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+ | ====== The Geography of Sakar ====== | ||
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+ | ===== Overview ===== | ||
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+ | Sakar is a dry land, set between the mountains and the Hann Sea. Its main towns and cities are spread along the coastal plains, normally where a river meets the sea, where the land is greener and more suitable for agriculture. Further south, the Bad Lands, with its rocky scrubland and desert, is home to semi-nomadic family-based tribes. Even further south, the Bad lands give way to high mountains, hope to bandits, barbarians and monsters. | ||
+ | ===== Coastal Towns ===== | ||
+ | Some are big enough to claim city status, but towns are often found where a river meets the sea. Crops grow here due to cleverly managed irrigation, while each town develops its own industrial specializations. | ||
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+ | The enlightened deities are properly respected, but Wee Jas (patron of the priest Kings), Azan, Besmara and Takri have a strong influence as well. The ' | ||
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+ | ==== The Pirates ==== | ||
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+ | Spread along the coast, especially at each end of the Sakhar Coast, are fleets of pirates. | ||
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+ | The enlightened deities are important, while Takri the Navigator and the pirate deity, Besmara are also important. | ||
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+ | ===== The Bad Lands ===== | ||
+ | The badlands are made of broken scrubs, hills, desert and plateaus - life here is based around waterholes, oasis and ' | ||
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+ | The enlightened gods are respected, while Khepri and Najm are also favoured. | ||
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+ | ===== The Mountains ===== | ||
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+ | The mountain ranges are home to all sorts of barbarian and humanoid tribes - all squabbling with each other. | ||
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+ | The margins, between the Bad lands and the mountains, are home to various bandits and outlaw groups, composed of escaped slaves, people who have been exiled from their cities or families - or just left, for one reason or another. | ||
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+ | Of the Enlightened gods, Haku is favoured, but Takri (freebird) is important, as well as respect for the Nature Spirits. | ||