Arcadia

Arcadia is a continent of Golarion located 4,000 miles west of Avistan and Garund over the Arcadian Ocean. Because of the long and dangerous sea journey needed to reach it, few folk of the Inner Sea region have visited it, and fewer still have returned. People who live in Arcadia are known as Arcadians.

Geography

The sea journey from Avistan to Arcadia is a treacherous one, as it leads one either through the sea monster-infested waters around the sunken continent of Azlant, or far to the north via a long chain of islands that connect Arcadia to far-northwestern Avistan. Those who have visited Arcadia describe it as a verdant, natural wonderland filled with stunning vistas and boundless resources; parts of it seem to be completely unclaimed by civilization. Even though most cartographers do not possess an accurate map of the continent, it is believed to be Golarion's largest landmass.
Likewise, few from Arcadia show much interest in travelling to Avistan, though some Segadans believe isolated explorers might have long ago secretly settled parts of Avistan.

History

Little is known in the Inner Sea region about Arcadia, much less of its early history. It was inhabited by humans since as early as the Age of Legend, during which southern Arcadia was dominated by the militaristic, tyrannical Razatlani Empire, which lost most of its conquered territory in the Age of Darkness. Around the same time, northeastern Arcadia was attacked by Azlanti forces, and subsequently entered a long period of isolation just before the Age of Darkness began.
The first recorded Avistanis to reach Arcadia were Ulfen explorers under the leadership of King Ulvass of Kalsgard in -473 AR. A powerful scylla cleric of Rovagug named Urtleytlar is also believed to have terrorized Arcadia's eastern seaboard for a thousand years before being called east across the ocean by the chaos that followed the death of the god Aroden in 4606 AR. Even a spawn of Rovagug—the great, winged monstrosity named Volnagur—is said to have wreaked havoc in the western interior in ages past.
Millennia after the first Ulfen arrivals, the next Avistani settlers arrived in Arodus 4679 AR, as part of a Chelish colonization expedition that landed on the Grinding Coast near the Degasi city of Segada. The first Avistani born in Arcadia was Pimm Deori, 13 days after the colonists' arrival; years later, Deori also became the first Avistani to gain Segadan citizenship. Soon after the arrival of the Chelish colonists and a separate band of Andoren colonists, the local nations enacted the Segada Protocol to strictly limit and regulate Avistani colonization and exploitation of Arcadia.

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