Soa Holen

Śoa Holen, translating to "lands between" in Semhudi, is a term for all of the uninhabitable land outside of the current or bygone habitable realms. It was documented and named by Morn Humblwod Okrin while on his travel leading The Expeditionary Force to Abexilas, although others might have documented and named with different names, or even fully ignored its existence.
== Geography ==
Tae Śoa Holen is a totally flat wasteland. It exists around all of the realms of Rathnir, Eldham and Abexilas, with few discovered landscapes within. 
The seemingly endless seas are a sea with no discoverable depth.Tthe Salt and sand flats are devoid of any life. In the flat grass plains, a bedrock layer is found three blocks below earth. Flat rocky terrain, unlike the flat grass plains, seams to be unending in depth, but having nothing else but stone in its composition.
== Fauna and Flora ==
Villagers are nomads of the wasteland, only found on the flat grass plains. They have many settlements, but all are far apart from each other, and their villages are the only discovered place where trees and crops can be found in the Soa Holen. Short Grass and grasses only a couple of centimeters tall are found on the flat grass plains.
Compared to normal grass they are oddly short, most likely due to the lack of nutrients on the wasteland, giving it the appearance of freshly cut grass.
Slimes can be found both in the oceans and grass plains. They are the most consistent source of food in Tae Śoa Holen, and are travel in packs, wandering the wasteland and extracting nutrients from the soil and water.
Tae Serpenty Dhaviva, meaning "The Threaded Serpent" in Semhudi, is a one of a kind creature found near the border with Abexilas, was the reason many Oldworlders could not enter Abexilas. The beast was described by many cultures with different names or appearances, but always as a six-headed serpent. Morn Humblwod Okrin's description was a green serpent with a human thorax, with wing-like limbs on the side of it, although the creature was not witnessed flying. From the top of the thorax came out five heads, in the back of the tail was the sixth head; on each forehead the numbers I, II, III, IV, V and VI were written in gold in an old Traveler's Tongue. The creature was killed by an angelic creature named Raul.
File:Tae Serpenty Dhaviva from above.png|Sketch made of the serpent upon its discovery, two years before its death.
File:TaeSerpentyDhaviva.png|Tae Serpenty Dhaviva and the angelic being Raul, seen from Morn's spyglass.
File:Raul's fight against the serpent.png|Raul's final battle with the serpent.
== History ==
=== Expeditionary force's voyage ===
==== Travel to Abexilas ====
A day before the crashing of the Iristor comet, the Expeditionary Force left the city of Greenstem in Rathnir, aboard the airship SA-A1, captained by Morn Humblwod Okrin. They headed to the coordinates where Abexilas was announced to be at by StoneyStoner. After entering Tae Śoa Holen, all they saw from above were seemingly endless seas, huge flat grass plans, and wastelands devoid of life.
Throughout the journey, they stopped many times to get water and hunted whatever wildlife they saw. The most common wildlife were the slimes, which was the the main source of food for the expedition other than the supplies they brought in the airship. One of the crew members was assigned to counting the days, as Tae Śoa Holen lacked seasons and often had anomalies in which days could last longer or shorter, even though those anomalies seamed to balance one another out on the whole.
From the calculation of their pace and distance to Abexilas and from what the crew member had counted, it took two years of travel to reach Abexilas. Since the most widespread calendar in the Old World was the Traveler's Era, they kept using it even after leaving Rathnir.
==== Serpenty Dhaviva ====
Morn Humblwod Okrin was finally reaching Abexilas, after travelling through Tae Śoa Holen on his airship for two years, but then on the outskirts of the Abexilas territory he stumbled upon a battle, which prevented him from entering the realm of Abexilas. He zoomed with his spyglass to see more details on the battle, while at a safe distance. The battle was being fought by an angelic entity wielding an sword against a six headed green serpent, threaded by its multiple heads, with red glowing eyes and a golden belly.
Morn named the beast Tae Serpenty Dhaviva. The angelic being resembled the appearance of Raul, an old entity present in many tales of the Jagdas era – a being similar to StoneyStoner, but stronger. Morn and his crew waited for the battle to end for more than a year, feeding themselves on the scarce wildlife of the wastelands.
