Vale Reef
One of the more mysterious areas of Omneutta, Vale Reef or Kettlah-Space is covered in a cloud-like mist. Most planets are separated into the plateaus, flat rocky areas visible from space, and what is to referred to as the Undergrowth. This separation is the result of a thick layer of cloud-like mist that is far denser than most known liquids. Many rock formations also have a faint purple tint, though this is not certain to be a natural phenomenon and could be a result of prolonged exposure to the mist. Vale Reef is comprised of planet-stars and star-planets that sport large vertical rock formations. A popular theory held by non-Kettlah is that over time the mist has carved what could have once been canyons across Kettlah-Space into the plateaus, mesas, and buttes seen across the reef today.
Regions
Among these Star-Planets and Planet-Stars, the rock formations (Buttes and Plateaus) that Kettlah live on are taller than across the rest of Vale Reef, as well as having a smaller livable area atop them. Here too, the mist extends up the sides of the rock formations, rather than between them, leaving large gaps of the local group’s Undergrowth visible from where the Kettlah live.
It is theorized that the Kettlah who first learned to glide and fly were from Columns, as the rock formations that extend up far beyond the mist would provide ample space to land and climb back up, rather than building structures to cross the distances as is the norm elsewhere. It is unknown if the areas in the Undergrowth that are not directly covered by the mist have the same properties as those that are.
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A local group by proximity and theology, the Golden Deep is an extension of The Veil that according to the Ontiba houses the original creation place of the Kettlah as a species and the location of the original Gateways. Geographically, it is similar to The Veil in terms of its wide, low plateaus.
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The Veil makes up the majority of Kettlah-Space, and features large plateaus that pop up through the mist that separates their peaks from the Undergrowth. These Plateaus are much wider than they are tall (above the mist, overall in some areas) which enables Kettlah tribes who migrates to migrate around a single plateau or a small group of them throughout the year.
The Veil is named such because of the density of celestial bodies in this part of Vale Reef enables the mist to flow from one celestial body to another in many places, or slowly dissolve over an expanse of space. Unlike the other main local group of Vale Reef, the mist here entirely separates the tops of plateaus from the Undergrowth, creating a dichotomy of climate on every Planet-Star and Star-Planet.
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Rather than a distinct local group, “the Undergrowth” is a catch-all term for lands that are below the mist across all of Kettlah-Space. In Vale Reef, what is above the mist is called the surface and all that is below is referred to as the Undergrowth. The mist is believed to have some mental effects that inhibit Omneuttians from returning to the surface. The origin of the mist is unknown, though some schools of Remiges believe that it is Haket’s will not to cross it.
It appears the mist is integral to the development of the Undergrowth as its own recognizable terrain and climate. According to local kets not all of the flora in Vale Reef is available above the mist. Each species seen on the surface can be found below the mist, in addition to flora only available in the Undergrowth. A pair of kets in each tribe are called the Glean and procure the more nutrient-dense flora from the Undergrowth.
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Locations
One of the first-recorded multi-racial tribes across Vale Reef were the first inhabitants of Tennu. This planet-star was settled not by one of the original five tribes descended from Haket’s first kets. Instead, as the pori introduced themselves and space travel to Vale Reef, some kets from around Vale Reef spent a few years aboard these ships as they traveled around to other worlds in Kettlah-Space. Before these ships departed to The Outcropping, many of these kets departed for the uninhabited world of Tennu, where a multi-racial tribe was be started.
There are two pairs of advisors to the tribe’s council, the Glean and the Garner who keep the tribe’s memories and food supply respectively that often advise the council, helmed by the eldest member of the tribe, on when to move to a new cliff in search of the sustenance the tribe needs, or due to other seasonal changes. Above the mist, there is one long segment of cliff that winds and cuts across the continent.1 This is seen by the locals as two distinct sections joined by a small land-bridge south-east of the Gateway. The western section exists largely to the east of an area below the mist known as the Vanishing Pools, and wraps around the Cut-Serpent Valley.
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