Important things to note!

Remember the information about Menewsha Mr. Mayor helpfully posted in the Storyville contest? Well, they apply here too! I've brought over the information to display here for your ease.

☆ Information about train stops ☆

Useful Island Information

Here are a few points that you need to remember:

✤ Menewsha has no modern vehicles or power sources.
Energy is generated by magic (for those who can) or steam.

✤ Menewsha is a mountainous island formed by volcanic activity.
The mountains cover the island's center and some of them are still active. A spur of this range reaches out towards the western coast, a flooded valley here provides paddy fields to grow Menewsha's red rice and raise golden carp, both highly sought-after export items.

✤ Dragons live among the tallest peaks in the center of the island.
The temperate climate prevents them from growing to enormous size, but they can easily fly off with a cow, or a human...but there have been no reports of humans being attacked thus far.

✤ Menewsha is approximately 50 miles at its widest, by 40 high.
If you imagine an oatmeal cookie that's spread into a rough and uneven shape as it baked, then someone took a big bite out of the righthand side of it, that's kind of like the shape of the island. With Menewsha town in the center point of the coast of the large bay created by the bite.

✤ The land to the north is riddled with caves and prone to sinkholes and landslides.
There's an underground river who's course is often altered by this.

✤ The flatter lands towards the coasts are farmed; the small Menewshan Black cow is popular but watch out for the bulls, they're feisty! Pockets of woodland abound, though forests tend to be avoided as no-one really knows what might be in them.

✤ The railway used to serve all towns and larger villages around the coast but it didn't cross the mountains, neither do the roads. Thanks to the new engine, the Spirit of Calesco, now they do!

✤ The coastline is tall cliffs on the northern side, breaking up into multiple bays and headlands on the east and west coasts as the land sinks, shelving to small beaches and tidal wetlands in the south.

✤ Smugglers have used secluded bays as rendezvous points for centuries, and dug tunnels up through the cliffs, often breaking through into the natural cave system.

✤ There are numerous small holdings and isolated dwellings scattered around inner areas of the island, before the ground becomes too steep.