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Drawing a Day - 8 June

It was she that split the heavens wide and wrote etchings upon the marbled halls of time. Her cryptic words still ripple across the empty weave. Light twinkles and bends to the uncanny shapes she once taught us. The long hollows of forever chant her rhythmic warning… which bade us flee into the night.

Calphis Dustland Diorama

Dustland is a northern hemisphere term that refers to dry regions where the new water cycle is either nonexistent or has a minimal effect on the landscape. In some dustland regions, permafrost still persists a few inches below ground. Ice and wind have shaped the rock formations that settlements tend to congregate around in these regions.

Life is tenuous in the dustlands. Vegetation here is directly attributable to human cultivation and wild micae. The environment is too hostile and the water cycle too unreliable for flora to flourish unaided. Calfuana, specialized for the cold desert, thrive in small herds. Legacy earth fauna simply scavenge or subsist as domesticated livestock.

One of the only things that interrupts the otherwise barren landscape is Calphisian baserock. Usually, these geological formations are ancient hills that have eroded for eons via wind and ice. Early Caphis expansion focused on these formations, often building structures out of the rock itself to protect industry from the harsh conditions of the desert. While the technology to excavate such structures no longer exists, the sites are still utilized for settlements. The equatorial wasteland, particularly the northernmost and southernmost edges, are spotted with tiny stopovers for aircraft.