The Dark Domains
The Dark Domains, also called Novanoir, are a supernatural incursion into the realm of Magicians' End, which was the most obvious effect of the Planar Conformation.
The continent appeared overnight as a walled hexagonal depression carved into an ocean which had hitherto been empty and it brought with it a host of strange and malign creatures. This was an event of such significance that the universal dating system on Magicians' End treats it as year zero, with other dates receiving the relative suffix BPC (years before the planar conformation) or APC (years after the planar conformation).
Obvious features of the Dark Domains are its unnaturally straight borders and the deep cliffs around the rim, known as Great Escarpments. These seem to be preserved against the forces of erosion and weathering by arcane means. Occasionally, at the time of a Super Conjunction, the Orothonian Ocean can briefly spill over False Land in the east.
For many thousands of years, since the end of the Breach Wars, the entire continent has been magically sealed by a ring of Hylacon Gates, a heroic defensive effort led by the prophet Hylacon which has allowed the people of Magicians' End to almost pretend that it doesn't exist, but Novanoir has not gone away and from time to time its denizens find ways to extend their malign influence onto the other continents.
Little is known about the inhabitants of the continent and their life style but it is thought that at the apex of a complex social order they are ruled by a sinister species called the Ancient and Glorious.
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Magicians' End : Novanoir
Novanoir is the fourth largest continent on the world of Magicians' End and is commonly called "The Dark Domains". It is an unnatural intrusion into the world, arriving as a supernatural consequence of the Planar Conformation.
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