Geological structureThe lands on the southern coast of the Worldsea are Fanigawi and Maristriumarka, where Fanigawi is usually referred to as the whole country, and Maristriumarka as a part of it (the rather uninhabited, wild coastal forest in the west). There are also other local names for parts of the country, and the whole country is known as “Izeldu’bed”.The names of the land refer to the geological situation as it is today and has been for the past eras. However, the current situation is not as it always was, on the contrary, an enormous change in the landscape has taken place many centuries ago, during a big disaster. The nature of this disaster can be deduced from the current landscape. The time when it happened can be roughly estimated: around the same time as Trigohaima was lost in the Worldsea. It is possible and even probable that the same disaster was the cause of both events. Originally, these lands had a coast much more to the south, a coast of high, white cliffs (hinting that an earlier sea might have had it’s waves high above the tops of the cliffs in an era nobody can even imagine). These cliffs protected the more southern lands against the sea. During the disaster, a enormous wave of mud flooded the lands. The cliffs were drowned in it, and the coastal plains as we now know it were born. Where the mud came from, nobody knows, but it might as well be the remains of Trigohaima. Later, many floods have destroyed the original landscape. All along the coast lakes, pools and puddles can be found. However, this landscape is doomed too. The vegetation in and around these lakes - especially the shallow ones- has formed a floating layer of mud and plants that are accessible in many places. Reeds and weeds grow here, and some layers are thick enough to build houses on. Every once in a while, a flood breaks of a part of these layers and pulls the isle into the sea. Some of these isles are used by the Caenquryches as nests. There are two older coasts between the Lost Mountains and the current coast. This can be detected from the vegetation in these places, the soil is drier and thus other plants grow here. These are the regions where the larger settlement are found - all in a row on the somewhat higher old dunes. The bogs between the old dunes have been cultivated a long time ago, but became "dewatered" doing so. The water was taken from the soil, the soil lowered, and the turf formed this way, was taken. Where the turf was, now many small lakes appeared. Therefore rather inaccessible, the forest has taken over here again.
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