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The '''Lands of the Chlouvānem Inquisition''' ([[Chlouvānem]]: ''Chlǣvānumi Murkadhānāvīyi Babhrām''), ceremonially the '''Pure Lands under Guidance of the Inquisition of the Descendants of the Chlamiṣvatrā''' ([[Chlouvānem]]: ''Chlamiṣvatrī Maijuniāvyumi Murkadhānāvīyi Stalyāmite Kailibabhrām''), commonly metonymically referred to as the '''(Chlouvānem) Inquisition''' (''(Chlǣvānumi) Murkadhānāvi''), or, informally, with the acronym '''Chlǣmuba''' [c͡ɕɴ̆ɛːmuba], is a [[w:Federalism|federal]] [[w:Socialist state|socialist]] [[w:Theocracy|ecclesiocratic]] state on the planet [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]] (Chl.: ''Liloejāṃrya''), composed of 171 largely autonomous Diœceses (''juṃšañāñai'') and various dependencies scattered around the planet. It is a [[w:Political_party#Nonpartisan_systems|non-partisan]] state where central power is held by the top ranks of the Inquisition, an organized ecclesiastical body that preaches and regulates the canonical accepted beliefs of the [[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]], a religion founded on the teachings of the philosopher ''Lelāgṇyāviti'', usually referred to with the name of '''Chlamiṣvatrā''' ("Golden Master"); decentralized government levels are formed by local assemblies (Synods, in Chl. ''galtirai''), the lowest-level ones being formed in every non-private workplace, sub-parish-level district, factory, or barracks. Its dominant political ideology is Yunyalīlti Communism, a hybrid ideology that integrates [[w:Communism|communist]] doctrines into the core Yunyalīlti guidelines of society.

Covering, excluding dependencies, approximately 14.4 million square kilometers (about 8% of the land areas on Calémere) mostly on the continent of Márusúturon and geologically related islands – with the Kāyīchah Islands being, however, a part of Védren – and with a population of 1.469 billion people<ref>Throughout this article, quantities will be specified primarily in the decimal system, despite Chlouvānem using a dozenal one. Census figures will also be provided in tables as dozenal numbers. Unmarked numbers are base 10, unless they are expressed using Calémerian measurement units; base 12 numerals have commas and full stops reversed compared to English usage.</ref> (about 17.8% of the total Calémerian population), it is Calémere's largest country both by land area and population. [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition/Līlasuṃghāṇa|Līlasuṃghāṇa]], holy city of the [[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]], is the nation's capital and largest city, located inland in the densely populated area of the Jade Coast, on the shores of the tidal Lūlunīkam ~~lake~~.

Covering, excluding dependencies, approximately 14.4 million square kilometers (about 8% of the land areas on Calémere) mostly on the continent of Márusúturon and geologically related islands – with the Kāyīchah Islands being, however, a part of Védren – and with a population of 1.469 billion people<ref>Throughout this article, quantities will be specified primarily in the decimal system, despite Chlouvānem using a dozenal one. Census figures will also be provided in tables as dozenal numbers. Unmarked numbers are base 10, unless they are expressed using Calémerian measurement units; base 12 numerals have commas and full stops reversed compared to English usage.</ref> (about 17.8% of the total Calémerian population), it is Calémere's largest country both by land area and population. [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition/Līlasuṃghāṇa|Līlasuṃghāṇa]], holy city of the [[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]], is the nation's capital and largest city, located inland in the densely populated area of the Jade Coast, on the shores of the tidal Lake Lūlunīkam.

Dependent territories of the Inquisition mostly consist of relatively small islands with military bases or scientific stations, with the most notable exception being the large territory of the ''Lalla Kehamyuñca'' (High North), a jointly-governed area together with Askand, Skyrdagor, and Brono, consisting of the whole area of Eastern Márusúturon north of the 68th parallel north, mostly uninhabited tundra. Extended on such a large area, the territory of the Chlouvānem Inquisition includes all of Calémere's major biomes, with an extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife giving it a unique biological megadiversity, peaking in the southern rainforests. More than 60% of the country's human population lives in its tropical areas, roughly between 5ºN and the Northern Tropic.

