Atlantis, painted for this archivePlain of Gwyddneu
Place, Region
A fertile rolling tableland west and south of the city of Atlantis, called the Breadbasket of Atlantis in the First Age and laced with copper-plated stone irrigation canals fed by two rivers. The canals still work, but neglect has cut arable land to about 60% of its First Age extent; the rest is wild grazing land haunted by bandits.
Also called Plains of Gwyddnea, The Breadbasket of Atlantis
From the book
This rolling, fertile upland spreads west and south of the capital and its mountains. In the First Age it fed the whole continent and was nicknamed its breadbasket. A web of cut-stone irrigation canals sheathed in copper still carries water from two major rivers across the fields, and every canal still works, but neglect has shrunk the farmed area to about 60% of what it once was.
It remains the core of Atlantean farming and herding, dotted with plantations and small farm villages. Much of it, though, has gone back to wilderness grazed by wild herds and haunted by bandits and other outcasts.
At a glance
- Pronunciation
- GWID-nee-yu
- Region
- Poseidonea
- Arable land
- about 60% of First Age farming area
- Economy
- farming and herding; plantations and small villages