Environment
Intensely lush and humid, with strange aquatic vegetation, enormous waterways, colorful wildlife, and frequent storms. Landscapes shift between open water, tangled greenery, inhabited islands, and developed waterfronts.
Creator · Regional geography
Aquatic Regions
Vast waters, branching rivers, inhabited islands, wetland neighborhoods, and entire ways of life built around the water.
Creator’s aquatic regions are inhabited places, not empty wilderness between settlements. Enormous bodies of water, branching river systems, wetlands, islands, and coastlines connect towns, cities, businesses, cultures, and communities. Life here isn't limited to surviving in the environment: people make homes, raise families, work, travel, trade, argue, celebrate, and build entire societies around the water.
01 / The bigger picture
Major Aquatic Regions
Orumai
Major aquatic regionOrumai is a vast, interconnected aquatic region encompassing enormous inland waters, river systems, wetlands, islands, coastal areas, and dense aquatic communities. Its waterways connect inhabited places across a landscape where water shapes transportation, commerce, settlement, and everyday life.
Civilization
Established towns, cities, fishing communities, ports, islands, and waterfront settlements exist throughout Orumai. Residential neighborhoods and local businesses are woven into the aquatic landscape rather than isolated from it.
Connections to Saint Jude’s Landing
Orumai has strong trade, travel, family, cultural, and entertainment connections with Saint Jude’s Landing. Its communities are part of the wider social world, with people moving between regions for work, visits, business, and personal relationships.
Kaluwa
Major aquatic regionKaluwa is an enormous freshwater basin containing sprawling lakes, branching rivers, marshes, islands, and communities built directly around the water. Its connected waterways link old settlements, working waterfronts, rural communities, and modern urban centers.
Environment
Dense vegetation, warm and humid weather, colorful freshwater ecosystems, enormous aquatic wildlife, and unusual waterways. Lakes, marshes, rivers, and flooded lowlands create varied environments throughout the region.
Civilization
Kaluwa contains old established communities, busy ports, rural settlements, floating structures, farms, and modern cities. Homes, workplaces, markets, and transportation routes reflect the different ways people live with the surrounding water.
Culture
Kaluwa has its own regional traditions, food, music, businesses, and local identities. Its communities are not culturally interchangeable: neighboring places can have different customs, priorities, and ways of life.
Connections to Saint Jude’s Landing
Kaluwa is closely connected to Saint Jude’s Landing through transportation, commerce, employment, tourism, and family networks. These connections make movement between the region and the city part of ordinary life.
02 / Places people call home
Aquatic Communities
Five established settlements across Orumai and Kaluwa, each with its own relationship to the surrounding water.
Tavira
Waterfront city · OrumaiA large, busy aquatic city built around several connected waterways. Dense neighborhoods sit alongside docks, markets, restaurants, businesses, and ferry routes, creating an urban environment where water transportation is part of the city's everyday rhythm.
Mabiko
Fishing and river community · KaluwaAn older community surrounded by wetlands and branching rivers, known for fishing, food production, local markets, and family businesses. Its established neighborhoods connect working waterfronts with the surrounding freshwater landscape.
Sivai
Island community · OrumaiA compact island settlement with dense housing, small businesses, boat transportation, and a strong local identity. Its residents live in a closely connected community where the surrounding waterways link everyday errands, work, and travel.
Talua
Wetland community · KaluwaA low-lying community connected by raised walkways, small bridges, boats, and narrow waterways. Homes and businesses are integrated into the wetland environment, with local transportation adapted to the landscape.
Kaiwana
Deep-water community · OrumaiAn established deep-water community built around enormous submerged formations, deep reefs, underwater valleys, and interconnected marine settlements. Residential areas, businesses, gathering spaces, markets, schools, and transportation routes are integrated directly into the surrounding deep-water environment. Kaiwana is an inhabited place with an established community and everyday infrastructure, not simply a collection of underwater natural formations.