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As the largest and most populated country on Calémere, the Chlouvānem Inquisition has a considerable amount of ethnic and linguistic diversity in it. However, there is a homogenous "supra-culture", provided by the Yunyalīlti religion and by its liturgical language, Chlouvānem, used as a lingua franca, which attenuates - if not, in some cases, nullifies - the practical implications of this enormous diversity.

'''Chlouvānem''' is a Lahob language with a long history which originated in its current form in the eastern part of the Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah Plain and the Jade Coast (roughly between the lower Nīmbaṇḍhāra river to the north and Lūlunīkam ~~Lake~~ to the south). With a written history of more than 2000 years, it is the liturgical language of the Yunyalīlta and, due to this importance, has remained the main language used in administration, inter-cultural trade, and arts, for two millennia, in the ever-expanding Yunyalīlti world. It is a central element of self-definition of Chlouvānem people.

'''Chlouvānem''' is a Lahob language with a long history which originated in its current form in the eastern part of the Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah Plain and the Jade Coast (roughly between the lower Nīmbaṇḍhāra river to the north and Lake Lūlunīkam to the south). With a written history of more than 2000 years, it is the liturgical language of the Yunyalīlta and, due to this importance, has remained the main language used in administration, inter-cultural trade, and arts, for two millennia, in the ever-expanding Yunyalīlti world. It is a central element of self-definition of Chlouvānem people.

Since the early-mid 5th millennium, the Chlouvānem people have been spreading their religion and influence across most of the continent of Márusúturon, outside the original homeland on the Jade Coast. Patterns of Chlouvānem settlement have varied depending on the area - but the Chlouvānem people's predisposition to exogamy has been an important factor in shaping the history of this part of the world: almost everyone in the Inquisition has at least one mixed-blood ancestor, and - even today - the definition of "ethnic group" as for Western (Calémerian and Earthly) standards is extremely challenged by the situation - and self-definition - among Chlouvānem people.

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The heart of Chlouvānem civilization is the huge area usually simply described as the Plain (''dhoya'' in Chlouvānem). There is actually no single accepted name for this huge area, but commonly used ones are "The Great Plain" (''camidhoya'') or "Great Chlouvānem Plain" (''chlǣvānumi camidhoya'', but more commonly found in foreign sources). Another common name is Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah Plain (''Nīmbaṇḍhāri lāmberi no dhoya''), but it only refers to a part of it.

The Great Plain is basically one of the largest plains on Calémere as well as one of its most densely populated areas; most of it is part of the drainage basins of a few large rivers: two of them, the Nīmbaṇḍhāra - Calémere's longest river - and the Lirāh, have a common shared delta in the northeastern part of the plain; the other major ones all have a common estuary in the southeast, formed by the outlet of the tidal Lūlunīkam ~~Lake~~. All of these basins are only divided by a few minor hills, so that the impression is of being in a single, continuous plain which spans, at its largest extents, twenty degrees of latitude and almost forty-five degrees of longitude. The highest relief inside the plain itself is Kahandrāta hill, on the border between the dioceses of Mūrajātana and Pūracikāna, about 940 meters high. However, near the foothills of the Camipāṇḍa mountains, thousands of kilometers away from the sea, the plain terrain reaches similar (and higher) elevations; these are somewhat noticeable in some areas, such as Cambhaugrāya in the northeastern part, where rivers sometimes form gorges and run tens of metres lower than the surrounding terrain.

The Great Plain is basically one of the largest plains on Calémere as well as one of its most densely populated areas; most of it is part of the drainage basins of a few large rivers: two of them, the Nīmbaṇḍhāra - Calémere's longest river - and the Lirāh, have a common shared delta in the northeastern part of the plain; the other major ones all have a common estuary in the southeast, formed by the outlet of the tidal Lake Lūlunīkam. All of these basins are only divided by a few minor hills, so that the impression is of being in a single, continuous plain which spans, at its largest extents, twenty degrees of latitude and almost forty-five degrees of longitude. The highest relief inside the plain itself is Kahandrāta hill, on the border between the dioceses of Mūrajātana and Pūracikāna, about 940 meters high. However, near the foothills of the Camipāṇḍa mountains, thousands of kilometers away from the sea, the plain terrain reaches similar (and higher) elevations; these are somewhat noticeable in some areas, such as Cambhaugrāya in the northeastern part, where rivers sometimes form gorges and run tens of metres lower than the surrounding terrain.

