Lucidian Range
Lucidian Range
Points of interest: Für Elise, Beethoven, Ludwig van Island, River Harmonica
The Lucidian Range is a major mountain range in northeastern Illuminatia, forming a spine that runs primarily north-to-southeast, spanning a somewhat curvilinear route from along the continent's northern shore and terminating on Ludwig van Island. The Lucidian Range rivals the Timmons Range as Illuminatia's second most-significant mountain range. The Lucidian Range contains some of Illuminatia's highest peaks outside of the Transilluminatian Range.
The Lucidian Range forms a natural land barrier between the Wolfgang Amadeus Megalopolitan Complex and the remainder of the continent's non-northwestern preponderance. The range bisects Illuminatia's Galant Peninsula, splitting the peninsula into a southerly portion dominated by the Brookeview Ludwig Megalopolitan Complex and a narrower and somewhat less populated northern portion bounded by Wolfgang Amadeus Bay.
The northernmost extent of the Lucidian Range forms the anomalous east-west appendage, rising just east of the city of Haydn and gaining amplitude to the west before a somewhat abrupt bend to the south, where the mountain range parallels the eastern shore of the Anglo-Hungarian Bay. It is here that the Lucidian Range provides a natural easterly boundary to the growing scope of the Anglo-Russo-Hungarian Megalopolitan Complex. The range bends again from a north-south orientation to a northwest-southeast orientation near the city of Stravinsky and it is in this broader region where the Lucidian Range is at its most rural and isolated in character. The southern half of the Lucidian Range runs northwest-southeast, abutting the cities of Brahms and Für Elise before vaulting across the Ludwig van Channel and continuing with somewhat muted mountain elevations onto Ludwig van Island, finally terminating toward the southern tip of the island near the city of Valkyries.
The Lucidian Range houses the origins of approximately half of the bodies of flowing water that contribute to two of Illuminatia's major river systems, including the River Harmonica.