Alassia

Alassia is the known and inhabited portion of the world.

Geography
Alassia is politically divided into five kingdoms: Serinar, Talnem, Ozius, Paasia, and Fortinus, in addition to a church-controlled domain called the Holy Land. Each kingdom's monarch claims divine right and maintains a relationship with the Grand Executor of Mazura; these royal families in turn have divided their lands into fiefs managed by nobles, and so on down in a feudal heirarchy. There are also a number of free cities which govern themselves.

The landscape is dominated by the Great Fissure, an enormous, seemingly bottomless tear in the earth. The fissure can only be crossed by a handful of enormous, ancient bridges. To the east of the fissure is Lake Egli, a brackish inland sea.

Alassia is bounded to the south and southeast by the Unknown Sea, to the east and northeast by the Red Cliffs, to the north by the Great Desert, to the northwest by the Silver Mountains, and to the west by the Forest of Arganis.

History
Not much is known about the history of Alassia. The oldest continuously existing organizations are the church of Mazura, the ruling religious entity, and the Shapers, the keepers of magic, who maintain the many votive crypts that supply magical energy to the world. The continent is dotted with ruins of what appears to be an ancient civilization, about which little is known. Many of their structures and cities have been repurposed and built upon over millennia, but others are simply too inaccessible or dangerous to be exploited by anybody except foolhardy adventurers in search of ancient treasure.