The northern border of the plain is made up by the Camipāṇḍa ("great white") mountains, one of the longest mountain chains of Calémere and also the highest. It contains Calémere's highest mountain, mount Laikadhāṣṭra, which is 5.Ɛ77 pā (10,31510 — about 10,717 m = 35,160 ft) high and lies on the border between the dioceses of Ñarigeiras and Maichlahåryan (the actual peak is in Ñarigeiras; the border passes through a slightly shorter peak to the northwest).

The southern border between the Great Plain and the equatorial rainforest (which is, topographically, also mostly plain) is marked by a distinct biome that makes this area so special: the huge wetlands created by the many rivers that flow northward from the various hills in the northern part of the rainforest. This area is basically a huge network of swampy forests, and is known in Chlouvānem sources as the ''halumi paɂītumi no ṣveya'' - literally "wall of [[w:igapó|igapós]] and [[w:várzea forest|várzeas]]", and extends through the dioceses of Dhārvālla, Tamīyahāna, the southern third of Ārvaghoṣa, Talæñoya, and the southern part of Nanašīrama. The dioceses of Vælvmaichlam and Yalyakātāma, and to a lesser extent also Ñaryākātāma all have similar habitats and northward-flowing rivers (Vælvmaichlam's ones are outside the basins of the Great Plain), but are included in the major area of the southern rainforest instead.

The Lanamilūki river, which is the one with the largest flow in the area, is particularly significant as it flows through the historical homeland of the Laifutaši culture, which was one of the indigenous cultures that influenced the Chlouvānem the most; the clearwater Lanamilūki, which flows north through eastern Talæñoya, then forms the border between Šraḍhaṃñælihæka and Nanašīrama before reaching Lūlunīkam ~~Lake~~ at Līlasuṃghāṇa, the Inquisition's capital, is also symbolically important and an extremely famous and visited area today due to the relatively unspoiled várzeas around it (and igapós around its right-bank tributaries) and the many holy sites of the Yunyalīlta. The Lanamilūki river itself is mentioned various times in the Yunyalīlti holy books.

The Lanamilūki river, which is the one with the largest flow in the area, is particularly significant as it flows through the historical homeland of the Laifutaši culture, which was one of the indigenous cultures that influenced the Chlouvānem the most; the clearwater Lanamilūki, which flows north through eastern Talæñoya, then forms the border between Šraḍhaṃñælihæka and Nanašīrama before reaching Lake Lūlunīkam at Līlasuṃghāṇa, the Inquisition's capital, is also symbolically important and an extremely famous and visited area today due to the relatively unspoiled várzeas around it (and igapós around its right-bank tributaries) and the many holy sites of the Yunyalīlta. The Lanamilūki river itself is mentioned various times in the Yunyalīlti holy books.

This area still has some important cities, most notably Lunahīkam (the capital of Talæñoya), while Līlasuṃghāṇa and Lūkṣṇyaḍāra lie just outside this area.

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===Climate===

Enormous as it is, the Inquisition proper includes all major climates and biomes of Calémere except for polar tundra and ice caps (high-altitude tundra and ice caps, however, are found). Anyway, a large part of the country is dominated by tropical climates, with consistently high mean temperatures all throughout the year. Virtually all areas south of 10°N have an tropical rainforest climate (except for dry areas in rainshadows), and this climate is also found in sporadic patches north of it - including, notably, the capital city area around Lūlunīkam ~~Lake~~. A tropical monsoon climate, with more yearly variation in precipitation, is found in most of the Far East, most of the Plain, and parts of the West, shifting to a tropical savanna climate inland. About 60% of the population of the Inquisition lives in areas with a tropical climate.

Enormous as it is, the Inquisition proper includes all major climates and biomes of Calémere except for polar tundra and ice caps (high-altitude tundra and ice caps, however, are found). Anyway, a large part of the country is dominated by tropical climates, with consistently high mean temperatures all throughout the year. Virtually all areas south of 10°N have an tropical rainforest climate (except for dry areas in rainshadows), and this climate is also found in sporadic patches north of it - including, notably, the capital city area around Lake Lūlunīkam. A tropical monsoon climate, with more yearly variation in precipitation, is found in most of the Far East, most of the Plain, and parts of the West, shifting to a tropical savanna climate inland. About 60% of the population of the Inquisition lives in areas with a tropical climate.

