Hruntinel Mountains

Place

Place Name:

Hruntinel Mountains

Biome:

Mountains

Size:

Unknown

Continent:

Subcontinent

History

Twilight Age: 4E 0-4E 500

Hruntindel Mountains were first populated by barbarian tribes during the stone age. After the invasion of migratory peoples, who usually ruled “sword-in-hand”, the population changed many times, a tribe for another, that spoke different languages and had different cultures, however, there was no mix or constant noticeable due to the hostile change in the domain of territory. An empire of renowned navigators and traders founded several cities and colonies on the Hruntindel territory after expulse the defeated barbarian tribes. All these city-strongholds were prosperous trading centers, their flourishing life being completely destroyed by continuous attacks of the migratory populations of different kinds of barbarians.

These cities were all lost, waves of barbarian peoples began penetrating the Hruntindel soil, their pressure making the empire remaining population leave. The barbarian migrators who plunder and destroy the network of cities, largely disorganizing social and economic life. The native population had to leave the towns and retreat into the villages lying in smaller valleys where people would take temporary shelter in the forests, on the plateaus, and smooth summits of the neighboring mountains. After the danger passed they would return to their households. The rivers, along which people used to travel and return to their settlements on the large, smooth, and fertile terraces protected from flooding, but with the groundwater at level low depth, were preserved as points of orientation.

Of all the migratory populations, it was the most numerous who settled down in the larger valleys, cultivating the land. Their co-habitation with the autochthons has resulted in the origin of trade and commerce in Hruntindel. After centuries of pacific coexistence Hruntindel Mountains became a populated region, the main activity was the trade since there are no mines, land enough for large production cattle and most of the soil is not appropriated to agriculture. Since Hruntindel Mountains was a travel route that joins many cities, tourism became an important source of richness too. As the population growth continued it became necessary to protect natural reserves, the need for wood was the reason why artificial forests were made by ecologists that sowed trees on sterile areas with no wildlife.

At a point in the modern era, Hruntindel Mountains was an important and interesting tourism destination due to the natural and cultural sites to visit. After the kin'toni outbreak, the tourism stopped and the anarchy took place, there was a kind of civil war between residents and foreigners, the conflict became worse when kin'toni arrived and there was a battle of all against all. When all the groups had several losses a new group of armed teenagers and children guided by a mysterious man arrived to defeat one by one all the other groups and take control of the zone, they became more numerous and stronger until erasing any other group. With a consolidated power, their leader funded the Geirdrane City Zu'Aan, which is the center of different smaller towns along Hruntindel Mountains, then returned to the main activities of the past. Geirdrane City´s most important activity is the trade, there is relative peace along with thr Hruntindel Mountains with the control of Geirdrane citizens.

Geography

The Hruntindel Mountains are a range of mountains forming an arc throughout many kinds of biomes. Roughly 1,500 km (932 mi) long. The highest peaks exceed 2,600 m (8,530 ft). Their snowcapped peaks drainage joins to the flow of Yutin Whitewater River, the ice melting and condensed accumulation of water from many peaks reunite downhill in a flow that becomes in part of the river, this water accumulation happens along the mountain, underground void spaces are filled with water and become in natural wells. The area now occupied by the Hruntindel was once occupied by smaller ocean basins. The Hruntindel Mountains were formed by moving the plates over subducting oceanic crust. The mountains take the form of a fold and thrust belt with generally north vergence in the western segment, northeast to east vergence in the eastern portion, and southeast vergence in the southern portion.

The external, generally northern, portion of the orogenic belt is an accretionary wedge of belt created by rocks scraped off the sea bottom and thrust over the plate. The Hruntindel accretionary wedge is made of several thin-skinned nappes composed of turbidites. Thrusting of the nappes over the Hruntindel foreland caused the formation of the Hruntindel foreland basin. The boundary between the belt and internal zones of the orogenic belt in the western segment of the mountain range is marked by a narrow complicated zone of polyphase compressional deformation, later involved in a supposed strike-slip zone. Internal zones in western and eastern segments contain older igneous massifs reworked in thick and thin-skinned nappes.

This zone was affected by intensive calc-alkaline arc volcanism that developed over the subduction zone of the basins. At the same time, the internal zones of the orogenic belt were affected by the large extensional structure of the back-arc basin. There was no volcanic activity since then. In geopolitical terms, Hruntindel Mountains are often grouped and labeled according to national or regional borders, but such division has turned out to be relative, since it was, and still is dependent on frequent historical, political, and administrative changes of national or regional borders. According to modern geopolitical division. The entire range of mountains is under the control of Geirdrane City zu'aan.

