Edea

Edea is the northern continent of Auxis, lying between 40 and 90 degrees north. The continent currently lays claim to four major political powers, the Kingdom of Edea, the Wintercrest Dominion, the Cynterien Republic , and the Tautëriya Dynasty, where resides the world capitals of the Human, Elf, Dwarf and Drow populations. It is the more peaceful of the two continents, mostly hosting thick temperate forests and large fields of farmland and prairies, though there are more dangerous regions in the swamps and badlands to the far west, and the cold tundras and ice caps of the north.   The continent hosts two major mountain rages - the Wintercrest Peaks, dividing the north and the south, and the The Undareen, dividing the Kingdom of Edea from its state of Yt'zel. A large rain shadow to the east of Yt'zel is home to a series of badlands and marshes, which have occasionally been home to dragons buried deep in the mountain range.   Edea as a continent is just under 2000 years old, and was what became of the landmass which surged northward after the Schism. The arcane energy which split the north-western tectonic plate in two caused much devastation on these lands, and is evident by the large cliffs and rock faces which can be found to the south of the continent. The collision of the plate and that above it has made the northern wild lands and the ice cap Datho a perilous environment. In the far north, deep ravines, unstable flats and steep arctic cliffs make travel difficult and provide homes to dangerous creatures. The sheer shock of the collision formed most of the modern Wintercrest Peaks, surging the land upward and tearing out most of the life from that region. Traces of a past temperate landscape are occasionally found deep below the northern surface, but have been long since buried by the new climate.