Lim Phat

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Lim Phat is a Flat Dimension in a region of the Known Worlds called The Outer Rim. Like the other members of the Rim, it is in a separate Domain from Arindell and is thus challenging to reach by magical means.

Climate

The climate and topography of Lim Phat vary from that of Arindell. Lim Phat lacks great bodies of water or precipitous mountains. What peaks it does have, are mostly volcanic, or comprise short and low ranges, making widespread travel on foot quite simple. The climate is mostly mild, with harsh winters in some regions, and has a great deal of jungles and deciduous forests.

The whole of Lim Phat has never been fully explored. During the Sixth Age a GSGS team attempted to establish an outer-boundary from the agreed-upon middle. Flying a specially-outfitted survey plane, they traversed 26,000 miles from the most northerly airstrip in the surveyed regions before fuel time forced them to turn around. While numerous ruins were sighted from this mission, no sign of an end or Repeating horizon was discovered. Accounting for surveys made in the other cardinal directions, Lim Phat is known to contain a land mass of at least 2.7 billion square miles.

History

Lim Phat has many ruins dating back to Antiquity. Like most regions, it's history prior to the Age of Darkness is unknown, but based on the number and quality of discovered ancient sites, it is thought to have not been heavily peopled. Though dating sites from that era is generally difficult, most historians hold the region was mostly or wholy abandoned somtime in middle Greater Antiquity.

Age of Darkness

Due to to the nature of the world, there was little reason to form large settlements during the early period. Land was exceptionally plentiful, so any disagreements could be solved by simply picking a direction and walking in it. Magic grew here as it did anywhere else, and the surviving oral traditions of Lim Phat tell of a shamanic custom in this early and dimply-remembered past.

Mage Wars

The first tower on Lim Phat is tentatively dated to 3650 B.G.A., or about 150 years after High Tower. This is the start of Tower Magic on Lim Phat, but the wars had come long before then. It was once widely held that Lim Phat invented tower magic independently of Arindell, but the general circumstances do not bear that out.

In the earliest parts of the era, the people in Lim Phat were at a roughly stone-age level of technology, living in small, isolated groups, without writing or any sort of connected culture. Though some historians characterize their nature as "tribal", it can be better thought of as meager survival. Most of their food came from hunting and gathering, with little time to develop and maintain traditions.

The few surviving oral histories tell of "when they came" or "when the fire came", and the consensus is that mages from other worlds traveled to Lim Phat. Most likely they came in search of raw materials, as Lim Phat has significant deposits of gold, Orichalcum, and other sought-after metals. Of particular oddity is the strange amount of Star Metal(meteoric iron), extremely useful in enchanting, but also theoretically unavailable on a flat world.

The sparse and disorganized population created a ready source of slaves who were quickly pressed into service. Within a few generations, it was not possible to recognize who had come from off-world, and who had been native.

In any case, by the mid 3700s B.G.A., city-construction was in full-swing and vast forests were being cleared to make room for farmland. The entire culture of Lim phat had changed virtually overnight. What followed was the finest example of the chaotic nature of the early age. For the next seven centuries, towers rose and fell, cities were created and destroyed.

Marconian Occupation

Lim Phat did not have an Intermediate Period so far as any archaeologist can determine. The widely agreed upon course of events is that, in the midst of untoil chaos, the Marcon Alliance arrived and began subjigating the various city-states.

Lim's ore fueled the Marconian war machine, and it became one of their most important strategic regions. Isolated as it was, it proved very difficult for invaders. Weapons, soldiers, and mages reared on Lim Phat were able to trod over the whole of the known worlds.

Given the strategic value, it should come as no surprise that the region was among those ravaged by Lelerough, Destroyer of Worlds in 901 B.G.A. This is often cited as one of the regions why the early history of Lim Phat is so difficult to divine. Unlike other regions, they did not go through just one or two cataclysms, but many.

Second Chaotic Period

Arguably, Lim Phat's Second Chaotic period began in 901 with Lelerough's rampage. The survivors banded together into new alliances and resumed the fighting just as before, continueing on as they had up until the Golden Age.

Alliance Era

By the end of the Mage Wars, the various city-states had banded together into large empires with defined boarders. The Peace that came with the Golden Age was brought about not by war, but by diplomacy. While Eieber never set foot on Lim Phat himself, it was his diplomatic probes that helped bring an end to the fighting.

Tensions remained high in the early centuries, until the then newly-formed Gudersnipe Foundation began making inroads. The trade opportunities and economic growth helped Lim Phat blossom into one of the sparkling jewels of the Alliance.

Throughout the Alliance era, the various empires maintained their borders, but there were no further conflicts.