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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samloyal23" data-source="post: 5876549" data-attributes="member: 21432">The land around Valora, the City of Wisdom, is mostly rolling hills with a few small villages and lots of forest. Ash trees abound, revered by the elves of this part of the Last Lands, many of whom believe the gods made their race from this tree. Indeed, the elvish tribes of Valora and Irium call themselves Melian, from a Kironan word for the ash tree.The area of Irium, the City of the Lost Gods, has more oaks than ash thanks to the clerics of Zeus. Unfortunately this area is also very rocky and has poor soil, making it hard to raise crops. The poor of Irium often have to rely on the ground meal of the acorn for their sustenance.In the region of Ys, the Sinking City, the land is flat and low, subject to frequent floods, but has rich soil. Many houses in Ys have rooftop gardens so the tides and floods will not reach the owners' crops. The people of Ys struggle to keep bogs from growing out of control and have to drain certain areas after every rainy season.Like Ys, Shosnar, the City of Set, is surround by bogs and marshes, but in summer this area's rivers run dry and the bogs are drained. The fens hide many small farms but no notable villages of any kind. Snakes are found throughout the area thanks in part to the Cult of Set, which breeds them and let's them out into the wild, and in part to the comfortable climate.Aldea, the Hidden City, is in an impenetrable forest, hidden behind layers of illusions and false terrain. The forest drips with dew and the soil is rich beyond compare. The Sidhe graft fruit to nearly every tree in the forest, and every form of berry known grows wild in the heather of the vale. The land around Burghausen is mountainous and rocky, with poor soil, but the Guild of Reclamation uses sewage to create compost for enriching its many small heated gardens. Many an abandonned mine shaft is filled with cultivated plants and fungi fed by piped in water and fertiliser. Burghausen still imports most of its food, but does export specialty crops sush as mushrooms and notoriously pungent cheeses.Skytop Village, on the highest peak in all of the Last Lands, is far too cold to grow any regular crops, but wild games is abundant in the mountains and the Aarakocra trade exotic meats and their own feathers for all the grain and produce they need. Wild berries are easily harvested and the Aarakocra are famous for their berry wines. Wild game, especially deer, is preserved in smoke houses and through pickling, and the little village exports whatever is not used to Burghausen.</blockquote>

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