The region commonly known as “The Taevalands” is comprised of an expansive non-glaciated region of antarctica, and the large island cluster that lies off of its shores. The largest of these islands is Byrykyryn at ~1.111 million square kilometers (~429k sq mi), making it the largest widely populated island in the world, followed by Etvoryn at ~164,000 sqK (63,320 sq miles) (ignore what the image says about that). These large islands are home to the majority of the region’s population, as the antarctic portion is resource poor and unsuitable for agriculture. By the 21st century, the population reached ~125 million people, the vast majority of them being native Taevans.

In all respects, the Taevalands region is among the most isolated locals in earth’s history. It’s the most intact remnant of the antarctic biosphere before the glacial expansion that rendered most of the continent an uninhabitable wasteland. Its position on the globe had left it the most difficult inhabited region to travel to, and especially, away from.

History

The pre-cataclysm civilization of the fertile crescent employed the aid of supernaturally gifted ocean guides to first settle the region, over twelve thousand years ago. The first global cataclysm and the end of the Pliestocene epoch brought utter ruin to any advanced human societies, and wiped out all of the ocean guides who may have known of the Taevalands’ existence.

The Taevans too were almost subjected to total annihilation, in the wake of disaster and without the vital flow of resources from their parent empires, their population had been reduced by over ninety-eight percent.The scarce few survivors were forced to live as primitive hunter gatherers in the harsh and alien environments they had been stranded in. Remarkably, they persisted, and as the millennia rolled by their descendants grew in number, developed their own agriculture and proceeded down a developmental path entirely independent from the rest of humanity. Each of the scattered remnants became masters of their environments, driven by a vague and distant memory of something more, to conquer this cruel land and use everything at their disposal to innovate their way back to civilization. Limited as they were, lacking wood, most common domesticates, and no means of oversees trade, they would nevertheless rise and surpass the heights of their ancestors to one day become a powerful player on the world stage.



ecosystem

se jungles of bamboo and an assortment of towering grass species. Reflecting its gondwonnan heritage, the endemic species of animals include few placental mammals, dominated mainly by marsupial mammals and flightless birds. Most of the last survivors representing archaic lineages, such as late surviving sphenodonts, monotremes and metatherian mammals, and paleognathe birds can be found here. Unique to the island of etvoryn is a radiation of armadillos stemming from an primitive species that rafted to the island from south america ~40 million years ago. The comparatively advanced placental armadillos out-competed many of the native birds and metatherians, currently occupying niches ranging from mole-like burrowers, to large herbivores like their glyptodon cousins in the Americas.

The most distinct element of the Taevan ecosystem is its complete lack of any tree species. In the place of forests, the moist temperate areas of the Taevalands support den