http://songofavaria.com:8080/mediawiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Saramat 2026-04-15T01:57:01Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.37.0 http://songofavaria.com:8080/mediawiki/index.php?title=Saramat&diff=6407&oldid=prev 2024-01-28T04:43:43Z

<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">People</span></span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:43, 28 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l46">Line 46:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 46:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The native residents of Saramat are the seminomadic pastoralists known collectively as the Sarmatiyya. They are primarily descended from Rahoumi tribesmen who presumably migrated out of the desert some forgotten number of generations ago. The Sarmatiyya were once allies of the Kalentoi, helping to guard the frontier against attack from the east by the rival [[Irzali Empire]]. However, relations between the Sarmatiyya and the Kalentoi soured after 56 BD, when Emperor Milentos chose to stop paying the tribes tribute for their services in safeguarding the border. This eventually led to the tribes quietly allowing passage to the enemies of the Kalentoi -- first to Irzali raiding parties, and ultimately to the armies of Sirdab in the days of the Azadi conquests. Capable of holding a grudge for generations, the Sarmatiyya still harbor a profound contempt for the Kalentoi.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The native residents of Saramat are the seminomadic pastoralists known collectively as the Sarmatiyya. They are primarily descended from Rahoumi tribesmen who presumably migrated out of the desert some forgotten number of generations ago. The Sarmatiyya were once allies of the Kalentoi, helping to guard the frontier against attack from the east by the rival [[Irzali Empire]]. However, relations between the Sarmatiyya and the Kalentoi soured after 56 BD, when Emperor Milentos chose to stop paying the tribes tribute for their services in safeguarding the border. This eventually led to the tribes quietly allowing passage to the enemies of the Kalentoi -- first to Irzali raiding parties, and ultimately to the armies of Sirdab in the days of the Azadi conquests. Capable of holding a grudge for generations, the Sarmatiyya still harbor a profound contempt for the Kalentoi.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They are not overly fond of their new rulers either, for despite being ethnically Sirdabi themselves they feel virtually no kinship for those Sirdabi who have embraced the Azadi faith. The Sarmatiyya still venerate the old gods and spirits -- nature deities, ancestral clan spirits, and other such entities -- and they do not forgive the Sirdabi for having chosen to throw the various material foci for such worship out of the ancient Sirdab shrine in Rahoum. On account of this desecration, the Sarmatiyya refer to Azadi Sirdabi as &quot;the Godkillers&quot;. But this is a term more of mockery than anger, since the Sarmatiyya find it patently ridiculous that the Azadi believed they could destroy the gods simply by throwing out their ritual objects from the ancient shrine. The mountain tribesmen believe that following this act the gods simply abandoned the Sirdabi and came to live in Saramat with the Sarmatiyya instead, who call themselves the Friends of the Gods.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They are not overly fond of their new rulers either, for despite being ethnically Sirdabi themselves they feel virtually no kinship for those Sirdabi who have embraced the Azadi faith. The Sarmatiyya still venerate the old gods and spirits -- nature deities, ancestral clan spirits, and other such entities -- and they do not forgive the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">desert </ins>Sirdabi for having chosen to throw the various material foci for such worship out of the ancient Sirdab shrine in Rahoum. On account of this desecration, the Sarmatiyya refer to Azadi Sirdabi as &quot;the Godkillers&quot;. But this is a term more of mockery than anger, since the Sarmatiyya find it patently ridiculous that the Azadi believed they could destroy the gods simply by throwing out their ritual objects from the ancient shrine. The mountain tribesmen believe that following this act the gods simply abandoned the Sirdabi and came to live in Saramat with the Sarmatiyya instead, who call themselves the Friends of the Gods.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Sarmatiyya are given to raiding one another on horseback and rustling livestock, and some bands also prey on unwary travelers through the mountain passes, rendering both trade and travel difficult. Such depredations are a perpetual thorn in the side of the provincial administrators, tasked as they are with maintaining the peace and keeping trade routes open. However, some of them develop a grudging respect for the Sarmatiyyans' courage and daring, and few will deny the benefits of having such a pugnacious people to guard the northwestern border of the caliphate.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Sarmatiyya are given to raiding one another on horseback and rustling livestock, and some bands also prey on unwary travelers through the mountain passes, rendering both trade and travel difficult. Such depredations are a perpetual thorn in the side of the provincial administrators, tasked as they are with maintaining the peace and keeping trade routes open. However, some of them develop a grudging respect for the Sarmatiyyans' courage and daring, and few will deny the benefits of having such a pugnacious people to guard the northwestern border of the caliphate.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key avaria:diff::1.12:old-6406:rev-6407 --> </table>

