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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Aberton" data-source="post: 139479" data-attributes="member: 1518">Misc. Bits 'n' Pieces...Crunchy Bits coming up...And now, the Miscellaneous Information about Avalon.Geography:  Coming up...Places of Interest:  The Tor (Yn Twr), what corresponds to Glastonbury Tor, RL.  This is the site of the Abbey of Ynis Witrin, which was sacked in the Ruinous Wars, also the Holy Thorn, said to have grown from where Joseph of Arimathea laid down his staff.  It only blooms on Christmas Day.  This corresponds to the RL Holy Thorn which really does bloom only on Christmas Day.Chalice Well: Where the Lady of the Lake lives, where the Holy Grail is.  About 40 miles from the Tor, in the deeps of the Elfin woods.Pillars of the Sky: mountain range that simultaneously sprang up over the course of a hundred years due to the realms of Faerie and Avalon overlapping.  Inhabited by Ronetaig the Old, an immense dragon of terrible power.  Even the Wizard and the Lady of the Lake fear to oppose him.Caer Trehannis: a great walled city, the olny one left after the Ruinous Wars.The Icy Wastes:  Far at the most northern tip of Avalon, this tundra is exactly what the name implies.  It is inhabited by the hardy Norsemen.Bheac Mawr Coeden (Little Greatwood):  A small forset, mostly inhabited by Gnomes and one or two communities of humans.  It is north of the Pillars of the Sky but south of the Icy Wastes.The Llyncairn Isles: a small group of islands at the mouth of Trehannis Cove.Allamid: a desert region at the very southern tip of Avalon.  There is rumored to be a small forest (jungle) at the end of the Cape of Allamid.  Allamid is ruled by a matriarchal people of Celtic origin, the Allamidians.  Allamid was created when the Southern Mountains sprung up at the same time as the Pillars of the Sky, due to the overlapping with the realm of Fearie.  This cause rain to be cut off to the south of the Southern Ranges, and the land became desert-ified over the course of a permanent drought caused by the mountains.  (DM note: unlike the Celtic-flavored other part of Avalon, Allamid is very Arab flavored, but Matriarchal)</blockquote>

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