipwrecks in the archipelago have...

North-West Kinai Island After tragedy befell Hokurikudō to the North West, a massive wave resulting from the impact of a shard of the Moon crashing into the pirates' haven flooded the various valleys and depressions of North-West Kinai Island. Once thought safe from the dangers posed by the...

Midnight Island It is said that the Midnight Island was splintered off from the great cleaving that Marduk caused after he struck Tiamat with Imhullu. Since then it has been nourished by a powerful force, creating an almost isolated world separate from the rest of civilization. Midnight Island...

Mauna Loa The easternmost island of the Water Archipelago shares its name with the active volcano covering most of its surface area. The volcano often experiences small magmatic eruptions, spewing magma and across the island. Large ridges have formed over the years because of this process, as...