GLOSSARY • WORLDS AND GEOGRAPHIES • Sa ~ Sz
Sevranselise {seh-VRAHN-seh-LEES}
forest on the planet Oraea
This coastal forest in the planet’s lower northwest is made of trees highly adapted to salts and seawater - in fact it floods every day with the rising of the tide, and in the roughest of storms the waters can reach as high as halfway up the trunks. Homes, observatories, and sometimes even markets are located in the canopies of these trees, trees which bear some resemblance to the Diamond Trees of Randrahir in that their branches shape a cradle of sorts.
As hume settlement presence grew, and the cycles of the environment brought waters that rose more often than before, the humes here cultivated sleek small trees with dark green leaves and low mats of thick roots to grow as a waterbreak between them and the sea, checking its force and filtering the heavier salts as the waters weep and seep inland.
The humes of this forest are near to the height of a culture and design-style that is sharp, lithe, svelte, yet durable and flexible, favoring colors and hues that are the starker shades of light and dark.
Near to: Aliat Erren, Gewareh Glent, Savuya, Sarnoserenserala, Siumonahxolo.
Sunhewn Sea
location on the planet Noma
Here the bones of the sunken world are closest to the ocean’s surface, jutting out in rocky ridges that form the ragged circle that loosely defines this sea’s boundaries.
Located near to the equator, the sea and its circle are recipient of a unique effect every day of the year: as the sun’s rays reach the lichen covered-rocks, the lichen flares a gold richer than those striations of real gold that thread these rocks for fathoms farther than the Noma have so far explored. With the ways this reflects on the water, the sea seems become a bowl of molten gold. Hence, Sunhewn Sea.
These rocks are some of the only islands on Noma, mountain peaks of once-upon that now give all they can just to hold their craggy heads above the warm waters.
They are the last bastions of a lost land which was once swept by winds and sun, once grazed and growing and echoing. Sea, wind, brine, and storms daily sand the rocks down.
Erosive as they are, it is hard to know how much longer the circle will survive.
But so long as they do, the Sunhewn Sea is daily made anew.