The planet Alkaendra is not very different from ours.
In Alkaendra there are several continental masses of importance, separated by great oceanic distances that have prevented a closer relationship between them, with the exception of Gahaedha and Makahare. Polar Masses are smaller than Earth, but due to cyclical rotational phenomena, every few years the Poles grow causing small glaciations affecting the lands located at lower latitudes. There are also climatic phenomena, like the Child on Earth, but unique to this singular world...
The continent on which we will focus is Gahaedha, or "Heart Sea" as was called by the Longed Ones.
Gahaedha is located in the north hemisphere, of a size slightly larger than Africa, although its shape is far from being similar, as is split in the middle by the vast sea of Syndalla: The Heart Sea .
Surrounding it there are numerous mountain ranges, high and snowy peaks that have seen over time and ages, as the Sammheda and Zandhari in the east, the southern mountains in Panlho, or the flat tops of Sihagaru, that prevents the Red Sand Desert of Avaru from extending north.
And in the west, are the peaks of the Taechka imposing massif and Navaetharu great range, where volcanoes and earthquakes are relatively common, who look over the dreams of those who live on its slopes.
Continue if you want to discover its mysteries ...
The East Lands
Zandhari Mountains form, along with more modest southern Nauthalarkka and northern Sammedha, the backbone of East Gahaedha. To the east and over three thousand kilometers, the water courses that originate in them irrigated fertile plains that have seen the passing of many peoples and civilizations. Currently the Mituinor, Ysenia, Panlho and Llaeredh lands are blessed from these long and flowing rivers. On its eastern side, the distance from the mountains to the sea is less and therefore the river courses are also shorter and less powerful, although those from Âra are not negligible.
To the west, the huge Hryethaikkar massif forms the eastern gate leading into the Syndalla Sea, and here the rivers that give life to Chakkiaryar and Mavra are born. Presents the most high mountaintops of the East, with several peaks exceeding four thousand meters.
The Nauthalarkka, more modest than Zandhari, are home to the great rivers of the Barbarian Plains alongside with the Sihagaru flat tops. Once they were very rich in minerals but the exploitation of their deposits have given them their present name: The Dead Mountains .
The eastern lands correspond to a belt of arc-islands, commonly known as The Islands, where there are numerous volcanoes presenting a steep and rugged relief. The biggest problem is sweet water, because it is not very abundant, which has always hampered the development capacity of these gems in the Many Names Ocean.
The south is bleak and inhospitable, dominated by deep and thick forests full of dangers surrounding several hills systems, which are often trampled by Alkaendra sentient species ...
The Syndalla Sea
The Syndalla Sea, a shallow sea whose maximum depth does not exceed five hundred meters, was formed thousands of years ago when the north mountains that formed a natural dam broke and allowed the Cold Sea waters to flood the basin that once housed a big lake. The Indäera Island and the others surrounding it are what remain of this destroyed natural barrier.
The waters are rich in life although not in variety, but have feed the inhabitants of the numerous islands that poke above the surface. Mountainous and rugged islands, with the same problems of aquifers and springs than those of the Many Names Ocean. In the south, there are several large isles that have been inhabited since the Age of Births, craddles of wealth, adventure and danger...
To the south, we find the Barbarian Plains, a flat grass extension irrigated by wild rivers originating in Nauthalarkka and Sigaharu. The latter serve as border to the red sand desert of Avaru, one of the most inhospitable areas of the continent.
And south of the peninsula of Xawa and Inúe is the huge Sagareda forest, one of the lungs of the planet, a green sea of trees that extends in all directions for hundreds and hundreds of kilometers...
The West Lands
The West is clearly conditioned, even more than in the eastern lands, by the huge and tumultuous Navaetharu mountain range and the southern massif of Taechka. Volcanoes and earthquakes, swift rivers and short courses -except those in the lands occupied by the yezhi empire and northern Tyethsynnúma- and deep and hollow caverns vibrant with exotic and dangerous life beings, form a beautiful and terrible view that has attracted sentient species from the advent of time.
To the north and east of the Land of Three Rivers of Tyethsinnúma, there is a broken and doomed place, known as the Broken Land, which natural origin is difficult to explain: from a geological point of view its rugged topography is impossible. Many sages whisper that was the craze Zadaritas who destroyed this earth with terrible and devastating mental powers, but this could not fully explain the relief configuration or the giant articulated worm-creatures that inhabit and burrows this devastated land.
The most northern part of the continent is the Tegu-ti-Ithwä Peninsula, crossed by a huge mountain range always covered by snow and ice. Here the glaciers and cold are the masters, chipping a virtually unexplored and wild land, whose rivers feed fish as big as men. The cold winds from the Sea of Storms and the few hours of sunshine typical of the northern latitudes, make Tegu-ti-Ithwä the freezer of Gahaedha .
To the west there are two archipielagos, Lon and Ku'un e-My'á. The first is of ancient volcanic origin, but none of its mountains are active. The second is a continuation of the mountains of Tyethsynnúma presenting some tectonic activity, and a delicate ecological balance that has caused civilizations that inhabit this woody islands born and decay with relative ease.