Crish and Varg

Crish and Varg is an island group over 900 km north of Cape Cadal, the most northwesterly point of Anásthiasplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAnásthias

Anásthias [a-NAS-thee-ass / ænæsθiːæs], or [an-ass-THEE-as] is an equatorial island continent, heart of the Civilised World. The north straddles the equator and is hot and humid, while most of the equatorial centre is an upland plateau with fertile river valleys, and stretches of arid plains and desert in the shadow of the mountains. The south is temperate but more wild, separated from the civilisations of the north by the almost impassable Harthera. It is named for the two largest islands, but the group includes six smaller islands plus rocky islets, many appearing and disappearing with the tides. In ancient times the islands were a single large landmass known as Kikarich, which gradually shrank and diminished with sea level rises over successive epochs.

Crish is the largest and most populous island in the group, being a maximum 125 km long and 70 km wide. Varg is approximately 80 km long, but so low-lying that during high storm tides it becomes four separate isles. Crish and Varg are green-vegetated, though there are many virid species cultivated for various purposes. The shallow seas surrounding the islands are rich in greenfish, the staple food of the inhabitants, plus a number of unusual green food crops which have been bred in isolation from the mainland.

During the Jade Epoch, around 10,000 BME when sea levels were lower, the two islands were combined in a single mass, “twelve days' walk from end to end” (approximately 600 km). It became home to a West Thalsic people who called it Kikarich. The Kikari developed their own distinctive languageplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLanguages

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The islands were only vaguely known to the Empire of Dor-en-Sann and the few Therist missionaries sent here from Ororr have met with little success, mainly due to the incomprehensibility of the local languages.

In the 9th century, an expedition of Ororran priests-militant visited the island, taking a group of children back to mainland Ororrplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigOrorr

Ororr [o-ROARR, ɒ̝rɔ'ɾ], also called the Holy Motherland of Ororr, is a theocratic nation in Anásthias, one of the world's great powers. It the largest nation in the world, perhaps the largest empire in history, occupying the entire northwest of the continent between the mountains and the sea. Ororrlanguagelanguagelanguage and trying to give them a thorough Therist education. They were returned to the island with the intention of spreading the religion, but instead they brought division and disease which wiped out half the islands' population. Consequently Ororrans are considered the “Death-Bringers”, and visitors to the island today are met with violence and shunned.