Islands

The "islands" of the SC word are surrounded by Chasms rather than by water, and as such may be qualified rather as isolated chunks of the earth's crust, rather than the tops of submarine mountains.

As ecological biomes were formed and well-established long before the Cataclysm, mountain ranges, species distribution, and climates may stretch across several islands. Since there were badly fractured and isolated, however, islands have developed unique ecological and cultural identities, even to the extent that some islands may be inhabited by creatures not found anywhere else, evolved in isolation from others born of the same ancestor species.

In the same way, human societies and cultures had developed along unique lines, and may be entirely divided from one another by religion, language, tradition, and appearance as well as by location.