Aleph http://songofavaria.com:8080/mediawiki/index.php?title=Saramat&diff=6406&oldid=prev 2024-01-28T04:42:32Z

<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">People</span></span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:42, 28 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l46">Line 46:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 46:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The native residents of Saramat are the seminomadic pastoralists known collectively as the Sarmatiyya. They are primarily descended from Rahoumi tribesmen who presumably migrated out of the desert some forgotten number of generations ago. The Sarmatiyya were once allies of the Kalentoi, helping to guard the frontier against attack from the east by the rival [[Irzali Empire]]. However, relations between the Sarmatiyya and the Kalentoi soured after 56 BD, when Emperor Milentos chose to stop paying the tribes tribute for their services in safeguarding the border. This eventually led to the tribes quietly allowing passage to the enemies of the Kalentoi -- first to Irzali raiding parties, and ultimately to the armies of Sirdab in the days of the Azadi conquests. Capable of holding a grudge for generations, the Sarmatiyya still harbor a profound contempt for the Kalentoi.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The native residents of Saramat are the seminomadic pastoralists known collectively as the Sarmatiyya. They are primarily descended from Rahoumi tribesmen who presumably migrated out of the desert some forgotten number of generations ago. The Sarmatiyya were once allies of the Kalentoi, helping to guard the frontier against attack from the east by the rival [[Irzali Empire]]. However, relations between the Sarmatiyya and the Kalentoi soured after 56 BD, when Emperor Milentos chose to stop paying the tribes tribute for their services in safeguarding the border. This eventually led to the tribes quietly allowing passage to the enemies of the Kalentoi -- first to Irzali raiding parties, and ultimately to the armies of Sirdab in the days of the Azadi conquests. Capable of holding a grudge for generations, the Sarmatiyya still harbor a profound contempt for the Kalentoi.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They are not overly fond of their new rulers either, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </del>they feel virtually no kinship for those Sirdabi who have embraced the Azadi faith. The Sarmatiyya still venerate the old gods and spirits -- nature deities, ancestral clan spirits, and other such entities -- and they do not forgive the Sirdabi for having chosen to throw the various material foci for such worship out of the ancient Sirdab shrine in Rahoum. On account of this desecration, the Sarmatiyya refer to Azadi Sirdabi as &quot;the Godkillers&quot;. But this is a term more of mockery than anger, since the Sarmatiyya find it patently ridiculous that the Azadi believed they could destroy the gods simply by throwing out their ritual objects from the ancient shrine. The mountain tribesmen believe that following this act the gods simply abandoned the Sirdabi and came to live in Saramat with the Sarmatiyya instead, who call themselves the Friends of the Gods.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They are not overly fond of their new rulers either, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for despite being ethnically Sirdabi themselves </ins>they feel virtually no kinship for those Sirdabi who have embraced the Azadi faith. The Sarmatiyya still venerate the old gods and spirits -- nature deities, ancestral clan spirits, and other such entities -- and they do not forgive the Sirdabi for having chosen to throw the various material foci for such worship out of the ancient Sirdab shrine in Rahoum. On account of this desecration, the Sarmatiyya refer to Azadi Sirdabi as &quot;the Godkillers&quot;. But this is a term more of mockery than anger, since the Sarmatiyya find it patently ridiculous that the Azadi believed they could destroy the gods simply by throwing out their ritual objects from the ancient shrine. The mountain tribesmen believe that following this act the gods simply abandoned the Sirdabi and came to live in Saramat with the Sarmatiyya instead, who call themselves the Friends of the Gods.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Sarmatiyya are given to raiding one another on horseback and rustling livestock, and some bands also prey on unwary travelers through the mountain passes, rendering both trade and travel difficult. Such depredations are a perpetual thorn in the side of the provincial administrators, tasked as they are with maintaining the peace and keeping trade routes open. However, some of them develop a grudging respect for the Sarmatiyyans' courage and daring, and few will deny the benefits of having such a pugnacious people to guard the northwestern border of the caliphate.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Sarmatiyya are given to raiding one another on horseback and rustling livestock, and some bands also prey on unwary travelers through the mountain passes, rendering both trade and travel difficult. Such depredations are a perpetual thorn in the side of the provincial administrators, tasked as they are with maintaining the peace and keeping trade routes open. However, some of them develop a grudging respect for the Sarmatiyyans' courage and daring, and few will deny the benefits of having such a pugnacious people to guard the northwestern border of the caliphate.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key avaria:diff::1.12:old-6339:rev-6406 --> </table>

