Allassai

The Allassai are a mountain range in the west of the world, located in the Empire of Trahana. South of a gap of lowlands, the Kossai, arguably an extension of the Allassai, continue into the historical Trahana heartland.
Historically, many smaller countries have sprung up in its foothills, including Firotl, Tempe, Dehr and Sechm. The Sechma foothills were the birthplace of Machaianism, one of the world's most followed religions and the dominant religion of the west of the known world. It is currently home to a small resistance movement to the Empire of Trahana led by a few disaffected leaders of the fallen Dehra and Sechma states, as well as many Machaianist monasteries, both those patronized by the Imperial Trahana and independent organizations.
The Sechma region of the Allassai contains the large and fish-rich lake of Outra Enedn around which the Sechma population clusters. It is also home some of the largest known gold deposits in the world, the wealth of which sustained the occasional independence of Sechm from the Tollanaugh Empire and Dulama Empire for many centuries. The southernmost reaches of the range, under the dominion of Trahana from earlier days, are rich in copper deposits, and relics of possible earlier bronze-age societies are occasionally uncovered.
The surrounding environment of the Allassai consists entirely of rainforest of varying density in the south and open savannah in the north and is characterized in particular by heavy rainfall. Thus, they are some of the wettest mountains on the planet and can be extremely treacherous to pass during the rainy season, which runs for about two-thirds of the year. In the high passes, temperatures are moderate year-round; some monks have introduced to the highlands some exceptionally thirsty crops that require less brutal heat than that found in the coastal regions. Snow on the highest peaks is observed about once every three or four years, though vanishingly few locals have ever seen snow up close. Consequently, the occasional whitening of the peaks was often given religious significance in the pre-Machaianist era and still receives some recognition by the few locals who follow older traditions.
Category:West
Category:Geography