Announcement: Geography of Ornath Document

Category: General
Subject: The Geography of Ornath and her Surrounding Islands
Author: GS4-THANDIWE
Date: 2025-03-17

Ornath is an island of contrasts, where sheer cliff-lined coasts give way to rolling farmland, dense forests, and rugged ridges. Though trees dot much of the coastline, the island's only true woodland is Prispaine Copse, a vast expanse of maples, oaks, and laurisilva stretching along the northern shores. Inland, pastures, orchards, and vineyards dominate the landscape, sustained by the island's humid climate. Access to the mainland is limited, with only four beaches, their white sands formed by the skeletons of coral erosion. Sleeping Drake Harbor, the northwestern shore across from the Cervidae Islands, the due-north beaches facing Aeglyra Island, and the northeastern interior coast facing the Orphaned Sisters serve as the island's few natural landings. Beyond these shores, the Library of Biblia's tidal flats form a shifting, flood-prone passage to the mainland.

Two prominent ridges, Squillspire Ridge and Windsnag Ridge, shape the island's interior. Squillspire Ridge bursts into color twice a year, while Windsnag Ridge, with its red marl, blue shale, and granite formations, serves as a natural windbreak for the farming plateaus, its wagon trails linking the interior farmlands to Sleeping Drake Harbor.

Surrounding Ornath, smaller islands scatter the waters. To the northeast, Condy Cay, a barren coral outcrop, is encircled by reefs teeming with anemones and tropical fish. To the south, the Tidesbane Islands remain perilous and unnamed, their hidden reefs and shifting currents making passage treacherous. The Orphaned Sisters, isolated and windswept, stand as lonely sentinels beyond the northeastern coast, while the Cervidae Islands, once numbering five but now only four, are home to Ornath's native deer and elk population. There are also the Aberrant Wind Keys that the weather wise keep an eye on as they always herald the coming of mana storms. Ill tidings and omens surround Marlalgae Rest, which is home to the island's only serpents.

At the heart of its northeastern expanse, Ornath holds a great caldera lake, a remnant of its ancient, long dead volcano. Together, the forests, ridges, islands, and waters of Ornath create a landscape as untamed as it is enduring, shaped by time, tides, and the forces of nature.

To read the entire document, visit the Geography of Ornath and her Surrounding Islands on the wiki.

Much thanks to the following individuals:
Alosaka for his map of Ornath
GM Elysani for her information on the Orphaned Sisters.
GM Xynwen for her information on Marlalgae Rest
GM Sindin for his information on Make Miro
GM Auchand for his input on Aberrant Wind Keys
GM Kaikala for her descriptions of climate/terrain of the island.

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