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Addendum: This is an early version of the map that has since been updated. Present version is linked here: www.deviantart.com/calloftheni… .

Arela is a micro-continent, approximately 3.2 million square kilometres in area, roughly the size of India, located in the southern hemisphere. It hosts a temperate climate, allowing for lush temperate rain forests on the west coast, a dry Mediterranean climate on the north west archipelago, and cool boreal forests to the south east.

Seven countries are found on this continent, with four being relevant to our story.

Edalia is a colony of the Empire of Rezhya, a sea spanning empire that originates in the northward continent of Odecha. Lahnia is a country known for its steel and iron, known for its warriors and smiths. Vostaryn once occupied the lands that became Nivolyn, but is now a shell of its former self, trying to preserve the Vosta tradition. Nivolyn is a country in limbo between the ancient Vosta traditions and the new Tirala religion imported from the north east.

The Forgetting Lands are great swathes of forest to the south of Vostaryn, where mysterious magic and strange figures lurk. If a person isn’t careful, they can get trapped and find themselves incapable of escaping. When that happens, they are erased from memory, their prior existence leaving a person shaped absence in the memories of the people who met or knew them. The border between the normal world and the Forgetting Lands is where the witches of Vostaryn can draw some of the most powerful magic, drawing from the Forgetting Lands without intruding.

Our story's three protagonists all come from different places, yet are all drawn to Vostaryn, and to the Forgetting Lands, as they journey southward...

Note: The map is an orthographic projection

Description

Addendum: This is an early version of the map that has since been updated. Present version is linked here: www.deviantart.com/calloftheni… .

Arela is a micro-continent, approximately 3.2 million square kilometres in area, roughly the size of India, located in the southern hemisphere. It hosts a temperate climate, allowing for lush temperate rain forests on the west coast, a dry Mediterranean climate on the north west archipelago, and cool boreal forests to the south east.

Seven countries are found on this continent, with four being relevant to our story.

Edalia is a colony of the Empire of Rezhya, a sea spanning empire that originates in the northward continent of Odecha. Lahnia is a country known for its steel and iron, known for its warriors and smiths. Vostaryn once occupied the lands that became Nivolyn, but is now a shell of its former self, trying to preserve the Vosta tradition. Nivolyn is a country in limbo between the ancient Vosta traditions and the new Tirala religion imported from the north east.

The Forgetting Lands are great swathes of forest to the south of Vostaryn, where mysterious magic and strange figures lurk. If a person isn’t careful, they can get trapped and find themselves incapable of escaping. When that happens, they are erased from memory, their prior existence leaving a person shaped absence in the memories of the people who met or knew them. The border between the normal world and the Forgetting Lands is where the witches of Vostaryn can draw some of the most powerful magic, drawing from the Forgetting Lands without intruding.

Our story's three protagonists all come from different places, yet are all drawn to Vostaryn, and to the Forgetting Lands, as they journey southward...

Note: The map is an orthographic projection