Achandia (Ak-an-dia)

Achandia is mainly open land, there are only primary forests which while large are nothing compared with the vast trackless wilderness of Farnelia. Smaller woodlands are dotted elsewhere here and there but most of the land is open pasture, rolling hills, fields and orchards. The land has been completely tamed, transformed for the use of people.
The countries in Achandia have a long history of Feudal land management. The land is owned by the privileged and leased to farmers who grow food for the entire continent. Even the Mountain Realms, whilst theocratic rather than Feudal, still adhere to this general way of being. Only the Goblinoid Clans and Khanates live a less settled life, free from the sedentary nature of agriculture.
The consequence of this is strict national borders, enforced by treaties and armies spanning back hundreds or thousands of years. Only international organisations such as Guilds, Clergy and Arcane Institutes are immune, their jurisdiction crossing borders both physically and politically.
There is an emphasis on tradition, an ordered way of things, hierarchies are cemented, and people divided into classes of privilege and relative poverty. However, the privileged classes also hold the belief of noblesse oblige and feel responsible for protecting those under their power.
It is in this environment that the call for heroes rings out, mercenaries are hired by the privileged to protect the public, from bandits, enemy countries, monsters and more. Whilst adventurers take it upon themselves to remove those same threats and plunder them to make their reward.
"There was a sense among the Feudal Nations, that the Gods had punished the Forest Tribes for starting the war which led to The Sundering, that the Forest Tribes chose the preservation of creation over the adoration of the creators. After the Sundering, the faithful Feudal Nations were contained to this new continent and so it was named Achandia, meaning ‘Land of Godly People’." – Handel Ortdorf, History of Achnelia

Alternative Name(s)

Land of Godly People’, The Southern Continent, The Civilised Lands

Type

Continent

Included Locations

• Barrier Ranges
• Bleak Dales
• Cold Wastes
• The Crawling River