Fell Welkin Plains

== Overview ==
The region for which the Fell Welkin plains are named for. The Fell Welkin is an expanse of land that runs along the leylines running between the Blue Spire, and the Red and Greed Spires. The unique energies exchanged in the Fell cause an abundance of mist and fog to gather in the area of the Blue-Red leyline, which spills over the landscape. The basin in the rainforest has created many rivers that flow into the Fell Welkin plains, forming rivers and lakes. These rivers carve deep gorges in the Blue-Green leyline territory, while the mist of the Blue-Red leyline fills the basins and gorges. The result is a misty landscape where the sun shines only on the surface, while below in the layers of fog creatures and people treat the mist as an ocean that separates karsts from each other like water and islands.
            	The Fell Welkin has different layers of its aerosphere that are categorized and studied by scholars and indigenous people of the region. The Top-most layer is known as the Clandestine Ether. This shares a name with the parallel of freedom and death in the cultural beliefs of dragon afterlife, but not the parallel from which magic is drawn from. In this layer, there is no mist or fog, and the boundless sky and sun can be seen clearly. Below is a blanket of mist that is only broken by the tallest of trees and mountains the jut out from the obscuring fog below. There is not much to say about the Ether, as it is more a distinction to denote the lack of the Fell’s unique environment, rather than being a true part of it.
            	When speaking of the Fell Welkin, most refer to the ground level of it. This area is simply referred to as the Fell Welkin, or the Fell for short. In the fell, the sun shines through as a bright glow in the sky. At night, the various moons of Devidica cast colored glows across the sky above. The Fell is characteristically dark due to the blanket of mist over it, but the levels of light during the day are comfortable for human accommodation. Particles of mist and water are observed and seen by inhabitants, allowing them to perceive the landscape around them and any obstacles, despite the decreased visibility. In the Fell, rivers from the north have cut through much of the soft soil and limestone of the plain and left gaps and chasms that could prove to be anything from a minor inconvenience to a fatal fall.
            	Mist runs along these gorges and gathers in the basins to creates rivers and lakes of mist that rush, ebb and flow just like the water features they mimic. While many of these mist Rivers and Lakes do have water features below them, some of them have since long their supply of water, but the mist remains flowing. Mist Rivers and lakes house unique flora and fauna within them that use the mist similar to how fish use water.
            	The Hollow Sea is the region of the Blue-Green Leyline where the mists of the Blue-Red gather and create the illusion of a sea of mist and fog in the eroded karsts of the valley. Low plateaus and karsts are barely visible breaking through the surface of the misty seascape, creating the illusion of islands and land masses in an ocean. The mist churns and ebbs and flows like the sea, with waves and tides. The Mist Rivers of the Fell Welkin feed into the sea, depositing mist to the foggy false sea above, and water to the true hydrosphere below. 
            	“Diving” into the sea, things become much darker, and the fauna and flora become more unique. Like an ocean on land, fish and coral and siphonophores find their home is the dense mist. Humans can spend limit amount of time within this misty sea but will drown if they spend too long due to the water in the air. While it is dark, visibility is mostly hindered by the thick mist more than the lack of sunlight shining through. Droplets of water will form on anything they can nucleate on and fall down to the ground or water below, creating a super-marine snow that filter feeders and scavengers eat.
            	At the bottom of the sea is the true water found on the ground of the land of carved karsts. Here a dark swamp has formed where the only light is seen while the sun is high and proud in the sky. It is impossible to see within the dense fog, and the constant rainfall from above drowns out the sounds of the swamp’s ebbing and flowing. The water is dark or inky black due to the lack of light. Bottom feeders and ambush predators are found here, collecting the super-marine snow or striking at low-swimming prey. It is believed that Theelio was a leyline beast that evolved from one of the creatures in this region.
            	The Clearblack is not a suitable place for people. Below the surface of the swamp’s waters the world becomes pitch black due to the lack of sunlight. Predators use bioluminescence similar to those of the ocean’s midnight zone. Despite how dark it is, if one were to provide some source of illumination they would find that visibility is actually much better below the surface of the water, where mist particles don’t disrupt vision. Venturing this deep into the Fell Welkin is folly, as humans already have trouble surviving the lower levels of the mist sea, let alone true water and zero visibility below.
Navigation if the Fell is generally performed through producing sounds, and listening to the echo off of the surrounding landscape. High Pitches flutes and other piercing noises that are easy to discern are preferred, with navigators being refered to as Mist Talkers.