While most of the range is occupied by wildlife and vegetation, there is a series of mountain passes that cross along the mountains from a point to another, those passes are walked by many different tribes of zu'aan with the permission of Geirdrane City, this means sometimes those who want to walk through the pass must pay the fee, there is also the service of bodyguards for travelers and caravans, they can hire trained guards to protect them from the bandits. Along with the passes, there are Geirdrane merchant stores that provide travelers with food and accessories. The northwestern Hruntindel Mountains begin attached to Growlesky Valley, on the ground the difference in terrain appears abrupt and superimposed.

They surround Undartos Monsoon forest, Oikwta Forest Hills, and Rhoillye Mushroom Fields in a large semicircle, sweeping towards the southwest, and end on the Yutin Whitewater River. The total length of the Hruntindel mountains is over 1,500 km (932 mi) and the mountain chain's width varies between 12 and 500 km (7 and 311 mi). The highest altitudes of the peaks occur where they are widest. The highest peak is at 2,655 m (8,711 ft) above sea level. The Hruntindel range covers an area of 190,000 km2 (73,359 sq mi), and forms an extensive mountain system. Although commonly referred to as a mountain chain, the Hruntindel Mountains do not actually form an uninterrupted chain of mountains.

Rather, they consist of several orographically and geologically distinctive groups, presenting as great a structural variety. The south Hruntindel represents an intricate pile of tectonic nappes, overthrust from west eastwards and Laramian paroxysmal phases, corresponding to various plate fragments. Western Hruntindel is part of the northern branch of the same orogeny, which was formed by the closure of the Ocean millions of years ago. To the South the Hruntindel Mountains longitudinally join the Avia Snowy Mountains, but the exact boundary is hidden under the sedimentary fill. To the east, their boundary with the Eastern Hruntindel is the Xehemiech Highland. The northern boundary is well marked by the thrust of nappes of the Hruntindel belt. The western boundary is less clear, because later postorogenetic evolution caused the formation of basins, penetrating the mountain chain non-uniformly.

The Hruntindel, which attain an altitude over 2,500 m (8,202 ft) in only a few places, has bold peaks, extensive snowfields, large glaciers, high waterfalls, and numerous large lakes that are common in the range mountains. One permafrost and glacial area at the south are covered in snow all year round, while the rest of the mountains in the area presents snow in winter only. On this glacial area lost travelers use to find their end, their bodies are still visible in the snow, preserved by the cold. The Yutin Whitewater River separates the Hruntindel Mountains from the Avia Snowy Mountains at the south. Despite the similarity in orographic consistency, height, and sediment, Yutin River is a marked division that cuts the pass between Hruntindel and Avia mountains.

The geological border between the southeast to the east runs approximately along the line that divides Xaness Overgrown Hills and the same Xehemiech Higland at east. The border is formed by a line of sterile, rugged land. The orographic formation of the mountain borders makes possible paths in many parts that go up and become on mountain passes, most of them were formed naturally and a few ones were made by zu'aan tribes. Mountain passes are not sure at all, on rainy days they become sloppy and it´s possible to fall at the side, on elevated curves the ground can shatter and an entire caravan can fall.

Plants

The flora of the Hruntindel Mountains is very specific and, compared with the surrounding areas, rich in rare and endemic plants. However, the number of endemic plants in Hruntindel is lower than other mountain ranges, primarily due to the fact, that the flora was largely impoverished by glaciation. The total number of endemic species among the higher plants in the Hruntindel Mountains exceeds 100 species. The largest concentrations of endemic plant species are in the northern border next to Growlesky Valley; other areas rich in endemic species include the high mountain ranges of the Eastern and Southern Hruntindel Mountains. All the rare and valuable plants in the region are further into the wild, and most of the highest concentrations of endemic plants are located in areas out of the traveler’s reach.

Among the rare and exclusive plants of the Hruntindel Mountains are several woody species: the dathutk, anyudaar, and the shenu. The dathutk is very hard to cut while the tree is alive, is easier to cut wood from a fallen dathutk, its wood is very useful to make tools and weapons due its hardness and resistance, not so useful to fuel fire camps. The anyudaar is easier to cut than dathutk, its wood is very helpful to make bonfires and wooden sculptures. The shenu is a plant that grows on the edges of high-level surfaces, it has an extremely long root that can be used to make ropes, also it uses to be chewed to fool the hunger.

