Explorer’s Guide to Eldareth
The Explorer's Guide to Eldareth provides an overview of the known regions of the Material Plane, from the surface world to the Hollow Depths. It establishes where each region sits within the wider setting and gives the context needed to understand it as part of Eldareth rather than in isolation.
Each entry presents a region as it exists today while explaining the history that shaped it. Many of the divisions and connections found across Eldareth have roots that reach far beyond the present age, and that earlier history continues to influence how these places have developed.
Together, the guide provides a broader view of the world and the connections between its regions, while keeping the focus on Eldareth as it exists in the present.
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Ethelra: The Old World
Ethelra is a large continent of established nations, islands, and regional cultures connected by old roads, sea routes, trade, scholarship, migration, and centuries of shared history. Its western waters include Vel'Nathar and the Isles of Alven'Nathiss, while the mainland extends...
Shen-Su: The Jade Kingdoms
Shen-Su is the great eastern continent of Eldareth. The Kharzai Steppes stretch across much of its west, while high mountain country separates them from the older realms farther east. Beyond those ranges, the land eventually gives way to long coasts...
Nurathar: the Sunward Lands
Nurathar lies south of Ethelra, a continent shaped by old river kingdoms, inland empires, maritime states, and societies whose histories reach deep into the earliest ages of Eldareth. Its landscapes change greatly from the dry northern regions to the highlands...
Avermont: The Western Reach
Avermont, known more anciently as Shahoya, is the great northern landmass of the western world. Long before the Western Exodus brought settlers from Ethelra, Shahoya was already home to Tavaska, Rakkari, Dawncoil, and other peoples whose settlements, trade routes, territories,...
Zalthyx: The Ancient South
South of Shahoya lies Zalthyx, a vast and varied continent of great river basins, mountain systems, tropical forests, open uplands, wetlands, grasslands, and long coasts. It is the oldest known homeland of the Ssith'katha, though their civilizations are only one...
The Hollow Depths
The Hollow Depths are the vast subterranean regions beneath Eldareth. Their cavern systems extend far below the surface, sometimes connecting across great distances and elsewhere ending against faults, flooded passages, or immense barriers of stone. The upper and most extensively...