Atlas: Obverse

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    Vulimé

    Vulimé, or Voulimay (in Mayápo), is an island continent far to the south and east of Anásthias, more than 10,000km distant. The continent stretches 8400km from 25°S to 75°S , from subtropical forest in the north to icey tundra in the south.
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    South Pole

    The South Pole region consists of a permanent cap of ice covering sea, numerous islands and one large island continent, mostly concealed within a pack of sea ice which encompasses latitudes from roughly 75°C to the pole. The ice also encompasses the southern tip of the continent of
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    North Pole

    The North Pole or Boreal region is an area of mountains and permanent ice on the supercontinent of Zahkdarret-Retzayk, extending roughly from 70-90 degrees north. The high mountains store vast amounts of ice, sufficient to reduce Helevos's sea level in cooler viridvirid
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    Zahkdarret

    Zahkdarret is the largest continent of Helevos, encompassing most of the western hemisphere to the west and north of Anásthias.

    North polar projection of the Zahkdarret-Retzayk landmass
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    Zetahburook

    Zetahburook [zeh-TAH-boo-rook] is a large island continent to the west of Zahkdarret, approximately 9000 km east-west and 8500 km north-south. It forms part of the Zahkdarret-Retzayk supercontinent.

The Obverse

The Obverse is the opposite side of the globe to the Civilised Worldplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCivilised World

The Civilised World refers to the known regions of human civilisation, notably the continent of Anásthias, the Natorn Archipelago and surrounding islands.

Gastrinimer's 3rd century BME Map of the World, showing Anásthias and the Natorn Isles. Note: old maps place north to the right.AnásthiasAnásthiasAnásthiasAnásthias
. It is largely unknown to the peoples of the Civilised Worldplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCivilised World

The Civilised World refers to the known regions of human civilisation, notably the continent of Anásthias, the Natorn Archipelago and surrounding islands.

Gastrinimer's 3rd century BME Map of the World, showing Anásthias and the Natorn Isles. Note: old maps place north to the right.AnásthiasAnásthiasAnásthiasAnásthias
, and consequently subject to folkloreplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigFolklore

Folklore

This is in a series of articles about oral traditions, tales, folk practices, and folklore.

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, myth and speculative theories.

The most prominent of these is the Duospherical theoryplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigDuospherical Theory

Duospherical Theory is a geographical theory that the world of Helevos is a sphere, with two hemispheres which are the physical reverse of each other. It has been the dominant theory for more than a millennium, with world maps showing Anásthias
. It proposes that the Obverse is the physical inverse of the Civilised World. The Civilised World is mainly water, with one large island continent at its centre, home to greenplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreen

The Green Kingdom of flora and fauna includes humans, mammals, birds, whales, greenfish, and most green plants and crops cultivated by humankind.
life and human cultivation. The Obverse is its opposite, a hemisphere of dry land with one large sea at its centre, infested with virid life making it impossibly hostile to humanity. This is still the leading belief in the modern world, which has restricted human exploration of the Obverse as a dangerous and pointless endeavour.

Very little is known about the Obverse, the only accounts being from ancient Miyarrainplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMiyarrain People

The Miyarrain were the inhabitants of ancient Miyarris, famed as the most advanced civilisation of the Celadon Epoch. The Miyarrain were the progenitors of all modern Eloyoun peoples throughout eastern Anásthias.

The Miyarrain are presumed to be descendants of the Elaymen who predated them, but the exact ethnic origin of Miyarrain people is uncertain.
texts. However in the past century the Great Powersplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreat Powers

Great Powers are the most powerful nations in the world, the greatest modern powers being Ororr and Harthera.
have made new efforts to explore the so-called Edge Landsplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigEdge Lands

The Edge Lands are the mytho-geographic lands, said to lie beyond the four oceans surrounding the Civilised World.

They were named by the ancient Miyarrain. Zahkdarret lies to the west of Anásthias, and Retzayk to the east. The cold north is called the Icerealm, the south being the Icehorns.

These names are used in official maps and academic works, but little used in everyday speech.
, the nearest coastline of the great Obverse continent. Within recent decades, Hartheraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHarthera

The Hartheran Union, commonly named Harthera, is an imperialist maritime nation state dominating the northeast of Anásthias. It is one of the two great powers of the modern epoch, arguably the most technologically and militarily powerful nation in the world, only matched by the vast size and wealth of its neighbour, viridOrorrMEOrorrOrorrOrorrOrorr
has established a small colony, New Hartrahplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigNew Hartrah

New Hartrah is a territory of the eastern continent of Retzayk, claimed as a colonial possession of the Hartheran Union. It is the first successful settlement on the continent in modern history. It was discovered in 1112 ME, with virid jungle being cleared in 1116 in the hopes of creating large HartheranHartheraviridviridviridgreen
, on the the eastern continent of Retzayk.

 
maps/obverse.txt · Last modified: 2021/08/01 09:12 by Robert How · []