The second entry in the ongoing series of diaries from Masthead Studios is out over at the official Earthrise website. Learn about the Cascade Mountains, a territory where the Noir Insurgents can "live their covert lives away from the eyes of Continoma agents". Check out the blog entry!

“The Cascade Mountains are a territory filled with various concepts. First, we wanted to create a place where Noir insurgents live their covert lives away from the eyes of Continoma agents. We also wanted the zone to be easy to defend with only a few men and to possess multiple hidden routes. Another idea we wanted to introduce to the zone was that of a rich, dense jungle lined with waterways and waterfalls that converge on the bottom of a large canyon into a shallow, muddy swamp. This idea created the name of the zone as we imagined the Cascade Mountains to consist of rocky terraces with pouring waterfalls.

Read the entry here.

Or, if you missed the first one, you can check that out here.