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'''Šacoria''' is a continent joined to Seralton at its western end and to Vaóren in the southwest. It is divided into four major areas: the southeastern subcontinent, towards the island seas dividing it from Lusaṃrīte, which is by far the most populated area of the continent and where most of its countries are; the mild temperate highlands of this part of the world are also where behaviourally modern Eventoan humans first developed. Central Šacoria is divided into an area of broken highlands, towards Vaóren, which had a large influence in world history due to it being at the crossroads of the three continents of the Old World; north of it lies a steppe area in the heart of the continent, which eventually leaves its place to taiga in the north and along the central eastern coast, and tundra and barren lands in far northern Šacoria towards the isthmus that connects it to the continental polar ice cap. | '''Šacoria''' is a continent joined to Seralton at its western end and to Vaóren in the southwest. It is divided into four major areas: the southeastern subcontinent, towards the island seas dividing it from Lusaṃrīte, which is by far the most populated area of the continent and where most of its countries are; the mild temperate highlands of this part of the world are also where behaviourally modern Eventoan humans first developed. Central Šacoria is divided into an area of broken highlands, towards Vaóren, which had a large influence in world history due to it being at the crossroads of the three continents of the Old World; north of it lies a steppe area in the heart of the continent, which eventually leaves its place to taiga in the north and along the central eastern coast, and tundra and barren lands in far northern Šacoria towards the isthmus that connects it to the continental polar ice cap. | ||
'''Vaóren''' | '''Vaóren''' is the largest continent of Eventoa, joined with Evandor and Šacoria through an isthmus in the northeast; the Carpan Sea, a large inlet of the Nadrenic Ocean, divides it from Evandor to the north. It has a roughly triangular shape, with a narrow southern peninsula and a wide base at its northern end; this shape, however, creates its most prominent downside, the fact that the northern part of the continent is a wide east-west belt around the northern tropic, which makes the area Eventoa's largest hot desert; some smaller deserts also exists in the far southwest of the continent, in the rainshadowed area of the southern peninsula. | ||
'''Ceránen''' is the second-smallest true continent and the least populated, mostly because of geographical factors: while its southern shore is temperate even along the eastern side due to the course of warmer currents, it lies almost entirely north of 30°N and the vast majority of it has a boreal climate; northern Ceránen has some glaciers which generally form an unbroken cold desert with the ice pack along the Polar Ceránenian Strait which divides it from the polar ice cap. However, the more mountainous northern part of the continent at least prevents the ice cap from descending towards the continent and creating barren wastelands such as Prétalo's Dead Lands. Ceránen was most likely the last continent to be settled by humans, which only came to the continent island-hopping from boreal Prétalo to the east at a time where the earliest civilizations were already developing on Vaóren, Lusaṃrīte and Šacoria; even if southern Ceránen is the closest continental landmass (other than, obviously, Šacoria itself) to the place of origin of modern Eventoan humans in Šacoria, the lack of islands between the two continents prevented humans to spread directly, unlike with the shallow seas and many islands lying between Šacoria and Lusaṃrīte, while the northern route from Šacoria to Ceránen is too far in polar areas. | '''Ceránen''' is the second-smallest true continent and the least populated, mostly because of geographical factors: while its southern shore is temperate even along the eastern side due to the course of warmer currents, it lies almost entirely north of 30°N and the vast majority of it has a boreal climate; northern Ceránen has some glaciers which generally form an unbroken cold desert with the ice pack along the Polar Ceránenian Strait which divides it from the polar ice cap. However, the more mountainous northern part of the continent at least prevents the ice cap from descending towards the continent and creating barren wastelands such as Prétalo's Dead Lands. Ceránen was most likely the last continent to be settled by humans, which only came to the continent island-hopping from boreal Prétalo to the east at a time where the earliest civilizations were already developing on Vaóren, Lusaṃrīte and Šacoria; even if southern Ceránen is the closest continental landmass (other than, obviously, Šacoria itself) to the place of origin of modern Eventoan humans in Šacoria, the lack of islands between the two continents prevented humans to spread directly, unlike with the shallow seas and many islands lying between Šacoria and Lusaṃrīte, while the northern route from Šacoria to Ceránen is too far in polar areas. | ||