Cardlinalom

Cardlinalom (CARD-LEE-nahl-UM) is an medium sized continent home to 2 countries: Cratov (CRATE-auv) and Larfaluz (Lar[like lard]-FALL-OOZ).

Cratov is a mountain. It is a mountain so big it was called peditatus nimbus (cloud feet). The civilization lives in the mountain, and has entry and exit ways on the sides. They are very advanced, hitting our modern level of technology. They colloct food from farms around the base of the mountain, generally at cloud level, where they receive lots of moisture. They receive water from tunnels in the mountainside, with built-in filtration to keep the water pure. The mountain is also a volcano, but is comparatively weak, the eruptions' lava and ash not reaching down to even the clouds. The eruptions are also regulated by the inhabitants, who can shelter their plants and water tunnels and trigger a massive eruption that goes all the way down the mountain, covering entrances and creating a large enough ash cloud to spill into Larfaluz and the large zero-gravity vortex surrounding the southern end, turning it black. The inhabitants gain their electricity from the heat from the magma at the base of the volcano. They are in no danger of running out of power, food, or water, at any time. They mine, and their civilization extends down five layers, in all of which they have expanded to exactly the edge of Larfaluz and used lava to seal off the layers. They are currently digging deeper with their massive mining machine, which stretches the width of the volcano, and is shaped like a donut around the magma, and can morph as the magma pool gets wider. The mining machine holds a city on top, named Minuturbis, Latin for 'mining city', They are soon going to run out of room to mine within their and Larfaluz's boundries. They have a plan to expand the boundries underground when needed, and maybe eventually take over Larfaluz. They have discovered some new materials: Cratium, Telepifalium, Energezium, Loricatium, and Kronilanum. None of these materials are magical, and the Cratovians don't believe in magic, and magic is severely dampened inside their country, out to 30 miles from the mountain, the outside being nothing but farmland, security devices and booby traps.

Larfaluz is the crescent-moon peice of land around Cratov an all sides except for the side with the southern whirlwind. It is flat, consisting of farmland stretching for as far as the eye can (naturally) see. The inhabitants are halflings, who grow short crops, and are very content to do nothing but farm and barter and chat, all their life. They are primitive, living in huts, and their only sign of advancement is in the trinkets they buy from the Cratovians. Everyday, they say a prayer to the Clear Moon as they watch the whirlwind. Their continent is so layed-back, that anyone who enters feel a wave of relief rush through them, and they have absolutely no inclination to do anything but set up a hut, and sit outside on a rocking chair, and daydream their life away. Everything on the land is easy, including farming, and so all inhabitants need not be strong, so they turn to some light wind magic.

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