[s7s] the Minor Island of Molnar
Time to look at another Minor Island of the 7 Skies!
Molnar
[ Extant information on Molnar can be found in S7S, p. 78. ]
What Molnar Is Like
Floating in an oval sea (the Elliptic Ocean), the land of the small island of Molnar is shaped like a trapezoid, more or less.
The narrow side is the Lava Tongue Range, a line of long-extinct volcanoes, each individual peak now sporting a crater lake. Numerous waterfalls splash down the sides of their cones, to run along the foothills down into rivers to the Sang de Roche Plains, irrigating their lush soil. Eventually, all rivers lead to the Wider Shore and terminate in the ocean.
The greatest waterfall on Molnar is Ziegler Falls, which falls four thousand feet and becomes the Jahnef River. Near the top of the Falls is the Grand Mill: a huge water-wheel that drives the works of the largest flour-mill in the entire World.
Molnar is heavily given over to agriculture: wheat (good quality, but in no wise up to the quality of Colronan trigo; however, wheat is the primary crop here, outstripping all other produce), barley, oats, rye, millet, hemp, and rice. Grapes, berries, beans, and squash are also grown here in quantity. Ten square miles of land, a half-day's ride from Millersport, has been given over to the Imperial Wyld (an artificial forest).
A few of the greatest Noble Houses of Barathi maintain small properties here, be they villas, farms, ranches (horse and cattle), or vineyards. Other than the horses and cows, the animal life of Molnar includes rabbits, "qilin deer" (or in the native Molnari patois "giraffa"), several species of rodents, and feral cats.
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See more at Captain Wiki's Swashbuckling Atlas of the Far Reaches & Less-Trodden Paths of the 7 Skies.
As I said before, I couldn't fit all of the local playtesters' characters into the manuscript, for various reasons. "Imre Molnar" was the assumed name of a former healer turned pirate captain after being wrongly imprisoned, played by sharrukin. I asked him what "Molnar" meant, and he said "millstone" (an innocuous name, but also with the implication that he would grind away at their enemies and also be a weight around their necks).
I mentioned the interesting iconography of the blazon for this colony island when I talked about the S7S Dingbat font.
No offense to Jon, but I made this island a very calm and basic -- okay, somewhat dull -- place. . . for a good reason.
Tatooine.
Every good setting needs a nice, boring place for farmboys and farmgirls to run away from to go on some damnfool adventure. Or for people to land at and take a break from some damnfool adventure. For the most part, Molnar's like that.
The most part.
However, scratch the surface, and you find this.
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Molnar
[ Extant information on Molnar can be found in S7S, p. 78. ]
What Molnar Is Like
Floating in an oval sea (the Elliptic Ocean), the land of the small island of Molnar is shaped like a trapezoid, more or less.
The narrow side is the Lava Tongue Range, a line of long-extinct volcanoes, each individual peak now sporting a crater lake. Numerous waterfalls splash down the sides of their cones, to run along the foothills down into rivers to the Sang de Roche Plains, irrigating their lush soil. Eventually, all rivers lead to the Wider Shore and terminate in the ocean.
The greatest waterfall on Molnar is Ziegler Falls, which falls four thousand feet and becomes the Jahnef River. Near the top of the Falls is the Grand Mill: a huge water-wheel that drives the works of the largest flour-mill in the entire World.
Molnar is heavily given over to agriculture: wheat (good quality, but in no wise up to the quality of Colronan trigo; however, wheat is the primary crop here, outstripping all other produce), barley, oats, rye, millet, hemp, and rice. Grapes, berries, beans, and squash are also grown here in quantity. Ten square miles of land, a half-day's ride from Millersport, has been given over to the Imperial Wyld (an artificial forest).
A few of the greatest Noble Houses of Barathi maintain small properties here, be they villas, farms, ranches (horse and cattle), or vineyards. Other than the horses and cows, the animal life of Molnar includes rabbits, "qilin deer" (or in the native Molnari patois "giraffa"), several species of rodents, and feral cats.
[ . . . ]
See more at Captain Wiki's Swashbuckling Atlas of the Far Reaches & Less-Trodden Paths of the 7 Skies.
As I said before, I couldn't fit all of the local playtesters' characters into the manuscript, for various reasons. "Imre Molnar" was the assumed name of a former healer turned pirate captain after being wrongly imprisoned, played by sharrukin. I asked him what "Molnar" meant, and he said "millstone" (an innocuous name, but also with the implication that he would grind away at their enemies and also be a weight around their necks).
I mentioned the interesting iconography of the blazon for this colony island when I talked about the S7S Dingbat font.
No offense to Jon, but I made this island a very calm and basic -- okay, somewhat dull -- place. . . for a good reason.
Tatooine.
Every good setting needs a nice, boring place for farmboys and farmgirls to run away from to go on some damnfool adventure. Or for people to land at and take a break from some damnfool adventure. For the most part, Molnar's like that.
The most part.
However, scratch the surface, and you find this.
Pre-order Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies here!