<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 2em;">Geography</span></strong></div><div align="center"><br/>===========================================================================</div><br/><div align="center"><strong>Pern bears three continents, four major oceans, and a large number of islands. The largest continent, the Southern, is noted for large areas of grassland and jungle, as well as high tectonic and volcanic activity (probably due to the two moons, although this increases with the coming of the Red Star). The Northern Continent, in contrast, is relatively infertile composed primarily of 'shield' bedrock and is the most tectonically stable landmass on the planet. Not much is known of the small Far Western Continent, as it has never been explored; its existence is known only from orbital satellite surveys and maritime expeditions.<br/><br/>Pern is noted for its high incidence of cave systems, particularly in the Northern Continent. This feature heavily influenced the development of human society on the planet, as humans forced to take shelter in these caves eventually developed an intricate culture associated with cave-dwelling in a feudal society at a medieval to Renaissance level of technology.<br/><br/>Pern is relatively lacking in most major metals. Nonetheless, sufficient deposits of petroleum and metals exist to supply a high-technology agrarian society, though not a high-technology industrial one.<br/><br/>Although Pern has four major oceans, the only ocean of major concern to most inhabitants of Pern is the Southern, which separates the Northern and Southern Continents. Few expeditions have explored the Western and Eastern Oceans to either side of the main continents, and the Ring Sea is known only from satellite observations from earlier times.<br/><br/>The Southern Ocean is noted for its volatile weather and strong currents, which present a challenge for mariners.<br/><br/>===========================================================================<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 2em;">Description of the Western Continent</span><br/><br/>===========================================================================<br/><br/>Since not much it written about the Continent our game will be played on, I will try my best to fill in those gaps.  Mind you this is all made up by me and is in no way canon.<br/><br/>The Western Continent is slightly similar to the Southerns fertile yet erratically shifting tectonic landscape, and the Northern's dry, rocky like terrain; But it is vastly differing in many instances.  Unlike the other better known Continents, the Western one has built up a dense exotic forest that borders dangerously close to being a full blown jungle.  The Forest dominate the land, climbing and struggling to overtake the craggy outcropping's of mountains, that climb high up into the atmosphere.  <br/><br/>It goes from lush fertile land to almost lifeless mountains that are hollowed out by strange caves that run all throughout them.  On further inspection the mountains are made up of an outer shell of crumbly crust like rock that do not support plant life.  The inside core of the mountain is made up of a hard, almost impenetrable rock, rich in minerals that in some sections support a glowing like fungi that sticks to the walls.  The sections that support said fungi are the spots in the mountain that have shallow pools of warm water that are fed by tiny springs that rush through the mountains.  <br/><br/>So far it seems like the sections of the forests that have been cleared out for planting of crops are able to support the plants that the people of Pern are used to planting.  There are many other native plants that are edible, but there is also the same amount of fruits and berries that are poisonous to the people of Pern.  Over time it was found that some of those very same poisonous plants where completely edible for the livestock...although they are still kept away from said livestock because of possible contamination.<br/><br/>The sea that surrounds the Continent is not very different than what the people of Pern are used to, but there are some parts that have odd currents of mixing cold and warm water that brings a vast selection of aquatic life.  It has been found that the dolphins like this area a lot, and frequently travel there to breed. <br/><br/><br/></strong><br/></div>