Early morning in Dernian Landis


Dernian Landis (the Hidden Lands) are called Myrëns by the natives.
The natives have blue skins, bad eyesight and die in direct sunlight.
Women own everything, everything is inherited by daughters. Men have to work for a living and cannot own houses.

Architecture

The architecture of all buildings and public spaces is designed to keep the sun light out. Steel and wooden frames support coloured glass domes, poles support tent roofs in poorer places. The glass can be gold plated. Houses are made of stone with small windows filled with coloured glass.
All bridges and markets have a roof. Streets can have a roof, usually the squares and many streets have arcades to provide shadow. Gardens are indoors. Filtered (split) light might get into the buildings.

Landscape


The Dernian Landis are in the north, west and south surrounded by high mountains. These mountains are so high and uncrossable, that they made Dernian Landis “hidden”, and gave it its name. In the east, there is an ocean (Maliqë). A large island is also part of Dernian Landis.
The landscape within the borders is rather wild, although the lands are spotted with little towns and farms that all have their share of cultivated fields. On the mountain slopes, nothing grows and the people are poor. They are breeders of sheeplike animals.
The most fertile, smooth sculpted lands are crossed by two slow rivers, of which the Flÿ is the most important.

Technics

The technics are of lower level than in Daleth. There are no steam engines. The technics of optics (lenses, mirrors etc) are very advanced. Some attempts have been made to make a flying object to return to the Hidden Planet.

Trade

Myrëns exports many minerals (gemstones), spices and cloth. They also sell artistic, exotic jewellery (with silver) in Diwán. It is sometimes hard to tell if they sell real gems or fake glass. The objects of coloured glass are popular in salons. Apart from spices, no food can be traded because it rots away on the long journey.
There is some national trading of goods along the coast.

Translations of toponyms:

MyrënsOur Peaceful Place/World (Dernian Landis for Dalethians)
ZhënmelThe Holy Mountains (the mountains that protect Myrëns)
KélflÿCold River (a village in the west of Myrëns)
FlÿRiver (the river that runs through Kélflÿ, the largest in Myrëns)
ChiirÿtëtThe City on the Bay (capital of Myrëns)
DiwánBorder (the marketplace near Daleth)
MikmblidhetGathering of Friends (village on the shore, north of Chiirÿtët)
KeqitëtCity on the Cape (city south from Chiirÿtët)
MaliqëThe Sea (in the east)
ChëntópiilThe Singing Woods (wood in the west of Myrëns)

Things:

‘lec’rya yellowish fruit used to make lamps burn, grows on trees, taste is bitter
fúchëpéka kind of double baked bread, usually burned at the edges
móchëa kind of very heavy and spicy round meatloaf
shärmchárfëranimal, snake that lives in the fire
mädchóshtëbig clawed beast


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