nsula Valaamis occupies an island in Lake Aldoga in the remote north of Novgorod. The Locus proper is an immense four story stone manor topped by a thirty-foot brass-sheathed dome. Manerium Valaamis overlooks Aestuarium Boreale, a deep water inlet cutting into the main island from the north.

South of Manerium Valaamis, along the shore of Aestuarium Boreale, is Agger Ostii, a ramp ascending to a large earth & stone mound that rises twelve feet above the nearby waterline. A curving path leads from Agger Ostii up the hill to Manerium Valaamis.

A little over a mile west and slightly south of Manerium Valaamis, along a shallower inlet with many branches, lies Pagus Hemicynorum. The village is home to around fifty dog-headed people, with whitish hair, who fish in the nearby waters, both in the inlets and in Lake Aldoga proper.

Most of the island manifests a third magnitude magical aura. On the east side of the main island lies Lacus Mirabilis, a beautiful large pond with a potent fourth magnitude magical aura. In the south of the island lies Nemus Pineus, a stand of majestic pine trees that also manifests a potent fourth magnitude magical aura.

During Winter, Lake Aldoga freezes over entirely, enough that people and sleds can traverse the ice safely. The ice cover doesn't begin to break up until late April, and some ice remains through at least mid-May. However, after mid-April, travel over the ice can be treacherous, and travel by boat before early May can be dangerous as well.

As a locus of Capitulum Arcis Caelitis, Insula Valaamis is subsidiary to Foedus Porta Germaniae, and is governed by Chartula Arcis Caelitis and Chartula Emendationis Valaamis. It is registered as a conventum in Tribunal Sarmatiae, which recognizes its relationship with Arx Caeles, but recognizes its magi as registered in Sarmatia and subject to Leges Peripheriae Sarmatiae.