Aleph http://songofavaria.com:8080/mediawiki/index.php?title=Saramat&diff=6339&oldid=prev 2024-01-06T16:09:01Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:09, 6 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l52">Line 52:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 52:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the mountain-dwelling Sarmatiyyans have by far the greater fame, other tribes live among the islands of the Leniscan Sea and ply their reed boats skillfully across its waters. Primarily fishers, they also hunt the waterfowl of the marshes and gather wild plants from both island and shore. Although generally more peaceable than their mountain kin and willing to allow travelers unhindered passage across the sea, they are resentful of any interference or encroachment upon the islands they consider their home and can be as ferocious as any other Sarmatiyyan tribe when crossed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the mountain-dwelling Sarmatiyyans have by far the greater fame, other tribes live among the islands of the Leniscan Sea and ply their reed boats skillfully across its waters. Primarily fishers, they also hunt the waterfowl of the marshes and gather wild plants from both island and shore. Although generally more peaceable than their mountain kin and willing to allow travelers unhindered passage across the sea, they are resentful of any interference or encroachment upon the islands they consider their home and can be as ferocious as any other Sarmatiyyan tribe when crossed.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Besides these Sirdabi peoples, [[Irzali]] heritage is widespread in the northeastern part of the province, particularly in the town of Khorazh. In Azulej, tucked on the south side of the mountains on the Gulf coast, a very diverse mix of people from around the [[Adelantean Sea|Adelantean]] and the [[Sea of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Salaah</del>]] can be found. Finally the western garrison town of La Lejanía is populated largely by ''mizados'' of mixed Sirdabi and [[Cateni]] heritage.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Besides these Sirdabi peoples, [[Irzali]] heritage is widespread in the northeastern part of the province, particularly in the town of Khorazh. In Azulej, tucked on the south side of the mountains on the Gulf coast, a very diverse mix of people from around the [[Adelantean Sea|Adelantean]] and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">even </ins>the [[Sea of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sala'ah</ins>]] can be found. Finally the western garrison town of La Lejanía is populated largely by ''mizados'' of mixed Sirdabi and [[Cateni]] heritage.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Economy==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Economy==</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key avaria:diff::1.12:old-5504:rev-6339 --> </table>

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<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Points of Interest</span></span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:48, 27 October 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l108">Line 108:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 108:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Red Reef Isles]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Red Reef Isles]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Silken Veil Range]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Silken Veil Range]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Soaring Range]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Soaring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bird </ins>Range]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Vigil Hills]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Vigil Hills]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Vulture Vale]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Vulture Vale]]</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key avaria:diff::1.12:old-5503:rev-5504 --> </table>

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<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Geography</span></span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:42, 27 October 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l36">Line 36:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 36:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The great al-Khazi range forms the heartland of the province, where the tallest snow-capped peaks seem to pierce the sky. As the meeting place of multiple streams of moisture flowing off the Gulf of Adwa and Leniscan Sea, the al-Khazi is frequently overcast and wet, the pinnacles themselves often becoming lost in heavy curtains of cloud, or veiled by misty rains. In the winter the precipitation is less, but the start of the season -- which may come as early as Kholabi -- is typically marked by a period of intense snows that blanket the entire region and render the trails through the heights impassable. But this heavy burden of precipitation is also a gift, responsible for clothing the coastal slopes with a thick tall growth of evergreen trees, while the valleys and plateaus of the uplands offer enviably rich and verdant pasturage in the warmer months of the year.