Maztica (Maz-tika)

Maztica is referred to by its inhabitants as The True World, it is a large continent west of Faerûn. Maztica is a land of jungles and mystery.
Maztica was primarily inhabited by humans. These humans were split into four basic ethnic groups, the Payits , the Nexalans, the Green Folk, and the North Ones (more commonly called the Dog People). However Large cities did see various races come together. In addition, wild halflings and tabaxi are said to live in the deepest jungles of Far Payit, and desert dwarves inhabited the House of Tezca desert.

History

The Payit people of Payit and Far Payit built a mighty civilization. They were a peaceful people, but they gained much knowledge and wisdom during their golden age. They also built great cities of stone and made wondrous works of art and pluma. However, the Golden Age of Payit eventually came to an end in treachery and murder Shortly after the golden age ended, a tribe of Dog People arrived in the western Valley of Nexal. The Valley of Nexal had its own people, and their own culture, but that small tribe eventually built a city-state of their own, Nexal. They went on to conquer and rule a mighty empire, the greatest in Maztica, for almost 300 years.
Maztica was 'discovered' by Amnian explorers led by Captain-general Cordell and his Golden Legion in 1361 DR. Amn was quick to lay its claim to the land for trade benefits, establishing the port city of Helmsport, named after the deity Helm, some of whose followers began to migrate into the new land. The native peoples were devastated by foreign diseases and the ruthlessness of the invaders, and this, coupled with the difficulties encountered on Maztica backfiring against them, caused the church of Helm to come under heavy criticism. During the Spellplague of 1385 DR, Maztica was subsumed by the wild magic and sent to the world of Abeir. People mistakenly believed it was replaced by a continent of that world that was sent to Toril during the catastrophe. Maztica was returned to Toril during the Second Sundering, around 1486 or 1487 DR. A few tabaxi emigrated to Faerûn after that, although the tabaxi never talked about what changes Maztica may have experienced in her century in another world, besides the fact that there were some strange changes.

Type

Continent