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Aurelion is defined by its unending brilliance. Every surface emanates light, and shadows cannot form, for light bends and flows like a tangible force. The landscapes are ethereal, sculpted from luminous crystals, golden fields, and rivers of pure light.

Notable locations[edit source]

• The Brilliance: A boundless sea of luminous energy, where light flows like liquid across an endless horizon..
• The Prismic Mountains: A breathtaking crystalline mountain range that refracts Dharas’s light into endless beams, scattering illumination across all of Aurelion.
• The Celestial Gulf: A shimmering, mist-like boundary where Aurelion meets the cosmic expanse.

Caelum exists as a vast, atmospheric realm, composed of air currents, drifting cloud formations, and volatile wind patterns. The realm is in constant motion.

Notable Regions[edit source]

• The Saelcom– A dense, stratified region of the upper sky where the air is thin, and the light bends into auroras. The Saelcom is known for its prismatic beauty, which refracted colors swirl unpredictably.

Caelum lacks a fixed surface, and all travel within the realm depends on understanding its shifting atmospheric layers. The inhabitants of Caelum, have developed methods of navigating these regions by sensing subtle changes in air pressure, temperature, and current.

Delmora is a land defined by water, where rivers and lakes shape not only the terrain but the lives of its inhabitants. The region’s most prominent geographic feature is its twin river systems, which converge near the realm’s center before flowing eastward into the Great Lake. These waterways form the foundation of Delmora’s economy, ecology, and settlement patterns.

Major Geographic Features[edit source]

• The Twin Rivers – Two major rivers, one descending from the [[[Niseth Range]] in the west and the other from the Northern White Mountains, intersect near the heart of Delmora. Their confluence is a hub of agriculture, trade, and governance, and is home to the Ruvin capital of Kelmarin.

• The Great Lake – A vast inland freshwater body, bordered by Odrak settlements. Its fog-covered surface conceals submerged cities and spiritual monuments. The lake serves as a cultural and spiritual counterbalance to the rivers, emphasizing stillness and depth over motion.

Itharalis is defined by its glacial topography, consisting primarily of icebound plateaus, frozen seas, and towering ice formations shaped by persistent sub-zero temperatures and minimal atmospheric disturbance. Its terrain is characterized by stability and geological inactivity, with little volcanic or tectonic movement recorded in recent eras.

The central region, known as the Heartglacier, is a massive, continent-sized body of layered ice believed to be among the oldest continuously frozen formations in the world. Around its perimeter lie ridged ice valleys, crevasse fields, and permafrost cliffs, many of which remain unmapped due to hazardous conditions.

To the east, the Silent Coast borders a frozen ocean shelf, marked by thick floes and isolated icebergs that drift without current or wind. In the far north, the Vaulted Spires—massive vertical ice formations—rise hundreds of meters, forming natural barriers that limit overland travel. The southern edge of the realm gradually descends into the Frosted Expanse, a flat, open plain of fine snow and wind-hardened ice sheets.

Despite its uniform climate, Itharalis contains microenvironments within caves and crevasses where rare cryogenic flora and frozen relics are sometimes discovered.

Noirra is a world unlike any other—without light, its geography is known only through presence, form, and movement. Those who dwell here do not navigate by sight, but through a deep awareness of shifting shadows, distant reverberations, and the subtle stirrings of unseen forces.

• The Hollow Span – Vast, open stretches of undisturbed shadow, where motion can be felt but never seen.
• The Echoing Chasms – Endless fissures in the world, where sound travels in eerie, warping patterns, revealing the depths of Noirra to those who can listen.
• The Veilwinds – Silent currents of unseen force that drift across Noirra, carrying the whispers of forgotten things.

Noirra is not lifeless—it is shaped by those who live within it, but never fixed. Even mountains and rivers, if they exist, are fluid and shifting, as darkness itself never remains still.

Orethil’s landmasses are divided into continental subrealms, each shaped by distinct spiritual and environmental characteristics. Though grounded in the dominion of Oras, the spirit of earth, Orethil remains in continual contact with the surrounding influence of other elemental forces.

Watercourses and surface oceans exist within Orethil, but they are expressions of intrusion rather than origin. The world-plane is encircled by Pelagia, the endless sea formed by Jala, the spirit of water. Jala’s influence seeps inland along coastlines and river systems, softening and reshaping the terrain but never fully claiming it.

Forests, deserts, and highland ecosystems have developed in isolated zones where elemental balance allows—often along the shifting boundaries between earth and the other elemental realms. These intersections generate ecological diversity, though always filtered through the dominant presence of stone and memory.

Despite its grounding in matter, Orethil is a dynamic landscape—continually shaped by the slow, resonant dialogue between elemental forces. Its changes are layered rather than abrupt, shaped by time, erosion, and the spiritual pressures that flow beneath the visible world.

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Orrakar is a land of deep canyons, sheer cliffs, and towering mesas, its terrain shaped by winds, rivers, and the slow march of erosion. The land is fractured and winding, with hidden valleys, labyrinthine passageways, and rock formations sculpted into impossible shapes.

Notable Features[edit source]

• The Endless Rift – A canyon so deep that its bottom is rarely touched by sunlight, with walls that bear the etched history of ages long past. Some believe it has no true end, as anything that falls into its depths is never seen again.

