Nou Brådh (Now Brath)
Nou Bradh, the New Land, is the wild untamed continent that sprang up after the Cataclysm from the ruins of the Klum Bradh, the Old Land. Called the Unknown by those from outside it, and seen only partially by the isolationist peoples that exist within its bounds, it is not an unknown land to the people that call themselves Niechelat.
An equatorial continent, it is nonetheless somewhat moderate in temperature and weather right now, with predictable patterns of storms and weather. The Niechelat are a wide wandering ethnicity of the Kvut, the dominant species of the Lost Era. Their name itself means 'far voyagers' in their creole language of Hamusu, and they have indeed wandered across much of the continent fostering what little interspecies diplomacy there is. As it is, their maps are the most complete and detailed, and many places unnamed bear Hamusu words and more are augmented with Hamusu names alongside their native words.
Geography
The Nou Bradh is a varied and strange place. In the north the cliffs of the Brokenridge Mesa rise above the perpetual clouds. On the Mesa rise the Three Sisters, super-volcanos that once were islands and now are the snow-covered peaks that dominate the land around them.
Abutting the cliffs are two massive forests, one to the east and one to the west, split in the middle by a lake so large it could be considered a small sea. The eastern and western forests are part of the Vana, a living collection of symbiotic monocultural forests. South of the lake is the third part of the Vana, the central forest. The lake itself was once a part of the ocean until the land rose around it and the island that was there crumbled and sank. Two rivers flow from the massive lake, one flowing east to west and another flowing north to south. Both drain into the sea in muddy deltas.
As the rivers flow toward the sea, they pass other landforms beyond the trees of the Vana. The south river flows past the sunset hills before it flashes into rapids between the central and eastern forests. On its eastern bank, where the eastern forest ends, are the sharp and cleaving Greenteeth Mountains followed by the Barrows to the south. South of the Barrows is a narrow band of arable grassland called the eastern plains. South of the eastern plains lie the hot cliffs that separate the grassland from the wasteland.
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