Acte Island
One of the four landmasses that makes up the Sisters Marsh, Acte Island is the only one which can claim to have been ‘civilised’ with its once rugged face having been completely resculpted by the canal building and land reclamation activity of the Archduchy of Vesta.
Geography
The island itself is a relatively thin strip of land, aligned approximately east to west, with the island of Zita to the north, the island of Doto to the south, the tumultuous landscape of the Desolation of Melchis to the west and the Centric Sea to the east.
Originally, Acte was, like its sisters a vast expanse of rivers, boggy ground, and mangrove swamps, but, as the inhabitants of the Archduchy of Vesta expanded their holdings from the islands eastern coast into the interior, more and more of the wilderness landscape was tamed until the whole island was completely transformed. Acte’s rivers have been formalised and contained into canals, its streams dammed to make pools for the rearing of fish and crocodiles, its mangroves clear cut and its swamps drained to create land for villages, fields, grazing land, and orchards.
Fauna & Flora
Whilst some of the fauna that one would expect to find in the Sister Marshes still persists on Acte, most notably the wild herds of capybara that can move with relative ease between the land masses and the wild crocodiles and numerous fish who still have ready access to the canal systems which are interconnected with the wider region, most of the creatures encountered here are not indigenous to the region.
The reclamation of land has allowed herds of cattle and goats to be reared on Acte, along with huge flocks of tame chickens and other fowl, which provide valuable exports of eggs and feathers for the Archduchy of Vesta to the wider world.
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