Continuing from the last episode…

NORTH ICELAND, the land of cold and giants

At the north polar circle, we find North Iceland, a land made of ice and populated by the giant people, JOTNER (giant men) and their female counterpart GYGER (giant women), as well by the VALKYRJE (Valkyries, mostly women) and the DVERGER (dwarf, mostly men). All Jotners and Gygers have an average 4m high, Valkyrjes 3m high, and Dverger, different for human dwarves, they are giant dwarves, having an average 2m high, sometimes getting up to 3m, but still having dwarf proportions. Jotner and Gygers have a burly and/or a corpulent thick body; Valkyrjes are skinnier, sometimes compared to the common human body, but never too skinny, keeping a delicate and proportional chubby body; and Dverger have short limbs, normally having muscular arms and legs rather than fat ones. Curiously, no giant from North Iceland needs a mate to make babies; it’s a natural magic power and most giants came from other giants, men or women, or were molded from a special material, like clay, metals, rocks or even ice. Eventually, they still can have babies with mates, and they can be from the same gender, opposite gender or even from another race. Giants can also make babies for you for the right price (what is surely not cheap). Giants can live for a long time, maturing in their 30 years old and living for centuries. Most Giants have a slightly blue-white skin and white/blond hair, but they can also have black skin and/or red/orange hair. Giants develop spring green eyes with their iris resembling a six-pointed snowflake design,  around 20 years old.

North Iceland’s city-state is FLYTENDE HJEM (floating home), a floating magnetic land that is located above 3’000m of altitude that floats by the power of the megastructure of the HIMMEL TRE (Sky Tree). The only way to reach Flytende Hjem is by using the skimrende sti (shimmering path) said to transform you into ‘shining stars’ and instantly teleport you there. The Himmel Tre doesn’t just hold Flytende Hjem up in the sky, it also absorbs the coldness and radiation from space, including the northern lights, and also from the magnetic field on the North Pole and the power of lapis glacies. The Himmel Tre doesn’t exist in our plane, so it looks mostly invisible to human eyes but it’s possible to feel its powerful coldness. Sometimes referred to as the Is Tre (Ice Tree), as huge ice crystals can be formed around its core area, while its core can reach a temperature bellow -260°C, making it work as a superconductor and making the Flytende Hjem float.

In North Iceland, day and night last 6 months each, but the Giant ones don’t seem to have a proper sleep time. They basically feel tired after days and they go to sleep. Some may be awake for years and then sleep for years. Some of the oldest Jotners have been sleeping for over 4’000 years and never heard about the first Emperor King and it was said they would sleep until the last day of the last Emperor King, waking up just to see their own demise.

SOUTH ICELAND, the land of seers and wisdom

In the south polar circle, things go differently from North Iceland. Even though it’s a cold freezing place, most of South Iceland is like a tropical place inside its city-state, the TOWER OF KNOWLEDGE and its megastructure, the LIVING LIBRARY. Forming a six-pointed star, the Tower of Knowledge is a ziggurat-like city, which works both as a huge library and a city where the SAGAXIANS, dark-skinned people with cobalt blue eyes with hexagon pupils, live. The Sagaxians are taller than humans, as the Giant people are, but not as tall as the Giant ones, having an average height of 2.5m to 3m high.

Sagaxians follow the day and night of the South Pole, being awake for 6 months when the sun is shining continuously, and sleeping for the other 6 months while there’s no sunlight. When they fall asleep, the entire Living Library freezes over, so do their bodies, but while it is a day in South Iceland, Sagaxians will work non-stopping to observe the lives in Geonova and writing about what they see. Sagaxians are also able to foresee the near future and they love to watch the stars, documenting everything in their books. When a book is ready, they are deposited in one of the city library many shelves and, when there’s no shelf left, the Living Library grows an empty new shelf above it or a new entire floor if it’s the case. Since its construction started, the Tower of Knowledge is now 3’000m high, having over 500 floors.

As a matter of curiosity, Sagaxians live mostly in South Iceland and are kin to philosophy and esoterism, but there are times when you can see them outside South Iceland, like when they want to check what they foresaw in their visions or if they want to watch something they know is happening in person. Sagaxians love gold as a conductor of their magic, helping with their longevity, and it seems they live every year, as it’s a single day. They can even eat gold for that purpose, living for averagely 32’000 years.

IRONLAND, the land of mines and machines

Once Ironland became populated, it wasn’t hard to discover its many mineral deposits. Hearing about the gold rush where it’s now Goldland, many people ventured to miners in the new land. Eventually, they discovered how there’s no gold or any precious metal, but heavy and toxic metals, and plenty of some black oily thing. Time has passed and the use of iron pyrite to make iron has grown up and so many other metal alloys were produced. The ore found in the now called Ironland started a rush for iron to produce steel and make weapons to fight any enemy, as well as the magical metals and chemical weapons. It went slowly, but nowadays Ironland developed the most powerful machines in Geonova and, the best thing about that, because of the lapis metallum, the mines never get exhausted. On the other hand, mining non-stop still changed the landscape, forming what are now the Ironland cities, cities based on open-pit mines. Looking like its cities were swallowed by the ground, but instead built 1’500m below sea level, SIN CITY, Ironland city-state, has five open-pits from iron ore mining. The central mine open-pit, the biggest mine of them all, having around 1’000km of diameter, while the other four have an open-pit with a diameter of 600km wide.

Excavating for so long had its effects on the population. Lots of people died from heavy metals intoxication, but lots of others survived, now naturally having it in their veins, and the MUTANTS were born. Sometimes having too many or fewer limbs or different body parts, the mutants have in common metal crystallizations growing out of their skins in different ways, and their eyes color turns into a metallic mirrored orange as they grow up. Curiously, Mutants are kin with mechanics and sometimes they can make machines work on their own even though they wouldn’t work properly.