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The great al-Khazi range forms the heartland of the province, where the tallest snow-capped peaks seem to pierce the sky. As the meeting place of multiple streams of moisture flowing off the Gulf of Adwa and Leniscan Sea, the al-Khazi is frequently overcast and wet, the pinnacles themselves often becoming lost in heavy curtains of cloud, or veiled by misty rains. In the winter the precipitation is less, but the start of the season -- which may come as early as Kholabi -- is typically marked by a period of intense snows that blanket the entire region and render the trails through the heights impassable. But this heavy burden of precipitation is also a gift, responsible for clothing the coastal slopes with a thick tall growth of evergreen trees, while the valleys and plateaus of the uplands offer enviably rich and verdant pasturage in the warmer months of the year.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Purple Fir Mountains of eastern Saramat are overall lesser in height with fewer prominent peaks, though the general elevation increases heading northeast into Irzal. They are also much drier and generally warmer as well, so that the Sarmatiyyan sheepherders often pasture their flocks here during the winter. These mountains support not only the purple firs that give them their name, but also oak and goldencrown trees growing in small open woodlands intermixed with larger expanses of open grass. As along most of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>Saramat's Leniscan coastline, the mountains meet the sea very steeply in most places, leaving little in the way of beach. One of the few exceptions is the expansive Dancing Bird Meadows at the Leniscan's southeast corner, which in fact is more marshland than meadow. This lush wetland provides the mountain Sarmatiyyans' lake-dwelling kin with plentiful fish and game, as well as wild rice and tubers, and the sand bars closer to the sea itself offer mussels and crabs as well.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Purple Fir Mountains of eastern Saramat are overall lesser in height with fewer prominent peaks, though the general elevation increases heading northeast into Irzal. They are also much drier and generally warmer as well, so that the Sarmatiyyan sheepherders often pasture their flocks here during the winter. These mountains support not only the purple firs that give them their name, but also oak and goldencrown trees growing in small open woodlands intermixed with larger expanses of open grass. As along most of Saramat's Leniscan coastline, the mountains meet the sea very steeply in most places, leaving little in the way of beach. One of the few exceptions is the expansive Dancing Bird Meadows at the Leniscan's southeast corner, which in fact is more marshland than meadow. This lush wetland provides the mountain Sarmatiyyans' lake-dwelling kin with plentiful fish and game, as well as wild rice and tubers, and the sand bars closer to the sea itself offer mussels and crabs as well.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A slender strip of equally marshy land known as the Eelmere is one of the few other level places in the entire province, and the only one connected by road to the rest of Saramat or the greater caliphate. Despite the wishful thinking of Sirdabi administrators, however, the boggy area is poorly suited to any form of agriculture except rice growing, and the local tribes are perennially disinclined to buckle down to the demands of production farming. The provincial capital of [[Sibela]] remains more of an administrative outpost than anything resembling the sophisticated Sirdabi ideal of a city, and most Sirdabi officials consider any posting to Saramat a misfortune merely to be endured.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A slender strip of equally marshy land known as the Eelmere is one of the few other level places in the entire province, and the only one connected by road to the rest of Saramat or the greater caliphate. Despite the wishful thinking of Sirdabi administrators, however, the boggy area is poorly suited to any form of agriculture except rice growing, and the local tribes are perennially disinclined to buckle down to the demands of production farming. The provincial capital of [[Sibela]] remains more of an administrative outpost than anything resembling the sophisticated Sirdabi ideal of a city, and most Sirdabi officials consider any posting to Saramat a misfortune merely to be endured.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key avaria:diff::1.12:old-5477:rev-5503 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:28, 17 September 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l24">Line 24:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 24:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|-</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|-</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|'''Native Heritages'''</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|'''Native Heritages'''</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|[[Sirdabi]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|[[Sirdabi<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]], [[Irzali</ins>]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key avaria:diff::1.12:old-5475:rev-5477 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:14, 17 September 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l27">Line 27:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 27:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Saramat''' is a border province of the [[Sirdabi Caliphate]], lying to the northwest of the [[Sirdabi]] homeland of [[Rahoum]]. With the exception of a few marshy pockets along the [[Leniscan Sea|Leniscan]] coast and the arid plain around al-Zaymi, the province is dominated by lofty mountain ranges of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">difficult </del>terrain and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">climate</del>, navigable only <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tvia </del>equally <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">difficult </del>passes. Its native people, the tribal Sarmatiyyans, serve as vigorous yet often wayward guardians of the [[Kalentoi Empire|Kalentoi]] frontier, while a small population of [[Sirdabi]] administrators struggle with the demands of both empire and climate.