Overall, the Inquisition is divided in the following broad climate zones:

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 The '''Lands of the Chlouvānem Inquisition''' ([[Chlouvānem]]: ''Chlǣvānumi Murkadhānāvīyi Babhrām''), ceremonially the '''Pure Lands under Guidance of the Inquisition of the Descendants of the Chlamiṣvatrā''' ([[Chlouvānem]]: ''Chlamiṣvatrī Maijuniāvyumi Murkadhānāvīyi Stalyāmite Kailibabhrām''), commonly metonymically referred to as the '''(Chlouvānem) Inquisition''' (''(Chlǣvānumi) Murkadhānāvi''), or, informally, with the acronym '''Chlǣmuba''' <small>[c͡ɕɴ̆ɛːmuba]</small>, is a [[w:Federalism|federal]] [[w:Socialist state|socialist]] [[w:Theocracy|ecclesiocratic]] state on the planet [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]] (Chl.: ''Liloejāṃrya''), composed of 171 largely autonomous Diœceses (''juṃšañāñai'') and various dependencies scattered around the planet. It is a [[w:Political_party#Nonpartisan_systems|non-partisan]] state where central power is held by the top ranks of the Inquisition, an organized ecclesiastical body that preaches and regulates the canonical accepted beliefs of the [[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]], a religion founded on the teachings of the philosopher ''Lelāgṇyāviti'', usually referred to with the name of '''Chlamiṣvatrā''' ("Golden Master"); decentralized government levels are formed by local assemblies (Synods, in Chl. ''galtirai''), the lowest-level ones being formed in every non-private workplace, sub-parish-level district, factory, or barracks. Its dominant political ideology is Yunyalīlti Communism, a hybrid ideology that integrates [[w:Communism|communist]] doctrines into the core Yunyalīlti guidelines of society.
-Covering, excluding dependencies, approximately 14.4 million square kilometers (about 8% of the land areas on Calémere) mostly on the continent of Márusúturon and geologically related islands – with the Kāyīchah Islands being, however, a part of Védren – and with a population of 1.469 billion people<ref>Throughout this article, quantities will be specified primarily in the decimal system, despite Chlouvānem using a dozenal one. Census figures will also be provided in tables as dozenal numbers. Unmarked numbers are base 10, unless they are expressed using Calémerian measurement units; base 12 numerals have commas and full stops reversed compared to English usage.</ref> (about 17.8% of the total Calémerian population), it is Calémere's largest country both by land area and population. [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition/Līlasuṃghāṇa|Līlasuṃghāṇa]], holy city of the [[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]], is the nation's capital and largest city, located inland in the densely populated area of the Jade Coast, on the shores of the tidal Lūlunīkam lake.<br/>
+Covering, excluding dependencies, approximately 14.4 million square kilometers (about 8% of the land areas on Calémere) mostly on the continent of Márusúturon and geologically related islands – with the Kāyīchah Islands being, however, a part of Védren – and with a population of 1.469 billion people<ref>Throughout this article, quantities will be specified primarily in the decimal system, despite Chlouvānem using a dozenal one. Census figures will also be provided in tables as dozenal numbers. Unmarked numbers are base 10, unless they are expressed using Calémerian measurement units; base 12 numerals have commas and full stops reversed compared to English usage.</ref> (about 17.8% of the total Calémerian population), it is Calémere's largest country both by land area and population. [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition/Līlasuṃghāṇa|Līlasuṃghāṇa]], holy city of the [[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]], is the nation's capital and largest city, located inland in the densely populated area of the Jade Coast, on the shores of the tidal Lake Lūlunīkam.<br/>
 Dependent territories of the Inquisition mostly consist of relatively small islands with military bases or scientific stations, with the most notable exception being the large territory of the ''Lalla Kehamyuñca'' (High North), a jointly-governed area together with Askand, Skyrdagor, and Brono, consisting of the whole area of Eastern Márusúturon north of the 68th parallel north, mostly uninhabited tundra.<br/>Extended on such a large area, the territory of the Chlouvānem Inquisition includes all of Calémere's major biomes, with an extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife giving it a unique biological megadiversity, peaking in the southern rainforests. More than 60% of the country's human population lives in its tropical areas, roughly between 5ºN and the Northern Tropic.
