Geography¶
The lands of Terrun, from the broken continent of Astia down to single landmarks. This section is organized by what a place is rather than by the campaign that recorded it: a continent or sea has a landing page, each region a folder with an overview, each nation and major settlement a page of its own, and minor places a section on their parent until they outgrow it. Terrun itself as a world, with its planes and the nature of its magic, belongs to Cosmology.
The shape of the world¶
The sources agree on one great fact: the Shattering broke the continent of Astia. "The Shattering destroyed what was once central Astia, leaving most of it at the bottom of the sea," and "the vestigial fragments of the once-great continent subsequently became: South Astia, East Astia, The Shattered Isles, and Urastia" (S387), divided from one another by the Shattered Sea. Nearly every place the archive describes lies on the largest fragment, which the Age of Magic called South Astia or Numenia and whose inhabitants, then and now, simply call Astia.
Beneath the surface lie the Underdark and the Buried Realms of the dwarves, which the Fifth Age sources describe as riddled with Hollows. Alongside the world lies the Rift, whose islands and folds the Proturans of the Fifth Age garrison and use as trade roads.
Entries¶
| Page | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Astia | The sundered mother continent, the Shattered Sea, its fragments, and the unplaced Titan-corpse wastes of Honuka and Khur. |
| Numenia | The surviving mainland (South Astia, Pevathor), where almost every nation of the archive lies; the index of its regions. |
| East Astia | The eastern fragment, Markhan: land of the earth-heart crystal and the glacier Rok'Thorumal. |
| Er'Astia | A fragment of ruins: Hightown and the Well of Stars. |
| Shattered Isles | The island fragment on the Thyssal trade routes; the Isles of Sorrow. |
| Places of the Rift | Rift-islands, outposts and cities reached through the Rift. |
| Underdark | The Buried Realms beneath Numenia. |