Leaving Geffen
Elmikie sat down and regulary took bites form his dinner, a sandwich with sausages, he was too tired to take the risk of spellcasting. the view from the observatuorium was allways breath taking.
"eh..that's all?"...he looked down on his empty hand "well, times to write"
We now head west leaving Geffen through the west gate
and reach the western part of Geffen isle, the fauna in this area is noted for it's variety, but must of all, for being one of the two places outside Geffen, where tropical plant grows.
though in this case, it's technically not a tropical plant, but a plant that have develioped from the seeds from Geffens trees and adapted to the weather.
This area have 3 noticeworthy place, starting with the one closes to Geffen is Jortohr isles
"Jortohr" roughly translate to "earth tear" cause it is said that these three isle is the top of the last floating isle to fall from the sky when Geffenia was lost. but it's now adays must well known for being a spot where couples meet to be alone, and it's an unspoked rule in Geffen that one doesn't go to any of the isles where there's a couple.
But it's also an interesting place to visit for people seeking to see some of Geffenia, cause under the water can ruins from that time be found.
Study have shown that it's must likely, what's left of the buildings that was buildt on tup of the isles when they still floated, the gate shows that it was possible to go into the isle which probaly had rooms digged into it, and the ruins of a shrinelike building indicates it must had been either a small isle dedicated to worship, or was a big isle enough to have its' own shrine, either option is possible with what is known now.
the next site which will be impossible to overlook is Geffens western brigde.
It's named the "Sunset gate" bridge, or more commonly called by name as the "Sunset" brigde since it have been placed so that the Sun will allways go down between the great pillars the support the bridge when viewed from Geffens western gate.
The bridge is one of the largest contruktion made by man, spanning over a half sau and being 45 adult mens' shoulder wide. it's also a bottleneck and first line of defense for Geffen, must defensive strategy for Geffen deals with how to stop an enemy at one of the bottlenecks, before they can come close and damage the city itself.
Crossing the bridge leads and going north bring us to the cloud-kin observatorium. It can be accesed by walking up "Sky gate" hill
which leads us to the Sky stairs
These stairs leads to the must important and efficient observatorium in the world.
the Cloud-kin Observatorium
This observatorium lies in the optimum condition for observing the night sky: high placed, clear field of vision and no background light to interfer with the telescopes.
Stargazers, divinator and mages having business the involves planets and stars can be found here every night and one useally have to book a time before hand in Geffen to get to use one of the telescopes, but even without a booked time, is it a pupolar place to watch the stars and for that matter the view.
an interesting that can be seen clearly from this place, is that the hexagon and octagon shapes that often appear in Geffens' architecture can be seen on the bridge too.
The Floating Isle itself, is also a wonder to behold, it's one of the few leftover of old Geffenias' floating isle and the creation of one is a source of much research and studies, so far the secrets of the magic used to make one haven't been unlocked, despite the fact that the smallest of them is barely the sice of a shack.
notes about the regions' plant growth. the soil have a small concentration of arcane energy, which for some reason give potatoes in the area a distinctive taste, and give rise to the growth of the rare blue plant and even rarer shining plant. A fair amounth of medicin plant also grows in the area, but that's more due to the natural fertility of the area. also it's interesting to note that must of the tropical like trees, grows near Geffen, which have giving rise to speculation that they might be using the arcane energy that's released and use them as a replacement for the warmth and light that these plants useally need.
crossing the bridge, we'll head north, to visit what's been called "tent town" in the next entry.
*close the book and puts it back in his bag*..."am I glad that it's only the towns that take up alot of pages" *looks out from the observatorium toward north* "....going to be nice to visit them again..well better get packing" *packs his stuff together and accidently push his staff over the edge*
"..."
"I hate when that happens"