Hypernostria

Hypernostria is a large island south of Corum.

Hypernostria as shown on the Physical Map of Micras.

Origins and Etymology

Hypernostria is Greek for "furthest south". It was usually used in classical Greek texts as a counterweight to Hyperborea, the furthest north continent. Micras has both a Hyperborea (also called Raikoth) and a Hypernostria. On early Micran maps it was the southernmost landmass until the addition of Sypyr and Leng.

Landscape

Hypernostria is long, thin, mostly flat and, except a few far northern peninsulae, covered in ice.

History

Hypernostria was first settled by the short-lived "Beebland", before the country was conquered and absorbed into the United Secular States. They quickly collapsed, and an ill-fated attempt by the Menelmacari to settle there never took hold. Over the years it has been renamed several times, including the Isle of Ghouls (during the Age of the Grand Commonwealth) and Liiansaari (by Riponia, roughly translating as Isle of Plenty). Riponia held it for probably the longest period during their domination of the Corum region. Today it is vacant, but ruins of Riponian cities like Dyvelsten still dot the landscape.

Hypernostria shown on a terrain map.