#and thus cultural customs. Fungi are good fungi are friends and we should all make peace with our fungal overlords.

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// As with a lot of my characterization of Tarkin on here, I pick and choose what I like from Canon and EU y’know ‘cause it’s my blog and I do what I want, and I’ve started to do the same thing with how I view Eriadu. Canon and EU on the planet doesn’t exactly conflict, but it doesn’t exactly mesh nicely together, either. Canon seems to lean more to Eriadu being at least in part having an expansive, lush, bio-diverse wilderness while the EU paints Eriadu as if its dawhntawhn Pittsburgh, PA circa 1920 -1950 across the entire planet with the amount of industrialization and overt pollution. I’m going to use Canon as my base because as we see from the novel, The Carrion plays such a huge part in Tarkin’s development. However, Canon does still include Eriadu’s massive Lommite mining operations.

If I have learned anything from living in Western Pennsylvania my entire life is that there is no such thing as clean, ecologically friendly mining. There is no such thing as clean coal (or clean natural gas for that matter, but I’m not here to get into the fracking debate today) so there sure as hell isn’t going to be clean Lommite. Being part of the Appalachian mountains, Western PA has some absolutely stunning natural wonders with a diversity of fauna and flora, however, because of the long history of steel and coal, many of these areas have been devastated by strip mining, acid mine drainage (AMD) and the like. Ever since I was a kid, and long before that, the creeks and rivers near my home have run orange, white, and dead. There are, however, still some places that are still mostly pristine (I don’t think PA has any more virgin forests, but don’t quote me on that) and there are some conservation efforts to be had.

And this is how I view Eriadu -- both as far as geography and terrain go, but also to an extent culturally (which is a topic for another post, though I do touch on it briefly in my Eriaduian funeral customs post from awhile back).

TL;DR: I maintain that Eriadu is space western PA, or at least space south central Appalachia, and yinz can fight me on that.