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 As the largest and most populated country on Calémere, the Chlouvānem Inquisition has a considerable amount of ethnic and linguistic diversity in it. However, there is a homogenous "supra-culture", provided by the Yunyalīlti religion and by its liturgical language, Chlouvānem, used as a lingua franca, which attenuates - if not, in some cases, nullifies - the practical implications of this enormous diversity.
-'''Chlouvānem''' is a Lahob language with a long history which originated in its current form in the eastern part of the Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah Plain and the Jade Coast (roughly between the lower Nīmbaṇḍhāra river to the north and Lūlunīkam Lake to the south). With a written history of more than 2000 years, it is the liturgical language of the Yunyalīlta and, due to this importance, has remained the main language used in administration, inter-cultural trade, and arts, for two millennia, in the ever-expanding Yunyalīlti world. It is a central element of self-definition of Chlouvānem people.
+'''Chlouvānem''' is a Lahob language with a long history which originated in its current form in the eastern part of the Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah Plain and the Jade Coast (roughly between the lower Nīmbaṇḍhāra river to the north and Lake Lūlunīkam to the south). With a written history of more than 2000 years, it is the liturgical language of the Yunyalīlta and, due to this importance, has remained the main language used in administration, inter-cultural trade, and arts, for two millennia, in the ever-expanding Yunyalīlti world. It is a central element of self-definition of Chlouvānem people.
 Since the early-mid 5th millennium, the Chlouvānem people have been spreading their religion and influence across most of the continent of Márusúturon, outside the original homeland on the Jade Coast. Patterns of Chlouvānem settlement have varied depending on the area - but the Chlouvānem people's predisposition to exogamy has been an important factor in shaping the history of this part of the world: almost everyone in the Inquisition has at least one mixed-blood ancestor, and - even today - the definition of "ethnic group" as for Western (Calémerian and Earthly) standards is extremely challenged by the situation - and self-definition - among Chlouvānem people.
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 The heart of Chlouvānem civilization is the huge area usually simply described as the Plain (''dhoya'' in Chlouvānem). There is actually no single accepted name for this huge area, but commonly used ones are "The Great Plain" (''camidhoya'') or "Great Chlouvānem Plain" (''chlǣvānumi camidhoya'', but more commonly found in foreign sources). Another common name is Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah Plain (''Nīmbaṇḍhāri lāmberi no dhoya''), but it only refers to a part of it.
-The Great Plain is basically one of the largest plains on Calémere as well as one of its most densely populated areas; most of it is part of the drainage basins of a few large rivers: two of them, the Nīmbaṇḍhāra - Calémere's longest river - and the Lirāh, have a common shared delta in the northeastern part of the plain; the other major ones all have a common estuary in the southeast, formed by the outlet of the tidal Lūlunīkam Lake. All of these basins are only divided by a few minor hills, so that the impression is of being in a single, continuous plain which spans, at its largest extents, twenty degrees of latitude and almost forty-five degrees of longitude. The highest relief inside the plain itself is Kahandrāta hill, on the border between the dioceses of Mūrajātana and Pūracikāna, about 940 meters high. However, near the foothills of the Camipāṇḍa mountains, thousands of kilometers away from the sea, the plain terrain reaches similar (and higher) elevations; these are somewhat noticeable in some areas, such as Cambhaugrāya in the northeastern part, where rivers sometimes form gorges and run tens of metres lower than the surrounding terrain.
+The Great Plain is basically one of the largest plains on Calémere as well as one of its most densely populated areas; most of it is part of the drainage basins of a few large rivers: two of them, the Nīmbaṇḍhāra - Calémere's longest river - and the Lirāh, have a common shared delta in the northeastern part of the plain; the other major ones all have a common estuary in the southeast, formed by the outlet of the tidal Lake Lūlunīkam. All of these basins are only divided by a few minor hills, so that the impression is of being in a single, continuous plain which spans, at its largest extents, twenty degrees of latitude and almost forty-five degrees of longitude. The highest relief inside the plain itself is Kahandrāta hill, on the border between the dioceses of Mūrajātana and Pūracikāna, about 940 meters high. However, near the foothills of the Camipāṇḍa mountains, thousands of kilometers away from the sea, the plain terrain reaches similar (and higher) elevations; these are somewhat noticeable in some areas, such as Cambhaugrāya in the northeastern part, where rivers sometimes form gorges and run tens of metres lower than the surrounding terrain.
