Editing LetsBuild5e:Geography and Cosmology (section)

==Between the Mountains and the Sea==

The plateau of Axalvo lies on the southern half of the disc, in a middle latitude. It has a warm summer continental climate ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification Köppen group Dsb]). (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19301424#post19301424]) The great Sellumeverni mountains border it to the west, and a warm, dry wind sometimes blows down from the mountains and across the plateau. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19311167#post19311167]) The nation of Gartihann lies at a fairly high altitude; the ground slopes steadily down to the north and east, interrupted by ranges of hills cut by the gorges of plateau rivers which flow to a warm inland sea. To the south, the plateau reaches a high spot and then shelves away quite steeply to an expanse of broad, cold steppes, which are crossed by slow, lazy rivers flowing east to a distant ocean or south to meet proglacial lakes. (Decisions: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19313644#post19313644] [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19317929#post19317929]) We have an initial map of the region sketched out. (Map: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19325652#post19325652]; decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19342866#post19342866]; Placename decisions: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19408519#post19408519])  The plateau is part of a Europe-sized landmass which is probably not the largest on this side; the Inner Sea has a fairly wide opening to the ocean. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19428404#post19428404])

The flora and fauna of Axalvo and the regions north and east of it broadly resemble the 'Old World' of our own Earth, especially Europe and Central Asia. However, the basin province which lies beyond the Sellumeverni mountains provides plants and animals more akin to those found in Central America and the Andes. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19483170#post19483170])