Baramma
The great jungle island east of Tarkdaara Place Tarkdaara The northern continent of Elshore, called Northland in common speech, on which every chapter of the story so far unfolds., separated from the mainland by the Bram Sea and home to the Bar People Bar Towering, massively built, and engineered for high-load work and vertical terrain, the Bar are the strength line.. Towering trees climb like green pillars into a sky the suns can barely touch, and the air hangs heavy with wet bark and river breath. Under the Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. empire the Bar were exiled here; among themselves the Free Clans govern it still, and no road crosses Baramma that the Bars do not allow.
Key traits
- A large jungle island east of the continent of Tarkdaara, across the Bram Sea, in the warm low latitudes.
- A towering carboniferous canopy of green pillars; slow beasts wallow in black pools and silver-winged swarms fill the gloom between the rains.
- Settled by the Bar, who were forcibly relocated here under the imperial order following the Chaos Event The Chaos The Chaos was a continent-wide civilisation-collapse spanning approximately ninety-eight years, beginning around year 1700 of the Inarin Calendar when the Iru Parliament of the....
- Governed by the Free Clans of Baramma through clan-matrilineal tribal republics, under an ecological way of life called Kironism Faith Kironism The Breath That Remains, the old and enduring spiritual system of the Bar tribes of Baramma..
- Yara Village Place Yara Village The centre village of the Free Clans on Baramma, a vertical settlement grown into the dense fern forest and the canopy above it: a forest that learned to speak., a vertical canopy settlement, sits at its centre as the heart of the Free Clans.
- Rich in gold from its riverbeds, limestone in the south, and vast forest; the city of Onnila Place Onnila A city on the east coast of Baramma, facing the open waters, and the first Iru-era settlement raised on the island in the age of discovery. stands on its east coast.
- In folk-tale, the island where the earth "still remembered abundance" and the Blood Ïsuulë flower is said to grow.