Napmeadows
The golden agricultural plains of Northland Place Northland The northern continent of Elshore, called Northland in common speech, on which every chapter of the story so far unfolds. south of the Sea of Rising Suns Place Sea of Rising Suns The gulf lying east of Iruel and west of Northland, on whose shore the Iru co-capital of Ekree cuts its harbours from living cliff-face., the sporegrain Natural History Sporegrain Sporegrain stands with quiet, steadfast grace, slender and fernlike, built of finely feathered fronds branching from a dark supple stalk and crowned by golden sporecones cluster... and dewsown Natural History Dewsown Dewsown rises as a slender, jointed reed, each ribbed segment crowned by small whorled fronds that splay like fingers greeting the sky, with plump golden grains dangling in soft... country that feeds the northern realms. (Carboniferous Elshore has no true grasses; its "golden plains" are fern-grain and spore-crops.)
Key traits
- Northern Northland, south of the Sea of Rising Suns; sporegrain and dewsown farmland.
The Napmeadows lie across the mid-north like sleep made into a landscape: long grass, low light, air that settles the shoulders. Herds drowse standing up; travellers plan a crossing in three days and take five without resenting it. The name is settler speech and needs no register. Under the softness the old drains of the Inarin age still keep the water table exactly courteous, which is why the meadows nap instead of drowning: the gentlest work the old world ever did, and among the last still doing it.