Godwall
Beyond the horizon lies a superstorm that defies all efforts by men to travel beyond it. Ships, airships, even submarines cannot pass beyond its roiling girth. Somehow ceteceans find their way through and beyond lies their resting grounds.
This superstorm is referred to by the dragons as the Godwall and like humans it seems the dragons cannot past. Not even the mostly aquatic types can slip through. Why ceteceans can navigate this when others cannot is beyond the realm of anyone's understanding. The cetes claim it is their natural ability to navigate bodies of water, sheer instinct itself, that allows pods to traverse with minimum harm done to their body.
The storm itself waxes and wanes like any other but it never ends. It spins in a slow consistent motion riling up the ocean beneath it and powering the weather around it. At any given time a dozen cyclones can be see spinning admists the towering clouds and mountainous waves. The sky although totally blotted from the sun nearly all the time is still well lit by the constact cacophony of lightning striking the waves and leaping from cloud bank to cloud bank.
The Godwall seems to produce the myriad of hurricanes that pummel the ocean farther north. The tide itself seems to be generated by the storm mimicking a minor, almost earth-like, tide along the sandy shores of Summerhold.
The problems traversing the storm are obvious: flying craft are subjected to all manners of air turbulence including cyclones, wind shears, omni-directional winds and other dangerous wind related phenomena. Additionally the air is positively charged with electricity to a degree that makes the storm clouds into potent anti-aircraft weaponry in their own right. Visibility ranges from a hundred meters to nothing and can change on a whim. Precipitation varies from pouring rain hard enough to knock a man down, hail of all sizes, to even the occasional snow shower within higher level clouds further increasing the strain on aircraft.
Surface ships must survive the cyclones, waves varying from 3m to nearly 100m, precipitation of varying types and intensity, lightning, strange ocean currents, odd magnetic affects, and visibility that is rarely greater then 100m at the best of times. Submersibles suffer nearly all the effects of the surface ships and additionally are subject to intense strain from the rolling waters and currents created by the waves and the odd ocean current effects. Lightning makes metallic submersibles incredibly dangerous as sometimes huge areas of the water become charged by intense, repeated lightning strikes.
Needless to say the Godwall gets its name simply due to the fact that it seems to men and dragons alike that only God could put up and maintain such a storm. To what purpose they can only guess and debate. The ceteceans claim that the storm is where God vents his anger rather then across the land to the benefit of all.
This superstorm is referred to by the dragons as the Godwall and like humans it seems the dragons cannot past. Not even the mostly aquatic types can slip through. Why ceteceans can navigate this when others cannot is beyond the realm of anyone's understanding. The cetes claim it is their natural ability to navigate bodies of water, sheer instinct itself, that allows pods to traverse with minimum harm done to their body.
The storm itself waxes and wanes like any other but it never ends. It spins in a slow consistent motion riling up the ocean beneath it and powering the weather around it. At any given time a dozen cyclones can be see spinning admists the towering clouds and mountainous waves. The sky although totally blotted from the sun nearly all the time is still well lit by the constact cacophony of lightning striking the waves and leaping from cloud bank to cloud bank.
The Godwall seems to produce the myriad of hurricanes that pummel the ocean farther north. The tide itself seems to be generated by the storm mimicking a minor, almost earth-like, tide along the sandy shores of Summerhold.
The problems traversing the storm are obvious: flying craft are subjected to all manners of air turbulence including cyclones, wind shears, omni-directional winds and other dangerous wind related phenomena. Additionally the air is positively charged with electricity to a degree that makes the storm clouds into potent anti-aircraft weaponry in their own right. Visibility ranges from a hundred meters to nothing and can change on a whim. Precipitation varies from pouring rain hard enough to knock a man down, hail of all sizes, to even the occasional snow shower within higher level clouds further increasing the strain on aircraft.
Surface ships must survive the cyclones, waves varying from 3m to nearly 100m, precipitation of varying types and intensity, lightning, strange ocean currents, odd magnetic affects, and visibility that is rarely greater then 100m at the best of times. Submersibles suffer nearly all the effects of the surface ships and additionally are subject to intense strain from the rolling waters and currents created by the waves and the odd ocean current effects. Lightning makes metallic submersibles incredibly dangerous as sometimes huge areas of the water become charged by intense, repeated lightning strikes.
Needless to say the Godwall gets its name simply due to the fact that it seems to men and dragons alike that only God could put up and maintain such a storm. To what purpose they can only guess and debate. The ceteceans claim that the storm is where God vents his anger rather then across the land to the benefit of all.
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