This world has many names, but the one most commonly used among mortals today is Io (eye-oh), from Old Draconic for “world,” or “earth.” Io is split into two large continents — one to the west, Kuythus (koo-ey-ths), and one to the east, Cirrhonia (sir-oh-nee-uh) — by a wide ocean.
There are four nations in Io, two on each continent — the Divine Kingdom of Theanill, the Taguzen Shogunate, the Cirrhonian Provinces, and the Khyne Technocracy.
The ocean separating the two continents of Io, known as the Great Channel (or rarely by superstitious sailors as the Jaws of C’tar), is vast and rough. Regular trade and transport across the depths is a hallmark of the current era, brought on in no small part by the work done jointly by the Khyne Technocracy and the Divine Kingdom of Theanill in developing Coeurl Island, a large island near the middle of the Great Channel.
Today, Coeurl Island houses a port town that serves as a critical resupply point for any cross-channel voyage, and is home to a unique ecosystem of interest to many Khynean scholars.
In the westernmost part of the Kuythean continent lies the Kell’ar (kell-ahr) Mountain Range, a strip of mountains that stretch high into the sky and which remain bitterly cold all-year long.
Additional Lore
Collected Arcana
- So You Wanna Be An Icerider, Huh
- Threadbare Robbins’s Enumeration Of Rare, Interesting, And Peculiar Items, Artifacts, and Relicks
- Cormorant’s Oath
- Partwix’s Oath
- Haddock’s Oath
- Notes on Hizu
- Tightly Rolled Note
- WANTED
- NOTES BMC-AA-02
- PROJECT PROPOSAL ΛΦΓ
- To Newt
- Letter from Daph
- Letters from Home (Aster)
- INVESTIGATIVE REPORT SP-38501
An age ago, the gods tore at each other, rending skin from bone, and divine blood spilt onto the earth like so many tears in the rain. The losers retreated, and mortals crawled from their caves once more.
But though they may slumber for aeons, gods do not sleep forever.
And they never forget.