Mac Earldoms

### Terrain

Mostly flat, drylands to the south and forests and plains to the north, with mountains in the northeast

### Owners

Previously the Mac Guy Empire, now no one

### Inhabitants

Previously 48,000 Mac Guys, now barely anyone

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The Mac Earldoms were twelve first-level administrative subdivisions in the Mac Guy Empire on MAC C, for areas inside of the Outer Border Fence but outside the central area contained within the Inner Border Fence that would later become the PC Guy Empire. They were abandoned due to their declining populations caused by the complex reproductive system of the Mac Guys approximately 20 years after the empire's founding, and are currently unoccupied, except for some isolated dwellings like The Globglogabgalab's House. There is not much fabric left of The Mac Earldoms, save for a few fences, the paths and the ruins of around 14 castles.

Most of the Earldoms were covered in grasslands and steppe, however to the north and east large forests were found and to the south the terrain became drier.

The lands previously occupied by the Earldoms are likely going to become much more significant over the course of the Adventure Series, as the Mac Guy and PC Guy Empires expand and humans start showing up on MAC C.

## Description

The Earldoms were centred around small settlements of simple medieval-style farming shacks, centred around a castle. The most prosperous Earldoms were close to The Mac Guy Empire and had two castles. Each Earldom was led by an Earl Mac Guy. Earls were elected but served for life. There were 12 Earls, one per Earldom. The Earls served below the King Mac Guy and the Vice King Mac Guy, but above Advisors. The Earls lived in castles. In the case of the most prosperous earldoms, Jobs and Performa, there was also a Vice Earl who themselves also lived in a castle. This is due to the Earl's tendency to frequently be away visiting other Earldoms. The Earldoms were linked by road and the Mac Guys used horse and cart to travel between Earldoms.

The earldoms covered an area of around 1 million km2 together, and on average around 85,000 km2 each. The earldoms had around 4,000 Mac Guys each, for a total population of 48,000 in the earldoms, with a population density of around 0.05 Mac Guys per km2, around double the population density of Greenland, and around 1.5 times the density of Northern Canada. This meant the Earldoms were mostly completely empty.

The land occupied by the Earldoms is mostly flat, with some exceptions. The Earldom of Jobs is mountainous, the Border Hills lie on the western part of the southern border of the earldoms, and the Midpoint Mountains go from central Wayne to central Janoff.

## Appearances

The earldoms have been featured in several adventures:

* In The Adventure to Destroy The Lion's Heart Stone, the protagonists journey to The Globglogabgalab's House south of the PC Guy Empire, where they find The Staff.
* In The Adventure to Annihilate The PC And Linux Empires For Good, the protagonists journey to the Earldom of Lisa, and find the clues needed to decipher the location of PC Plum's Carving on the way.

## Earldom names

* Earldom of Espinosa (Likely featured in Seymour's Adventures)
* Earldom of Janoff (Likely featured in Seymour's Adventures)
* Earldom of Jobs (Had two castles, now The Dipo Castle and The Sarger Castle)
* Earldom of Lisa (mentioned in The Adventure to Annihilate The PC And Linux Empires For Good)
* Earldom of MacIntosh (mentioned in The Adventure to Annihilate The PC And Linux Empires For Good)
* Earldom of Markkula
* Earldom of Newton (mentioned in The Adventure to Annihilate The PC And Linux Empires For Good) (Castle destroyed in PC Guy's Prison)
* Earldom of Performa (Had two castles, now The Kion Castle and The Fuli Castle)
* Earldom of Pippin (Likely featured in Seymour's Adventures)
* Earldom of PowerBook (Likely featured in Seymour's Adventures)
* Earldom of Wayne (Likely featured in Seymour's Adventures)
* Earldom of Wozniack (mentioned in The Adventure to Annihilate The PC And Linux Empires For Good)

## Terrain

### Biomes

Due to the size of the Mac Earldoms, they span across multiple biomes.

* To the north east, the terrain is mountainous as it forms part of Sunrise Mountains. This area is not extensivly mapped by the Mac Guys due to its cold and hostile nature. It is the first area on MAC C visited after traveling through the Falkirk Portal and the area covers the Earldom of Jobs and half the Earldom of Newton.
* Around the area of the main Mac Guy Empire is mostly grasslands. These areas are ideal for farming, however overwhelmingly devoid of trees. The area covers the Earldoms of Wozniack, Wayne and Janoff, as well as parts of the Earldoms of Newton, Powerbook and Macintosh.
* Due south of the main empire, the land is densly forestedwith forests consisting mostly of oak trees with some birch. This area covers the Earldom of Performa and part of the Earldom of Macintosh.
* To the south and east is dry steppe, where agriculture is more difficult without water from a river. Summers here are bitterly dry and rather hot. This area covers the Earldoms of Lisa, Epsinosa, Markkula and Pippin, as well as parts of the Earldom of PowerBook.

### Mountains

The area of the Earldoms contains two mountain ranges and two ranges of hills.

* The larger mountain range is the previously mentioned Sunrise Mountains. The smaller mountain range is the rather poorly named Border Hills, which cover parts of the Earldoms of Pippin, Markkula and Epsinosa.
* The two ranges of hills are the Midpoint Mountains, located in the Earldoms of Janoff and Wayne, and the Wozniack Cliffs, located in and named after the Earldom of Wozniack.

### Rivers

The area of the Earldoms contains five major rivers. A lot of borders between Mac Earldoms consisted of rivers as they were a physical barrier that prevented the need for fences.

* The largest river by far is the Newton, which flows from north of the Earldom of Newton to Newton Bay in the Sea of Fate, which is shouth of the Earldom of Lisa. The dranage basin of the Newton covers most of the Mac Earldoms and all other major rivers in the earldoms are tributaries of the Newton.
* The Wayne River is a right tributary of the Newton. It begins far away from the earldoms to the north west and flows to Central Lake, where it meets the Newton.
* The Performa River is a left tributary of the Newton. This river meanders through the Mac Earldoms before meeting the Newton close to the Sea of Fate.
* The Jobs River is an early left tributary of the Performa. It flows east of the main empire through Sunrise Mountains. It was used partially as the outer border of the Mac Guy Empire.
* The Gorge River is a river that for a long distance flows at the base of a massive gorge, the Gorge of Eternal Peril. It forms a barrier to those entering the main empire.