A peninsula over 1000 km long on the north edge of the Hecate Sea, east of Ulfrun. Highest points: Mt. Ixtab in the west and Mt. Wyrd in the east. The Wyrd Range (yes, there are Wyrd sisters) is a triangular wedge--a flat green plain in the north, rising toward the south, cresting at Mt. Wyrd then dropping precipitously into the sea. It's a startling sight from the lesser mountains of Prthivi (no, that's spelled right) across the channel--reminiscent of New Zealand's Mt Cook. The peaks of this front range, from Ixtab to Wyrd, are high enough to bear night and morning snow, though the sea at their feet is subtropical. But then, climates along Hecate Chasma, though mild and moderately rainy on average, are as complex as its shape: a new microclimate over every ridge. Cape Wyrd is very nearly an island: Gaze Neck linking it to Ulfrun is a low strip only a few km wide.
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