From afar, Morn heard the sounds of cannons being fired in the direction of the beast. He came closer to where it was an endless sea, where he saw a huge pirate fleet, flying flags with paintings of gems, helping the angelic being against the beast. Those flags were familiar to Morn, as they were the same ones used by the Amethyst Pirates crew lead by Captain Vader. They had had a base at Neora, a city his father used to visit often.
After many days of battle, most of the Amethyst Fleet was either destroyed or maimed, and with the main ship damaged, Captain Vader ordered what was left of the Amethyst Fleet to retreat. After they retreated to the shores of the wasteland, Morn used a shard of a mirror to get their attention. Upon approaching, Captain Vader shouted "AHHOYY MATEYYS, OUR FRIENDS OF THE HOMELANDS", as he had recognised the Greensteni airship and the red coat that Morn wore, iconically used by Morfetico who Vader had known. Both Morn and Vader exchanged information and supplies, and in those days of mourning, a new friendship was kindled between the crews, spreading fondness over rums and lasagnas. The fight of the angelic being and the beast was still going, but the battle seemed close to ending, with the beast ever so weakened, and so Morn said: "Tomorrow might be the day of its death..."
The next day, Morn saw from afar the beast downed, while Raul ascended to the sky. The beast seamed to still be breathing but unconscious, so both crews packed up their stuff, fired the engines or raised their sails. Morn shouted: "TO ABEXILAS WE GOOO" as everyone embarked once more in their airship and ships.
The wind was in favour of the pirates, giving them the lead – while the airship was still trying to take off, the Amethyst Pirates had fled to Abexilas. As the airship neared the beast, it started to wake up. The Expeditionary Force quickly manoeuvred the ship back, but the tail head was the first head to wake up – it rushed into the sky, striking and heavily damaging the airship with its face. The tail head was not able to reach further for another attack, as the rest of the body had not woken up yet. As the beast was finally lifting up, Raul descended back from the sky, reigniting the battle.
The back wings of the airship were damaged, making it harder to control, but as they were above a massive grass plain the ship was crash landed without no additional damage. Some of the crew members were injured, both by the serpent's attack and by the crash landing, but there were no critical injuries. And so again, Morn and his crew watched the battle from afar, waiting for it to be finished while they tried to repair the back of the airship with the scarce resources they had.
Some days after, the final blow was dealt, and Tae Serpenty Dhaviva was finally slain. The body of the serpent melted and was absorbed by the land, leaving only the bones on the surface. The airship had been repaired (although still not fully stable), and thus the crew got in their airship for one last time and headed to Abexilas.
==== Serpenty Dhaviva Calendar ====
As the airship had entered the realm of Abelixas and was heading to its center, one of the makeshift repairs in the tail broke midflight, forcing Morn to do a crashlanding. The airship landed on the western continent of Iristoya, where Morn founded the city of Kamtargaa.
After 13 years there was no widely available calendar in Abexilas. Morn had kept using the Traveler's Era, but such an outdated calendar was not being used by any of the natives around him, and so Morn introduced the Serpenty Dhaviva Calendar. Its first year started with the defeat of Tae Serpenty Dhaviva by Raul, an event recorded by many cultures in the form of art, by both natives and new comers. The defeat of the Serpenty had opened the way for many Oldworlders to enter Abexilas, and the fight had been witnessed by natives all over Abexilas, so Morn deemed such event the perfect starting point of a new era, as it was relevant to both old and new world inhabitants. Starting at , the first year was 1 After Serpenty Dhaviva, abbreviated to ASD, the year prior being 1 Before Serpenty Dhaviva, abbreviated to BSD. This calendar is officially used in the Kapteniat of Kamtargaa, in the Stoneworks Sciences & History Guild, and in the Ashkavari Korqoriat.
=== Arrival to Abexilas ===
During the Great Shardfall of 17 VE, Sasha Suvorov, Lord Mayor of Cheesegorod, disappeared without a trace after sailing into the morning mist. He reappeared in Cheesegorod over two years later, in the winter of 19 VE, grey with salt dust, severely dehydrated and with a mad look in his eye. According to Suvorov, he had somehow been transported to an endless salt flat in the Soa Holen, where he wandered in an endless dusk for two years, surviving only off pools of rainwater and eating phantom creatures that spawned from insomnia.
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