Cor

*"So you're saying there's an island out there with meadows, lakes, wine, and beautiful white-haired warrior women who fall for poetry, and you **left?"** - Sal Cilanis*

The Cor continent is the southernmost inhabited continent of Caera and home to a few of the most powerful human nations in the world. Smaller in geographic area than the other major continents, Cor nevertheless has natural resources in abundance and natural defenses aplenty that allowed its people to flourish on a worldwide scale.

In the modern day, Cor is controlled primarily by three predominantly human nations: The Empire of Alatria, comprising the bulk of central and southern Cor, The Triumvirate of Cerimus, holding the northern swamps, marshes, and grasslands of the continent, and the Principality of Corelsa, controlling the north-western coast. The southernmost portion of the continent is covered by the Triveris glacier, which is home to a few scattered colonies of non-humans. North of this, in the Empire of Alatria but culturally distinct, the Grey Plains are home to the Ila, a nomadic human nation that briefly dominated the southern half of the continent at the beginning of the first age. The mountains of the east coast are considered uninhabitable except to the hardiest of species.

## Culture

The Cor people, native to the continent that bears their name, are known far and wide as sailors, artists, and powerful arcane casters.

Native primarily to the three nations of the Cor continent, (The Empire of Alatria, The Triumvirate of Cerimus, and Corelsa) the Cor people are nevertheless found across the world, as wanderlust is a common cultural ideal. Tall and pale with hair of white, gold, or red, the "Sirenic" people as their race is known are usually easy to identify no matter where they wander, though the Eri Peoples are also of Sirenic heritage despite not being of Cor. Throughout the second age, the Cor established the permanent colonies of Felciyn, Frostwater, Ganta, Cormava, (in southern Ama'as) and Baraca, (in the Bareter peninsula) though only Felciyn survives as a Cor colony today, with Ganta having been flooded with Telanese migrants and eventually granted independence, and the latter two being destroyed in various wars.

The core tenet of Cor cultural ideology is the equity of all of its people. The idea that a woman might be less capable of a given job than a man or that a man might lose credibility for a display of emotion or tenderness is as alien to most of Cor as an Illithid and no less repugnant. Still, this egalitarian spirit can sometimes fail to extend to treatment of those of other heritages deemed "hostile" to Cor, as Telanese and Elven immigrants will attest.

## Cor River

The Cor River is a massive waterway cutting through the southern half of the Cor continent. The entire inland continent provides its watershed, making it one of the deepest and most powerful rivers in the world.

The river is fed from two primary sources--the underground reserves of the Griffonroost mountains, and the ice of the Triveris glacier. In the days of the Cor empire, these two sources flowed together into one great outlet on which the mighty city of Cor was built. After the Day of Ice, a cataclysm that saw the entire continent frozen solid for a year, the river changed course and now flows primarily through the Great Silver lake in central Cor and down the Veranya River to Vercean or the Silver River to the Silver Harbor.