Distant Lands

Distant lands are lands which are largely undiscovered or land that little is known of. Some efforts have been undertaken to explore these distant lands to varying degrees of success. In the rare event, contact is made on foreign lands survival is uncommon and escape is unlikely. Sailors returning from these distant lands tell tall stories of unusual places far from Moro, some with provable evidence and some without. As a result, a lot of what is known about some of the more obscure distant lands is largely reliant on the words of explorers or scryers who have seen these lands and thus some of the information may not be entirely true.

## List of Documented Distant Lands

### **Lumos**

A large continent equal to or greater in size than Moro which lies far to the east. Much is known about the inhabitants of a small region of the eastern coast of Lumos due to their frequent contact with merchants and traders from Moro. However, the rest of the large continent is largely unknown as merchants have found great profit in the trade with the mostly similar race of elves and humans who inhabitant this region. Merchants have discovered a breed of an extremely virile breed of horse known as Lumosian Chargers who are greatly desired back in Moro for their speed, strength fearlessness and very long lifespan. Explorers have travelled further into Lumos than the merchants, but few have returned. The landscape is very challenging with extreme hills and mountainous regions that only expert mountaineers can traverse and the native wildlife is vicious but not too unfamiliar to Moro. Some explorers have pushed further inland and have reported seeing strange sights such as winged elves and women giving birth to squirming clusters of worms. The humans and elves who inhabit the eastern region of Lumos have been observed to worship The Twelve, although under different names. Furthermore, they strangely still worship Anatal believing he still lives, giving them thirteen months in the year, with Anatal being the twelfth and Velern instead becoming the thirteenth month of the year.

### **Hernakrax**

A continent directly south of Hesparion's Rest about half the size of Moro. Hernakrax is entirely populated by Dragons and Dragonkin (but not Dragonborn). Not much is known of the continent despite it being relatively close to the continent. It has quite a diverse arrangement of climates ranging from low-lying wetland ecosystems, towering volcanic pyroclastic mountains and frigid tundra biomes with underlying permafrost. Viciously territorial blue dragons that patrol the coastal environments of Hernakrax have made it near impossible for any explorers to explore the continent. Some mortals who have befriended or enslaved dragons have inquired about Hernakrax and their draconic homeland revealing it has an incredibly complex political and social hierarchal structure embroilled in a constant battle between chromatic and metallic Dragons.

### **Ŷiron**

Ŷiron is a large continent roughly the size of the Empire of Amyria that lies somewhere northeast of Dír Dahnum. The island is seemingly an entirely flat landscape of dull grey rock that emits a toxic white fog that blankets the continent. Explorers during their limited time on the island quickly turned back after they discovered huge swaths of skeletons of unknown beasts, humanoids and even fiends. Stone settlements that rise above the slate were found crumbled and abandoned with more skeletal remains found inside. Explorers reported no forms of life present on the island but they did report some life form or being did exist in the fog as there were occasionally muffled noises that could be heard from the dense fog that followed the explorers.

### **Acrar**

Located somewhere to the southwest of Lumos. Acrar is a land of strange humans and beast hybrids called Second Men who evolutionarily diverted from regular humans over 150,000 years ago during the Age of Beasts. Their skin is slimy with bumpy horn-like protrusions all over the skin. They are said to be incredibly reclusive and animalistic choosing to live in small communities. They live in large hollowed-out mushroom stalks that grow as large as some human watchtowers on Moro and they wield long spears made from the gills of the gigantic mushrooms. Little is known of the continent of Acrar save its northwestern coast where the Second Men were discovered by explorers although some half men half horse creatures called Centaurs have been discovered on an island off the coast of Acrar.

### **Tre'Ataat**

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The Empire of Amyria which employs vitric harvesters to retrieve the much-desired Vitric Ash from the soil of the volcanic island near Tre'Ataat has reported seeing faint silhouettes of stout humanoid-looking figures on the island of Tre'Ataat beneath the supervolcano itself. Typical methods of exploration are impossible in this situation as the island of Tre'Ataat is too hot for any human to reach normally and as a result, alternative methods of investigation such as the use of divination magic have allowed a closer look. Upon closer inspection, a race of sentient dwarves entirely made of volcanic ash subsides beneath the supervolcano. The Ashen Dwarves, as they have been called, have been observed to live inside massive burrows that tunnel deep into the magical volcano. No life can survive on the volcanic island due to the heat and any liquid water is instantly evaporated but these dwarves have been seen eating red hot rocks of obsidian and seen drinking bubbling magma as a part of their diet.

### **Kythan Rell**

Island cluster southeast of Whakaya. Nothing is known of this cluster of the island and thus it is simply named after the Amyrian vessel that discovered it.

### **Zarthi**

Large island between Moro and Lumos roughly the size of Redwain. Unusually, a madman imprisoned in the City of Blackbog rambled about such an island existing with surprising accuracy before it was discovered. According to him the island is known as Zarthi and has a large population of highly intelligent aurochs, although the latter has never been confirmed.