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{{Infobox Region
|Name = Avaia Snowy Mountains
|Other Names = Unknown
|Biome = Snowy Mountains
|Size = 435 square miles
|Continent = Unknown
|Subcontinent = Unknown
}}

==History==
===Historical Overview===

===History by Age===

====Stone Age: Before 1E 0====

====Copper Age: 1E 1-1E 2200====

====Bronze Age: 1E 2200-1E 4400====

====Iron Age: 2E 0-2E 700====

====Ancient Age: 2E 700-2E 2200====

====Middle Ages: 3E 0-3E 2050====

====Early Modern Age: 3E 2050-3E 2600====

====Industrial Age: 3E 2600-3E 2700====

====Machine Age: 3E 2700-3E 2800====

====Atomic Age: 3E 2800-3E 2850====

====Space Age: 3E 2850-3E 2875====

====Information Age: 3E 2875-3E 2900====

====Genetic Age: 3E 2950-3E 3000====

====Awakening Age: 3E 3000-3E 3415====

====Twilight Age: 4E 0-4E 500====

==Geography==

To the north of Avaia Snowy Mountains there a part of the [[Nicandran Temperate Forest|Nicandran Temperate Forest]] and the [[Yutin Whitewater River|Yutin Whitewater River]], much of the melted ice from the mountains go to the river, some of the tarn lakes and cirques are connected underground with the river, that way it grows the fish population on the water bodies of Avaia region. The [[Nabenia Temperate Coniferous Forest|Nabenia Coniferous Forest]] surrounds the Snowy Mountains from the west, southwest, and south, it is possible to go to the forest walking downhill. The ground of Avaia is not proper to let grow the trees of the coniferous forest. To the southeast and east, there is the [[Raugangago Mixed Coniferous Forest]], it has a different temperature and other kinds of trees and has a lesser elevation level than the Nabenia Coniferous Forest, they are united but there are two different biomes.

Nicandran Temperate Forest is located to the east and northeast of the Snowy mountains. It´s too low and it´s hard to get there, due to the elevation of the mountains. Climb up or down is possible, however, it´s dangerous due the snow over the stones make them slippery. Avaia region has 6 big snow peaks, the largest has 15,000 ft tall, the others have 14,680 ft, 14,450 ft, 14,200 ft, 14,100 ft and 13,800 ft. The peaks are distant from each one of the others. The three tallest peaks have caves inside and are occupied, the other three are not wide enough to have caves and they are used only as watchtowers. The ground has many varieties of inclinations, some places are flat and other ones are inclined to a certain direction, then change the inclination level to another direction.

In the places traveled by the inhabitants, the ground is smooth, in less-traveled places there are rocks of different sizes, grass, and small stones. [[Apolytaus City Zu'Aan|zu'aan settlement of Apolytaus City]] is formed by old cottages, large cabins, and habited caves inside some mountains. There are many ladders, steps and walls dispersed to make the ground easier to travel. Although there are not buildings made entirely of brick, the bricks are very common, used on the walls, balconies, street lights, and railings along the streets. Many parts of the settlement has natural ground, mainly in the flat areas, the main streets are paved with bricks to compensate for the inclination level and walk the more straightened possible.

Paved streets connect industrial buildings, some public areas, and the way to the habited peaks. The habited peaks have railings, ladders, and walls around that give the aspect of a castle. During the last ice age, the highest peaks of the main range experienced a climate which favored the formation of glaciers, evidence of which can still be seen. Cirques moraines, tarn lakes, Roche moutonnées, and other glacial features can all be seen in the area. It is possible to get fresh water from those water bodies, some of them deep enough to have fishes living inside. There are two mines that were built during the gold rush and later abandoned. The inhabitants of Apolytaus City use them to get clay, stone and other resources to pottery, bricks, and other materials to build and craft.

The Snowy Mountains is a mountain range that divides several forest regions. It contains the mainland's highest mountain, which reaches to a height of 4,272 m (15,000 ft) above sea level. The range also contains the other five highest peaks on the mainland, all of which are above 4,206 m (13,800 ft). The mountain range experiences large natural snowfalls every winter. Snow normally falls during June, July, August, and early September, with the snow cover melting by late spring. During nine months a year, the floor is covered with thin coats of snow, it doesn´t accumulate enough to cover rocks bigger than an eye globe. The Snowy Mountains were not formed by two continental plates colliding and pushing up the planet's rocky mantle to form jagged rocky peaks.

