Appendix of basic geography. Special and General brushstrokes

It is essential to locate the events in a real physical space. The first thing that came out of my head when I raised to begin a history of JADE FLOWER dimension is that I needed a new world. A new world with its own peculiarities, not only physical, because it was not just provide a stage to draw rivers, forests and mountains. Needed to give real coherence, realistic. So I set its history, philosophies, creeds and beliefs, myths, social structures, their characteristics, their languages and the loans that among all these areas had been provided to each other during the passage of time.
I can not be disappointed in the outcome. The JADE FLOWERS World is proper, is unique, has its own unique essence ... Now is also yours.


The Known World as it is called by humans. Elven race is called in all the languages ​​Shaärylvâhlla 'and dwarves give the name of' Urdh'Ghâssam. This place has some basic characteristics.

The first and essential thing is the ignorance of its limits and real borders. He is called "Known World" because they are aware of knowing only a fraction of it. In all its coordinates there is a natural border that has become impossible or unattractive for different civilizations venture beyond them.

Northbound (Alwebränn) there is a large formation of great and perpetual mountain glaciers: the Ghar'l'Ussam or Ghar'Ghâssam. The Great Ice have meant the impenetrable natural barrier in this coordinate. His extreme temperatures and altitudes desolate Arctic planted hazards, not only weather, have inhibited always wonder what is behind them, because for all we know that does not correspond with the maximum latitude. Not surprisingly, attempts, institutional or individual, venturing behind the giant glaciers have been numerous. Most of these attempts have resulted in little progress in glaciers. None of the expeditions has been achieved through the mountain and know what lies beyond, which has never been mapped. There are few missing items and adventurers who have never known again.

So is the South (Tzuglaiam), the vast desolate desert of Arid Arröstann, excessive and deadly, has always proved impracticable and its limits are unknown. The great desert and hostile continent has prevented Arröstann map their internal burning, full of dangers and legends. As with the Great Ice, there have been few attempts to accomplish the feat. But, if anything, the dark legend of those arid wastelands has retreated to more reasonable people. Very little is known of this sulfuric hell except the mapping of its shores and surrounding areas. The vast expanse of this arid continent has prevented even that may have been delimited in its entirety, since even the mapping of its coasts are serious supply problems.

At the East (Shaërdâlläh) and West (Nwändy), the impediment has been the extent and danger of the seas and oceans. In particular, the Grand Azur, say around the world and back on the other hand, is the cause of ignorance of the inhabitants of which extends beyond its plain blue. Although attempts to fabulous places and stories filled the stories, the truth is that, for now, there is no record of any lands beyond these four walls geographical. No expedition embarked on the adventure to go around the Grand Azur has ever returned.


Another feature is the presence of two suns in the sky.
The Major Sun, yellow and large, assimilated to divinity Yelm, and Minor Sun or Red Sun, deep crimson hue, also associated with human divinity of Minos, the Disciple. Both are commonly called the Twin Suns or just: The Twins.
Only a moon of threatening aspect (like an Eye to watch the night) associated with the divinity of Kallah, Goddess of Darkness.

It is also peculiar that these twin suns not draw his discourse on the sky from east to west, but the coordinates are considered as the north and south. Sunrise in the north and sunset to the south. It is desirable to understand this point not to be confused Great Ice with the North Pole. Great Ice is only a giant snow wall on the other hand the weather conditions in that area, but nothing more.

Thus we have a world of natural barriers that have limited this larger world, with a peculiar geographical coordinates and stars associated with deities.

Note: The pictures and illustrations are merely indicative of atmosphere and character.