N/Atlas/Geugaw

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Geugaw is the geographical name for the southwestern mainland, due to historical reasons: the previous kingdom, before being overthrown by what has now become Galorum, was Geugaw. The landscape seems almost the direct opposite from the mainland opposite the straights. Instead of being of a mild climate, it is mostly desert, with the majority of inhabitable area bordering the Sea of Pellinor and the Diamond Sea. This is due to orographical reasons as well: westerlies blow here yet the moisture has fallen far away to the west before reaching discovered Gallorum, so that the winds that do come are dry and hot. Hence, much of Gallorum is a hot desert. The Gewgaw Range is a string of mountains near the eastern seaboard of this mainland, and serve the Galorumi a favor by preventing the hot and dry winds from reaching Galorum proper on the eastern coastline. This absence of wind allows some of the moisture and coolness from the Diamond Sea to approach Gewgaw from the east via convection currents (warm air rising upward over Galorum proper and falling down as cool air over the Diamond Sea, then moving westward with the moisure it picks up). Hence the climate in Gallorum proper is savanna and while more than warm it is still tolerable as a cool desert, in contrast with the warm desert across the Gewgaw Range. Greater Gallorum covers most of the continent, yielding only to the Great Sea (the Gallorumi know this sea as the Mare Galiciata) in the northwest and Lesser Gallorum (the Galorumi know this body of land as Meriavincla) to the southeast. Mountain ranges are close to all the coasts of Geugaw. The region has four seasons. ^[1]

Geugaw has been ruled by the Akur'dseg family since the dawn of the Second Age. It has little interaction with the regions of Karabala, Serdia, and Arkanros due to its separation from these regions by the Diamond Sea and the Great Sea.

In 4210, Geugaw was invaded by the Galicians. This sparked a decade-long war, which ended with Geugaw being annexed by the Galicians. From then on, Geugaw was governed directly from Espimenta.

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