Wytn

Wytn is the largest and best-documented continent of the planet Ŵadin. It is home to many different climates and cultures, and is believed to be the first continent on this planet to have been colonised by human-form sentients.

Geography

The Humid North

The northern part of Ŵadin is humid and supports dense vegetation in the form of a rainforest as well as a curious crystal lake, the 'Freeze Sea'.

Notable Landmarks

The small stretch of land which connects the forested peninsula to the mainland is known in the local dialect as stro pa yehén /stro pa yiheɪn/ - 'land of the monsters'. It grows smaller with each passing year.

A large crystalline lake is located in the middle of the peninsula which constitutes the majority of the land upon which rainforest is found. The crystal covering the water beneath is nearly perfectly clear after rainstorms, but hazier and more opaque during dry spells. The exact nature of the crystal is unknown, but locals have drilled past it easily for centuries, even creating underwater air pockets which can be used as under-ground swimming chambers. The lake is known colloquially as the 'Freeze Sea'.

The Grassy North

To the east slightly and away from the main peninsula, there is another small forested area and then hilly grasslands.

Notable Landmarks

An area called mi gib dena, (/mi gib diˈna/) or 'the dank earth place' is notable for the fact that it has perpetually damp clay instead of soil for ground material.

The Desert Wastelands and their cousin plains

Further south, the beginnings of the Atland mountains can be seen. These stretch almost the entire length of the continent, some 1100 miles. As one continues south, they divide the desert wastelands from the relatively nice grasslands to the west. Due to their height, they are unscalable and impassable save for the Tiaman pass.

Notable Landmarks

A giant lake, the Ilmétric pool, has such a high salt content that the desert nomads actually harvest salt 'cubes' from its shores.

The South

Past where the desert ends to the east, on the west shore of the continent the grasslands grow lusher and more dense, until finally turning into a deciduous forest, which lasts most of the rest of the way down the continent until the last 300 miles or so, where the mountains again divide the land into two. Beyond the mountains is a very short icy area which has no known name.

Languages of Wytn

Baljek Tongues

In the north (reddish areas on the map), Baljek Weyr is widely-spoken. Its stronghold is the enormous rainforest peninsula, though it has spread well beyond its original bounds and into the grasslands and mountains of the east.

The lighter-red area represents Talēli, an offshoot dialect which appeared due to The Audacity of Abial.

Baljek tongues are part of the greater Weyr family of languages, which includes the Pantrelan language and Klamek languages of the south.

Tongues of the Sandin

On the east coast, languages of the Sandin people (also known as the tréin kémanin) are wide-spread and thriving. There are three large dialects of Sandic which merit mention: the large coastal area of light-orange represents the dialects of the kafédin, while the inland area of orange represents the dialect of the hijjagin, and the northernmost portion of orange shows the area of the speech of the étibikain.

The great Badis

Badis languages (purple and bluish areas on the map) were previously the most widely-spread languages on Wytn. Though they have fallen into disuse over much of their previous range, there are still communities which use them on a day-to-day basis- see the small peninsula and the volcanic islands of Atasia, and the areas on the west coast