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Like all of [[Gehn]]'s Ages, '''Age 37''' was numbered and not named. Also, like all of Gehn's Ages, it was extremely unstable. Gehn had originally written it on a sort of pedestal of rock jutting up from the ocean's depths, separated from everything by a convection current powered by geothermal warming. A dense fog, which the natives referred to as "The Whiteness", encircled the island, generated by the collision of the warmer water near the island with the frigid water beyond. The substructure of the Age was also unstable, and Gehn observed several smaller islets slip beneath the water during the course of his time on Age 37. | Like all of [[Gehn]]'s Ages, '''Age 37''' was numbered and not named. Also, like all of Gehn's Ages, it was extremely unstable. Gehn had originally written it on a sort of pedestal of rock jutting up from the ocean's depths, separated from everything by a convection current powered by geothermal warming. A dense fog, which the natives referred to as "The Whiteness", encircled the island, generated by the collision of the warmer water near the island with the frigid water beyond. The substructure of the Age was also unstable, and Gehn observed several smaller islets slip beneath the water during the course of his time on Age 37. | ||
The island itself was a somewhat oblong shape, with hills and sharp drops on the western side, sloping down to a freshwater lagoon before rising into lowlands on the opposite side. In the south, a small estuary separated the lagoon from the outer ocean, and it was upon | The island itself was a somewhat oblong shape, with hills and sharp drops on the western side, sloping down to a freshwater lagoon before rising into lowlands on the opposite side. In the south, a small estuary separated the lagoon from the outer ocean, and it was upon his estuary that the villagers had constructed their homes. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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Gehn, in an attempt to rid the people of their "primitive" superstitions and further re-enforce his power as a "god" over them, set out to remove the fog barrier from the Age by making the rest of the ocean warm. However, because Gehn had never been formally trained as a Writer and was in the habit of merely copying phrases from ancient D'ni texts without understanding their proper usage, his actions had a cataclysmic result on the Age. Upon returning for Atrus's ''[[korfah v'jah]]'' celebration some time after the changes were made, they found that the ocean level was now far below the island, leaving the people of Age 37 landlocked on their tiny island pedestal. | Gehn, in an attempt to rid the people of their "primitive" superstitions and further re-enforce his power as a "god" over them, set out to remove the fog barrier from the Age by making the rest of the ocean warm. However, because Gehn had never been formally trained as a Writer and was in the habit of merely copying phrases from ancient D'ni texts without understanding their proper usage, his actions had a cataclysmic result on the Age. Upon returning for Atrus's ''[[korfah v'jah]]'' celebration some time after the changes were made, they found that the ocean level was now far below the island, leaving the people of Age 37 landlocked on their tiny island pedestal. | ||
Gehn's further attempts to fix the Age were even more destructive. Rather than investigate the cause of the original problem, he merely negated the lines he had just written into the Book, causing the link to sever its connection with the Age 37 that he and Atrus had spent so much time on, and causing it to reconnect with a virtually identical Age to which they had never been, and whose inhabitants had no knowledge of them. The precise reasons why this particular change seemed to cause the link to jump to a new Age when a myriad of other changes had not is a subject of considerable debate within the community. Following the unexpected result of his last modifications, Gehn simply declared the | Gehn's further attempts to fix the Age were even more destructive. Rather than investigate the cause of the original problem, he merely negated the lines he had just written into the Book, causing the link to sever its connection with the Age 37 that he and Atrus had spent so much time on, and causing it to reconnect with a virtually identical Age to which they had never been, and whose inhabitants had no knowledge of them. The precise reasons why this particular change seemed to cause the link to jump to a new Age when a myriad of other changes had not is a subject of considerable debate within the community. Following the unexpected result of his last modifications, Gehn simply declared the Age defective and threw its Descriptive Book into the fire. | ||
==Native culture== | ==Native culture== |