The World of Taelgar

The world of Taelgar is a globe, slightly bigger than Earth, with Earth-like seasons and climate and am Earth-like sun, Moon, and stars. The main landmass stretches from the Endless Ocean in the west across more than 5,000 miles of mountains, forests, rivers, swamps, farmland, desolation and deserts to the mysterious east.

Many mapmakers consider the mighty Sentinel Range, whose highest peaks rise more than 20,000 feet into the air, the defining feature of the land. The Sentinel’s 2,500 miles of mountains and foothills divide the world into three:
* to the west, Chardon, the great city of magic and learning, by the mouth of the the mighty Chasa-Nahadi Watershed, and the smaller Yeraad River, to the south
* to the south, the great Dunmari Basin, arid and windswept, cut off from the Nevos Sea by the Yuvanti Mountains
* to the east, the realms of Sembara, Tyrwingha, and Vostok on the shores of the Western Gulf of the Green Sea

The halflings navigating the Green Sea would tell a different tale, as they sailed the 3,000 miles of rugged coasts, mysterious islands, and northern forests. They would talk of the northern forests, the mysterious island of Irrla, the volcanic Skaerhem, and the Cymean Peninsula, steeped in history. They would tell you that the familiar lands of Sembara and Tollen are just the beginning of never-ending road, running through the waves and currents of the Green Sea.

If you were lucky enough to find a ancient map from Drankor, the ruined and haunted center of a once-mighty empire, it would show you that the Istaros, flowing for nearly 2,000 miles from the Mostreve Hills to the shores of the Sea of Storms, was the lifeblood of fortune and empire. Today though, the river runs only through the fallen city of Isingue, and many other places that were once fertile and beautiful, that are now cursed by plague and desolation.