Eldham

Eldham, also known as New Rathnir, or the New World, is one of the server's two current maps, the other being Rathnir. In lore it is a series of landmasses located East of Plagos on Rathnir.

Eldham has entirely different geographical features than Rathnir, giving it a unique environment to live and navigate through. This is because the world generation on it is completely different while Rathnir uses vanilla land generation. It was functionally created to take pressure off of the Rathnir server and allow more players to enjoy the server, and in lore, was discovered by Athaz the Traveler.

Etymology
Eldham is the main name that the world has been referred to in its short history. Players across the world were invited to a summit hosted by the United Nations of Eldham, and the name Eldham was what was voted upon by the general public out of the many submissions. The other most popular naming option that was not voted in was Semrus.

In the wake of the server, before the name Eldham was decided upon, it was often called the New World or New Rathnir. Another popular meme alternative was Lagnir, named in regards to the servers massive lag spikes and low TPS upon release as new chunks were being loaded in mass. The name Eldham comes from the old Paxian language, meaning "string board" ['elðəm]. Various languages, local and foreign, have regional names for Eldham. In the Aurlûnoren language, it is named Sinawendor. In the Lo'Oi language, it is called Éldoxo'O. The Regnum Drakaes refers to it as Drysjian. The Niedene, who claim to know of Eldhams existence long ago referred to it as the Aldurei in old Akere.

The endonym of a person living on Eldham is Eldhamite.

Geography & Features
Eldham is the same size as Rathnir, both being 2250000 square kilometers in area (15k by 15k when counted in blocks). Though it shares the same size and biome variety, the vegetation is different; many of the trees are larger than Rathnir's. Unlike the continents of Rathnir, Eldham's landmasses are stringy with few large conglomerations of landmasses.

The rivers of Eldham are known for going underground in many locations. The prevailing theory as to why this happens is that large, semiaquatic ground sloths like Gigantofossor paneldhami dug the tunnels to connect the rivers in which they lived. The presence of claw marks on the river caves and the abundance of sloth fossils in the rivers seem to support this theory.

First Eldham colony in Rathnir.
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