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--- tagra [2020-05-24 12:46] – [Calendary] concavenator
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 Kai'a !a ku/adju gru.\\
 Ch'aa tu!a t'aa 'ikrach'a,\\
-/u tyuchyach'a kadja kru?// » -- Chikukru, poet of the Second Kingdom of Chaatai
+/u tyuchyach'a kadja kru?//((//Ice fills the world from within; the fearsome sea encircles it all. Is it so for people as well, or is there within an island of warmth?//)) » -- Chikukru, poet of the Second Kingdom of Chaatai
-**Tagra** ([[Chaatai|Chaatai]]: "world") is a continent located at the South Pole of its world. Its center is covered by an icecap that grows and shrinks with the seasons, and the rest by belts of tundra and taiga that extend to the sea. A ring of storms and sea currents surround the whole continent, making the surface of the sea effectively impassable. It is peopled by black-feathered intelligent beings who call themselves //[['ikra]]//, and who have built glorious civilizations in the narrow, ever-precarious fringe between ice and seawater.
+**Tagra** ([[Chaatai#Language|Chaatai]]: "world") is a continent located at the South Pole of its world. Its center is covered by an icecap that grows and shrinks with the seasons, and the rest by belts of tundra and taiga that extend to the sea. A ring of storms and sea currents surround the whole continent, making the surface of the sea effectively impassable. It is peopled by black-feathered intelligent beings who call themselves //[['ikra]]//, and who have built glorious civilizations in the narrow, ever-precarious fringe between ice and seawater.
 In fact, Tagra is Antarctica, as it was 33.6 million years before the time of humans (33.6 mybth), at the very beginning of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligocene|Oligocene]] epoch. The greenhouse age of the Eocene, during which tropical rainforests rose up to the Arctic Circle and crocodiles swam over the North Pole, has just ended. For the first time since before the age of dinosaurs, permanent ice covers the poles, and it will only keep growing. The very existence of the //'ikra// may be about to find an end.
+[[https://www.deviantart.com/concavenator/gallery/73059461/tagra|See more material on DeviantArt]].
 ===== History =====
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 ===== Nations and peoples =====
-  * [[Chaatai Republic]]
+According to the historian-philosopher Kyu Taika-Graa'a, there are three natural functions of government, that tend to concentrate into three groups in tension with each other: a Red Order concerned with metaphysics, a White Order concerned with warfare, and a Black Order concerned with economic production. The supremacy of one of these groups upon the others produced the different regimes of Tagra's main powers: in Kru'u, the militaristic White Order rules as the Strategae; in Chaatai, the Black Order takes the form of the Guilds and their Parliament; in Takrakaya, the Red Order is represented by the Divine Empress, acting through the imperial bureaucracy. The different Tayaka and !Akau'a states are not included in her analysis.
-  * [[Takrakaya Empire]]
-  * [[Kru'u Union]]
-  * [[Highland Tayaka]]
-  * [[Lowland Tayaka]]
-  * [[!Akau'a states]]
-===== Physical regions =====
+  * [[Chaatai|Chaatai Republic]]
+  * [[Takrakaya|Takrakaya Empire]]
+  * [[Kru'u|Kru'u Union]]
+  * [[Tayaka#Highland Tayaka|Highland Tayaka]]
+  * [[Tayaka#Lowland Tayaka|Lowland Tayaka]]
+  * [[!Akau'a|!Akau'a states]]
+===== Natural features =====
+//See: [[Comparison between Tagra and Antarctica]]; [[Landscapes]]//
+==== Geology ====
+//Source: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica#Present-day|(1)]]//
+The islands Gudju and 'Ai!u'ai have been produced between the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic (300-200 mybth) largely by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subduction|subduction]] of the Pacific plate, much like the Andes, producing elongated mountain ranges with important, and still present, volcanic activity. The rock is mostly volcanic andesite and rhyolite. The region of Kru'u has a similar nature.
+The greater part of Tagra is formed by a vast and very stable Precambrian shield, composed by igneous and metamorphic rocks that formed over 3000 mybth. Limestone, sandstone, and shale have formed thick sedimentary layers over this shield in the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic eras. Significant coal deposits have formed all over the continent during the Carboniferous period (350-300 mybth), when it was located on the Equator and covered with swampy forests. Oil and gas deposits are found around the Sea of Storms.
+Between these two parts of Tagra there is another rift, slowly growing apart, which has produced the Dragon's Jaw.
+Deposits of iron ore have been discovered by human geologists west of the Throat of the Sea. In fact, these are the oxidized remains of Chaatai's industrial cities.
+==== Climate and meteorology ====
+//Also see: [[Wall of the Sea]]//
+==== Hydrology ====
+==== Glaciology ====
+==== Physical regions ====
   * [[Polar Fields]]: the flat region between the Dragon's Jaw and the Thunder Mountains, including the South Pole; it's perpetually covered in ice.
   * [[Outer islands]]: the lands of Gudju and 'Ai!u'ai, as well as many smaller islands; the interior is mostly uninhabited, and the coastlines divided between many small queendoms.
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   * [[Sea of Storms]]: the sea extending between Kru'u and the !Akau'a lands, made extremely dangerous for navigation by the catabatic wind and calving icebergs from the Dragon's Jaw.
   * [[Wall of the Sea]]: the sea current running all around Tagra and separating it from the rest of the planet.
+==== Flora and fauna ====
+//See: [[Tagran biota]]//
 ===== Calendar =====