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Terrestrial humans seem to have no serious respiratory problems while on Almea.. the Greeks came and settled in Avéla (at the sea level), and they did not live on Earth on high terrain like most Peruvian people, which usually live under a minor air pressure. Atmospheric pressure should be thus not s...

It is sure that people may know volcanoes and earthquakes and survive them.. and give them a name! Linguistically I think the name for volcanoes are interesting, as it came from the Italian island of Vulcano (the same name of the geological structure in Italian), which Romans took as a stereotype of...

Yes, it's true that Almea is smaller than Earth.. the only we don't know is the age of Almea (is it 4.5 billion years old like our planet, younger or older?).. We cannot know.. It's sure that can be less geologically active.. Nevertheless it has features that show sure signs of activity (and the sam...

I think the way you wrote the pronunciation of that sentence is too much Hispanic. In the development from Vulgar Latin to the Italian language (or better to the Tuscan dialect, which is the basis of the standard Italian), many of these changes never occurred..

I took a look on the situation of Aites. The river Serea, on whose banks the city rises, seems to be shorter than the other Eretald rivers. Shorter rivers are usually more unstable than longer ones. During the Cadhinorian times the river was probably put under strict control, then when the troubles ...

Maybe only the hydrografic question may be disturbing, as the maps should have to be drawn again in those specific zones. But there are many examples on Earth. Ur in Mesopotamia was founded as a costal city, but now it lies 250 km [155 miles] inland. And Ravenna was chosen as the last capital city o...

What I had in my mind it wasn't certainly a complete rewriting of the historical atlas.. I only wanted to underline the relevance of geology and related events. In my opinion Almea is maybe one of the best developed conworld, and why to ignore geological events. Yes, they surely do not affect histor...

I’d like to open a question about an almost unexplored field: Almean geology. I found some indications on Almeopedia about the origins of some mountain ranges and places, but I think the importance of geology is still underestimated, as I found no reports of earthquakes in the history pages. On Eart...