• Zareth Cascade – A mighty waterfall fed by the highlands of Delmora, its torrents plunging into the depths of the Endless Rift. During the dry season, the cascade thins into mist, but in the storm season, it becomes a relentless force, carving the canyon deeper with every passing year. Some say its waters vanish into hidden underground lakes, while others whisper of a buried abyss where the river never truly ends.

• The Pinnacles of Mourn – A collection of towering, needle-like rock formations rising from the canyon floor. Their bases erode over time, causing them to collapse one by one. Some of the spires bear faint, unreadable inscriptions, their origins long forgotten. The Kuthar use the highest peaks as wind-watching outposts, while the Drahari believe these formations are gravestones left by the land itself.

• The Winding Sepulcher – A twisting maze of ravines and gorges that shift unpredictably due to rockfalls and flash floods. Paths that exist one season may be buried the next, making navigation treacherous. The Drahari claim that forgotten ruins and artifacts lie hidden within, but few dare to linger, fearing the canyon will entomb them.

• The Drowned Steps – A vast series of terraced rock formations descending toward the eastern coast near Fendralis. During flood season, cascading water fills the steps, briefly transforming them into a shimmering descent toward the ocean. Some believe they once led to an ancient coastal city, now lost to time, swallowed by the shifting land and the encroaching tides.

Pelagia has no continents, no mountains, and no sky in the conventional sense. It is a realm composed entirely of water—an infinite ocean stretching in every direction, without surface or floor. Depth, rather than distance, defines its geography. One descends rather than travels, and layers of current, pressure, and light mark the boundaries between regions.

The upper reaches of Pelagia shimmer with translucent life and drifting isles of kelp, coral, and silt. Here, bioluminescent plankton drift like stars, and shoals of spiritfish move in synchronized migration. These surface realms are ever-shifting, shaped by the breath of Jala and the pull of elemental tides.

Deeper still lie the Resonant Trenches—abyssal rifts of unfathomable depth, where time slows and pressure sings. It is said that here, memories of past ages crystallize into liquid echoes, forming spiraling maelstroms that preserve the voices of the drowned.

Pelagia's geography cannot be mapped in mortal terms. What appears still may flow; what seems shallow may plunge into the deep. Its only constants are motion and depth—layered like a melody that never ends, harmonized by the will of water itself.

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Tahrzul is a peninsula southeast of Zanarak, separated from the mainland by a stretch of dry, cracked earth known as the Ashen Scar. Its defining feature is a vast ring of volcanoes, forming a natural fortress around the central valley where lava rivers flow continuously. The land is a shifting battlefield of fire and stone, sculpted by eruptions, quakes, and time.

Notable Features[edit source]

• The Ashen Scar – A stretch of dry, cracked earth that seperates Tahr'Zul from the mainland. Deep crevices dot the landscape, where nothing grows.
• Tahrnath's Crown – A massive circle of towering volcanoes, enclosing the heart of Tahrzul. Their eruptions form an ever-changing skyline, while rivers of molten rock cascade down their slopes, feeding the valley below.
• The Obsidian Rivers – Once-molten lava flows that have cooled into jagged black rivers of obsidian, forming deadly, glass-like terrain. Some portions remain unstable, cracking underfoot or concealing hidden pockets of searing heat.
• The Smoldering Wastes – A vast plain of scorched rock and sulfur-laced fissures, where superheated geysers erupt unpredictably. The ground shifts frequently, making it one of the most dangerous areas to traverse.
• The Heart of Ruin – The central valley, where rivers of lava converge in an endless, churning sea of molten rock. The land here is constantly being remade, breaking apart and reforming in an eternal cycle of destruction and creation.

Vaelthar’s terrain is one of fluid stability, where the land stretches in endless rolling fields, broken only by pockets of woodlands and rising meadows that touch the sky. There are no towering mountains, only gentle highlands where the air is thin, and the flowers bloom in untamed abundance. The wind sculpts the land into an ever-shifting canvas, weaving patterns through the grass and scattering golden pollen across the fields.

The realm is defined by its distinct regions, each shaped by the breath of Vaelora:

• The Endless Plains – The heart of Vaelthar, an unbroken sea of golden grasses swaying in endless motion, shaped by the ceaseless wind.
• The Whispering Groves – Scattered clusters of trees, where the wind hums through ancient branches, resonating like a distant song.
• The Golden Drift – A vast stretch of alpine wildflower meadows, where the land is covered in shimmering pollen. As the wind rises, the pollen lifts into the air, creating a golden haze that lingers over the plains. During certain times, the entire sky glows with drifting motes, turning the landscape into an ethereal, dreamlike expanse.
• The Wandering Streams – Thin, winding rivers that never follow the same path for long, shifting with the earth and carving new routes through the plains.

Zanarak is a land of extremes, featuring towering sand dunes, ancient glass formations, and relentless sandstorms.

• Sand Dunes – The vast dunes of Zanarak are in constant motion, shifting with the desert winds. Some reach towering heights, making navigation perilous.
• The Glass Fields of Zanarak – Intense heat from the nearby land of Tahrzul have created towering spires, jagged ridges, and smooth, reflective plains of glass