Munus

Munus was once the homeworld of all mortals, home to a vast diversity of sentient peoples and all manner of fantastic creatures. However, the destruction wrought by Kohata’s near-collision with it has rendered most of those original species extinct, and they have undergone drastic changes in order to survive, to the point where most would not be considered the same species as they once were.

Munus previously consisted of five major continents. Of those, two are no longer habitable due to becoming locked in extreme heat and extreme cold. They are now referred to as Hypobergia and Mustfelhiem, taking their names from ancient Munisian myths of lands of ice and fire. Two of the remaining three have crashed into one another, forming the mountainous smaller continent of Fitaeri, and the larger continent of Bruneris. Bruneris is a large, flat landmass covered in deserts and savannas in the north, and tropical rainforests towards its south. The only other inhabitable continent is Illaesus, a small continent about the size of Fitaeri, located in the far southern hemisphere near to the dark side of the planet. It has a cool, temperate climate, and unusual flora and fauna not found anywhere else, well adapted to the unusual night and day cycles of its extreme latitude.

Munus receives slightly more bombardment than Kohatu on account of being roughly ten percent larger, though not nearly as much from elemental bombardment. The larger planet also possesses a more powerful magnetic field which diverts the worst of the elemental magics from the surface of the planet, though the high peaks of Fitaeri do suffer from frequent elemental bombardment. As such, Fitaeri is populated primarilly by the Emaen, and to a lesser extent by the Daraz, though most of their society has begun migrating into Astehu. The plains of Bruneris and forests of Illaesus lack any cities due to frequent bombardment rendering any permanent settlement extremely risky. Instead countless Kiavari tribes live nomadic lifestyles, following and driving herds of animals from pasture to pasture.