Perdita

The continent of Perdita rests some distance across the Alburias to the north of Talingarde. It is a mostly frozen place dominated by the Gloaming, but it was once the heart of a great empire of the Third World, with layers of civilization hidden just beneath the ice and permafrost.

Geography

A large majority of the landmass of Perdita is a "shield" of solid ice, in a region known as Frozen Ys, where almost nothing grows and what life does exist is found deep beneath. On the southeastern fringes, where the Alburias becomes the Nacurias, craggy stone and earth rises up above the waves. A mineral-rich archipelago covered with highly intact Third World ruins known as the Cazzerides reaches further westward and curls up towards the shieldice, while going eastward is heavily forested foothills and lakes along fjord-filled coasts called Hes', which rests in the shadows of the Skelds. Between the mountains of the Skelds and the desolate ice of Ys is the Lugavi Tundra, which also extends to the westernmost coasts as well and is inhabited by those adapted to live in this hostile land.