Baramma
The great jungle island east of Tarkdaara Place Northland 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 Place Bram Sea The shallow sea between the mainland at Udhafa and the island of Baramma, the water crossed to reach the jungle coast. 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 empire Place The Maan Empire By AC 364 the long Throne War has reshaped the north: the Maan Empire proper rules from Goldenhold under Emperor Theodelf Vissor, an absolute monarchy of order, debt and flame w... 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
- Its official AC 50 name in the old registers is Bar'amma; the common name is already what the road and the sea-lanes say, and by the later age it is all that remains in daily speech.
- 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 Place Free Clans of Baramma The Bar clans of the jungle island of Baramma, governing as clan-matrilineal tribal republics under Kironism, the ecological discipline that treats the forest as a single rememb... 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 Place The Heart A ring of sacred islets in the western ocean off Iruel, the Iru homeland whose faith is the Ooliran Sovereign Breath. 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.