STILL IN CHARACTER
A wise man once asked our people what would happen if the great steppes in which we live in gets struck by a severe disaster. We responded that the Mongolian people were able to conquer the Chinese Dynasty Empires,we were not afraid of some petty natural disasters...Unless when we're talking about zuds, or better known as blizzards.
The Mongolian people are nomadic herdsman, we rely on cattle, goats and sheeps to provide us with food, clothing and shelter. A village's strength is determined upon the health and numbers of its cattle. A zud is basically a severe and extremely harsh winter, with a few different types of zud that could each wreck serious havoc on the ecosystem of the steppes.
During heavy snowfall, the pastures get covered with snow and grazing animals are unable to reach the food source, and will starve to death. On more extreme temperature levels, the terrain gets covered in a sheet of ice from the blizzards and cattle is unable to go uphill to find possible food sources.It is also possible that the ice formed will be so hard that it shields animals from eating.There has also been cases of an extremely cold, but dry winter, which is the most dangerous as humidity level rises and grass will simply perish. When we are unfortunate enough to have zud occur during the mating season of our cattle, a tribe could possible face a decimation of their entire herd, as new-borns will die immediately from the cold and lack of food.
Small animals such as rodents, rabbits and snakes are able to hibernate through the winter, and are thus unaffected by harsh winters.
Overall, the biome of the steppes will change from a cool, desolate grassland into a stormy and frozen wasteland.
A wise man once asked our people what would happen if the great steppes in which we live in gets struck by a severe disaster. We responded that the Mongolian people were able to conquer the Chinese Dynasty Empires,we were not afraid of some petty natural disasters...Unless when we're talking about zuds, or better known as blizzards.
The Mongolian people are nomadic herdsman, we rely on cattle, goats and sheeps to provide us with food, clothing and shelter. A village's strength is determined upon the health and numbers of its cattle. A zud is basically a severe and extremely harsh winter, with a few different types of zud that could each wreck serious havoc on the ecosystem of the steppes.
During heavy snowfall, the pastures get covered with snow and grazing animals are unable to reach the food source, and will starve to death. On more extreme temperature levels, the terrain gets covered in a sheet of ice from the blizzards and cattle is unable to go uphill to find possible food sources.It is also possible that the ice formed will be so hard that it shields animals from eating.There has also been cases of an extremely cold, but dry winter, which is the most dangerous as humidity level rises and grass will simply perish. When we are unfortunate enough to have zud occur during the mating season of our cattle, a tribe could possible face a decimation of their entire herd, as new-borns will die immediately from the cold and lack of food.
Small animals such as rodents, rabbits and snakes are able to hibernate through the winter, and are thus unaffected by harsh winters.
Overall, the biome of the steppes will change from a cool, desolate grassland into a stormy and frozen wasteland.
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