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Some things that would be awesome to see:

"inland ocean", either as one large lake or a series of lakes such as the Great Lakes. Perhaps not quite that large, but bodies of water are fun to create unique pack ideas around.

Something similar to Yellowstone park; a big hot spot with lush flora and fauna fueled by hot springs, perhaps in caldera form. It could serve as a potent reminder of the volcano that drove them from their original land.

Deserts rock so I am totally loving this. Maybe have a series of rock formations at the edges similar to the Arches national park, with lots of subterranean(dry or wet) caves. Or cliffside caves.

Swaaaamps. Fun dynamic that a pack would have to teach cubs about the dangers of gators.

You already mentioned mountain ranges, but valleys are cool too. This is purely a personal preference and bias seeing as my current muse baby is for my Polum'ya pack, and they thrived in a rather unique valley.

I'm sure you guys have thought of a lot of this stuff, but I thought I'd post it anyway. Can't wait to see what shows up :3

I don't know how much of the old environment you're planning to include or how thoroughly the packs are going to be forced to move - if, indeed, some of them are going to need to move at all. (I'm a little fuzzy on all that. I know some lands are now completely uninhabitable, but...?) Regardless, I thought I'd put it out there that the Shadowclan had swampy, marshy territory like this, and I'm pretty sure they weren't inclined to move (correct me if I'm wrong, Fen), though I'm sure they could adapt if they had to move. It would certainly be interesting to see them forced to move, but I still like the idea of marshes in the new world. (EDIT: I see in the main thread that most of Telk is, indeed, going poof; in which case forget about the boys keeping their territory, I look forward to seeing where they end up! A desert? A different swampland? The tundra? Exciting times. Just my opinion, of course. ^_^ )

Also, the Acropolis pack lived at the edge of the earth, as it were, and it would be nice from an IC perspective if they could keep their territory - what with a certain other pack of displaced wolves on the move that would think their territory would make a lovely new home. But even if that wasn't possible, it would still be really cool to see some cliffs and waterfalls in the new world. They're gorgeous and dangerous and make for both very defensible territory and convenient hiding places for a lone wolf.

Let's see...on behalf of one of my wolves, it would also be nice to see some lush deciduous forests in addition to the pine so she could feel more at home, even though hers has been effectively razed to the ground.

Other than that, I definitely vote for the mountains, and agree that a Yellowstone-like place would be amazing.

Ooo! And maybe ruins. Like, I know native Americans are a thing in Telk, so maybe one of the centerpieces of the quadrants could be something like a long-abandoned Mayan pyramid or Machu Picchu on a mountaintop (yes, with llamas, lol) or the cliff-dwellers at Mesa Verde. That, I would love to see. Imagine a pack making a place like that their home...or deciding the whole thing was cursed and doing their best to avoid it altogether. Oh, yes.

Anyway, there's my two cents. Take what you will. ^_^

RE: The Brotherhood -- I'll post this into their thread too, but I've been thinking that they might become nomadic now. Zarath tells me that he feels more comfortable that way as they'd be harder to pin down, and there's less chance of losing members if nobody has to stray too far alone for pack business.

As far as the map goes. The first thing I'd like to know: Just how big of a territory do we have to work with? Some sense of scale would be really valuable, both in knowing how long travel from one end to the other would take, and also because it affects just what kind of biomes can reasonably exist within that space. Not that we have to be wedded to reality by any means, but it would bug me a little bit if you could walk in a couple days from a swamp to a desert to a tundra, you know what I mean?

How about mountain valley's, or a caldera, maybe a really cool cave system with some underground lake-ish action?

*late*

If this map helps at all I'm not sure where the volcano was in relation?
It's just an old rough that I had tried to put together to figure out how far wolves would have to travel to get from pack to pack etc.



It's really zoomed out but showed the coastal/forest/desert environments that featured in some of the big plots and packs. It also loosely tried to explain where humans were but obviously that is totally different now XD