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Published: 2016-01-03 14:45:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 4112; Favourites: 104; Downloads: 35
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The sand plains is quite a desolate land but even there ecosystems emerge and human societies manage to exist. Boneyards and oasis' are littered throughout the plains, providing sustenance and materials for the sand kingdom to thrive on.
however, further north from the sand plains, lies what the inhabitants of the sand kingdom call the Dead plains. Miles and miles of what used to be part of the ocean floor has dried up. Leaving only salty dirt and cracked rocky surfaces with no nutrients for any plant-life to grow. here, any organic life can journey for no more than a couple of days before having all the liquids inside them dried up due to the high amounts of salt.
in the area where the sand and the salts meet, it is a very different story. Between the sand plains and the dead plains is an area where although no plants can grow, the amount of salts are not as deadly as the heart of the dead plains. carcasses of ships and oil rigs are scattered by the millions throughout this place. it is here that many human scavengers take advantages of all the easy-pickings. valuable materials not commonly found in the sand plains are just begging to be collected and perhaps, even sold for a high price to the sand kingdom. why live and receive average portions of food in the sand kingdom when you can get way more by trading a bunch of junks for'em?
Since the sand kingdom doesn't have enough manpower to claim the land, self-proclaimed rulers started rising, each with their own little 'kingdoms'. some territories formed alliances with the neighboring rulers, others are more hostile and steal or raid resources from one another. one common similarities shared by the territories are that the rulers have established connections with the sand kingdom. Trading salt, metal, weapons,electric circuitry or components, and ancient technologies in exchange for insane amounts of resources from the kingdom including food, water and bone materials. Most territories allow all wandering scavengers to pick up anything they can find with the sole term that they would trade those materials with them or with merchants from the sand kingdom at the provided merchant points in said territory where the rulers would collect a percentage of the resources traded by the merchants. This system is kept in order by the watchers, peacekeepers employed by rulers to make sure every daily activities are proceeding accordingly. They wander through the crowds, silently registering every move that happens, overseeing the overall situation high above in the shipwrecks on the lookout for raiders or rogue scavengers. The rulers of the shipwrecks want only the finest of experiences from their passing money-bags.
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Comments: 4
LE-the-Creator [2017-02-14 23:20:36 +0000 UTC]
A great picture, and the fascinating description only makes it better. Needs more love!
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Scarfman33 [2016-01-17 23:13:29 +0000 UTC]
excuse me good sir.I am a person who enjoy fictional worlds,but to me,a fictional world needs a map.I would like it if you were to make a map for this world(or,at least,the region).if you read this,thank you very much!
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Kiabugboy In reply to Scarfman33 [2016-01-18 20:21:29 +0000 UTC]
I've been wanting to create a map and maybe someday i would. But right now i'm confused on how i should approach it. This world is basically a distant future of the earth we know today so i'll be using the same land masses as our world but i'm still figuring out the scale of things. How many kingdoms/territories i can fit into the map, how big mountains or canyons and cave systems get in the scale of the map, the travelling distance between the areas, which i fear might change some of the stuffs i established in this world.what i know right now is that this drawing is in the secondary continent consisted the america continent but crumpled into a more bulky shape. So far the land is divided into the southern kingdom, northern jungles, sand plains and the dead lands in this drawing which separates the sand plains from the sea. The northern jungles are where most of the old world ruins are with many broken roads still accesible while the south is mostly temperate and cold mountain ranges with some tundras. So yeah, i just accidentally ranted a bit here. Anyway, i'm glad you like the drawing, thanks
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Scarfman33 In reply to Kiabugboy [2016-01-19 23:38:19 +0000 UTC]
What i do is think of what kingdoms there are (also their age and success).I also tend to not do things to scale.Also keep in mind that land masses are not smoothly shaped,their pretty jagged.If you need some help,just ask,i got a tips and experience map making.
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