Ironland megastructure is the UNDERGROUND MAZE, sometimes referred to as the real continent, connecting everything in Ironland and beyond, to an estimated 10’000m below the sea level. To get so low, the Underground Maze is equipped with huge air conditioning pipes, forcing the fresh air to its bottom making it more bearable, though it's still hot down there. Most Mutants living there don’t mind its temperature and they seem to call the surface as ‘too cold’.

Sin City has its name because living in the underground maze meant people were free to dig and do whatever they want in Ironland first millenniums. If you want to sin and make something ‘bad’, you probably will find friends in the underground to do it. However, remember, they do know how to do bad things, so you better not cross their path.

GOLDLAND, the land of technology and robots

In the recent few millennia, Goldland, the land of gold and jewels, turned its eyes to technology and invested trillions in technological improvement and the development of their cities. In the year 2’000 of the Emperor King Common Era, under the government of the fifty Emperor King, the SKY TOWERS, Goldland’s megastructures, were finally concluded. There are five sky towers, the principal one is the DIAMOND SKY TOWER, Goldland’s city-state, and its outside are colored in white silver. Shaped like an octahedron (eight sides), its lower pyramid structure holds the Silver City, Goldland’s school complex, and the upper pyramid holds the Gold City, Geonova’s financial and technological center. Between both cities, we find the main column, home to the Gold laboratories and, in its middle, there’s the Gold Core, heart to all Geonova’s network (internet). The other Sky Towers are the red Ruby Sky Tower in the shape of a dodecahedron (twelve sides), the blue Sapphire Sky Tower in the shape of an icosahedron (twenty sides), the green Emerald Sky Tower in the shape of a hexahedron (six sides), and the yellow Beryl Sky Tower in the shape of an upside-down tetrahedron (four sides).

With all its technology, Goldlings became specialized in biomechanics and bionics, and from that, they start to substitute organic body parts for artificial body parts. It started with the use of weapons, and then it became clearer over time that it is a Goldland’s thing, they are good at it. After the huge technological improvement, Goldland started the production of clones and artificial human beings, the HYPER CLONES, through the artificial uterus called Momo (Peach) using special crystals as their cores. The Hyper Clones, different from the normal clones that are made copying an individual entirely, are made by cloning parts of two or more individuals into a new one. Also, as that means they would be better and stronger, there was some dispute of keeping it or not against the traditional way. By the laws of the Emperor Kings, any ally is important to keep the planet safe, so they were kept and the rights for normal people were extended to Hyper Clones. They may be considered ‘made to be the best’, but they aren’t the best at everything and by the commandments of imperfection, they still should be seen as imperfect. There’s still some complaining about competitions against the H.C. but they still seem to fail like any other person. Their eyes still magically change to a golden yellow-orange color.

Even with the artificial birth and, notably, no baby was born normally in Goldland in a long time, Hyper Clones started to try improving, even more, their bodies using bionic body parts. This ascended them to be recognized as CYBORGS, humans with artificial body parts and magenta-pink ultra-light sensors for their eyes. Some get close to the point that the only thing left to be replaced is their brain, but they stop advancing facing the fact that, if they make a new brain to pass their memories, that will not be them. They will always feel how they are still the same, while the new brain with their memories will think they moved on. Being left behind it’s all it takes to live forever.

SUNLAND, the land of deserts and cryogenics

An old man, without speaking to anyone, started to shape the four mountains of Sunland, 6’000m high each one. He, alone, using his mind powers, shaped the rocks weighing one ton each, and placed then with his bare hands into the right place. After years and years, decade after decade, century after century, he, alone, made the impossible and turned the four mountains into pyramids. When the last piece was in place, Eremita, the god of time and loneliness ascended to a higher plane, activating what is now Sunland’s megastructure, the HARAM ALDAW (the pyramid of light). Its immense force defies time and divides space, helps the ALHARIR (the silk ones) to age slowly and leaves the enemies outside. Only the ones with mind powers can let you enter the megastructure and permit you to see the WADI ALMULUK (The Valley of the Kings), Sunland’s city-state.

At the center of Wadi Almuluk, there’s the Haram Alshams (pyramid of the sun), originally built as the greatest grave for a king in Sunland, the structure with 1000m high needed to be invaded by the population after a powerful infestation took over. From a grave, the Haram Alshams become a city bellow its rocks. After the incident, the Alharirs build the city in the shape of pyramids, fortified fortresses to amplify their mind powers. To complete the city, the Haram Aljana (the pyramid of heaven) was built at the top of the Haram Aldaw force field. On each of its faces, there’s an Udjat (God’s eye) or Eayan ‘Iilhia (divine eye) or even Eayan Aleinayat Al’iilhia (eye of providence), that monitors the whole world, but principally Sunland. At its base, we have the Sunland’s School of Psychic Powers, Al’Haram Maqlub (The Upside Down Pyramid).

The Alharirs, despite not being able to live for too long, they naturally keep their bodies aging slowly, having not a single wrinkle on their skin even after years under the scorching triple sun. Aside from that, Alharirs are known for having less body hair than other races, helping to keep their title of being the ones with the silkiest smooth skin. Alharirs still matures normally, like any other race, around 20 years old and their eyes color turns into a chartreuse green, a yellow-green color.

As Sunland is devoted to body preservation, principally after death, their technology is specialized in cryogenics and inside the Haram Aldaw, the temperature is cooled down to 20°C while outside is over 50°C.

Continues in the next episode! There are more continents to come!