30 Days of World-Building - Day 4 - Cataclysms

Exercise 4 - For 15 minutes, jot down some of the Really Big Land Features you want in your story and think "what if that were made by..." Write down a couple of causes for those features and scars. Which scars are slow-force scars (plate tectonics), and which are fast-forces (anything that takes less than 10,000 years is medium-to-fast in geological scales).

List -
Grand Mountains - plate tectonics, ancient magic, dwarf construction and rituals

Island Mountain Spire - volcanic activity, ancient race, temple of worship, secret haven

Sparsely Wooded Wasteland - unchecked forest fire, magic gone wrong, demon-taint

Abandoned River Valley - mountain run-off, malevolent haunting

Mystical Forest - fairy taint/magic, celestial taint/magic

Desert Canyon - mountain run-off, tribal society, ancient river beasts