Geography of Nispe

This page covers the geographical characteristics regarding Nispe's continents and seas, including their biospheres and evolution.

### **Labia**

The main continent of the planet, Labia has evolved with the collision of Holea and Panspermia, creating an enormous continent that spans for more than half of Nispe's circumference. due to the impact, massive new mountain ranges have developed where the continents came in contact, and the old Middle Sea that stood between them has been engulfed, which turned it into a massive geyser and river-fed lake. however, due to their geographical and ecological characteristics, the two continents that compose it are still referred individually.

### **Holea**

Holea is the richest of the continents in biodiverstity, even considerig the surrounding seas. these span from north to south, albeit not as extensively as it's twin continent. it's no surprise then that, near it's coasts, a great part of the biomes present nowadays can be found here. but even the inland holds a precious variety of environements: despite the eastern mountain ranges blocking winds and rains, and therefore making most of the inland an arid, unhospitable place, the glaciers on them also give birth to a wide range of rivers and lakes. on their riversides, and inside them, there are thriving ecosystems relying on these streams and their mineral intakes, as well as home to the amphibians that evolved from the very first land colonizers, which also emerged from holean estuaries. While the inland mountain ranges are eroded and much lower than they were originally, which also had a beneficial effect to the ecosystems inland, two massive mountain ranges are found just around the middle sea. despite that, the rainfalls from the lake stop just over it's surroundings, creating a high umidity tropical environement, perfect for the amphibious rostrilians to develop in.

### **Panspermia**

Even if Panspermia is the biggest of the three continents, it's biodiversity lacks compared to the eastern neighbour. during the later Chodician Panspermia saw the rise of the highly competitive photosynthesizers (originating from the Balsac sub-continent, which merged with the decrease of sea levels at the end of the Benician), of which the descendants compose most of the endemic fauna of the continent, both on the coasts as in land. it's also nearby the thriving northern seas, with which it oftentimes intermingles it's ecosystem with. the inlands, however, are barren and devoid of life, with the exception of some territories facing the middle sea colonized by holean lifeforms, and the west coast, home of the remaining terrestrial photosynthesizers which reside in the humid lakes, rivers and even inland flats of the region. originally occupied by massive marshes, these territories were hit harshly by the mid-orchidian ice age, which completely canceled the environement and forced it's remnants to spread elsewhere. in fact, the northern territories of panspermia are very cold, and face even harsher winters than other territories due to the close proximity of the ice sheets and the high amount of mountains.

### **Sigoglia**

Sigoglia is the third, most isolated and least inhabited continent, separated from it's original landmass (which eventually formed panspermia) at the end of the Benician. due to it's oceanic and geographical characteristics, it has always been barely colonized by life, and even now few species inhabit this place, with little to no unique variations coming off from it. however, it's also close to the main northern seas banks, which contributed with it's ecosystem to evolve new species on it's coasts, and especially off to the southern archipelago. geographically speaking, it's a mostly flat and unremarkable continent, half covered by the ice sheets, and possesses a wide archipelago, with numerous islands in it, near it's south-eastern coast.

### **Oceans**

as of the orchidian, the oceanic geography is divided into two main sections, respectively on the north and on the south. the northern ocean is mainly shallow, with only few regions deeper than 1000 metres, and ranges down to the end of the eastern holean boundary and the start of the panspermian gulf. with many currents and isolated landmasses, it's also a ripe region for life, and vast mats of benoisials cover most of the shallower waters of the ocean. the southern ocean, on the other side, is a lot more cold and deep, with wide ranges of sub-light zone areas. until the ice age, only the continental coasts of holea hosted a considerable ecosystem, comprised of spongiform reefs and jagged coastlines, in which the rovischians evolved and spread from before the ice sheets transformed the region into a sub-arctical wasteland. between the two, near the continents is the tropical band, where variegated coastal reefs host numerous species from both hemispheres, and the central ocean, generally deep and without any major ecological hotspots.