Telluria (Planet)

**Telluria** (`PRONOUNCED`: /təˈlʊriə/ tuh-LURE-iuh) was the third planet from the Twin Suns Apo and Laki in the Prime Material Plane. It was orbited by one moon, known as Mayari or simply the Moon, and the ruins of another.

## Geography

Telluria was about the same size to the planet Earth, with an approximate circumference of about 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers), though the total land mass of Earth was much greater than that of Telluria.

Telluria consisted of various continents and islands, which included the Central Lands, Mahroog, Yypest Marr, and Draeva, and the poles Supraborea and Umborea - the northern and southern poles respectively. There was also a large and mysterious continent by the name of Bra'anor, of which the general populace of the rest of the planet was ignorant to. This was not always the case, but some puzzling catastrophe in the heart of Bra'anor all but destroyed all knowledge of the continent from the minds of the planet's inhabitants.

### Continents

* **The Central Lands:** The most central cluster of large landmasses south of the equator. It was home to the city of Port Telluria, an island city-state and the single largest city in the continent. Though it was the ancestral home of both the elves and the humans, it was a diverse landscape with regards to both its climates and its peoples and cultures. It knew five main landmasses: Mercuria, Therum, Sylwen, Megiddon, and Kingsveldt.
* **Mahroog:** A continent dominated by an enormous mountain range in the northern half of the mainland. The southern half was more diverse, with large open plains and grand forests. Mahroog was the ancestral home of both the dwarves and the dragonborn, but also knows many humans, elves, and goliaths.
* **Yypest Marr:** The smallest of all continents, Yypest Marr was a largely isolated continent home to the Vedalken, Tritons, and Sea Elves. It was hardly explored by inhabitants of the Central Lands.
* **Draeva:** South-east of the Central Lands, Draeva was largely unknown and unexplored.
* **Bra'anor:** For reasons unknown to most inhabitants of Telluria, no knowledge of Bra'anor existed.
* **Supraborea:** The northern pole of Telluria. It had no solid land, only permanently frozen ice caps.
* **Umborea:** The southern pole of Telluria. It was known for its very large crater, which was so deep and wide that it never saw the light of the Suns. Scholars speculate that it was for this reason that Umborea had a strong connection to the Shadowfell.

## History

The known history of Telluria spanned back for roughly 10.000 years, extending back to the heights of the ancient kingdom of Validor, also known as the ruins of Gea Musall, in the heart of the Wastelands in the Megiddon Confederacy. Though the calendar of the dwarves of Citadel Rumnaheim in Mahroog spanned back for at least 17.000 years, most of their knowledge on the formative years of the Citadel had been lost since the start of the Axe Disruption in 1113 A.T., a civil war that saw a lot of ancient dwarven writing destroyed.

### The Dawn War

**The** **Dawn War** was a period of relentless battles lasting for untold thousands of years, where reality's first two factions fought for control of an unshaped Telluria: there were the primordials, or Dawn Titans, and the Estelar, later known as the gods. The latter ultimately won the conflict.

### The Monumental Aeon

**The** **Monumental Aeon** was a period in Telluria's history that ended around -10.000 A.T. No one knows exactly when it began. It was during this time that the god Batha of the Portellurian pantheon shaped a species of celestials to be watchers and justiciars of Telluria, known as Monumentals. The kingdom of Validor was the crowning city of this age, and a city of its size and magnificence was never to be seen again. The Monumental Aeon ultimately ended when the kingdom of Validor fell in the **Betrayer War**, which saw the extermination of most Monumentals and also of the goddess Maroleni, the Goddess of Luck.

### The Dark Ages

**The Dark Ages** were a period in Telluria's history between -10.000 A.T. and -1500 A.T., which ended at the founding of the dwarven city **Drukafaren Tyn**, later known as Port Telluria. This period saw the decline of most civilizations in the Central Lands due to the absence of the Monumentals and the scarring of large portions of land after the Betrayer War, with no societies managing to get a permanent hold on the lands they reigned over. As such, not much recorded history of the Dark Ages remained.

### The New Age

**The New Age** was a period in Telluria's history that started in -1500 A.T. and continues to the present. It was considered to be an age of great civilizations and great wars, with Drukafaren Tyn becoming the planet's largest known city, and only known city with over a million inhabitants. At around 0 A.T., the dwarven lineage of kings was ended when young king Darron Gleidr was murdered by the city's more diverse nobility, who instated a republic afterwards and renamed the city. Retroactively, this event was known as the Thulduk, or Doom in dwarvish, and the following millennia were known as the years 'After Thulduk', or A.T. for short. The latest recorded year was 1153 A.T.

## Appendix

### Background

Telluria began as a fully improvised one-shot session of D&D around the end of the year 2020, and became a fully fleshed-out universe since. Regular play began around half a year later, in the middle of 2021.