Creative Excersize 2: It all starts with a map.

[Mark Causey]

The Bridge of Khaza

At the area highlighted below, two great but fallen nations once attempted to personify their great treaty with a bridge connecting their two islands; foundations were layed the entire stretch, but the actual bridge went only a mile or so on each side before some calamity occurred (whether political, geological, or magical I don't know) destroying the seats of those nations and leaving their project in ruin.

It was to be called the Bridge of Khaza. It's meaning has been lost in antiquity.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Now let us talk about the sea and the dragon turtles that swim in its clear blue waters, and the night that they come ashore to lay their eggs in the warm beach sand, only to find a outpost in their breeding and birthing grounds!

 

[TDRandall]

I count that as five! *rubs hands and quietly begins chuckling*

Storms of Bathani are frequent occurences in the north east area of the map ( tentatively labeled as the Straits of Gi ). These violent storms are the result of huge, mysterious whirlpools that appear and then quickly invert to churn hundreds of thousands of tons of salt water into the sky over the course of hours or even days before subsiding. Large sea creatures can be pulled from the sea bottom and have even been catapulted into the air by the violent vortexes.

 

[GreyShadow]

The island of Goz, a small isle away from known shipping paths, is competely magic dead.

 

[GuardianLurker]

There is an area in the shallow sea that because of various factors acts as an extreme tidal concentrator; when the tides are all in a pillar of sea water hundreds of feet tall and thousands of feet wide in diameter rises, when they are all out the sea bed is exposed. The height and width fluctuate with the alignments of the suns and moons.

 

[Sparta Kerleon]

On each of the two peaks of the largest island (the claw-shaped one to the east -- note the small dark green spots in the interior) is located an ancient temple. The larger and lower of the temples, on the eastern peak, is dedicated to the sun deity Selephé; the smaller and higher temple, on the western peak, is dedicated to the other sun deity, Kelephé.

 

[Michael Morris]

All these ideas are great - any more?

Remember, if anyone wants to sketch a zoom map of a city or wants me to show a zoom in of a particular area from the cc2 file I'd be happy to.