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Photography by Nona Limmen

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Locations in North of North

Trail's End

Home of Herd Bellasara and Herd Airistos

Settlements on the ground include Canter Downs (home to the region's largest stables), Canter Hollow (home to Bagatella Row and Artisan's Way, split by a river and connected by the Fountain Plaza), Rolandsgaard Outskirts (connecting Canter Hollow and the Castle), Rolandsgaard Castle, and Darkcomb Hedge

Settlements in the sky include Windhome Skylands floating over Naastrand Sound and Overgaard Skylands floating over the land. Airistos Castle sits on the largest island in Windhome Skylands.

Other man-made points of interest include Roland's Hold Arena, the Bazaar, Starguide Lighthouse, Stonelory, and the Bookends

Other natural points of interest include Drasilmare, the Goddesswall, and Darkcomb Forest (home to Boda's Cave and the Wolf Den)

The main freshwaterway of Trail's End is Frostfroth Falls, birthing Lake Riddlemere, which runs into Fastalon River and ends in Fastalon Drift. The second freshwaterway is the Comb Stream running into the Fastalon West River and. South of Trail's End lies Naastrand Sound, connecting to Stonelory via Horseshoe Bay.

Midwinter Mountains

Home of Herd Valeryk

Settlements include Valeryk Castle on an island in Lake Riddlemere and Hestheim floating over Thunder's Peak

Other points of interest include the Whitemantle Mountains, with the highest peak in North of North, Mount Whitemantle, and Thunder's Peak, a volcanic crater in the center of the Midwinter Mountains.

The waters of the Midwinter Mountains include Lake Wintermere, running into Whitemantle Glacier, which ends in Icewater Bay, connecting to Naastrand Sound.

Ochre Mountains

Frequent (though not permanent) home of Herd Mustang and Wildscape Castle

Runs into grassland to the west and desert on the east

Eastern part turns into the Pinto Mesas in which sits the Valley of Legends

Bordered by the Hope River to the west

Autumn Sands Desert

Home of Herd Shahazar and Shahazar Castle

The sand changes color with the seasons, white in winter, green in spring, blue in summer, and red in autumn

Home to various human settlements, including those of the Desirée, a group of wolf-taming horse-hunters

Bordered by the Hope River to the east. Only other major source of water is the Aria Oasis

Bordered by the Rose Valley to the south and the Bow Mountains to the east

The Rose Valley connects to the Desert Cave, a cave full of forgotten treasures

Emerildian Wilds

Deep mystical forest, home to the fairies and Underhill

North sits the Isle of Isluv, a place permeated by fairy magic and home to Herd Moonfairy and Feywind Castle.

Daybreak Mountains

Home of Herd Starlight

Highest point is Starlights Bell, on which sits Dawnstar Castle

Grass Sea

Herdless land, home to settlers as well as nomads

Separated from the Emeraldian Wilds by the Bluegrass Narrows

Landscape is grass steppe, interspersed with enormous emerald cloud trees and the grass lakes, connecting to each other in a vast underground freshwater sea

Seas

Equinesian Seas - tropical clear and shallow

The Celestial Deep - dark with mysterious lights and enormous creatures

The Withers Sea - Cold and ferocious

The Ocean of Lights - Bright and full of bright glowing life

Other locations

Brighttree Jungle, a vast jungle connecting to Trail's End via the Coral Causeway

Esotara, home of Herd Elemyn and the Ice Castle

Islands of Equinesia, tropical volcanic islands around which Herd Islandar make their home

Jasmine Forest, home to Herd Sunflower and Petalhome, protected by the Rose Maze

Horsehead Peninsula, home of Herd Pantheon and Parthamane Castle

The Borderlands, a harsh volcanic landscape frequented by Wolfriders and rarely visited by horses

Styginmoor, home of the Wolfriders and Styginmoor Castle

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Canyon de Chelly National Monument In Arizona ,USA

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Johnny Adolphson Photography

Capitol Reef National Park

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Slater's Bridge in Cumbria is the most picturesque and one of the oldest surviving bridges in Britain's Lake District. The 17th-century footbridge was made entirely from slate by miners who worked in the nearby slate quarries of Tilberthwaite Fells.

More amazing images/info about Slater's Bridge: https://bit.ly/3R0Yf59

Image courtesy of ©️ Jason Connolly Photography

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Thüringen, Germany by Gerard Kingma

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Snow Art by Simon Beck (2018)

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Semeru Volcano, Indonesia.

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Tim Storrier: Bowl of Stars (1994)

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Hiroo Isono: Secret of Mana (1993)

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Harlequin tuskfish By: A. Power From: The Fascinating Secrets of Oceans & Islands 1972

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Shimabuku: Sea and Flowers (2013)

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