Editing Teveren (section)

== Geography ==

=== Location and Borders ===
Teveren is located on the central eastern side of the continent of Dorian. It is bordered on the north by the Snow Rose Mountains and the Frostline, on the west by the Fangs, on the south by the Lionsrange, and on the east by the Serafey Sea (also known as Serafey Strait).

=== Geology and Topography ===
Teveren was historically a heavily wooded area, with five separate and distinct forests: North Rose, Rosewood, Pinewood, Redwood, and Pale Card. The Redwood and Pale Card forests were deciduous, while Rosewood, North Rose, and Pinewood were coniferous. North Rose in particular was a conglomeration of Rosewood and Pinewood, creating a dappled red and green forest. Unlike Akhentour, the people of Teveren carefully logged their forests to ensure they did not exhaust the supply of trees; the Five Forests were the pride of the country.

Teveren was split by the long River Caerwn running west to east. In the center of the country were Lake Akoa and the Great Marsh, which in ancient times was also a lake, prior to a shift in the land itself which caused hills to rise and disrupt the flow of Caerwn. The Marsh was thought to be slowly drying up as it lost most of its water supply. Lake Heness, in the southeast of the country, was supplied by the River Athlen.

More recently, following Alrenn's destruction, Teveren was a wasteland of dead trees. Lake Akoa was completely dried up, River Caerwn ran brown with muck and ash, and all of the cities were in ruins. When Aloysius wished for the land to return to green, it did so, though most of the forest homogenized into a single, deciduous forest, with pockets of the old forests strewn throughout.

=== Climate ===
Teveren's climate ranged from cool and temperate in the to rainforests in the south. After Alrenn, the climate became warm and dry, though it is slowly returning to a temperate climate like before.

=== Administrative Regions ===
Currently, Teveren has no administrative regions.

=== Government ===
Teveren has no current form of government beyond the local work Aloysius and his assistants have put into regrowing the land. Previously, the country was ruled by a prime minister, who oversaw a council of elected representatives in the five districts of Teveren, one for each section of forest. These representatives were essentially governors, who in turn oversaw elected and appointed officials in each major city.

=== Religion ===
The Teveren people followed the Lotus cosmology as most do in Dorian, with special respect paid to Pav, the Wind Walker, who is known as the god of forests.

=== Culture ===
Teveren culture was broad and extensive prior to its destruction. The country was best known for making playing cards, using the bark from the Pale Card trees (known as card bark), which could be cleanly stripped from the trunk of the tree without harming it. It is believed that the infamous Deck of Many Things was created with card bark.

Because of their monopoly on playing cards, a vast majority of card games originated from Teveren, including five scale draw, goblins'n'ogres, pickle shuffle, and deark.
Beyond cards, Teverens were known for their fantastic furniture making skills, and the wood from Redwood was especially prized by royalty for its deep maroon color. Rosewood, meanwhile, was a distant cousin to darkwood though much easier to work with, making it standard for building ships.
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