How to prevent a desert from forming alongside a large mountain

I'm wanting to have two regions separated by a large mountain but do not want either side to become a desert. What would the conditions have to be on the desert side for this to be prevented? This is a medieval setting but one civilization is quite 'magically advanced'.

A couple ideas:

• a lot of springs?

• something that creates it's own weather system? I'd rather not have it be some hardcore hand-wavy magic thing. Maybe the civilization pumps water from large aquifers underground and evaporates it to form clouds and rain.

The civilization has a source of energy they can use for this kind of process.

posted almost 7 years ago

Althaen‭

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