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Saramat''' is a border province of the [[Sirdabi Caliphate]], lying to the northwest of the [[Sirdabi]] homeland of [[Rahoum]]. With the exception of a few marshy pockets along the [[Leniscan Sea|Leniscan]] coast and the arid plain around al-Zaymi, the province is dominated by lofty mountain ranges of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">challenging </ins>terrain and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weather</ins>, navigable only <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">via </ins>equally <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">challenging </ins>passes. Its native people, the tribal Sarmatiyyans, serve as vigorous yet often wayward guardians of the [[Kalentoi Empire|Kalentoi]] frontier, while a small population of [[Sirdabi]] administrators struggle with the demands of both empire and climate.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Geography==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Geography==</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key avaria:diff::1.12:old-5474:rev-5475 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:13, 17 September 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l27">Line 27:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 27:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Saramat''' is a border province of the [[Sirdabi Caliphate]], lying to the northwest of the [[Sirdabi]] homeland of [[Rahoum]]. With the exception of a few marshy pockets along the [[Leniscan Sea|Leniscan]] coast and the arid plain around al-Zaymi, the province <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">consists entirely </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">high mountain peaks and plateaus separated by narrow valleys </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">treacherous </del>passes. Its native people, the tribal Sarmatiyyans, serve as vigorous yet often wayward guardians of the [[Kalentoi Empire|Kalentoi]] frontier, while a small population of [[Sirdabi]] administrators struggle with the demands of both empire and climate.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Saramat''' is a border province of the [[Sirdabi Caliphate]], lying to the northwest of the [[Sirdabi]] homeland of [[Rahoum]]. With the exception of a few marshy pockets along the [[Leniscan Sea|Leniscan]] coast and the arid plain around al-Zaymi, the province <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is dominated by lofty mountain ranges </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">difficult terrain </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">climate, navigable only tvia equally difficult </ins>passes. Its native people, the tribal Sarmatiyyans, serve as vigorous yet often wayward guardians of the [[Kalentoi Empire|Kalentoi]] frontier, while a small population of [[Sirdabi]] administrators struggle with the demands of both empire and climate.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Geography==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Geography==</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l34">Line 34:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 34:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Saramat shares its western border with [[Cadenza]], a part of the [[Kalentoi Empire]], and is bounded on the north by the [[Leniscan Sea|Sea of Lenisca]] and on the south by the [[Gulf of Adwa]]. The landscape consists almost entirely of high mountains and steep valleys, woven through with narrow and often treacherous passes, which blur into the equally mountainous country of [[Irzal]] to the northeast. South and east the mountains fall away into foothills, eventually merging with the desert plain that marks the boundary with Rahoum.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Saramat shares its western border with [[Cadenza]], a part of the [[Kalentoi Empire]], and is bounded on the north by the [[Leniscan Sea|Sea of Lenisca]] and on the south by the [[Gulf of Adwa]]. The landscape consists almost entirely of high mountains and steep valleys, woven through with narrow and often treacherous passes, which blur into the equally mountainous country of [[Irzal]] to the northeast. South and east the mountains fall away into foothills, eventually merging with the desert plain that marks the boundary with Rahoum.