The vegetation displays a pronounced zonation: the foothills are mostly covered by mixed deciduous forests, dominated by daari, avak, and niran in the north, and by various daari species in the south. The montane zone, between 600 and 1100 m in the north and between 650 and 1450 m in the south, is dominated by two major species of trees. Nearly pure mria forests dominate the montane zone in some mountain ranges in the western, eastern and southern Hruntindel. In some places the montane zone is dominated by diyukk. At the timberline belt of the forests grow. Above timberline, (1400 m in the north-western to 1900 m in the south), there is a distinct zone consisting of dense thickets of anyudaar and ikora. The highest peaks are mostly rocky or covered with very sparse vegetation.

Hruntindel Mountains have natural forests, also there are artificial forest areas that were made by manipulating the ground and sowing trees before the kin'toni outbreak, the foresters who sowed those trees abandoned the artificial forests and the trees continued growing by themselves. The relatively large percentage of natural and semi-natural forests occurs either in higher elevations or in areas of rugged topography with very limited access. Almost all natural and semi-natural forests of the Hruntindel Mountains are protected and under the control of Geirdrane citizens. In the Eastern and Southern Hruntindel, the area of near-natural is declining due to logging in remote mountain areas.

The lower plants, lichens, and fungi associated with the old-growth forests, and especially with dead wood, are still poorly known. However, one can expect that these ecosystems harbor a rich variety of rare species. The natural vegetation stages are matched by stages of economic land use: the foreland by anytu and bathri growing, the lower forest stage by oeku and bathri growing (up to 3,280 feet), and the upper forest stage and the lower stages by pastoral use.

Animals

The Hruntindel Mountains support viable populations of several large predators (carnivores and raptors), providing the appropriate sizeable refuge for these animals into their rarely transited dense forests and rugged high areas. Many of these predators are also present in other geographic areas, however in Hruntindel Mountains their fur evolved differently to work as camouflage, so most of the creatures have spots on their fur. Some of these predators are the eagle-like yuzu, that builds their nests in the peaks of the mountains; the fox-like chee, similar to other chees but its fur is spotted; the wolf like vyau, which has also the spotted fur as an exclusive feature; the owl-like uyal, which has black diagonal lines on their feathers; and tyroin, a mountain lion-like creature that makes their lairs on small caves.

The exclusive predator in Hruntindel Mountains is the ormut, a bear-like creature, it is a large carnivore mammal with brown spotted fur, an oval head that looks like a watermelon with sharped ears, the nose is just two orifices due it does not have a very developed sense of smell. With their fifteen feet long and two thousand pounds weigh there is no creature that can face it in Hruntindel Mountains. It used to live in caves, but many of them have strong enough to knock down trees and build a nest under a pile of logs. Ormuts use to eat another predator and even can be cannibals, eating younger ormuts that are weaker and has no other to protect them.

All of those predators feed with several kinds of small mammals and rodents that live in the Hruntindel Mountains, some of these are the rabbit-like jii and hedgehog-like xrend. Small mammals in Hruntindel have different fur patterns than the specimens which live in other geographic areas. Hruntindel Mountains have the largest species of Enyik and Krikois. Enyik, which looks like a bat-lynx hybrid, usually is around nine feet long and weighs over a thousand pounds; in Hruntindel Mountains it can have twelve feet long and weigh over one thousand three hundred pounds. It has six limbs, four legs with clawed paws and two wings, four eyes, and large cat-like ears. It has a mouth full of sharp teeth that are adapted to eating meat.

It lives on the tree due in-ground is easy prey for the ormut, it is a good climber and is able to glide from tree to tree. Krikois, a large bat-like creature that lives in high caves, has fifteen feet long with both wings wide open and weighs forty pounds. Despite its size, the krikois eats insects, it doesn´t eat meat but can fight other animals in self-defense. Although it´s inoffensive for the people it´s one of the most feared animals. Hruntindel Mountains wild animals avoid the routes and mountain passes transited by the zu'aan, they live and keep inside the further areas of the forest, and they are not visible unless somebody crosses the limit area to hunt. Despite their strength and big size predators are not interested in the zu'aan to eat, mostly they will fight to protect their nests.

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