Tamoanchan, painted for this archiveIsle of Tamawa
Place, Island
A lonely, drought-and-flood-plagued island north of Huac, known for the Elysium Palisades, a huge serpentine cliff on its west coast that the Atlanteans meant to quarry. It has many animals but no known intelligent inhabitants.
From the book
Tamawa is a lonely island north of Huac, famous chiefly for the Elysium Palisades, a vast cliff of solid serpentine along its western shore. Atlantean explorers found it during their Golden Age, but the fall of their empire, together with trouble in Huac to the south, ended their plans to work it, and knowledge of the place now survives only in rare books in a few private libraries.
The island is mostly bleak. Long droughts bring lightning-sparked brushfires driven by the wind, then heavy rains bring flash floods and mudslides; a short, pleasant spring of flowers is quickly swallowed by drought again. Animal life is plentiful: the most common are armadillo, bear, coyote, deer, puma, rabbit, snake and vulture, while goats, hawks, iguanas, peccaries, raccoons, scorpions and skunks turn up less often. No intelligent people are thought to live there, though much may have changed since Atlantean times.
At a glance
- Pronunciation
- ta-MA-wa
- Region
- North of Huac
- Notable places
- The Elysium Palisades (serpentine cliff)
- Fauna
- Bear, deer, rabbit, puma, coyote, snake, vulture, armadillo, scorpions, raccoons, skunks, hawks, goats, iguanas, peccaries
- Climate
- Drought with wind-driven brushfires, then heavy rains with flash floods and mudslides; brief spring
- History
- Found by Atlanteans in their Golden Age; development abandoned when the empire collapsed