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The great al-Khazi range forms the heartland of the province, where the tallest snow-capped peaks seem to pierce the sky. As the meeting place of multiple streams of moisture flowing off the Gulf of Adwa and Leniscan Sea, the al-Khazi is frequently overcast and wet, the pinnacles themselves often becoming lost in heavy curtains of cloud, or veiled by misty rains. In the winter the precipitation is less, but the start of the season -- which may come as early as Kholabi -- is typically marked by a period of intense snows that blanket the entire region and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">renders </del>the trails through the heights impassable. But this heavy burden of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">precipation </del>is also a gift, responsible for clothing the coastal slopes with a thick tall growth of evergreen trees, while the valleys and plateaus of the uplands offer enviably rich and verdant pasturage in the warmer months of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">summer</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The great al-Khazi range forms the heartland of the province, where the tallest snow-capped peaks seem to pierce the sky. As the meeting place of multiple streams of moisture flowing off the Gulf of Adwa and Leniscan Sea, the al-Khazi is frequently overcast and wet, the pinnacles themselves often becoming lost in heavy curtains of cloud, or veiled by misty rains. In the winter the precipitation is less, but the start of the season -- which may come as early as Kholabi -- is typically marked by a period of intense snows that blanket the entire region and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">render </ins>the trails through the heights impassable. But this heavy burden of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">precipitation </ins>is also a gift, responsible for clothing the coastal slopes with a thick tall growth of evergreen trees, while the valleys and plateaus of the uplands offer enviably rich and verdant pasturage in the warmer months of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the year</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Purple Fir Mountains of eastern Saramat are overall lesser in height with fewer prominent peaks, though the general elevation increases heading northeast into Irzal. They are also much drier and generally warmer as well, so that the Sarmatiyyan sheepherders often pasture their flocks here during the winter. These mountains support not only the purple firs that give them their name, but also oak and goldencrown trees growing in small open woodlands intermixed with larger expanses of open grass. As along most of the Saramat's Leniscan coastline, the mountains meet the sea very steeply in most places, leaving little in the way of beach. One of the few exceptions is the expansive Dancing Bird Meadows at the Leniscan's southeast corner, which in fact is more marshland than meadow. This lush wetland provides the mountain Sarmatiyyans' lake-dwelling kin with plentiful fish and game, as well as wild rice and tubers, and the sand bars closer to the sea itself offer mussels and crabs as well.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Purple Fir Mountains of eastern Saramat are overall lesser in height with fewer prominent peaks, though the general elevation increases heading northeast into Irzal. They are also much drier and generally warmer as well, so that the Sarmatiyyan sheepherders often pasture their flocks here during the winter. These mountains support not only the purple firs that give them their name, but also oak and goldencrown trees growing in small open woodlands intermixed with larger expanses of open grass. As along most of the Saramat's Leniscan coastline, the mountains meet the sea very steeply in most places, leaving little in the way of beach. One of the few exceptions is the expansive Dancing Bird Meadows at the Leniscan's southeast corner, which in fact is more marshland than meadow. This lush wetland provides the mountain Sarmatiyyans' lake-dwelling kin with plentiful fish and game, as well as wild rice and tubers, and the sand bars closer to the sea itself offer mussels and crabs as well.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key avaria:diff::1.12:old-5473:rev-5474 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:04, 17 September 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l52">Line 52:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 52:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the mountain-dwelling Sarmatiyyans have by far the greater fame, other tribes live among the islands of the Leniscan Sea and ply their reed boats skillfully across its waters. Primarily fishers, they also hunt the waterfowl of the marshes and gather wild plants from both island and shore. Although generally more peaceable than their mountain kin and willing to allow travelers unhindered passage across the sea, they are resentful of any interference or encroachment upon the islands they consider their home and can be as ferocious as any other Sarmatiyyan tribe when crossed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the mountain-dwelling Sarmatiyyans have by far the greater fame, other tribes live among the islands of the Leniscan Sea and ply their reed boats skillfully across its waters. Primarily fishers, they also hunt the waterfowl of the marshes and gather wild plants from both island and shore. Although generally more peaceable than their mountain kin and willing to allow travelers unhindered passage across the sea, they are resentful of any interference or encroachment upon the islands they consider their home and can be as ferocious as any other Sarmatiyyan tribe when crossed.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Besides these Sirdabi peoples, [[Irzali]] heritage is widespread in the northeastern part of the province, particularly in the town of Khorazh. In Azulej, tucked on the south side of the mountains on the Gulf coast, a very diverse mix of people from around the [[Adelantean Sea|Adelantean]] and the [[Sea of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Saalah</del>]] can be found. Finally the western garrison town of La Lejanía is populated largely by ''mizados'' of mixed Sirdabi and [[Cateni]] heritage.