 The northern border of the plain is made up by the Camipāṇḍa ("great white") mountains, one of the longest mountain chains of Calémere and also the highest. It contains Calémere's highest mountain, mount Laikadhāṣṭra, which is 5.Ɛ77 pā (10,315<sub>10</sub> — about 10,717 m = 35,160 ft) high and lies on the border between the dioceses of Ñarigeiras and Maichlahåryan (the actual peak is in Ñarigeiras; the border passes through a slightly shorter peak to the northwest).
 The southern border between the Great Plain and the equatorial rainforest (which is, topographically, also mostly plain) is marked by a distinct biome that makes this area so special: the huge wetlands created by the many rivers that flow northward from the various hills in the northern part of the rainforest. This area is basically a huge network of swampy forests, and is known in Chlouvānem sources as the ''halumi paɂītumi no ṣveya'' - literally "wall of [[w:igapó|igapós]] and [[w:várzea forest|várzeas]]", and extends through the dioceses of Dhārvālla, Tamīyahāna, the southern third of Ārvaghoṣa, Talæñoya, and the southern part of Nanašīrama. The dioceses of Vælvmaichlam and Yalyakātāma, and to a lesser extent also Ñaryākātāma all have similar habitats and northward-flowing rivers (Vælvmaichlam's ones are outside the basins of the Great Plain), but are included in the major area of the southern rainforest instead.
-The Lanamilūki river, which is the one with the largest flow in the area, is particularly significant as it flows through the historical homeland of the Laifutaši culture, which was one of the indigenous cultures that influenced the Chlouvānem the most; the clearwater Lanamilūki, which flows north through eastern Talæñoya, then forms the border between Šraḍhaṃñælihæka and Nanašīrama before reaching Lūlunīkam Lake at Līlasuṃghāṇa, the Inquisition's capital, is also symbolically important and an extremely famous and visited area today due to the relatively unspoiled várzeas around it (and igapós around its right-bank tributaries) and the many holy sites of the Yunyalīlta. The Lanamilūki river itself is mentioned various times in the Yunyalīlti holy books.
+The Lanamilūki river, which is the one with the largest flow in the area, is particularly significant as it flows through the historical homeland of the Laifutaši culture, which was one of the indigenous cultures that influenced the Chlouvānem the most; the clearwater Lanamilūki, which flows north through eastern Talæñoya, then forms the border between Šraḍhaṃñælihæka and Nanašīrama before reaching Lake Lūlunīkam at Līlasuṃghāṇa, the Inquisition's capital, is also symbolically important and an extremely famous and visited area today due to the relatively unspoiled várzeas around it (and igapós around its right-bank tributaries) and the many holy sites of the Yunyalīlta. The Lanamilūki river itself is mentioned various times in the Yunyalīlti holy books.
 This area still has some important cities, most notably Lunahīkam (the capital of Talæñoya), while Līlasuṃghāṇa and Lūkṣṇyaḍāra lie just outside this area.
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 ===Climate===
-Enormous as it is, the Inquisition proper includes all major climates and biomes of Calémere except for polar tundra and ice caps (high-altitude tundra and ice caps, however, are found). Anyway, a large part of the country is dominated by tropical climates, with consistently high mean temperatures all throughout the year. Virtually all areas south of 10°N have an tropical rainforest climate (except for dry areas in rainshadows), and this climate is also found in sporadic patches north of it - including, notably, the capital city area around Lūlunīkam Lake. A tropical monsoon climate, with more yearly variation in precipitation, is found in most of the Far East, most of the Plain, and parts of the West, shifting to a tropical savanna climate inland. About 60% of the population of the Inquisition lives in areas with a tropical climate.
+Enormous as it is, the Inquisition proper includes all major climates and biomes of Calémere except for polar tundra and ice caps (high-altitude tundra and ice caps, however, are found). Anyway, a large part of the country is dominated by tropical climates, with consistently high mean temperatures all throughout the year. Virtually all areas south of 10°N have an tropical rainforest climate (except for dry areas in rainshadows), and this climate is also found in sporadic patches north of it - including, notably, the capital city area around Lake Lūlunīkam. A tropical monsoon climate, with more yearly variation in precipitation, is found in most of the Far East, most of the Plain, and parts of the West, shifting to a tropical savanna climate inland. About 60% of the population of the Inquisition lives in areas with a tropical climate.
 Overall, the Inquisition is divided in the following broad climate zones: