Explaining Eurwa

     I know I've told people that I'll be updating weekly, but that may or may not be true. I may try for daily updates or at least post something. Mind you I don't know if I can promise anything great from such a scheduel. Of course as the introduction said this isn't going to have the entire book on it. It's hard to decide what to tell my small audience and what not to tell, simply because I don't want to give away the story or any of the later developments. I think I know where to start though.

     If you're wondering how to pronounce Eurwa it's pronounced Ee-yur-wah. Now, I'm aware that isn't the easiest thing to say, but I could have made it something worse. I still can't pronounce a lot of Tolkien's Elvish or Dwarfish. So if we compare to that, Eurwa is a piece of cake. Now someone requested a back story, and I'm going to have to deny that request because the back story, at least bits and pieces are going to be revealed throughout my story. I will give you some other details though, mainly geographical and cultural.

     Eurwa is roughly 1100 leagues from east to west. Running north to south it measures 750-800 leagues. Large portions of the northern latitudes of Eurwa are sparse grasslands, tundra and ice fields. This area is known as the Northern Wastes. Of course the name is somewhat misleading because the "wastes" mostly refer to the tundra and ice fields. In fact Ansurim and Cirion are technically in this area, though their political borders do not extend very far into the tundra. As you move south the climate becomes almost tropical, much like Florida. Much of the continent is covered in a large grassland which has led several nations to rely heavily on horse warriors instead of regular infantry. Strangely Rôit, which lies in the central plain, never developed such a dependence, prefering to use heavy infantry with tower shields.

     Euwa has several mountain ranges running through the continent. As you travel further east the land becomes increasingly rugged, and eventually you will reach the Damaskus mountains. On the western coast you will find the Ring Mountains. The mountain range is a peculiar thing as it encircles the much of the peninsula it is on, forming a ring. Of course the range does extend outward, north to south, but unlike the Damaskus Mountains it does not span the entire continent's length. The last mountain range of note is the Werelite mountains. These mountains have had tales of strange lights appearing near them and are rumoured to contain Linvesti ruins inside the various caverns that dot the range. The range runs west to east and on the southern edge of Frelenda and the northern edge of Redina.