Jaiman

A small mass of land to the north of the planet, Jaiman has played a powerful role in it’s history.  It is the home of many Loremasters and the centre of many historical conflicts.

Jaiman is broken by mountain ranges, swift rivers and a series of great lakes.  Much of northern Jaiman is sub-polar (except for the far north-east which is said to be warm and tropical, heated by a giant volcano.)  The more southern areas enjoy cool, temperate climes.

North-west of Jaiman lie the isles of the Mur Fostisyr.

Emer

Lord of the western continents, Emer dominates the planet.  It is the legendary home o the Masters of Emer, an ancient pantheon of once dominated all of Emer, ruling from a great palace in the central island of Votania.  Although long gone, from Emer, rumours abound that they will return or some say, have returned in secret already.  Votania remains a haunted place and the Navigators will not take anyone there.  It is said that they have their headquarters here and this would certainly explain their reluctance.

Climate on the vast continent is quite varied.  Much of the south west is arid and while the northernmost regions are cool and temperate, the southeast is humid and tropical and the central areas are temperate to sub-tropical.

Mulira

The name Mulira is applied by most scholars to the great ‘H’ shaped land mass, as well as the large area of land to the north (which is imprisoned in a glacier).  The main continent hosts a wide variety of environments from cold tundra and wasteland to sub-tropics.  Much of southern Mulira is lowland, excellent for farming.

Govon

Though situated in the middle of the southern hemisphere, much of Govon enjoys tropical or sub-tropical weather.  Areas along the many rivers and lakes are dense with rain-forest and other deciduous growth, while some of the northern areas are given over to desert.

Gaalt

Gaalt, along with it’s sister continents Palia and Murlis, is more of a grouping of substantial islands than a true continent.  Swept by winds from the Endless Sea, the eastern coasts of Gaalt are largely cold, barren places, with few large coastal communities.  Some areas find protection, however, and Gaalt supports many scattered populations.  Much of Gaalt is cool and moist (inundated by eastern storms), with some temperate areas inland and a few pockets of sub tropical climate in the southernmost regions.

Palia

Palia – partially because of it’s more southerly location and partly because of it’s protective mountains – has a generally milder climate than Gaalt.  The central western isles bridge the seas between Gaalt and the Iyxian cluster, and powerful flows of Essaence wash over those regions.  These islands are subtropical to tropical, and some of the south-western areas are the most verdant on the planet.

Folenn

An isolated ‘C’ shaped land, Folenn has little contact with the rest of the hemisphere, being held apart by a powerful north-south Essaence Flow along the island chain just to the west of the continent.  Folenn is thought of by some (the few who think of it at all) as a shadowy land on the edge of the earth.  True, it is shielded by the encircling Gale of Hues (a name for the Essaence Flow surrounding the continent), and resides against the Malvin Tesea (Endless Sea) which divides the East and West, yet Folenn is still a realm of this hemisphere and only those who have been there can speak truly of this land.

Murlis

Most scattered of all the continental groups, Murlis includes (according to accepted records) the long strip of islands extending past Folenn to the west, all the way down to the polar regions in the Kiskaa Arus (Chilling Waters) and the strange Spiral of Marek, south of Falias.  Every imaginable climate can be found in this cluster from desert to tropical to polar.

Mythenis

A sprawling continent of contrasts, Mythenis lies to the far south and west of the hemisphere, a mountainous heartland sprouting numerous peninsulas and countless strings of islands.  The shores along the north are amazingly temperate for the latitude, while the southern regions are blanketed with snow throughout most of the year.  Mythenis is also subjected to considerable volcanism; clouds of ash are not uncommon in the eastern regions.  Earthquakes too are chronic: the Mythenian mountain range is along a major fault line and grinds against the south polar plate with alarming frequency.

Iyxia

In actuality, of course, the home of the Navigators is the isle of Nexus, east of Emer at the centre of a unique trinary formation of islands and atolls.  Nourished by a swirling pinwheel of Essaence, the Navigators are able to propel themselves anywhere within a twinkling.  This is the heart of Iyxia, less a continent than a strange collection of mountainous islands jutting from treacherous waters.  The climate of most of the Ixyian isles is temperate or subtropical.

Thuul

This great ring of land was formed ages ago by some great cataclysm, changing forever the face o al Kulthea.  In the very centre is an isle known only as Luor’ka’tai (Pillar of the Gods).  It is a tapered column of black Laen and glass rising out of a rocky foundation five miles into the Kulthean sky.  The exact origin and nature of the Pillar of the Gods is unknown.  Some postulate the impact of huge meteor, while those few with a more advanced knowledge of physics propose that a supermassive body (such as a tiny black hole) plunged through the planet at tremendous speed, extruding material from the core, creating the Pillar of the Gods.

Powerful Essaence surrounds the ring-shaped continent, and grows stronger in waves as one nears the centre – much like ripples from a pebble dropped in a pond.  But these ripples are disturbances of pure energy, causing shifts in the very fabric of space and time as one passes the inner pair of guardian isles.

The north-western area of the Ring is arid desert, while the southwest is semi-arid.  The eastern regions are tropical  in the north to cool or temperate in the far south.

Agyra

A large area of land riddled with rivers, bays and lakes, Agyra’s southern regions are mostly arid and semi-arid, growing increasingly fertile as one moves north to the warm temperate climes as it touches the sister continent of Mulira.

Falias

Lying to the south of Emer, Falias comprises a sizeable land mass, a large adjacent island further south, and a number of islands and island groupings in between.

Protected from the chill southern winds along the west by a range of sheer mountains, much of Falias is temperate and even tropical, with much of the northern portion of the main continent covered by lush rainforest.

Kelestia

Northernmost of the Inhabited Land, Kelestia is known to the well-travelled as the land of the Northern Lights.  This is because Kelstia is particulary graced by displays of the luminous curtains of gas ignited by the planetary radiation belts.  Only one place has more beautiful displays: the remote islands of the Mur Fostisyr, northwest of Jaiman.  Northern Kelestia is largely tundra, with limited agricultural capability. Except near the southern mountains in more sheltered vales.  The southern section of the continent is quite lush however, being primarily temperate in nature.