#North Elevation

[serpentface]

Here's a heavily improved Imperial Wardin map, with a focus on climate and geography (uses the Koppen Climate Classification). This is an attempt to infuse pre-existing lore too established to retcon with a degree of realism, but there's only so much I can do.

The majority of the climate falls under the hot mediterranean and semi-arid classification, with small pockets of warm mediterranean and arid climes. The entire region experiences a rainshadow effect from the eastern Blackmane Mountain range, which blocks northeasterly winds from the eastern ocean and starkly divides the Sub-Viper landmass between its humid east and dry west.

Most of the interior is grassland, savannah, and scrub. Savannah heavily coincides with a history of human occupation and controlled burns, and is mostly based around oak. Grassland, scrub, and semi-desert dominates the semi-arid regions. Small pockets of high desert and salt flats occur in the arid zones.

A forest originally spanned much of the north, consisting of predominantly oak. This was gradually eliminated due to multiple factors- a warming climate, low intensity human intervention (hunter-gatherers and pastoralists clearing land with controlled burns), and high intensity exploitation (deforestation for timber). Additional woodlands found along the major riverways have been wholly eliminated by logging within the past several centuries.

The largest remaining span of woodland occurs within and north of the Highlands, and in the sparsely populated northeast, where a major and mostly intact oak forest stretches to the Blackmane mountains. A smaller pocket of woodland occurs in the volcanic highlands of Lobera. Other pockets remain, but are isolated and insignificant on the map.

Most of the geography is flat, divided by a range of hills that are the heavily eroded remains of an ancient mountain range. The highest peaks of this range comprise the contemporary Highlands, which have the highest elevations and coldest climate in the region. This is the only territory that regularly receives snowfall, and is the source of several major rivers. The rest of the range is too low to drastically affect the climate, save for the Red Hills east of the Cholemdi basin, whose rain shadow effect (heavily compounded by the basin's low elevation) renders this valley the hottest and driest part of the region. This range once formed a land bridge across the Viper into Finnerich (though this was prior to anatomically modern humans Existing) with its only remnants being smatterings of islands.

The province Lobera holds a small range of volcanic highlands, composed of a network of mostly dead volcanic craters. The volcano Odatoche is the only active site in the region, though has been dormant for centuries and has not had a major eruption in millenia. The other major geological feature is the Sons of Creation, which is the fabled site of God’s self-sacrifice from which the world was made. This is the eroded range of a very large impact crater, consisting of two impact rings (visible as a circular formation of hills) a ring lake, and an elevated center.

The most fertile land is found in Ephennos, owing to the presence of the Black River and its highly fertile delta (which contains the only major semi-permanent marshes outside of Highland river valleys). This is the second largest river in the region, being a confluence of two major river systems out of the Highlands (the Urbin/Erubin and Troibad/Nedachemi rivers). Erubinnos has the largest river, the Kannethod, which originates in the Blackmane mountains.

Agriculture around some of the other river systems is mostly or entirely dependent on their post-rainy season flooding. The most prominent is the Yellowtail river (flows south past Erub). In the very distant past, this was the longest river in the region, and carved out the Cholemdi basin and reached the sea. In the contemporary, it dries out long before even approaching the sea (though occasionally still floods the basin in abnormally rainy years). The Brilla river system out of the Red Hills (flows to Wardin) reaches the sea year-round, but has been known to run dry in exceptionally severe drought, and irrigation along its length depends on its flooding.

There are very few significant lakes in the region (small lakes are unmarked). The biggest is the volcanic crater lake Aganagarre in Lobera, the Yellowtail lake north of Erub, and the ring lake within the Sons of Creation.

[mapsontheweb]

Elevation map of North America.

by BlakeRobMills

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: A teen links the mysterious disappearance of his sister to a supernatural game that's played in elevators.

[hpowellsmith]

you can tell the near-end-of-project zoomies are upon me because I'm preoccupied by the idea of a The Terror/Honor Bound fic crossover

[your-fav-in-an-elevator]

Kenshiro sees you running towards the elevator and holds the door open for you

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Chrysler Building Elevator - NYC

[davetada]

It’s time that of year again…one more trip around the sun today 🌞 Currently delirious on NyQuil and spent the past few days in bed with a cold/flu/ear infection(?) wondering if i should start celebrating my half birthday instead 😅

Ktown, LA, CA

[thorsenmark]

#findyourpark in Death Valley National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at Badwater Basin along a walkway up from main path across the salt basin with people walking about and out. This lowest point in North America is at 282 ft in Death Valley National Park. The view is looking to the west with snowcapped peaks and ridges of the Panamint Range. So using the slightly elevated view I had, I decided to angle my Nikon SLR, camera slightly downward and capture a sweeping view, looking across Death Valley. I felt that raising the mountains higher into the image would add to a sense of grandeur. Having people in the middle ground would add a perspective for size as well as an interest element to the setting one would be looking across. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

[vqpn]

Maybe my second favorite section of this trail: Birch tree roots line the path and from the direction I prefer walking it's like you're walking across natural steps. From the opposite direction, it's more like a minefield of tripping hazards :')

[the-lord-of-the-things]

its a lil bit snowy here

[gaykarstaagforever]

Man, the Oliver Anthony x Far-Right honeymoon didn't last very long, did it?

First he fails to be racist, and now he's saying rich Republican politicians were the "Rich Men North of Richmond" he was excoriating.

I tell you, you meet a guy, he seems great, you bully fat poor people together, then he turns out to not be a useful idiot after all!

...You probably should have noticed something was up one of the many, many times he mentions smoking the jazz cabbage in his other songs.

......You probably should have listened to his other songs.

[swede1952]

Good morning. ☕☕☕

A negative aspect of my cruise last week, was the elevators. There were 20 elevators on the ship 10 forward and 10 aft. Yet we spent much time waiting. When an elevator did arrive, if it wasn't already crammed full, it was about to be. It wasn't unusual to be on an elevator crammed full of people, then at a stop a giant person decides that he can fit too. It might be comical except when you consider the time you spent crammed inside a small space with 10-15 other people. I wonder, what are the CDC guidelines and recommendations. At each end of the ship there were two banks of five elevators each, servicing 16 decks 1-17 remember, there is no 13th deck.

Hermes made it sound pretty ridiculous—hordes of monsters going up in the elevator twenty at a time, listening to “Stayin’ Alive.” - Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

[sdhfgdhsdhgf]

omg i almost didn't recognize you aksjfhsdkfjh i was like omg new motif???? and then it's just the debacle from yesterday

yeah sorry its just me and my brain demons the size of godzilla cock ♥️

[heylinfanclub]

Me: WAH WAH MY ART SUCKS Also me: you been focusing on other things LOOK AT THIS, THIS IS LOOKING SICK AS HELL

[the-busy-ghost]

No disrespect to the particular English accent that birthed this atrocity, we all have our own sins to atone for, but as a Scot I’m tempted to accuse google of perpetrating a hate crime by describing this monstrous mispronunciation as the correct “British” one

[scp-69]

they are putting on musicals in london that you cant even concieve of