Instead, they consist of a high plateau, with significantly softer rolling hills spread across a long, wide plateau that was uplifted thousands of feet by the movement of magma that began to break up between 130 and 160 million years ago. The geologic formation was largely complete around 100 million years ago. However, during the past 90 million years there has been a number of minor uplift episodes and occasional eruptions of basalt lava from small volcanoes, which has flowed across the landscape and down some of the valleys, filling in the low-lying areas to form the flat landscapes of these high plains. All of those volcanoes have less than 30 million years off, there is not any trace of them as same there is no more tectonic activity. As result there are high mountains with almost vertical inclination on some sides but easy to climb by walking in the correct way on the inclined ground.

It´s easy to find on the surroundings big rocks that were thrown by lava eruptions, inside the rocks can be found mineral resources, ores, and nuggets such as iron, silver, gold, and jewels. The ground is rich and fertile for plants, however, the ground is hard and higher trees can´t grow roots deep enough and more of trees are between 10 and 16 ft high, the few higher trees reach the 30 ft; below the less of half-inch of snow, and below two inches of dust and ashes there is a small layer of ground before reach just solid rock. The hardness of the floor doesn´t let dig easily, it´s more useful a pickaxe than a shovel if somebody wants to dig a hole. During the past ice ages, when ice caps formed on many high ranges around the world, as well as at the poles, small glaciers were formed on the very highest parts of the Snowy Mountains.

Whilst no glaciers remain today, evidence of their past presence can be found in the numerous tarns and cirques that can be found in that region. It´s believed some of those tarns and cirques are connected underground by tunnels, not big enough for any living form but fishes.

==Plants==

Due to the hard ground of the Avaia zone the trees don´t grow up more than 30 ft high, most of the trees are between 10 and 16 ft high. The Snowy Mountains host to the keharmakri, a low-lying type of conifer, a species of ookath. It grows on exposed sites to 1,800 m, often forming living carpets over rocks through wind pruning. keharmakri can live up to 600 years, and the growth rings vary with the temperature of the growing season, with narrower rings indicating unusually snowy years. The leaves are 1 cm long and 2–3 mm broad, green, often reddish-tinted, particularly so in cold winter weather. It has small bright red berry-like cones, with a 5–10 mm long red aril and one (rarely two) apical seeds 6–8mm long; they are eaten by birds and marsupials, but are toxic to most other mammals (including the zu'aan). The plum cone can reach 30 ft high, but most of them are just 3 to 6 ft.

The high country is dominated by alpine woodlands, characterized by the dorik, a tree that grows to a height of 66–98 ft and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth white or gray bark that is shed in ribbons and sometimes has insect scribbles. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull, bluish green or glaucous, broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves that are 1.7–6.7 inches long and 0.79–3.35 inches wide. The fruit is a woody, cup-shaped, conical or hemispherical capsule 0.20–0.43 inch long and wide. Disrik and Nawk also occur across the ranges. Cutterpine grows 13 to 16 ft high and can achieve up to 7 ft in diameter at chest height. Disrik has twisted, bent pines found at coastal areas and the tree's twisted needles.

The needles are 1 1⁄2 to 3 inches long in fascicles of two, alternate on twigs. The egg-shaped growth buds are reddish-brown and between 3⁄4 and 1 1⁄4 inches long. They are shortly pointed, slightly rotated, and very resinous. The dark and mostly shiny needles are pointed and 1 1⁄2 to 3 inches long and 0.04 to 0.08 inches wide. The needle edge is weak to clearly serrated. The needles are in pairs on short shoots and rotated about the shoots' longitudinal axes. Nawk is a type of vegetation that has hard leaves, short internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem) and leaf orientation parallel or oblique to direct sunlight. Snowy mountains' borders support large stands of yavik and gathri. Yavik is a species of tree that has a straight trunk with rough, fibrous to stringybark on the lower half of the trunk, smooth white bark above, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and fifteen, white flowers, and barrel-shaped or hemispherical fruit.

It grows to a height of 13–16 ft and forms a lignotuber. The bark is rough, grey to black, fibrous or stringy on the lower half of the trunk, smooth white to greyish above. Young plants and coppice regrowth have broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves 2.8–7.9 inches long and 1.1–3.2 inches wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, the same glossy green to bluish green on both sides, 3.0–9.1 inches long and 0.51–2.17 inches wide on a petiole 0.39–1.77 inches long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of between seven and fifteen in leaf axils on an unbranched peduncle 0.31–0.79 inches long, the individual buds on a pedicel 0.12–0.20 inch long. Mature buds are oval to club-shaped, green to yellow or red, 0.16–0.20 inch long and wide with a conical or rounded operculum with a small point on the tip.

