Judging by there being a waterfall, I imagined the rocky desert landscape, but with more fertile land on the skirts of the mountains of the Kyralian border.
j_mercuryuk- 11-09-2006
There should be fertile lans besides rivers. That's why alot of settlements a by rivers. Fresh water and good land for crops.
LittleRaven- 12-07-2006
Yeah. But most of it is wasteland, according to the books. It must have some fertile areas or something, otherwise no one would live there.
Kasloumor- 12-08-2006
Why do people live in Ethiopea, Eritrea, Greenland, The Sahara Desert and other nonfertile places? Because they somehow live of other things but plants and crops.
For instance desert nomads drank the blood of their animals - and then I suppose just ate meat and an occasional dish of couscous etc. yummi.
The eskimoes in Greenland lived of meat. In the North north of the Polar Zone there is no vegetation but people still lived and survived there.
So for people to live in the Wasteland where you have the odd spring or "oasis" there is bound to be people scattered about. What I don't get is why there are "free" farmers in the Wasteland - as Savara told Cery there are only masters and slaves in Sachaka. If that was true then why are there no masters to protect the farmers in the Wasteland ?
Kasloumor- 12-08-2006
Sorry language mistakes a couple of times there - trust you will still know what I mean ;-)
j_mercuryuk- 12-08-2006
Why do people live in Ethiopea, Eritrea, Greenland, The Sahara Desert and other nonfertile places? Because they somehow live of other things but plants and crops.
For instance desert nomads drank the blood of their animals - and then I suppose just ate meat and an occasional dish of couscous etc. yummi.
But vegetation is still a very important part of life. Animals need vegeataion (well, the cattle do). If is no vegeatation then there are no cattle and they'd die. These are areas have enough vegetation to support nomands and thier herds, but they must move they're herds on when their cattle have eaten from that area. Rivers and water holes also aren't THAT unusual and tend to be gathering stops for some nomands, to socilse and catch up on family news.
The eskimoes in Greenland lived of meat. In the North north of the Polar Zone there is no vegetation but people still lived and survived there.
Where do you count the Polar zone as being, I think techinally it starts just above scotland (but it's been a long time since I studied it). Through in the North pole I don't think there are any indiginous people because there was that race to claim it for a nation...i think, and the fact that it's alitle too cold. Ink freezes in the north pole. Through I'll sdmit that my knowlegde of the north pole and people there is rather limited. We've only spend one lecture looking at the eskimoes, and that was about their political system and how they cope with the enviromnet more then how they hunt.
So for people to live in the Wasteland where you have the odd spring or "oasis" there is bound to be people scattered about. What I don't get is why there are "free" farmers in the Wasteland - as Savara told Cery there are only masters and slaves in Sachaka. If that was true then why are there no masters to protect the farmers in the Wasteland ?
Now that is a very good, point. I've never noticed that before. Maybe Savara was just making a generalisation, or the farmers are the masters, but because they are so poor they are very weak magicians.
LittleRaven- 12-08-2006
The tundra does have animals and plants. It has musk oxen and grizzly bears.
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/tundra.htm
lirael- 12-08-2006
thats true LR i remeber reading that somewhere else too!
Kasloumor- 12-09-2006
yes they have plenty of animals i.e. meat and along the southern coasts of Greenland there is tundra but there is no tundra up very north - only ice and snow.
And there are no grizzly bears but ice bears. Still plenty of meat to eat but that is about it and I find it truly amazing that people lived there. Today of course it is much easier with airplanes, choppers, and everything :-) I know the inuits have more animals to choose from as they live in Northern America and not an island such as Greenland.
LittleRaven- 12-09-2006
Polar bears. I think they break the ice to fish.
Kasloumor- 12-09-2006
sorry we call them ice bears in Denmark - a little oops :-)
LittleRaven- 12-09-2006
No worries. That means its not incorrect to use.
Nirnaeth Arnoediad- 02-04-2007
hehe we call them ice bears here too. Sachaka always reminded me a bit of Africa, well, I imagined it that way.
Harlequin- 03-25-2007
I think that Sachaka isn't entirely a wasteland - indeed, the book states somewhere that MOST of the empire was reduced to wasteland, but not all.
Obviously, Arvice (the capitol city, I believe) is situated in the still-fertile part of Sachaka, and so people there would be relatively well-off, provided they aren't slaves or something, because every city needs farmers to supply it with food, and it's very likely that the surrounding land is fertile, and given over to farmers who can pay a tithe, or something, to the King.
Also, I think that BEYOND Sachaka lies other, more prosperous, kingdoms, empires, principalities or whatever the hell they want to call themselves.
Akkarin made a comment about getting as far away from Sachaka as possible, which speaks of the possibilty of lands other than the Allied Lands and Sachaka, and so does what the King says when he exiles Akkarin and Sonea -- they'll be taken to the NEAREST non Allied Land, which quite blatantly says "LOL THERE ARE MORE COUNTRIES!11!!"
My, er, rant about Sachaka and Beyond.
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