Map of Solkhemeia

Regions

• Val'taresh
  A metropolitan cityscape encased in a massive wall. Within the core of the city is the heart of the world, the World Tree Val Elysiae. Val'taresh is known for the myriad magics that are studied within the Astrym Allaris and the Grand Cieloran Institute under the stewardship of House Arconis and its head, Stiora. Within the city the people consists of primarily Dragonborn, Gnomes, and Halflings living within the more older parts of the city while you can find about anyone else settling within the outer edges of the city or to the south in Valoros.

• Avram
  A trade center that lies in the center of the known world. Within Avram's landscape is myriad dunes and to the far east lies Avram itself. A jewel built upon the entrance to the canals of bear island to which they control trade. Avram has entered into peace deals with all neighboring civilizations. Here, everyone can come to trade their wares without worry. The city itself has very strong ties to the Seneschal to Oaths, Dokerigan and have a strong tradition of oathkeeping.

• Aberllan
  Within the Northwest of Wyldefrost lies the city of Aberllan. A warmongering city-state that is an ethnostate comprised of all four Genasi. Within the lower regions of their city they allow traders or they push for slaves to sell their wares. They pride themselves with their War Clerics and has had bouts with almost every other civilization with the sole exception of Val'taresh which currently proves too powerful for them. Ghaz'gora has became their sole ally after they clashed blades at the shores of their land and held a stalemate. At the peak of the fjord that Aberllan rests upon is a gateway to the elemental plane which had been opened by their patron Seneschal, Dokerigan.

• Heroes' Rest
  Heroes' rest lies to the mid south on the peninsula of Avram. There lies the people known as the Mutauros, changeling peoples who take on the identities of heroes both new and forgotten. They do this in order to keep the faces of the Heroes alive and even form their own identities with the crumbled statues within the core of the city when choosing their identity. They are a very prideful and forthcoming sort of people with pure altruism at the core of their society.

• Naialune
  The city of Naialune acts as a bastion for all of Elfkind and is the only stronghold left that houses their people. Long ago, the Seneschal Illragon issued a challenge that whichever of his children, the Dragons, brought home the greatest story would become host to a portion of Illragon's power, and achieve apotheosis as a minor deity that would take root at his side. Due to this and overwhelming greed of many of the Dragon's, they went out and burned swathes of land, for what better tale was there than that of destruction. They fought and clawed at each other until their flames eventually reached the great tree Val'tenevros, igniting it in a brilliant blaze that still rages to this day.

Shortly after, the Seneschal to Emotion, Nascensia cast a wicked gaze upon all of the dragons. She took steps up to the staircase that led to the moon and ascended above it. She drew back a celestial string and let loose the arrow which was the second moon. That very moon crashed down upon what was once the forest of Naialune and slaughtered all Dragons with holy moonfire. But Nascensia took no pride, no joy in ending the dragons, nor sacrificing the second moon. But it was her duty, and it broke her. She cried for 14 days and 14 nights, her tears becoming the rivers, and then the very oceans itself. Until the Seneschal to Souls, Menhira, brought the last remaining clutch of eggs that would assure that their existence remained constant. Only then would her tears halt.

• Auren Vale
  Within the mountain that lies betwixt Val'taresh and Avram is the great forge gate of Auren Vale. Within it lies a civilization of Dwarves and Drow who had forged a great bond together under their matriarchs. In the city lies several houses and vassal houses that in essence always vies to reach for the top at the cost of each other. It is a cutthroat existence, but they have been forged in the blackened steel that they coat their enemies blood in.

• Ghaz'gora
  To the far east lies the volcanic region of ash and blood, Ghaz'gora. Home to orcs, goblins, and whichever so inclined monstrous ranks seeks refuge. Like the frozen forests of Wyldefrost, they too a forged in blood and seek glory. Their current target being that of Naialune, so they can finally set roots and stop struggling in a land that does not grow. What better place to take than that of a fortress that's ripe for plucking. Their leadership is strictly bound to honor, and do not engage in underhanded methods of warfare lest they be expunged by their clan.

• Skyreach