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Besides these Sirdabi peoples, [[Irzali]] heritage is widespread in the northeastern part of the province, particularly in the town of Khorazh. In Azulej, tucked on the south side of the mountains on the Gulf coast, a very diverse mix of people from around the [[Adelantean Sea|Adelantean]] and the [[Sea of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Salaah</ins>]] can be found. Finally the western garrison town of La Lejanía is populated largely by ''mizados'' of mixed Sirdabi and [[Cateni]] heritage.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Economy==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Economy==</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key avaria:diff::1.12:old-5472:rev-5473 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:00, 16 September 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l52">Line 52:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 52:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the mountain-dwelling Sarmatiyyans have by far the greater fame, other tribes live among the islands of the Leniscan Sea and ply their reed boats skillfully across its waters. Primarily fishers, they also hunt the waterfowl of the marshes and gather wild plants from both island and shore. Although generally more peaceable than their mountain kin and willing to allow travelers unhindered passage across the sea, they are resentful of any interference or encroachment upon the islands they consider their home and can be as ferocious as any other Sarmatiyyan tribe when crossed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the mountain-dwelling Sarmatiyyans have by far the greater fame, other tribes live among the islands of the Leniscan Sea and ply their reed boats skillfully across its waters. Primarily fishers, they also hunt the waterfowl of the marshes and gather wild plants from both island and shore. Although generally more peaceable than their mountain kin and willing to allow travelers unhindered passage across the sea, they are resentful of any interference or encroachment upon the islands they consider their home and can be as ferocious as any other Sarmatiyyan tribe when crossed.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Besides these Sirdabi peoples, [[Irzali]] heritage is widespread in the northeastern part of the province, particularly in the town of Khorazh. In Azulej, tucked on the south side of the mountains on the Gulf coast, a very diverse mix of people from around the [[Adelantean Sea|Adelantean]] and the [[Sea of Saalah]] can be found. Finally the western garrison town of La <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lejania </del>is populated largely by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**</del>mizados<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** </del>of mixed Sirdabi and [[Cateni]] heritage.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Besides these Sirdabi peoples, [[Irzali]] heritage is widespread in the northeastern part of the province, particularly in the town of Khorazh. In Azulej, tucked on the south side of the mountains on the Gulf coast, a very diverse mix of people from around the [[Adelantean Sea|Adelantean]] and the [[Sea of Saalah]] can be found. Finally the western garrison town of La <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lejanía </ins>is populated largely by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>mizados<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>of mixed Sirdabi and [[Cateni]] heritage.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Economy==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Economy==</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l79">Line 79:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 79:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''[[Dimesh]]''', called Bab al-Khazi, the Gateway to the al-Khazi Mountains, and home of one the great livestock fairs of the caliphate.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''[[Dimesh]]''', called Bab al-Khazi, the Gateway to the al-Khazi Mountains, and home of one the great livestock fairs of the caliphate.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''[[Khorazh]]''', a largely Irzali market town nestled at the mouth of the Flaming Heart Gorge.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''[[Khorazh]]''', a largely Irzali market town nestled at the mouth of the Flaming Heart Gorge.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''[[Lejanía]]''', a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**</del>mizado<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** </del>garrison town, equally equipped for battle and barter with their Cadenzan neighbors.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''[[Lejanía]]''', a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>mizado<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>garrison town, equally equipped for battle and barter with their Cadenzan neighbors.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''[[Sumarkha]]''', the traditional summer encampment of the Sarmatiyya, now also a rustic Sirdabi administrative outpost.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''[[Sumarkha]]''', the traditional summer encampment of the Sarmatiyya, now also a rustic Sirdabi administrative outpost.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> </table>

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