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Where streams of base-rich water run through bog, these are often lined by strips of fen, separating "islands" of rain-fed bog.
I picture the whole duchy of Steibrenner in this way: to the south, the foothills of the mountains (bearing the rocky streams for which everything and everybody is named, almost): to the north, lowlands leading eventually to a river which Steinbrenner gets none of. But the rocky streams of the north join into somewhat larger streams running through the marshland on their way to the river. Obviously the streams don't all make it to the river. So Steinbrenner proper is fen, drained fen, carr, and a bit of semi-upland meadow and a few trees here and there. (Carr is a wooded fen).
I'm trying to figure out exactly what the natural resources survey crew Yanek is detailed to five minutes ago (but no, it's not an intruder, but while I knew he'd be doing this, I hadn't decided what they were actually doing there). Sometimes I think they're prospecting for copper. Other times coal. Other times I keep thinking about that carr, and all the juicy stuff it keeps throwing up -- maybe some plant product.
Electric guitars are preferentially made of alder wood, because of the bright tone it provides. I don't think I can use that for a backwater degraded "empire" federation of uncooperative principalities trying to get things they need for an upcoming military adventure.
I picture the whole duchy of Steibrenner in this way: to the south, the foothills of the mountains (bearing the rocky streams for which everything and everybody is named, almost): to the north, lowlands leading eventually to a river which Steinbrenner gets none of. But the rocky streams of the north join into somewhat larger streams running through the marshland on their way to the river. Obviously the streams don't all make it to the river. So Steinbrenner proper is fen, drained fen, carr, and a bit of semi-upland meadow and a few trees here and there. (Carr is a wooded fen).
I'm trying to figure out exactly what the natural resources survey crew Yanek is detailed to five minutes ago (but no, it's not an intruder, but while I knew he'd be doing this, I hadn't decided what they were actually doing there). Sometimes I think they're prospecting for copper. Other times coal. Other times I keep thinking about that carr, and all the juicy stuff it keeps throwing up -- maybe some plant product.
Electric guitars are preferentially made of alder wood, because of the bright tone it provides. I don't think I can use that for a backwater degraded "empire" federation of uncooperative principalities trying to get things they need for an upcoming military adventure.