The fruit is a woody barrel-shaped to hemispherical capsule 0.24–0.43 inch long and wide with the valves near rim level or enclosed in the fruit. Mountain paste is a straight-trunked tree with smooth grey bark, but with a stocking of rough brown bark at the base, glossy green, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between nine and fifteen, white flowers and cup-shaped or conical fruit. Mature forests dominated by gathri have been found to store more carbon than any other forest known. The crown is open and small in relation to the size of the rest of the tree. The trunk is straight with a smooth, cream-colored, greyish, or brown back with a stocking of more or less fibrous or flaky bark that extends up to 16–26 ft at the base.

The trunk typically reaches a diameter of 8 ft 2 inches. The upper and lower surfaces of the leaves are dotted with numerous tiny, circular, or irregularly-shaped oil glands. Secondary leaf veins arise at an acute angle from the midvein and tertiary venation is sparse. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of between nine and fifteen on one or two unbranched peduncles 0.16–0.55 in long, the individual buds on pedicels 0.12–0.28 in long. The fruit is a woody, cup-shaped or conical capsule 0.20–0.31 inch long and 0.16–0.28 inch wide on a pedicel 0.039–0.276 inch long and usually with three valves near the level of the rim. The seeds are pyramid-shaped, 0.059–0.118 inch long with the hilum at the end.

Seedlings have kidney-shaped cotyledons, and the first two to three pairs of leaves are arranged in opposite pairs along the stem, then alternate.

==Animals==

The [[Animals (Taerel)|avainni]] is the animal with the most numerous population in the Snowy Mountains, despite the low temperature it can be found in most of the water bodies in the area; its presence gave the name to the Avaia Snowy Mountains. This is a small vertebrate that has blue scaled skin and large eyes (and very good vision). It is around a foot long and can weigh up to two pounds. It has large fins for moving underwater. Since the Avaia Snowy Mountains once was a resort park there are some animals that were introduced, not native of the area; these animals are trained and live with the habitants of Apolytaus City: tall hairy horses trained to ride on them; Raxa, eagle-like and have pointy ears and a slightly large frame, trained to watch from the sky, bring small objects and attack.

Myrzat, often recognized by its dog-shaped face, cat-like whiskers, pointy spines, and strange cockatoo-like sounds that were trained to hunt and attack. There are other introduced animals that used to be cattle, when they were free it was easy to adapt to the area. These animals are uatui and flisflake. Uatui is a derr-like lifeform. With their large and imposing antlers roaming every corner, the ability for the vyau to strike true is severely hindered. Flisflake is a sixtupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock; below the white crimped hair that covers their body there is blue or purple skin. While most uatuis live in the wild, flisflake can be found in nature and also in farms since it can give a lot of meat and colorful skin that has many uses besides wool.

There are animals that are native and can be found along the Snowy Mountains: Anyau, a rodent-like. They eat insects and some of the plants of the region. They are nimble scavengers, using whatever they can find to build their nests. They avoid the heat as much as possible, staying in the shade or coming out at night. They live in groups. They will avoid travelers. Ice bley. Evolutionary related to the bley, is very tiny white creature with small, stumpy legs. It is an herbivore and it eats grass and leaves, it is the favorite prey of the Anyau. Donbos. They are much bigger than the ice bley, and they are much fatter, too. They are mostly white to blend in with the snow, and they are built to be fatty to help insulate them from the cold since they don’t move that much.

Trilei bird. A small and light pink color, although they do sometimes take on a blue-ish hue because of the berries that they eat. They like to create small holes in trees to make themselves a little hut. Forlan. A white bird which feathers and tail have fluffy edges that look like fur, it eats big amounts of berries and insects to a semi-hibernation. Its own wings and tail are its nest, after placing the eggs it sleeps until the chicks break the shell, then the mother forlan wakes up each time she hears the chicks to feed them with the food stored in her own body. The male forlan is a fearsome guard that watches the female forlan during her hibernation until the chicks grow to fly by themselves.

Tree Jii. It is not a real jii, it’s a rabbit-like marsupial that lives in the trees. Tree jii eats leaves and berries. Frosip. A small white marsupial that looks like an ape with long ears. It lives in the trees and is pacific with other creatures. Eats leaves, berries, and thin branches. Besides the Avainni it is possible to find living in the water of tarns and cirques many types of fishes that the flow of the Yutin Whitewater River brings, However, the more common are Yun and Maka. Yun. A fish are long and purple with some pink scales mixed in. Maka. A sucker fish that lives in cold water streams. The sides, head, and top are dark blue while the belly is often yellow.

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