Zythrina

The smallest and most northern continent of T'sara, Zythrina often exudes a warmth to outsiders despite the frequently or at times constantly cold climates. Fewer of the nations or cultures are landlocked or held back by mountains, allowing them to generally be more well traveled than residents of other lands.

This can be typified in the culture of Cygia, the oldest nation in the world, which stretches across the straight into Khilgara, and the global trading hub of Linthalia.

Geography

Zythrina is primarily lowlands of elevation, commonly creating marshy areas near coast lines. The sole mountain range of the continent runs north and south, creating a cultural understanding of the East and West regions of the continent, although the regions are scarcely equal. a break in these mountains, the Mintalelian Pass, provides a critical means to transit between them without relying on seapower.

The shape of the continent creates a number of safe bays and gulfs, providing consistent acces for ships and calmer seas.

Climate

The eastern coastline receives the bulk of the rainfall. Combined with warmer temperatures, it's created a fertile region for farming and cohabitating. Moving further north along the eastern end causes regions to get colder, creating areas of tundra and taiga along the northerne extremes. Climate becomes drier moving further to the west, as the neighboring continent of Khilgara prevents the forming of significant storms. The westernmost region, moving beyond Khilgara, open to the wider ocean, also receives a larger amount of rainfall. Winds and rain being halted by the mountains along the Mintalelian Pass creates a snowy region, with temperate foresting areas below it.

With minimal elevation changes, winds are often high, especialy coming from the seas. In rare cases where winds can come in from both high and low of the continent, it can cause thunderstorms and other severe windstorms.

Natural Resources

The warm wet lands of the southern area is the only region in the world where the crop that is used to make Maiden Tea grows natively. The Linthalian Government, lead by the Maiden Queen, takes exhaustive efforts to ensure their most valuable and profitable resource is not allowed to be exported and grown outside their territory.

Tourism

Linthalia, the global trading hub, is often what most foreigners imagine when they think of Zythrina. It not only provides a market for goods and mixing of people's that no other place can match, the loose cultural norms of the country also provides a particularly hedonistic form of tourism, especially among the wealthy elite.

A notable monument is the Lover's Statues in Cygia. One of the tallest and oldest statues in all of Cygia, it commemorates the loss of families seperated by The Fey Crisis, and lovers seperated by great distance.

Maps

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  Zythrina Map

Type

Continent

Included Organizations

• Agrahn
• Askakeli
• Baragavian Union
• Barkhis
• Bek't
• Bel'ruhn
• Belben
• Bokkanur
• Bokkatat
• Buzun
• Carpia
• Comachavet
• Egrania
• Esertia
• Finthia
• Giuca
• Grantheria
• Guragz
• Hoxia
• Kath Zathur
• Khana Khalz
• Khaz Dushur
• Kurzan
• Linthalia
• Naztalan
• Niele
• Protectorate of Veth
• Regnia
• Sezeia
• Shogunate of Cygia
• Sule
• Thatelesia
• Tuqurnike
• United Provinces of Mintalel
• Vithia
• Yera-Nilaug
• Zhalox

Inhabiting Species

• Tyrant Spider